Latest Current Affairs of May 2017
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Latest Current Affairs of May 2017
| The Indian cricketer who has been awarded the CEAT Cricket Rating's International Cricketer of the Year Award 2016-17 | Ravichandran Ashwin |
| The African country which has been accepted as the new member (14th) of OPEC | Equatorial Guinea |
| The venue of 2017 session of Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held from 22 to 26 May 2017 (Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju is leading the Indian delegation) | Cancun, Mexico |
| The new Defence Secretary who has taken over the post from Shri G. Mohun Kumar | Sanjay Mitra |
| The English actor best known for playing the secret agent James Bond in films like 'The Man with the Golden Gun', 'The Spy Who Loved Me' who passed away on 23 May 2017 | Roger Moore |
| The new Chairman of National Commission of Minorities | Gairul Hasan Rizvi |
| The Ethipioan politician and academic who has been elected as the new Director General of World Health Organisation for a 5-year term to succeed Margaret Chan with effect from 01 July 2017 | China |
| The place in Assam where the Union Cabinet has approved the setting up of AIIMS to be completed in about 4 years | Kamrup |
| The country in which world's largest floating solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant with a capacity of 40 MW became operational | China |
| The Indian wildlife and environment cartoonist who has been awarded this year’s WWF International President’s Award for his efforts to inspire change and attitudes towards nature | Mumbai CST and Karmali (Goa) |
| The new bacterium found on the International Space Station by NASA scientists and named after Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam | Solibacillus kalamii |
| The first semi-high speed train Tejas with facilities like on-board like LED TV and tea/coffee vending machine, flagged off by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will run between | Mumbai CST and Karmali (Goa) |
| The Indian actress who has been awarded the International Humanitarian Award instituted by Asian Voice, a leading British Asian newsweekly | Jacqueline Fernandez |
| The team which has won the Federation Cup 2016-17 football tournament defeating Mohan Bagan in the finals in Cuttack | Bengaluru FC |
| The venue of the first meeting of CMs of 5 States on Indo-China Border chaired by the Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh) | Gangtok |
| The bilateral naval exercise between the Navies of Singapore and India in the South China Sea from 18 to 24 May is named | SIMBEX-17 |
| The annual joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise being conducted by Indian Navy's Western Naval Command at Karwar naval station is named | Karavali Karunya |
| The car manufacturing company which has decided to stop selling its cars in India from the end of this year | General Motors |
| The MD and CEO of ICICI Bank who has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award by the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC | Ms Chand Kochhar |
| The Union Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change who passed awary on 18 May 2017 | Anil Madhav Dave |
| The Indian mountaineer from Arunachal Pradesh who has become the first woman in the world to scale Mt. Everest twice in 5 days | Anshu Jamsenpa |
| The wildlife biologist and scientist with the Mysuru-based Nature Conservation Foundation who has been awarded the Whitley Award for his work to protect tiger corridors in Karnataka | Sanjay Gubbi |
| The renowned environmentalist from Assam who has been awarded the Whitley Award, also known as the Green Oscars, for her efforts in conserving greater adjutant storks | Purnima Devi Barman |
| The new Prime Minister of France who has been appointed by the President Emmanuel Macron | Edouard Philippe |
| The airport in India which has become the busiest single runway airport in the world with 837 flights per day (beating London's Gatwik airport which operates 757 flights/day) | Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai |
| The country which has banned captive breeding of dolphins and killer whales in order to eventually put an end to marine circuses | 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 Indian film actor who has been appointed by WHO as its goodwill ambassador for hepatitis in South-East Asia region | Amitabh Bachchan |
| The missile system with a range of 15 km acquired from Israel which was test-fired from a test range in Odisha | Spyder |
| The South American nation which has declared an end of its public health emergency over Zika, the mosquito-borne virus | Brazil |
| The vaccine which has been included in the Universal Immunization Programme of India by the Union Health Minister Shri JP Nadda | Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) |
| The legendary cricketer who has been named an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club, as he became the fourth Indian to do so after Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly | VVS Laxman |
| The theme of National Technology Day observed on 11 May 2017 | Technology for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth |
| The first Hindi entertainment channel to be launched by Discovery channel is named | Discovery JEET |
| The new President (12th) of South Korea who has assumed the office on 10 May 2017 | Moon Jae-in |
| The Indian pacer who has become the leading wicket-taker in Women's One-Day Internationals in a match against South Africa surpassing Australian Cathryn Fitzpatrick's record of 180 wickets | Jhulan Goswami |
| The country with which India is conducting Co-ordinated Patrol (CORPAT) from 09 – 25 May 17 under the aegis of Andaman and Nicobar Command | Indonesia |
| The mascot of Asian Athletics Championship to be held in Bhubaneshwar from 06 to 09 July 107 | Olly (Olive Ridley turtle) |
| The British actress, model and activist who has been awarded the first genderless award for the Best Actor at the MTV Movie and TV Awards | Emma Watson |
| The candidate of En Marche!(political party) who has won France's 2017 Presidential elections defeating Marine Le Pen of the National Front | Emmanuel Macron |
| The place in Maharashtra where India's First Integrated Bio‐refinery for Renewable Fuels & Chemicals for producing ethanol from a variety of biomass was inaugurated by Shri Nitin Gadkari | Rahu, Pune |
| The north-eastern state which has been declared a disturbed area under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act for 3 more months from 03 May 2017 | Assam |
| The variety of mango grown in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh which has been granted GI (geographical indication) tag (the mango is named after the town it is grown in) | Banganapalle |
| The first Indian woman to be appointed Chief Justice of a High Court who passed away on 05 May 2017 | Leila Seth |
| The State which has become the first in the coutnry to shift to January to December format for financial year | Madhya Pradesh |
| Social worker and Chairperson of Women's Indian Association who has been awarded the Avvaiyar Award for 2017 by Tamil Nadu government | Padma Venkataraman |
| The portal launched by the Ministry of Communications for Information sharing on Mobile Towers and EMF Emission Compliances is named | Tarang Samachar |
| The city which has become the first in the world to get its own font (the font known by the city's name has been developed by Microsoft and is available in 23 languages for Office 365 users) | Dubai |
| The Chief Minister who has been chosen for the Transformative Chief Minister Award in recognition for his role in advancing the US-India partnership at the state level by the US India Business Council | Chandrababu Naidu |
| The medivial saint on whose 1000th birth anniversary a commemorative stamp was released by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi | Sri Ramanujachary |
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