May 2017

1st May 2017

• Twitter partners with Bloomberg for - Streaming news 24/7
• Maruti, Honda, Toyota kick off new fiscal with a - Strong growth

2nd May 2017

• THAAD missile defense system operational in - South Korea
• Tarang Sanchar web portal for information on Mobile Tower Radiation launched by - DoT
• INSA Medal for Young Scientist 2017 winners announced in - Last week of April
• Padma Venkataraman bestowed with - Avvaiyar award
• First city in world to get its own Microsoft Font - Dubai
• First north-eastern club to win 2016-17 I-League - Aizawl FC

3rd May 2017

• Railway Bridge taller than Eiffel Tower to be built over - Chenab River
• 64th National Film Awards presented by - President PranabMukherjee
• Patanjali Research Institute in Haridwar inaugerted by--PM Narendra Modi
• Vidya Veerta Abhiyan launched by - Prakash Javadekar
• Shabana Azmi starrer 'The Black Prince' awarded at - film fest in Houston
• Who has been appointed as Chairman of Public Accounts Committee ? - Mallikarjun Kharge

4th May 2017

• IBBI constitutes Technical Committee to lay down Technical Standards for - Performance of core services
• National Steel Policy 2017 approved by - Union Cabinet
• Central Sector Scheme SAMPADA approved by - CCEA
• Cooperation between Indian and Japan on Railway Safety approved by - Union Cabinet
• The Highway Saga & SRISHTI exhibitions inaugerated by - Gadkari

5th May 2017

• South Asia Satellite successfully launched by - ISRO
• Express WiFi in India launched by - Facebook
• Deal signed by Russia, Iran and Turkey to - deal on Syrian crisis
• Who has been appointed as Chairman of Tea Board of India ? ¡V
• Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah
• Braj Bihari Kumar to succeed economist S K Thorat as - ICSSR Chairman

6th May 2017

• PepsiCo India forays into Dairy Products with - Oats-Based Milk Beverage
• Who has been appointed Vice Chancellor of Ashoka University? - Pratap Bhanu Mehta

7th May 2017

• Assent to Ordinance for resolution of non-performing asset crisis in banking system was given by - President
• Which state was declared as Disturbed Area under AFSPA for 3 more months - Assam
• Express Wi-Fi service was launched in India by - Facebook

8th May 2017

• Two Indian warships visited Egyptian port city on - 5th May 2017
• Every house in Haryana to get a - smart ID
• Bharti Airtel and Ola Cabs tie-up to offer - Integrated digital services
• Country¡¦s 1st bio refinery plant inaugerated by - Gadkari

9th May 2017

• Union Home Minister addresses the Review Meeting of - Left Wing Extremism affected States
• Undetonated World War II bombs found - in Germany
• Justice Karnan is the first High Court judge to be sentenced to jail by - Supreme Court
• NBT to host book fairs in - Panchayats
• Which country is elected as President of UN-Habitat, the United Nations¡¦ Human Settlements Programme? ¡V India

10th May 2017

• Integrated case management system of Supreme Court launched by - PM Narendra Modi
• Union Government sets up a task force to compute - Reliable and timely employment data
• 29th edition of CORPAT between India and Indonesia begins at - Port Blair
• Konkona Sen Sharma bags Best Director and Best Actress awards at - New York Indian Film Festival

11th May 2017

• First woman senator to breastfeed in Parliament - Larissa Waters
• Ahmedabad to host a mega-event to celebrate - International Yoga Day
• Bridges safe in Kerala - 606
• India, US exchange views on maritime developments in - Asia-Pacific & IOR
• India celebrates 2017 National Technology Day on - 11th May
• Asian Wrestling Championship: India's Harpreet Singh wins bronze in - Greco-Roman weight category

12th May 2017

• Who Flagged Off four Clean Himalaya Expeditions ? - Vijay Goel
• India replacing its Research station in - Antarctica
• Who has been sworn in as President of South Korea? - Moon Jae-in
• World Migratory Bird Day 2017 observed on - 10th May 2017
• International Day of Vesak celebrations in Colombo attended by - Narendra Modi
• International Court of Justice stays - Kulbhushan Jadhav's hanging
• Highest wicket taker in Womens One Day Internationals - Jhulan Goswami

