APRIL & MAY 2021

 66th annual Filmfare awards

Best Film – Thappad
Best Actor – Irrfan Khan (Angrezi Medium)
Best Actress – Taapsee Pannu (Thappad)
Best biographical film – Elephants do Remember
 GOI declared April 14, Dr BR Ambedkar’s birthday a public holiday.
130th birth anniversary
 Education Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal launched “MyNEP2020” Platform
of National Council for Teacher Education
 NZ passed legislation giving mothers and their partners right to paid
leave following a miscarriage or stillbirth, became 2nd country in the
world to do so. 1st – India
 India and BN signed five MoU to further boost bilateral cooperation.
 Book ‘Suparipalana’ by Dr Shailendra Joshi.
 Indo-US Exercise – Vajra Prahar
 Multinational Military Exercise - ‘SHANTIR OGROSHENA’ 2021 (Front
Runner of the Peace) to be held in BN
Theme “Robust Peace Keeping Operations”
To commemorate the birth centenary of ‘Father of the Nation’
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and mark glorious 50 years of
liberation of the country.
 Mahinder Giri – Only ranger from Asia to win the prestigious Int Ranger
Award for his contribution towards conservation.
 Sharankumar Limbale received Saraswati Samman, 2020 for his 2018
Marathi novel Sanatan.
Instituted by KK Birla Foundation in 1991, is recognised as most
prestigious & highest literary award in country.
 Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, imagined take on death of Shakespeare’s
son from the bubonic plague,won the National Book Critics Circle prize
for fiction.
 Rajinikanth honoured with 51st Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2019 ,The
highest film honour in India.
 2020 is best year in history for the global wind industry, according to
Global Wind Report 2021, released by the Global Wind Energy Council.
 31st March – Int. Transgender Day of Visibility
Day founded by US activist Rachel Crandall of Michigan in 2009.
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 EM launched “Anandam: The Center for Happiness”
 West Central Railway zone gets fully electrified
 World’s highest railway bridge, 359 metres above the Chenab river in
J&K is completed
 Dr Harsh Vardhan and Arjun Munda launched ‘Anamaya’, the Tribal
Health Collaborative
 SC launched its AI portal “SUPACE” (SC Portal for Assistance in Courts
Efficiency). To leverage machine learning to deal with the vast amounts
of data received at the time of filing of cases
 World’s 1st Microsensor based Explosive Trace Detector (ETD) called
“NanoSniffer”
 Modi organized “Tika Utsav” – vaccine festival. To vaccinate as many
people as possible & zero wastage of the COVID-19 vaccine
 Biggest floating solar power plant in India is to be set up at Telangana
 World’s 1st animal vaccine (Carnivac-Cov) against Corona registered in
Russia. Developed by Rosselkhoznadzor
 Kosovo’s Prez. – Vjosa Osmani
 Vietnam PM – Pham Minh Chinh , President – Nguyen Xuan Phuc
 Book ‘Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life’ authored by Nitin
Gokhale
 Book ‘Odisha Itihaas’ by Utkal Harekrushna Mahtab
 Modi’s book ‘Exam Warriors’ gives out suggestions to both students and
parents to deal with the examination pressure and stress.
 Shabir Khandwawala as BCCI Anti-Corruption Unit chief
 Ajay Seth – Economic affairs Secretary
 WHO appointed Carl Bildt as WHO Special Envoy for the Access to
COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT Accelerator)
 Dr Chintan Vaishnav appointed director of Atal Innovation Mission
(AIM)
 S Ramann as Chairman of Small Industries Development Bank of India
(SIDBI)
 FM attended G20 FMs and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting.
Held under the Italian Presidency.
 AIBA Men’s World Boxing Championships will take place in Tashkent in
2023
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 99 yrs old Prince Philip (aka Duke of Edinburgh) husband of Queen
Elizabeth II passed away. He retired from public duties in 2017 at 96,
longest-serving royal consort in British history
 Tulip Festival in Srinagar (Asia’s largest tulip garden)
 Great Khali inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2021.
 National Policy for Rare Diseases, 2021, to lower the high cost of
treatment for rare diseases, with an increased focus on indigenous
research & local production of medicines, early screening, prevention
through primary and secondary health care infrastructure such as Health
and Wellness Centres and District Early Intervention Centres
 Bharat Pannu earned 2 Guinness World Records for his fastest solo
cycling feats
 24th April – National Panchayati Raj Day (1st time in 2010)
Panchayats by 73rd and 74th amendments
 India elected to 3 bodies of UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC),
for 3 years term.
