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Jagjit Pavadia has been re-elected by the UN

Economic and Social Council to a five-year
term on International Narcotics Control Board.

Nigerian Professor, Tijjani Mohammad

Bande, has been appointed as the new
President of the United Nations General
Assembly (UNGA).

ITC Group’s present Managing Director (MD) Sanjiv Puri was appointed
as new Chairman and Managing Director of the company (ITC). 

Former Supreme Court judge, KS Radhakrishnan has been appointed

as a member of Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal (CSAT).

1. India’s fin-tech start-up Bharat Pe

launched a new app named ‘Bharat Pe for
Merchants’ that allows merchants to keep a
track of their cash/credit (UDHAR) sales
customer wise, to request the accounts
receivable from customers through SMS
payment links and keep track of accounts
payable to suppliers, among other services.

Salman Khan has been named as the brand ambassador of Merchant

service and UPI payments app Bharat Pe.

2. A subsidiary of NABARD – “Nabventures” notified its first time

funding termed ‘NABVENTURES Fund I ‘which is Rs 700-crore venture
capital fund for equity investments to provide support for agriculture,
food, and rural start-ups.
1. Max Life Insurance Co Ltd has
announced that the 6th  day of each month
as ‘Protection Day’. The objective of this
initiative was to raise awareness on financial
protection.

2. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has

surpassed the Reliance Industries Limited
(RIL), in terms of market capitalization and
became India’s most valued firm by market capitalization (Rs. 8.13 trillion).

3. Reliance Brands has acquired 100% stake in British toy company

Hamleys Global Holdings Limited in a cash deal of worth USD 88.6
million (Rs 620 crore).

4. Paytm has collaborated with Citibank and launched its 1st credit
card called ‘Paytm First Card’.

5. Facebook has chosen London as the center for the global roll-out of
WhatsApp pay.

1. The Young Scientist Programme

‘Yuvika2019’ has been inaugurated by the
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
It is a two-week residential summer vacation
programme spread over four ISRO centres in
Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Ahmedabad
and Shillong.

The programme will help in inculcating scientific temper in the

students.

1. The United States President Donald Trump

awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom,
country’s highest civilian honor to golfer
Tiger Woods.
 1. United Nations General Assembly
(UNGA) will hold Ocean Conference 2020 in
Lisbon, Portugal with a theme of “Scaling up
ocean action based on science and innovation
for the implementation of Goal 14: stocktaking,
partnerships and solutions.”

It will be co-hosted by the Governments of Portugal and Kenya.

2. In 14th  meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel

Convention (BC COP-14), the 9th meeting of the Conference of the
Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (RC COP-9) and the 9th meeting
of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC
COP-9) was held recently in Geneva, Switzerland.

The theme of the meeting was “Clean Planet, Healthy People: Sound
Management of Chemicals and Waste”.

3. India hosted the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial

meeting of developing countries in New Delhi recently. The aim was
to discuss various challenges being faced by the multilateral rules-based-
trading system.

4. World Red Cross Day: May 08

Theme: #Love

5. World Thalassaemia Day: May 08

Theme: Universal Access to Quality Thalassaemia Healthcare Services:

Building Bridges with and for Patients

6. Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation: May 08

7. 5th United Nations Global Road Safety Week: May 06 – 12

Theme: Leadership for road safety

World Migratory Bird Day: May 11 (It is celebrated twice in the year,
which falls on the second Saturday in May and October. In 2019 it is May 11
and October 10.)

Theme: Protect Birds: Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution!

8. National Technology Day: May 11

9. International Nurses Day: May 12

Theme: Nurses – A Voice to Lead –Health for All

10. Mother’s Day: May 12

1. The Chhattisgarh police have deployed

first ever Anti-Naxal women’s commando
unit named ‘Danteshwari Ladake’ or
‘Fighters of Goddess Danteshwari’.