13th May 2017

• Kochi Metro Rail Ltd offers jobs to - Transgender community members
• The first woman senator to breastfeed in Parliament - Larissa Waters
• Who has been appointed as Chairman of FIFA Governance Committee ? - Justice Mukul Mudgal
• Who has been appointed as Secretary of Department of Telecommunications? - Aruna Sundararajan
• National Contact Centre launched by - Election Commission of India
• VVS Laxman awarded honorary life membership of - Marylebone Cricket Club
• TN Government to form a panel to study harmful - 'Seemai Karuvelam' trees
• Brazil declares end to - Zika emergency
• Himachal Pradesh cabinet minister Karan Singh passed away on - 12th May 2017
• IT Department simplifies linking PAN with Aadhaar for - Taxpayers
• New WHO¡¦s goodwill ambassador for hepatitis - Amitabh Bachchan
• No school bag day in UP government schools declared by - Yogi Adityanath
• New Chancellor of JNU - V K Saraswat
• IIT Madras generated white light from - Turmeric and Pomegranate

14th May 2017

• Light Combat aircraft Tejas successfully test-fires air-to-air missile
• India and UK to sign MoU to increase efficiency of urban transport system

15th May 2017

• Former Puducherry CM Subrahmanyan Ramaswamy passed away on - 15th May 2017
• Indian Coir Sector¡¦s export revenue touched all time high in fiscal year - 2016-17
• Busiest airport with 1 flight every 65 seconds - Mumbai airport
• Signs of water on a distant Neptune-sized planet detected by - NASA
• Union Government revises Base Year of WPI to 2011-2012 from 2004-05 on - 12th May 2017

16th May 2017

• Union Government revises Base Year of IIP to - 2011-2012 from 2004-05
• India-Chile expanded PTA to come into effect on - 16th May
• PM Modi launches Narmada river conservation project in MP
• International Day of Families observed on - 15th May
• Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill, 2017 passed by - UP Assembly
• India imposes anti-dumping duty on - glasses and Chinese radiators
• India, Palestine sign five agreements for cooperation in different sectors on - 16th May 2017
• VO Chidambaranar Port Trust and TANGEDCO sign MoU to - Upgrade Coal Jetties
• New Prime Minister of France - Edouard Philippe
• Bengali is compulsory in all schools in - West Bengal

17th May 2017

• 2017 Spanish Grand Prix won by - Lewis Hamilton
• Public Affairs Index 2017 relased on - 12th May 2017
• MoU for cooperation signed between Indian Navy and - Space Application Centre
• Rafael Nadal beats Dominic Thiem to win - 5th Madrid Open title
• Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine against Pneumonia launched by - Union Government
• 2nd NPDRR meeting in Delhi inaugurated by - Home Minister Rajnath Singh
• Mark Twain Prize 2017 for American humour won by - David Letterman

18th May 2017

• NGT orders Rs 5000 fine on over-speeding vehicles in - Kaziranga
• Elephant census begins in - Karnataka
• State of emergency over cholera outbreak declared by - Yemen
• Foundation dedicated to wellness of Mother and Child launched by Suresh Raina
• Indian Railways to install CCTV cameras at over 900 stations under - Nirbhaya fund
• Year of Polar Prediction launched by - World Meteorological Organisation
• India¡¦s first smart grid to generate power from renewable energy sources created by - IIEST
• Biologist Purnima Devi Barman nominated for - Whitley Awards
• World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2017 observed on - 17th May 2017
• EPFO¡¦s Citizens¡¦ Charter 2017 launched by - Union Government
• Dinosaur mummy discovered with all skin intact - in Canada
• Separate 24x7 DD Channel for Jharkhand announced by - Venkaiah Naidu
• US-based Indian Ramit Tandon won his - Maiden PSA title
• Trump to address Muslim leaders on - Peaceful Vision Of Islam
• Who has been appointed as Deputy Executive Secretary of UNFCCC ? - Ovais Sarmad
• Former Puducherry CM Subrahmanyan Ramaswamy passed away on - 15th May 2017