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Executive Board
of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women and
Executive Board of the World Food Programme
 NZ became World’s 1st country that demands environmental
accountability from financial firms by asking them to report on how their
businesses affect climate change. To become carbon neutral by 2050
 Miguel Diaz-Canel as the ‘1st Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
 NASA picked SpaceX for its Artemis programme, to develop the 1st
commercial lander and take the next 2 US astronauts to the moon
 Aakash Ranison book titled “Climate Change Explained – for one and
all”, on occasion of Earth Day (22nd March)
 DCB Bank MD and CEO – Murali M. Natrajan
 Global sportswear brand Puma BA – Washington Sundar and Devdutt
Padikkal
 CAG GC Murmu chosen as external auditor by Hague based Conference
of State Parties of OPCW for 3 yrs
 Accenture chairperson, Rekha Menon appointed as 1st woman
chairperson of the National Association of Software and Services
Companies (NASSCOM)
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 Rumana Sehgal won Nelson Mandela World Humanitarian Award 2021
by Diplomatic Mission Global Peace
 Henley Passport Index
Top – Japan , India – 84th (India free visa at 58 places)
 World Press Freedom Index 2021
Top – Norway, India – 142nd , Last – Eritrea (180th)
 Energy Transition Index 2021 published WEF
Top – Sweden, India – 87th , Zimbabwe – 115th
 India’s 68th Chess Grandmaster – Arjun Kalyan
 18th April – World Heritage Day
Theme “Complex Pasts: Diverse Futures”
 22nd April – Earth Day or Int. Mother Earth Day
Earth Day was renamed by UN in 2009 as International Mother Earth
Day. Theme – Restore Our Earth
 24th CEC – Sushil Chandra
 Former CEC Sunil Arora appointed as Goa governor
 Finance Secretary – TV Somanathan
 SG of Amnesty International – Agnes Callamard
 DG of NADA – Siddharth Singh Longjam
 1st Woman DG of National Academy of Economic Research – Poonam
Gupta
 Deputy Chief of Army Staff – Upendra Dwivedi
 DG of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. – Subash Kumar
 Sportsxchange BA – Prithvi Shaw, Vivo BA – Virat Kohli
 Mcdonald’s India BA – Rashmika Mandhana
 Punjab Covid vaccine ambassador – Sonu Sood
 Part-time Chairman of HDFC bank – Atanu Chakraborty
 India’s ambassador to Gabon – Ram Karan Verma
 DG of Employees State Insurance Corporation – MS Bhatia
 PM of South Korea – Kim Boo Kyum
 Pres. Of Ecuador – Guillermo Lasso
 2nd Women Prez. Of Kosovo – Vjosa Osmani Sadriu
1st was Atifete Jahjaga
 India’s 1st female commentator Chandra Nayudu passed away
 Former CEC GV Krishnamurthy passed away
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 30th GD Birla Award – Suman Chakraborty
 Best Foreign language feature award at Moscow Int. film festival –
Marathi movie Puglya
 Kalinga Ratan Samman for 2021 – B Harichandan
 E-Panchayat award 2021 – UP
 PM Gram Sadak Yojana topper – Uddhampur, JK
 Indian achievers award 2021 – Jaspal Singh
 UAE’s top civilian award (Order of Zayed)– Yussufali
 Multinational Air exercise – Aces Meet 2021 by Pakistan
 Indian – Kyrgyzstan exercise – Khanjar
 Gunnies WR for fastest road construction – India
 Chandler Good Governance Index
Top – Finland , India – 49th
 Inclusive Internet Index by EIU and FB
Top – Sweden , India – 49th
 No mask No movement campaign – Rajasthan
 Sikkim 1st state to provide monthly scholarship scheme to students
 India’s 1st electric vehicle lithium battery Plant – Karnataka
 Mana Foresta – India’s 1st vertical forest tower built in Bengaluru, KR
 Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation issued India’s 1st green bonds
 India’s 1st state to have 2 green energy towns – Bihar (Rajgir and
Bodhgaya)
 1st Indian E-library – Bihar
 NITI Aayog launched Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) to resolve
disputes outside court
 Little Guru app by ICMR to make Sanskrit easy
 Madhukranti portal to trace Honey sources easily
 Singapore 1st country to approve world’s largest FTA RCEP
 India will setup Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in BN
 America’s 51st state – Washington, DC (Douglas Commonwealth)
Article IV of US Constitution empowers the US Congress to admit new
states to the Union by passing a law
