Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: May 3rd week (16 May – 23 May)

Telangana became the first state in the country where the pilot ‘e-Sanad’ project, an initiative by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for online attestation of documents, was rolled out.

In the Economic Outlook Survey brought out by industry body Ficci, it is announced that India’s economy is set to grow by a robust 7.4 per cent in the current fiscal. The industry and services sector are also expected to grow by 6.9 per cent and 8.4 per cent respectively in 2017-18.

Hyderabad, Telangana

Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling has been conferred with the first Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Lifetime Achievement Honour in Public Service by President Pranab Mukherjee.

Teams of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would inspect the excavation being carried out at an archaeological site in Haryana’s Fatehabad district to verify claims of it being the oldest civilisation in the world.

Rafael Nadal beat Dominic Thiem to win his fifth Madrid Open title held in Spain

Indian politician who was the fourth Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Pondicherry

Newly sworn-in French President Emmanuel Macron has named Edouard Philippe, the 46-year-old Mayor of Le Havre city, as his Prime Minister.

second after China.

India’s first Aquatic ainbow Technology Park (ARTP) in Chennai would be operational in next three months.

The study published by Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) said the beaches of the World Heritage-listed Henderson Island (a remote island in the South Pacific) contained 37.7 million pieces of debris, making the island most polluted place on Earth

As per the report, India will transform gradually from young to a ‘greying’ country and by 2050 every 5th Indian will be in 60s as against every 12th at present

17 May 2017. Theme of 2017 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day: “Big Data for Big Impact”.

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Former prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh presented the prize to ISRO chairman A. S. Kiran Kumar in the presence of Chairperson of the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust Sonia Gandhi. The prize, which was announced in the year 2014 by the jury headed by the Vice President M. Hamid Ansari, consists of a trophy made of banded Haematite Jasper, with a portrait of the late Prime Minister in the tradition of Jaipur miniature paintings, a cash award of Rs. one crore and a citation.

BSNL signed MOU with Disney Land India to provide premium online gaming services to mobile customers of the telecom operator.

Top- Tata Group; SBI was on 5^th while LIC on 3rd

Shrinivas Kulkarni- in the ‘Future’ category which is dedicated to astronomy. He will share the award with Andrej Udalski.

Dhola-Sadiya bridge
Built on- Brahmaputra River, Assam

Rank of India- 154 out of 195 countires
Top- Switzerland

Purnima Barman: Inspiring women to protect Assam’s greater adjutant and its habitat, India.
Sanjay Gubbi: Reducing deforestation in Karnataka’s tiger corridors, India
The award is called- Whitley Awards. Green Oscar is the informal name

Reliance Jio has received TM Forum’s ‘Digital Service Innovator of the Year Award’ 2017. TM Forum is the industry association driving digital business transformation of the communications industry. Reliance Jio got this award by acquiring 90 million customers in four months.

Grand Master R.R. Laxman of Integral Coach Factory has won the All India Open Rapid FIDE Rating Chess Tournament.

David Letterman has been named the next recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American humour, the award granted annually by the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Turbo Megha Airways. UDAN (Uday Desh Kaa Aaam Naagrik)

Committee headed by Madhav Chitale on Desiltation of Ganga has recommended a slew of measures which include study of reach wise sediment transport processes along with establishing annual sediment budgets to guide de-silting activities, Preparation of annual reports (Sand registry) describing the previous de-silting/ dredging activity, etc.

The Annual Joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise began on 18 May 2017 at Naval Station Karwar, Karnataka. Named as ‘Karavali Karunya’, the exercise is being conducted by Indian Navy’s Western Naval Command.

Hassan Rouhani has been re-elected as Iran’s 12th President with a thumping majority.

Brijesh Thapa and Ravi Kumar were awarded this.

Bengaluru FC has won this year’s Federation Cup by beating Mohun Bagan.

The Anti-terrorism Day is celebrated annually in the country to commemorate the death anniversary of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on 21st May.

Helsinki, Finland

HDFC Life

The Madhya Pradesh government has imposed a ban on sand mining on the Narmada riverbed and formed a committee of experts headed by Cabinet Minister Rajendra Shukla to suggest measures to prevent ecological damage to the river, considered as the lifeline of the state.

First: China, Second: India

Cochin Port Trust has received two Best Performance Awards from Ministry of Shipping for the highest growth in operating surplus and also for achieving third highest growth in cargo traffic among the major ports in the year 2016-17.

Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez has been awarded the International Humanitarian Award for her work in India and worldwide at the second annual Asian Voice Charity Awards held in London.

Germany’s Alexander Zverev has won Italian Open’s Men’s Singles title beating World No. 2 Novak Djokovic.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has launched the “India 2017” Yearbook, a compilation of current affairs for the aspirants preparing for civil services and other competitive examination, written by Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi.

Bank of Baroda (BOB) and IFFCO have rolled out their first set of co-branded debit cards for farmers as part of a novel initiative to push digitalisation and cashless economy.

Federal Bank, in association with Geojit, has launched a new trading platform called “Selfie” for customers. Designed and managed by Geojit, the trading platform will give its users absolute control over their investments with timely research inputs to make sound investment decisions.

There were two winners: Rohan Chakravarty and Adeline Tiffanie
President of WWF- Yolanda Kakabadse

The Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan is on a visit to Vienna, Austria to co-chair the 2nd India-OPEC Institutional Dialogue at the OPEC headquarters