19th May 2017

• Prize Money hiked for Champions Trophy by - International Cricket Council
• Operation Clean Money portal launched by - Union Government
• Framework for South China Sea code of conduct agreed by - China ASEAN
• Cheapest respiratory filter developed by - IIT Delhi scientists
• First Human Antibodies to fight Ebola viruses discovered by - Researchers
• All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Chess Meet won by - R R Laxman
• GST Rates of 1211 items announced by - GST Council
• Japanese Cabinet approved bill to allow - Japan¡¦s first abdication of emperor in 200 years
• Joint HADR Exercise commences at - Naval Station Karwar
• Simbex-17 begins on - 18th May 2017
• Anti-dumping duty imposed on imports of chemical, aluminium foil from - China
• Indian-American student Pranay Varada wins - National Geographic Bee Competition 2017

20th May 2017

• Anant Geete inaugurates Test Track Facility developed by - Global Automotive Research Centre
• Indian Army gets M777 howitzers 30 years after - Bofors scandal
• Indian scientist Shrinivas Kulkarni wins - Dan David Prize 2017
• Bhindawas bird sanctuary to be developed as - Tourist resort
• Chitale Committee recommends several measures for Desiltation of - Ganga
• NGT bans open defecation, waste dumping on - Yamuna floodplains
• Number of migrant children travelling alone hits record high: UNICEF
• Framework for South China Sea code of conduct agreed - China and ASEAN
• Pan-India implementation of Maternity Benefit Program approved by - Union Government

21st May 2017

• Setting up of Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Assam approved by - CCEA
• Former FBI Director Robert Mueller named Special Counsel for - Russia Probe
• Electrified doubling line between Phephana-Indara and Mau-Shahganj in UP approved by - CCEA
• ICJ stays Kulbhushan Jadhav's execution till - Final order
• World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development 2017 observed on - 21st May 2017
• Manual titled Living conditions in Institutions for Children in conflict with Law released by - WCD Ministry
• New Coal Linkage Policy 2017 approved by - CCEA

22nd May 2017

• International Day for Biological Diversity celebrated worldwide on - 22nd May 2017
• Mumbai Indians beat Rising Pune Supergiant to win - 2017 IPL
• New technique to help deaf-blind IS -'watch' TV

23rd May 2017

• 19 killed in suspected terror attack following pop concert in - Manchester, UK
• Petroleum Minister co-chairs India OPEC Institutional Dialogue at - Vienna
• US, six Gulf countries sign MoU to - Curb financing terror organisations
• Hindi Advisory Committee recommends - State encouragement to teach Hindi voluntarily
• Series of projects in Gujarat inaugurated by - PM Modi
• Two Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) with Indian taxpayers signed by - CBDT
• Second largest steel producer in the world - India
• Sand Mining in Narmada River banned by - MP Government
• India¡¦s Rohan Chakravarty wins - WWF International President¡¦s Award
• Free Wi-Fi facility at 28 Railway Stations inaugurated by - Railway Minister
• Environment Ministry charge taken by - Harsh Vardhan
• NASA names bacterium found on ISS after - APJ Abdul Kalam
• High speed Tejas Express launched by - Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu
• UK Humanitarian Award won by - Jacqueline Fernandez
• English Premier League's Player of the Year - N'Golo Kante
• US President calls for complete isolation of - Iran
• Bengaluru FC beat Mohun Bagan to - Lift Federation Cup
• The Largest map of Universe ever created by - Astronomers
• Intel International Science Award 2017 in US won by - India's Prashant Ranganathan

24th May 2017

• MoU signed between US, six Gulf countries to curb - Financing terror organisations
• UN releases the First draft of - Nuclear Ban Treaty
• PM Narendra Modi calls for creation of Asia-Africa growth corridor for - Development of Africa
• ISRO and NASA collaborate to build - Earth-imaging satellite NISAR
• Seventieth World Health Assembly kicks off in - Geneva
• Union Government launches SEVA mobile app for - Quick tracking of coal dispatch
• NGT demands for data on trees in eco-sensitive zone near - Taj Mahal
• US asks citizens to postpone non-essential travel to - Pakistan
• Payments Bank launched - Paytm
• Entertainment, cable, DTH to attract lower taxes under - GST

25th May 2017

• First African to be elected as WHO Director-General - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
• World's smallest nation Nauru ratifies - International Solar Alliance Pact
• Environment Ministry and OzonAction organised ¡§Ozone2Climate¡¨ Technology Roadshow in - Agra
•  Reader with guidelines for raising happy children released by - WCD Ministry
• Test flight completed by World's largest aircraft - Airlander 10
• Exhibition displaying Stone Sculptures returned by Australia inaugurated by - Tourism Minister
• Kiren Rijiju unveils - World's first philosophical novel on God
• International Cricketer of the Year award won by - Ashwin
• Controversial godman Chandraswami passed away on - 23rd May 2017
• World Turtle Day 2017 observed globally on - 23rd May
• Hyperloop India to participate in - SpaceX¡¦s Hyperloop Pod Competition II
• World¡¦s first Robocop recruited by - Dubai Police
• Neil Armstrong¡¦s Moon Dust Bag to be sold at an - Auction
• James Bond actor Roger Moore passed away on - 23rd May 2017