 Saudi Arabia included Ramayana & Mahabharata in syllabus of their
students
 Turkey banned Cryptocurreny
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 UK’s 1st digital currency – Britcoin
 UAE’s 1st arab woman astronaut – Noura al Matrooshi
 UAE will snd Rashid unmanned rover to Moon in 2022
 SL banned 11 Islamic radical Organisations bcz of easter Sunday
bombing killings in 2019 & also Palm oil
 NASA’s Chandra observatory detected emissions of X-rays on Uranus
 Italy launched 1st ever food mega park & food processing unit in Gujarat
 Raisana dialogue 2021 hosted by India
 Egypt found 3000 yrs old lost Golden city of Luxor
 Indonesian Submarine, KRI Nanggala – 402 , found broken in Bali sea
 2nd African country to eliminate Trachoma ( Cause of Blindness) –
Gambia, 1st was Ghana in 2018
India became free from Trachoma in 2017
 Japan released 1M tonnes of contaminated water from Fukushima
nuclear powerplant to sea
 6000 runs in IPL – V Kohli
 Wisden Almanac Cricketer of decade – Kohli, Year – Ben Stokes
 North Korea 1st country to excluded from Tokyo Olympics due to covid
 FIFA suspended Football associations of Chad and Pakistan
 India clinched 14 medals at Asian Wrestling Championships 2021 held
at Almaty, Kazakhstan. (1st medal by Sarita Mor)
 India’s 1st woman sailor to qualify for Olympics – Nethra Kumanan
 World’s 2nd women to swim 30 kms Palk strait btw India and SL –
Shyamala Goli
 Believe – What life and cricket taught me book by Suresh Raina
 The Christmas Pig book by JK Rowlings
 RBI limited the tenure of Pvt. Banks MD and CEO to max 15 yrs and 70
yrs age
 DBS bank India as the India’s best int. bank 2021 by Asiamoney
 Tapasthali of Surdas renamed from Mahmudpur to Parsauli
 2023 Men’s boxing world championship – Uzbekistan
 Fifa women WC 2023 – NZ and OZ
 World tennis championship 2021 – Houston, USA
 1st April – RBI foundation day (1935, Mumbai, Shaktikanta das)
 7th April – World Health day
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Theme – Building a fairer, healthier world
 25th April – World Malaria day
Theme – Reaching the Zero Malaria target
 Bacteria found on ISS named after Ajmal Khan
 World’s oldest woman Bachan Kaur form Punjab died at the age of 119
yrs 6 months
 Caroline Jurie resigned as winner of Mrs World 2020. So, the runner up
Ireland’s Kate Schneider became new Mrs World
 SC setup 12 members National task force for oxygen allocation
 WHO approved China’s 1st vaccine – Sinopharm
Also, China’s 2nd vaccine - Sinovac
 Hockey player MK Kaushik passed away
 India – EU relaunched 2007 FTA that was stalled in 2013
European Commission Prez – Ursula Von der leyen
EU Council Prez – Charles Michel
 Jus. NV Ramana as 48th CJI (aka Master of Roster and administrative
head of the court), CJI and other SC Judges r appointed by Prez U/A
124(2)
 Interim US envoy to India – Daniel Smith
 US to sell 6 P-81 patrol aircrafts to India
 SC crashed MP HC order of Rakhi
Judge ordered sex offender to visit his victim’s home and allow her to tie
a Rakhi on him as a condition of his bail
 FDI limit in insurance sector increased from 49% to 74%
 67 yrs old warship – INS Viraat’s plea to convert into a museum was
dismissed
 Publicis Group India CEO – Tanmay Mohanty
 Bernie Madoff who was serving 150 yrs prison term, died
 National commission for SCs started online portal for complaints
 Reuters 1st woman editor-in-chief – Alessandra Galloni
 Suez Canal Authority Chief – Osama Rabie
 RBI deputy governor – Rabi Shankar
 RBI ED – Jose Katoor
 Media can’t be stopped from reporting oral remarks made by judges
during a court hearing – SC
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 Europe’s right prize (Vadav Havel Human Rights Prize) – Saudi activist
Loujain Al Hathloul
 Constitution SC order amendment act 2021
To give one nomenclature of ‘Devendrakula Vellars’ to 7 castes of TN
 Mines & Mineral (Dev. And Regulation) Act
To allow pvt. Players with enhanced Tech. into the mining sector and
also to establish National Mineral Exploration Trust
 Extortion payment is not terror funding – SC
 Centre rejected 4.3% (lowest ever) RTI requests in 2019-20
However, 40% of these rejections didn’t cite valid reason
 CAG report – Work done under Mukhya Mantri Nishchya Yogana in
Bihar is not satisfactory
 Justice Shantagoudar (9th Sr. most SC judge) passed away
