GK/CA
Soumya Mukherjee
Appointments:
➢ Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka’s veteran political leader,
has been appointed as the next Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
The appointment by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa came
after the resignation of former PM Mahinda Rajapaksa.
➢ Anthony Albanese was sworn in as the new prime minister of
Australia, Albanese's center-left Labor Party ousted
predecessor Scott Morrison's conservative coalition at
election
Appointment:
➢ Somalia elects Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as new
president.
➢ Sunil Arora, the former chief election
commissioner, has been named as the new non-
executive chairman of Gram Unnati’s board.
➢ Haryana’s Captain Abhilasha Barak has become
the first woman officer to join the Army Aviation
Corps as a combat aviator after successfully
completing her training. She was awarded the
coveted wings along with 36 other army pilots by the
DG and Colonel Commandant of Army Aviation in
Nashik.
Appointment:
➢ Former independence fighter and Nobel Peace Prize
laureate, Jose Ramos-Horta has been sworn in as
president of East Timor .
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has got IFS Vivek Kumar as
his new Private Secretary (PS).
➢ An Indian Government Officer, Anwar Hussain Shaik has
been made the chair of the World Trade Organisation’s
Committee on Technical Barriers on Trade.
Sports
IPL 2022
• Winner: Gujarat Titans (GT); Prize money: ₹20 crore.
• Runner-up: Rajasthan Royals (RR) – ₹13 crore.
• Player of the final: Hardik Pandya (Gujarat Titans) – ₹5 lakh.
• Fair play award: Gujarat and Rajasthan.
• Orange Cap: Jos Buttler (Rajasthan); 863 runs in 17 matches (4 100s; 4 50s; strike rate 149.05; average 57.53;
83 fours; 45 sixes; highest score 116) – ₹10 lakh.
• Purple Cap: Yuzvendra Chahal (Rajasthan); 27 wickets in 17 matches (economy 7.75; average 19.51; 68
overs; 527 runs) – ₹10 lakh.
• Emerging Player of the tournament: Umran Malik (Sunrisers Hyderabad); 22 wickets in 14 matches – ₹10
lakh.
• Most Valuable Player: Buttler (387.5 points) – ₹10 lakh.
• Maximum sixes award: Buttler (45 sixes) – ₹10 lakh.
• Most fours: Buttler (83 fours) – ₹10 lakh.
• Game-changer of the season: Buttler – ₹10 lakh.
• Super Striker of the season: Dinesh Karthik (Royal Challengers Bangalore); Strike rate 183.33 – Tata Punch
car.
Sports
➢ Indian chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa beats world champion Magnus
Carlsen twice in 3 months at the Chessable Masters online rapid chess
tournament on May 20.
➢ Indian pistol pairs Esha Singh and Saurabh Chaudhary clinched the
mixed team pistol gold at the International Shooting Sport Federation
(ISSF) Junior World Cup in Suhl, Germany
➢ Inter Milan defeated Juventus 4-2 after extra time in the Italian Cup
final.
➢ Punjab Kings opening batter Shikhar Dhawan has become the first
player to hit 700 fours in the history of the Indian Premier League
(IPL). Dhawan reached this feat during the last league stage match of
IPL 2022, between PBKS and Sunrisers Hyderabad, here at the
Wankhede Stadium.
Sports
➢ Nikhat Zareen gave a dazzling performance to beat Thai Olympian Jutamas
Jitpong 5-0 and become the fifth Indian woman to win a World title at
the Women’s World Championships, Istanbul. Nikhat thus becomes only the fifth
Indian women’s boxer after Mary Kom, Sarita Devi, Jenny RL and Lekha KC to win a
gold at the World Championships.
➢ Adani Sportsline, a division of the diverse Adani Group, has created history by
gaining the rights to own and manage a franchise in the UAE’s top T20
competition The UAE T20 League.
➢ German club Eintracht Frankfurt has won their first UEFA European trophy in 42
years after defeating the Rangers.
➢ Formula One world champion, Max Verstappen won the Spanish Grand Prix in a
Red Bull
➢ Tokyo Bronze Medallist, Lovlina Borgohain was elected as IBA’s Athletes’
Committee Chair.
