Prepared by D.Sarala
1. India has been elected as the President of UN habitat for the third time after 2007 and 1988 to lead United
Nations Human Settlements Programme. Un Habitat came into being in
1978.Mr. Venkaiah Naidu chaired the 26th Governing Council Meeting held at Nairobi, Kenya. The theme of
the four day meeting of 58 member nations is “ Opportunities for effective
implementation of the New Urban Agenda.”
2. The logo and mascot of the Asian
Athletics Championship were
released by Naveen Patnaik ( Odisha CM). The Championship is scheduled to be
held from 6th to 9th July 2017 at Kalinga Stadium in
Bhubaneshwar. The logo depicts an athlete
crossing the finishing line with
historical tourist attractions of Odisha. Olive
Ridley , the sea turtle is
chosen as the mascot which annually migrates to the coastal
Odisha for mass nesting.. The mascot is named as “OLLY “.
3. India hopes to pursue a strategic partnership with Japan for regional peace and stability said
by Mr. Arun Jaitely to his Japanese Counterpart Tomomi Inada during the annual
Asian development Bank meeting held at Japan on 7th May 2017
4. N’Golo Kante ( French Professional Footballer)
has won the 2017 Footballer of
the year award by Football Writers’ Association. He will receive this
prestigious accolade FWA at gala dinner in London on 18th May 2017.
5. The UN General Assembly invited all its organizations, Member
States,NGO’s and individuals to observe 8-9 May in an appropriate manner to pay tribute to all the victims of
the second world war.
6. The Union Minister Rajnath Singh has released a doctrine named “SAMADHAN “ when the Union Govt is being
questioned on its agenda and plan to tackle the menace of Maoists or left wing
extremism during its review meeting of left wing affected states.These
questions were aroused after 25 CRPF jawans were killed by Maoists in an ambush
in Burkapal , Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. This new doctrine “SAMADHAN “ has 8 pillars.They
are
1. S- Smart Leadership
2.
A-Aggressive strategy
3.
M-Motivation and Training
4.
A-Actionable Intelligence
5.
D-Dashboard based KPIs(Key Performance Indicators)
6.
H-Harnessing Technology
7. A-Action
Plan for each Theatre
8. N-No
access to Financing
7. The National Book Trust (NBT) is going to host book fair at Panchayat level in all the states , starting with
Maoists hit areas of Chhattisgarh.
8. Justice C S Karnan is the first
High Court Judge( Kolkata) to be sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for his repeated incidents of contempt
of court. This was released by the Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice
of India JS Khehar
9. More than 50000 people were evacuated from German City of Hanover after the discovery of multiple unexploded World War II
bombs.
10. Ahmedabad (Gujarat) is going to host a mega event on the
occasion of International Yoga day celebrations on June 21.This year Singapore is going to host its first edition of
“
International Yoga Day “at about 50 locations across the country.
11. Indian Women team’s fast bowler Julan Goswami became the highest wicket-taker in the history of Women’s One Day International’s.She
broke the decade long record of Cathryn Fitzpatrick(Australia)
12. International Court of Justice (Hague) stayed the execution of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav who was
sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court for alleged spying.
13. PM Modi will be visiting Colombo to attend
International day of Vesak
festival ( Buddha
Poornima)that is going to held from 12-14 May. This is the first time Sri Lanka
is hosting this festival.
14. May 10 –World Migratory bird Day with the theme (2017) “
Their Future is our Future – A Healthy Planet for Migratory Birds and
people.”
15. Moon Jae -in(
Democratic party ) was sworn in as South
Korea’s President in a
ceremony at the National
Assembly Seoul.
16. Madhavan Nair Rajeevan , Secretary ( Ministry of Earth Sciences ) announced that India has decided to replace Maitri research at Antartica within next 3 -4 years .
17. 65 –episode biopic series on Baba Ramdev will be aired on
Discovery’s JEET, an entertainment channel (First Hindi Channel ) that
will be rolled out by the end of 2017
18. Minister of Sports, Vijay Goel has flagged off four Clean Himalayan Expeditions and a Mountaineering Expedition to Mt Satopanth (7075Mts) at Indian Mountaineering
Foundation in New Delhi.
19. Konkana Sen Sharma has won the best director award for her
directorial debut “ A death in the Gunj and the best actress award for Lipstick
Under My Burkha at 2017 New
York Indain Film Festival.
20. Sanjay Mitra appointed as Defence Secretary he will succeed G Mohan Kumar who his going to complete his tenure
on 24th May 2017.This
is his first posting in Defence Ministry . He belongs to 1982 IAS Batch .
21. The 29th edition
of Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT)begins at Port
Blair between India and Indonesia on
9th May 2017 under the
aegis of Andaman and Nicobar Command. This will enhance the mutual
understanding and inter operability between the navies of the two countries.
The Indonesian Naval Ship KRI Sutedi Senoputra arrived at Port Blair to
mark the commencement of 29th series
of IND-INDO CORPAT . The closing
ceremony is planned at Belawan, Indonesia from 22 to 25th May 2017.
22. PM Modi launched the integrated
case management system of the Supreme Court at a function held at New Delhi. This
move is the apex’s court first step towards becoming a paperless digital
court.
23. Twitter has promoted its business head Taranjeet Singh to the position of Country’s
Director for India.
24. Rajasthan Government is going to launch distruict
level action plans to reduce infant
mortality rate in the state .
The IMR in Rajasthan is 32 / 1000 live births.The action plan aims to reduce
IMR to 12/ 1000 by 2030
25. Indian Wrestler Harpreet
Singh won a bronze medal in the Greco –Roman Weight divisions
on the Opening day of the Asian
Wrestling Championship in New
Delhi. He defeated China’s Jun Ji Na in 80 kg category.
26. ICC confirmed that Shashank Manohar will continue his function as independent Chairman of ICC till June 2018.
27. China is preparing to send men to live on the moon by testing out its space cabin in Beijing.
28. India –Russia Intergovernmental Commission held in New
Delhi and they agreed to
closely work to take forward many of the collaborative ideas in diverse fields
like space, nuclear disaster management, trade and economy ,etc.
29. May 11-National Technology Day with the theme 2017 “Technology for inclusive and
sustainable growth “. The day
is celebrated to commemorate the anniversary of Pokhran nuclear test in 1998
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