 Donald Lu as Assistant secretary for South & Central Asia
 Andhra CM JM Reddy won National Panchayat award 2021
 World Pop. Report 2021 by UNs Pop funds titled ‘My body is my own’
45% women out of 57 countries have no right to make decisions on their
body, regarding pregnancy, abortion etc
 Mohinder Singh Gill V/s CEC TN Seshan
Art. 324 contains absolute powers to ensure free & fair elections and
these r vested in the ECI which take all necessary steps to achieve this
constitutional object
 SOFIA telescope, Joint project b/w NASA and German Aerospace Center
(DLR)
It is 1st generation camera & spectrograph. It is World’s largest airborne
astronomical observatory
 Ragunath Mohapatra (Eminent sculptor, Padam Vibhushan awardee, 1st
Person from Odisha to be nominated to RS) passed away
 Scotland head – Nicola Sturgeon
 Taliban captured Afghanistan’s 2nd biggest dam – Dahla dam
 FB oversight board upheld the FBs decision to ban Donald Trump from
the platform bcz of inciting violence insurrection against a democratic
elected Gov.
 SC – Real time reporting of court proceedings, including the oral
exchanges in courtroom b/w Judges and lawyers is part of right to
freedom of speech
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 Clashed b/w Protestants Pro-british loyalists (want to remain in UK) &
Catholic pro-irish Nationalists (want to become part of Republic of
Ireland)
Netherlands became part of UK by Anglo-Irish Good Friday Agreement
in 1998
 Scottish referendum to be held in 2024
 Telangana Gov. banned 16 Orgzs as ‘unlawful’ under Telangana Public
Security Act, 1992
 Phillipines Prez. – R Duterte
 Stellants CEO – Roland Bacchara
 China’s permanent space station (Tianhe or Heavenly harmony) launch
from Long march 5B rocket from Wenchang launch center
 Burkha banned in SL in all public places due to national security
concerns
 Acc. To the Lancet Global health journal, there is 28% increase in
maternal deaths due to pandemic
 France conducted its 1st military exercise in space – AsterX (US &
German also participated in it)
To commemorate the 1st French satellite Asterix from 1965
 Sundarban – largest Ramsar site in India
 SpaceX capsule brings astronauts back to Earth
NASA’s 1st night time Ocean landing in more than 50 yrs
 V Kalyanam, Gandhiji’s personal secretary died
 Laureus Awards
Sportsman of the year – Rafael Nadal
Sportswoman – Naomi Osaka
Team of the Year – Bayern Munich
 Bengal governor – Jagdip Dhankar
 Operation Samudra Setu -1 to bring back Indian nationals by sea during
corona
Samudra Setu -2 (launched by Indian Navy) for shipment of Oxygen filled
Cryogenic tankers to India
Approx. 40 countries r helping Atamnirbhar India
 Tennis player V Chandrashekhar passed away
 New Pension system for gov. employees passed in 2004 under PFRDA
(Pension fund regulatory and dev. Authority – Supratim Bandopadhyay)
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It allow its members to withdraw just 60% of their savings, and rest 40%
to use as their pension till demise
(Members who have PF of upto 2 lakh r exempted from it)
 China – Iran signed a 25-year strategic pact
 National Building code of India deals with fire rules in India
Part 4 deals with fire and life safety in buildings
 Kobe Bryant inducted to Naismith Memorial Basketball hall of fame
 B.1.617 double mutant variant identified in India
 Anti-fungal drug for Mucormycosis – Amphotericin B
 Article 256/257 – State is obliged to comply with laws made by
Parliament
 World’s largest iceberg A-76 breaks off from Antartica
 USSR-era INS Rajput decommissioned
 Sunderlal Bahuguna (Founder of Chipko movement) passed away
CM – aka hug the tree movement to save the Himalayan trees
Started in Chamoli dist. Of UK (then UP) in 1973
Sunderlal also campaigned against the Tehri Dam on River Bhagirathi
 Commerce secretary – BV Subrahmanyam
RAW chief – Samant kumar Goel
Intelligence Bureau chief – Arvinda Kumar
Also, 3 members r appointed for CBDT
 Mali President – Moctar Ouane
 ICMR conducted 3 sero surveys in India
 Fugitive offenders – 100 Crore+ wale
 Accused denied anticipatory bail can be given protection under
exceptional circumstances (like if his personal affairs and family get into
crisis)
 British PM Boris Johnson married his fiancée Carrie Symonds.