1. Border Road Organisation (BRO) officials

have created India’s first ever ice cafe in
the mountain village of Gaya in Ladakh
region of Jammu and Kashmir, at 14,000 feet
height above sea level.

2. A group of researchers from the Indian

Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay has
developed a microprocessor named ‘AJIT’.

3. The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has developed the

world’s first complete parent-wise genome assembly called
“NDDB_ABRO_Murrah” of riverine buffaloes.

1. In a survey conducted by Air Help, Rajiv

Gandhi International Airport of Hyderabad
has been ranked as the world’s 8th Best
Airport.

1. Australian flight carrier, Qantas has

operated the world’s first zero-waste
 commercial flight named QF739 from Sydney
to Adelaide which disposed of all waste through
compost, reuse or recycle.

2. India and Bangladesh will co-produce a

film on the life and works of Bangabandhu
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and a documentary
on Bangladesh Liberation War.

3. National Aeronautics and Space Organization (NASA) has defined as

its Mission to Moon as “Artemis” which is to be achieved by 2024.

4. World Health organization collaborated with the International Food

and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to eliminate industrially produced trans-
fat (i-TFA) from food supply worldwide by 2023.

5. Microsoft has announced the launch of “Election Guard”, a free

open-source Software Development Kit (SDK) to help nations to carry out
secure and verifiable voting.

6. Guided Missile Destroyer, INS Kolkata and INS Shakti participated in

‘Group Sail’ exercise with Japan, Philippines and USA Navy in the disputed
South China Sea.

7. According to the recent report released by the United Nations

Environment Programme (UNEP) titled ‘Sand and Sustainability: finding
new solutions for environmental governance of global sand resources ‘,
India and China top a list of nations where illegal sand mining has
become a key environmental issue.

8. The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has

appointed 17 new advocates to achieve Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs). These include the Indian actress Dia Mirza and the
Chief of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma.

1. Croatia’s (Capital: Zagreb, Currency:

Kuna)  Igor Stimac has been appointed as
Indian men’s football team coach.

2. Indian cricketer GS Lakshmi became the

first ever, female match referee, to be
included into the International Cricket Council
(ICC)’s International Panel of Match Referees.

3. World’s first exclusive women’s cricket magazine “CRICZONE”

released with Indian women’s cricket team vice-captain Smriti Mandhana
featured as the cover story.
The publisher of the magazine is Yash Lahoti.

4. Mumbai Indians won their 4th IPL title after defeating Chennai Super
Kings by 1 run at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad.

David Warner and Imran Tahir won the Orange and Purple cap
respectively and Andre Russel won the Most Valuable Player (MVP)
award.

5. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) of United Kingdom has won the Spanish

Grand Prix in Barcelona.

6. According to the CEAT Cricket Rating (CCR) Awards 2019, Indian

skipper Virat Kohli and Smriti Mandhana have  bagged the
International Men & Women Cricketer of the Year
Award respectively. 

7. The Manchester City defeated Liverpool to lift the English Premier

League football title 2019.

8.  AMUL has announced to sponsor Afghanistan team in upcoming

World Cup 2019 which will be held in England and Wales.

1. Renowned academician and father of

modern Indian Legal Education, Dr.
Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava Menon
(NR Madhava Menon) passed away recently.

2. Veteran Bengali film and TV actor Mrinal

Mukherjee died in Kolkata recently.

3. Baidyanath Mishra, a renowned economist, and educationist

passed away recently.

4. The first chronicler of India’s partition and a Sikh historian, Kirpal

Singh passed away at his home.

5. Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, who built ITC passed away recently. It

was during his term, ITC saw the tremendous transformation from being a
tobacco company to a multi-business union.

6. Renowned singer, Yakshagana ‘bhagawatha’ Nebburu Narayana

Hegde passed away in Mangaluru, Karnataka recently.

7. Bhojpuri singer, Padma Shri awardee Hiralal Yadav passed away

recently.
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