26th May 2017

• JDI between Germany and India on alternative medicine approved by - Union Cabinet
• Socialist Lenin Moreno sworn in as - President of Ecuador
• Setting up of AIIMS in Kamrup, Assam approved by - Union Cabinet
• Abolition of Foreign Investment Promotion Board approved by - Union Cabinet
• Two Indian peacekeepers honoured posthumously with - UN Medal
• P V Sindhu elected to Badminton World Federation Athletes¡¦ Commission
• Cobra lily rediscovered after 84 years - In Nilgiris
• Sanjay Mitra took charge as - Defence Secretary
• 21 media websites blocked by - Egypt
• India¡¦s first underwater rail tunnel completed on - 23rd May 2017
• Who has been appointed as Chairman of IAMAI ? - Rajan Anandan

27th May 2017

• Manchester United beat Ajax to claim - 2016¡V17 UEFA Europa League title
• JE vaccination drive in 38 districts of UP launched by - UP CM Yogi Adityanath
• Who has been appointed as Secretary of CBSE? - Anurag Tripathy
• PM Narendra Modi inaugurates India's longest bridge Dhola-Sadiya in Assam
• In-flight Wi-Fi Net access soon to be provided by - Indian Flights
• Indian researchers find a new way to kill - Tuberculosis bacteria
• India¡¦s concerns over China¡¦s - One Belt, One Road Initiative
• Water conservation campaign launched by - Uttarakhand CM
• ICC Cricket Committee recommends - DRS for T20 Internationals
• Sale of cattle for slaughter banned by - Union Environment Ministry
• 'Best Destination for Romance' award given to - Kerala¡¦s Munnar

28th May 2017

• NASA's Juno Mission reveals - Jupiter's deep secrets
• Fifth among top 10 global landmarks is India's - Taj Mahal
• Global Warming Affects - Sea level rising three times as quickly as they were 25 years ago
• Former Punjab DGP Kanwar Pal Singh Gill passed away on - 26th May 2017
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• 29th May 2017
• Construction begins on world's largest telescope in - Chile
• Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to Jimmy Carter, passed away on - 26th May 2017
• Who has been appointed as Jamia Chancellor ?- Najma Heptulla, Manipur Governor
• Delhi Metro's Heritage Line inaugurated on - 28th May 2017
• Former Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis died on - 29th May 2017
• Cyclonic Storm MORA to strike - East-Central Bay of Bengal
• Global Icon Priyanka to be honoured with - Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award

30th May 2017

• Aeronautical Test Range at Chitradurga inaugurated by - Defence Minister, Arun Jaitly
• Satyabrata Rout honoured with - Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar
• MoUs signed at India-Pacific Islands Sustainable Development Conference are - 8
• Order against Abu Salem in 1993 Mumbai blasts case likely to be announced by - TADA Court
• Borussia Dortmund beat Frankfurt to - Lift 2016-17 German Cup
• India¡¦s first Electric Mass Transport Project launched in - Nagpur
• International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers 2017 observed on - 29th May 2017
• ISRO set to launch India¡¦s heaviest rocket - Fat Boy
• 2017 Monaco Grand Prix won by - Sebastian Vettel
• Arsenal beat Chelsea 2-1 to win - 13th FA Cup
• Four agreements signed between Mauritius - India
• South Korea beat China to win - 2017 Sudirman Cup

31st May 2017

• Bail granted to LK Advani, MM Joshi, Uma Bharti on by CBI Court - Babri Masjid Demolition Case
• Hindi Sevi Samman Awards presented by - President of India
• India's own global positioning system NavIC to be operational from - 2018
• MoU signed between Amul and ISRO for - Fodder acreage estimation
• Controversial NGO law in Egypt approved by - President Sisi
• Former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega passed away on - 29th May 2017
• MoU signed between India and Fiji on - Defense Cooperation