He is only 2nd British PM to marry while in power
1st was Robert Jenkinson in 1822
 Chelsea won Championship league held in Portugal
 China reported the world’s 1st human infection of the H10N3 bird flu
strain
 ‘17+1’ format includes countries of Central and Eastern Europe plus
China
It was signed in Budapest,Hungary in 2002
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In newz, bcz Lithuania exit from it
 Pope Francis updates canon law to address paedophilia by priests. Last
updated in 1983
 Ajai Singh as the Commander-in-chief of Andaman & Nicobar Islands
 Chairman of NHRC (Ret. CJI) – Justice Arun Mishra
 6 yrs after abandoning ‘One child policy’ of 1979, China now introduced
‘3 child Policy’
Acc. To Once-in-a-decade Pop. Census, China recorded 12M births in
2020 (lowest since 1961)
China Pop. Grow by 5.44% only till 2010 (Annual – 0.53%)
In 2013, China allowed couples to have a 2nd child if either parent was an
only child
2 child policy introduced in 2015
 Chairman of NIA – CRPF DG Kuldeep Singh
 1st Woman FM of Assam – Ajanta Neog
 CM of Assam – Himanta Biswa Sharma (Prez of Badminton Association
of India)
 Kerala CM 2nd time – Pinari K Vijayan
 CM of Puducherry – M Rangasamy
 Tamilnadu CM – MK Stalin
 CM of WB – Mamata Banerjee (She approved LC (U/A 169) in WB, At
present TB WUKAM)
 Director of Indian Institute of Rice Research – Raman Sundaram
 CEO of Axis bank – Amitabh Choudhary
 Bajaj Chairman – Niraj Bajaj
 Prez. Of Int. Hockey Federation – Narendra Batra
 Chairman of Bharat Petroleum Corp. ltd – Arun Kumar Singh
 CEO of Bata – Gunjan Shah
 Ambassadors of IOC for Believe in Sport campaign – PV Sindhu and
Michelle Li
 Coach of Indian women cricket team – Ramesh Powar
 UN Humanitarian chief – Martin Griffiths
 Prez. Of NASA – Bill Nelson
 Syria Prez. – Bashar Al Assad
 PM of Republic of Congo – Collinet Makosso
 Pakistan NSA – Moeed Yusuf
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 Prez. Of Tibet – Penpa Tsering
 Kenya’s 1st woman Chief Justice – MK Koome
 Yuan Longping (Agriculture Scientist) aka Father of Hybrid Rice from
China passed away
 India’s 1st Dhronacharya awardee coach OP Bhardwaj passed away
 Templeton Prize 2021 – Jane Goodall
 1st Indian to win Arab Noble Prize for his book ‘Arabic Oration’ – Dr
Tahera Qutbuddin
 Order of Rising sun award by Japan gov. – Thangjam Dhabali Singh
 UNESCO / Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2021 – Maria
Ressa
 1st Indian to win Fed cup heart award – Sania Mirza
 NATO exercise – Defender Europe 21 in Albania
 Dadasaheb Phalke 2021 – Jungle Cry (Best film)
 Int. film festival best actor – Anupam Kher (Ganju)
 World Food award 2021 – Dr Shakuntla HarakSingh
It is aka Noble Prize for Food and Agriculture
 Whitley Award 2021 (Green Oscar) – Nuku Phom
 69th Miss Universe 2020 – Miss Mexico Andrea Meza
 Spain’s highest award in Social Science – Amartya Kumar Sen
 Int. Eni award (Energy frontier award) – CNR Rao
 World’s 50 greatest leaders 2021 report by Fortune Magazine
Top – NZ PM Jacinda Arden, 10th – Adar Poonawala
 Open budget suvey 2019
India – 53rd , Top – NZ
 Most FDI in India by Singapore (Top), USA, Mauritius
 Largest recipient of Reimittances in 2020 by World Bank, Top – India
 Global Prime Residential Index 2020 released by Knight Frank
Top – Shenzhen , 32nd – New Delhi
 Karnataka ranked 1st in providing Ayushman Bharat Scheme
 Best implementation of Smart city mission schemes – Jharkhand
 Forbes highest paid athlete of the year – Conor McGregor
 Bloomberg billionaires index
Gautam Adani overtake Zhong ShanShan to become Asia’s 2nd richest
 Assam launched online FIRMS (Flood Reporting and Info Mgmt System)
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 Punjab 1st state to join Global Covax to procure covid vaccines
