Latest Current Affairs of May 2017

The African country which has been recognized as the new member (14^th) of OPEC

• Equatorial Guinea

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2017

• Venue: Cancun, Mexico

The new Chairman of National Commission of Minorities

• Gairul Hasan Rizvi

New Director General of World Health Organisation

• Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
• Ethiopian Politician

Setting up of new  AIIMS

• Kamrup
• State: Assam

World’s largest floating solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant

• China
• Capacity: 40 MW

WWF International President’s Award

• Rohan Chakravarty
• Indian wildlife and environment cartoonist
• For his efforts to inspire change and attitudes towards nature

The new bacterium found on the International Space Station by NASA scientists

• Solibacillus Kalamii
• Named after Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam

The first semi-high speed train

• Tejas
• From Mumbai CST and Karmali (Goa)
• Facilities likeonboardd LED TV and tea and coffee vending machine

International Humanitarian Award

• Jacqueline Fernandez
• Award instituted by Asian Voice

First meeting of CMs of 5 States on Indo-China Border

• Venue: Gangtok
• States participated: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh

SIMBEX-17

• The bilateral naval exercise between the Navies of Singapore and India
• In the South China Sea

Karavali Karunya

• The annual Joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise
• Conducted by Indian Navy’s Western Naval Command
• Venue: Karwar naval station

Woodrow Wilson Award

• Ms Chand Kochhar
• MD and CEO of ICICI Bank

The new Prime Minister of France

• Edouard Philippe
• Appointed by the President Emmanuel Macron

World’s  busiest single-runway airport in the world

• Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai
• 837 flights per day

The country which has banned captive breeding of dolphins and killer whales

• France

The new base year of the all-India Index of Industrial Production (IIP) which has been revised from 2004-05 to reflect the changes in the industrial sector and to also align it with the base year of other macroeconomic indicators like the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Wholesale Price Index (WPI)

• 2011-12

The missile system with a range of 15 km acquired from Israel

• Spyder

Country declared an end of its public health emergency over Zika.

• Brazil

The vaccine which has been included in the Universal Immunization Programme of India

• Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV)

National Technology Day

• Theme: Technology for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth
• Observed on: 11 May 2017

The new President (12^th) of South Korea

• Moon Jae-in

The mascot of Asian Athletics Championship

• Mascot name: Olly
• Represents: Olive Ridley turtle

India’s First Integrated Bio‐refinery for Renewable Fuels & Chemicals

• Rahu in Maharashtra
• Producing ethanol from a variety of biomass

The north-eastern state which has been declared a disturbed area under the AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act) for 3 more months from 03 May 2017

• Assam

The variety of mango which has been granted Geographical Indication(GI)

• Banganapalle
• Grown in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh

The first Indian woman to be appointed Chief Justice of a High Court

• Leila Seth

The State which shifted its format for financial year from January to December

• Madhya Pradesh

The portal sharing on Mobile Towers and EMF Emission Compliances

• Tarang Samachar
• Launched by the Ministry of Communications for Information

The city which has become the first in the world to get its own font

• Dubai
• Font name: Dubai Font

Transformative Chief Minister Award

• Chandrababu Naidu
• For his role in advancing the US-India partnership at the state level by the US India Business Council

The 1000^th birth anniversary medieval saint

• Sri Ramanujacharya