Books and Authors
➢ “A Place Called Home”,__________ Preeti
Shenoy
➢ “Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure”
_________ Ruskin Bond
➢ ‘The India Story’ ___________ Bimal Jalan
➢ “A Place Called Home”_______ Preeti
Shenoy
West Bengal Current Affairs:
➢ Kolkata is the first metro city in the country to prepare
a detailed register of biodiversity. Kolkata Municipal
Corporation released the People’s Biodiversity Register
(PBR), a document with details about the floral and
faunal varieties in the city as well as its land use and
human activities.
Important Days Theme:
➢ World Press Freedom Day is observed globally on 3rd May every year.
This year’s World Press Freedom Day theme “Journalism under
digital siege,”.
➢ World Thalassemia Day is celebrated on May 8 every year. The theme
for this year’s World Thalassemia day is ‘Be Aware.Share.Care:
Working with the global community as one to improve thalassemia
knowledge.’
➢ May 12 is observed as International Nurses’ Day across the world to
honour the services of nurses. The theme for this year’s Nurses’ Day is
“Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Invest in Nursing and respect rights to
secure global health”.
Important Days Theme:
➢ International Day for Biological Diversity or World Biodiversity
Day is observed on 22nd May every year. The theme in 2022 is
“Building a shared future for all life”.
➢ International Day of UN Peacekeepers is observed globally on
29th May. The theme for this year’s Day is “People. Peace.
Progress. The Power of Partnerships.”
➢ World No Tobacco Day is observed on 31st May globally. The
theme for 2022 is Tobacco: Threat to our environment.
Defence Current Affairs
➢ The third edition of Indian Navy (IN) –
Bangladesh Navy (BN) Bilateral
Exercise ‘Bongosagar’ commenced
at Port Mongla, Bangladesh on 24 May
2022.
➢ Nirdeshak, the second of the four Survey
Vessels (Large) (SVL) projects being built
by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and
Engineers (GRSE) in collaboration
with L&T shipbuilding for the Indian Navy
was launched, at Kattupalli, Chennai.
Awards:
➢ Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy
Rockwell won the International Booker Prize for “Tomb of
Sand,”. Originally written in Hindi, it’s the first book in any Indian language
to win the high-profile award, which recognizes fiction from around the world
that has been translated into English.
➢ Radio Jockey Umar Nisar (RJ Umar) from South Kashmir, has been
awarded the ’01 Best Content Award’ and the Immunization Champion
award by United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
(UNICEF) at the annual Radio4Child 2022 Awards in Mumbai,
Maharashtra.
➢ Chairman of the Piramal Group, Ajay Piramal has received an
honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her
Majesty The Queen. He received the award for services to the UK-India
trade relationship as India Co-Chair of the UK-India CEO Forum.
Awards:
➢ India’s one million all-women Accredited Social Health Activists
(ASHA) workers, were honoured with the World Health
Organisation (WHO) Director-General’s Global Health Leaders
Award 2022 for their “crucial role” in providing direct access to
healthcare facilities in rural areas and their indefatigable efforts to
rein in the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
➢ Kishore Jayaraman, President, India and South Asia for Rolls-
Royce, has received an honorary Officer of the Order of the
British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty The Queen, British Deputy
High Commission.
Awards:
➢ Bollywood actor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui has been honoured
with an international award for his contribution to cinema at
the prestigious French Riviera Film Festival.
Science and Technology:
➢ Another virus, Monkeypox, has made an appearance in
the United Kingdom. The patient has a recent travel history
from Nigeria, where they are suspected to have contracted
the infection, before travelling to the UK, according to the UK
Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which confirmed the case.
➢ In a few parts of Kerala, a new virus known as tomato
flu has been detected after the covid-19 pandemic.
➢ Belgium has become the first country to make a 21-day
quarantine compulsory for monkeypox patients after four
cases of the disease were reported. The Belgian health
authorities took this decision, Saudi Gazette reported citing
Belgian media.