 23rd distt. Of Punjab – Malerkotla
 HIT (Home Isolated Patients) app launched by Bihar
 Amrit Vahini (For oxygen beds) and Sanjeevani Vehicle (For Oxygen
trucks) apps by Jharkhand
 Covi van for senior citizens by Delhi Police
 Mission Hausala by Uttarakhand Police
 UK 1st country to allow driverless cars
 UK will also built World’s most powerful Weather, Climate Change
forecasting supercomputer by 2022
 China have discovered Uranium 214 (Lightest form of Uranium)
 World’s longest pedestrian bridge – AROUCA made in Portugal
 Austria developed Mini hearts stem cell for 1st time
 Fight Climate Crisis initiative by Saudi Arabia
 India has launched Supply Chain Resilience Initiative along with Japan &
Oz to counter China’s dominance
 1st Hindu woman to crack Pakistan Civil Services exam – Sana
Ramachand
 Poland to stop Coal Production by 2049
 Zimbabwe to kill elephants to reduce their Pop
 World champion of Snooker – Mark Selby
 Elephant in the womb book by Kalki Koechlin
 Trail of the tiger book – Balasaheb Thackrey book by Radheshyam
Jadhav
 Miyan ki Bara RS of Rajasthan renamed as Mahesh Nagar RS
 Mohali Int. hockey stadium renamed as Olympian Balbir Singh Senior
Stadium
 Indian Broadcasting Foundation renamed as Indian Broadcasting and
Digital Foundation
 FIFA U-17 Women WC to held in Indian in 2022
 Abu Dhabi to host UNFCC COP-28 in 2023
 1st May – Int. day of Workers/Labor day
 8th May – World Red Cross day
Theme – Together we are unstoppable
 9th May – Mothers day (2nd Sunday of May)
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 15th May – Armed Forces day
 31st May – Anti Tobacco day , theme – Commit to quit
 28th May – World Hunger day , theme – Access end hunger
 World’s 1st unmanned vessel to navigate across the Atlantic – Mayflower
400
 China launched Ocean Observation Satellite ‘Haiyang – 2D’
 NASA and Axiom to launch 1st private mission to ISS by 2022
 NASA to snd its 1st mobile robot to moon by 2023 – Volatiles
Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER)
 ISRO developed 3 types of Ventilators – Prana, VaU, Svasta
 SpaceX accepted Dogecoin cryptocurrency to launch DOGE-1 mission to
moon by 2022
 Community service center - ALISC (Aditya-L1 Support Cell) opened in
Haldwani, UK to collect data of India’s 1st solar space mission
Aditya L1 – To study the sun and planned to launch by PSLV – C56
 World’s most watched program – Ramayana
 Manipur’s Chak Hao (aka black rice) got GI tag
 100M yrs old bones of Sauropod dinosaurs found in Meghalaya
 Armed forces started operation CO-JEET for mental health of Covid
Patients
 India’s 1st self use Rapid Antigen test kit – Coviself
 World’s 1st Climber to climb Mt. Everest 25 times – Nepal’s Kami Rita
 To climb Mt. Everest twice in 4 days – Nepal’s MT Sherpa
 Fastest Women to climb it – Tsang Yin Hung (HK)
 CBSE dost for life app launched by CBSE to help students at time of
exams
 ID-art app to preserve culture heritage launched by Interpol
 IBM created 2-Nanometer chip (World’s smallest and powerful)
 Hazaribagh 6000th station to get fully Wifi facility (1st – Mumbai)
 Nyiragongo Volcano erupted in Congo
 1st Indian actor to get UAE’s golden visa – Sanjay Dutt
 Laurence des Cars (World’s largest museum in Paris, France) – 1 st female
president of Musse Louvre
 Wormuth to 1st woman Army secretary of US
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 Iran unveiled new supercomputer ‘Simorgh’ (100 times more powerful
than the previous)
 China 1st country to ban all synthetic cannabinoids substances
 Sir David Attenborough named COP26 People’s Advocate
 1st Sikh elected in Scottish Parliament: Pam Gosal
 India and UK adopted ‘Roadmap 2030’ to double the trade
 India and Russia to establish 2+2 Ministerial dialogue