Science and Technology:
➢ Private sector rocket maker Skyroot Aerospace Private
Ltd successfully tested its Kalam-100 rocket that will power
the Vikram-1 rocket’s third stage/engine. The third stage,
named Kalam-100 after former President APJ Abdul
Kalam, was fired for a duration of 108 seconds.
➢ India will introduce a newly approved “made in India” TB
infection skin test called ‘c-TB’, said Health Minister Mansukh
Mandaviya.
Summits:
➢ The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting kicks off
in Davos, Switzerland. The Indian delegation will be led by
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal throughout the
five-day meeting. This event will assist to strengthen India’s
status as a vital and relevant player in creating the global
narrative, especially as it prepares to take over the G-20
presidency next year.
➢ Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi, Minister of State for Culture and External
Affairs, attended the 7th BRICS Culture Ministers’ Meeting via
video conference, which was hosted by the People’s Republic
of China and attended by all BRICS Member Nations.
Mix Box:
➢ The Supreme Court used Article 142 of the Constitution to grant AG
Perarivalan, a convict in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandhi, extraordinary powers to “do complete justice in any cause or matter
pending before it.” Perarivalan was released free by a bench of justices led
by L.N. Rao and B.R. Gavai, who took into account his lengthy incarceration.
Perarivalan spent 29 of his 32 years in prison in solitary confinement until
being granted bail by the Supreme Court in March 2022.
➢ West Central Railway has developed a battery-operated dual-mode
locomotive named Navdoot. This engine runs on both modes i.e. battery and
electricity. Currently, it is being used during the shunting of trains at Jabalpur,
Mudwara, and other stations on a trial basis.
Mix Box:
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated India’s biggest drone
festival here and interacted with Kisan drone pilots as well as witnessed
open-air drone demonstrations. ‘Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022’ is set to be
a two-day event being held on May 27 and 28 at Pragati Maidan New Delhi.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated India’s biggest drone
festival here and interacted with Kisan drone pilots as well as witnessed
open-air drone demonstrations. ‘Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022’ is set to be
a two-day event being held on May 27 and 28.
➢ A survey by the Geological Survey of India has stated that a gold reserve of
around 222.88 million tonnes including 27.6 tonnes of mineral-rich ore are
present in the Jamui district of Bihar. The Nitish Kumar government in
Bihar has now decided to give permission for the exploration of what is being
called as India’s largest gold reserve.
Mix Box:
➢ The Union Government has announced the formation of the Cotton Council
of India under the Chairmanship of renowned veteran cotton man Suresh
Bhai Kotak.
➢ The Kerala government will launch a state-owned over-the-top (OTT)
platform on November 1, offering film lovers an array of movies, short films
and documentaries of their choice. Kerala will become the first state in India
to have a state-owned OTT platform. Kerala Minister for Cultural Affairs Saji
Cheriyan revealed the name of the OTT platform as CSPACE.
➢ National Geographic Society has installed the “world’s highest weather
station” on Mount Everest at an altitude of 8,830 metres to automatically
measure various meteorological phenomena.
Mix Box:
➢ The New Development Bank (NDB), the Brics countries’ multilateral bank
based in Shanghai, will open its first regional office in India at the Gujarat
International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) to address the country’s
infrastructural and sustainable development needs.
➢ A little 10-year-old champion skater from Worli, Rhythm Mamania, has
become one of the youngest Indian mountaineers to summit the Everest
Base Camp (EBC) in the Himalayan ranges in Nepal.
➢ India joined a dozen other nations to launch the Indo-Pacific Economic
Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), a US-led trade initiative meant to counter
China’s aggressive expansion in the region. Among the 13 countries backing
the initiative are Australia, Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New
Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and
Vietnam, and the members jointly account for 40% of the global GDP.
Mix Box:
➢ The Ministry of Railways has
announced that it’s going to collaborate
with IIT Madras for the development of
a made-in-India Hyperloop system.
➢ Supreme Court lawyer Karuna
Nundy, business tycoon Gautam
Adani and prominent Kashmiri human
rights activist Khurram Parvez have
been named among the world’s 100
most influential people of 2022 by
TIME magazine.
Thank You
See you next day