Russia is overall 4th and 1st Non-Quad, Other 3 – US, Japan, Oz
 Aashritha : India’s first woman flight test engineer
 143 Khelo India centres to be opened in seven states
 DRDO developed C-19 antibody detection kit ‘DIPCOVAN’
 Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel announced 6 sites added to the
UNESCO WHS. Tentative list increased to 48
 India’s 1st agro-export facilitation centre in Pune
 Airline Company GoAir Rebranded itself as ‘Go First’
 Puducherry becomes ‘Har Ghar Jal’ UT
 Indian Renewable Energy Dev Agency Ltd (IREDA) conferred with “Green
Urja Award”
 Indian Army Launched 1st Solar Plant in Sikkim
 North Korea withdraws from 2022 FIFA World cup
 Bhullar First Indian-origin fighter to win MMA title
 ICC Banned, Former Sri Lanka player Nuwan Zoysa for 6 years
 Brand Finance Insurance report 2021
Top – Ping An Insurance, 10th – LIC
 Kerala’s Oldest Serving MLA Gouri Amma Passes Away at 102
 Rashtriya Lok Dal Founder Ajit Singh Passed Away
 Jagjit Pavadia elected President of International Narcotics Control Board
 Neera Tanden appointed as White House senior adviser to Joe Biden
 Padmakumar Nair as CEO Of National Asset Reconstruction Company
 International Day of UN Peacekeepers 2021: 29th May
Theme – The road to a lasting peace
 World Press Freedom Day – 3rd May
 India and Israel have inked a 3 year joint work programme, till 2023
 Google Cloud and SpaceX signed a deal for providing internet service
through satellite
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 Yuvraj Singh, Ivan Picardo, and Moolchand Yadav to be honoured with
UN’s prestigious medal
 Hockey India wins Etienne Glichitch award 2021
 Suresh Mukund won ‘World Choreography Award 2020’
 Justice Gita Mittal won Arline Pacht Global Vision Award for 2021
 Singer Pink bags Icon Award at Billboard Music Awards
 Ujjwala Singhania appointed as President of FICCI Ladies Organization
(FLO)
 World in 2030: Public Survey Report was published by UNESCO.
According to it, Climate Change, Violence and Conflict, Loss of
Biodiversity and
discrimination and inequality, water and housing, lack of food are the
biggest challenges
Education is the only crucial solution to it
 West Bengal is the top contributor to the Small Savings Scheme
 India has the highest number of real-time online transactions in 2020
 UK new legislation Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021.
Protests against the bill named as “Kill the Bill” protest. Police can
impose conditions such as start and finish times of protest. Fix maximum
permissible noise in static protests.Bill criminalises protestors even for
making noise.
 Guneet Monga to be conferred with Knight of the Order of Arts and
Letters (2nd highest civilian French honour)
 Priyanka Mohite has scaled Mt Annapurna- 10th highest mountain peak
in the world became 1st Indian woman climber
 Saudi Arabia announced to join Canada, US, Qatar and Norway in
forming the Net Zero Producers Forum
 WHO identified 25 countries to eradicate malaria by 2025 aka E-2025
initiative
 UK’s parliament declares China’s treatment of Uighur community in
Xinjiang as genocide
 France makes Ecocide an offence
 GOI launched a mobile app MANAS to promote the mental wellbeing of
the people of India
MANAS- Mental Health and Normalcy Augmentation System
 US & Philippines military exercise- Balikatan (Shoulder-to-Shoulder)
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 BAFTA AWARDS 2021- British Academy of Film and Television Arts
1. Best Film- Nomadland
2. Best Actor- Anthony Hopkins for The Father
3. Best Actress- Frances McDormand for Nomadland
4. Best Director- Chloé Zhao for Nomadland
5. Chloe Zhao became the 1st woman of colour and 2nd woman to win
 World’s first Microsensor based Explosive Trace Detector- NanoSniffer