Most Important Current Affairs of May 2013

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Most Important Current Events of May 2013

National News

• Central Government has launched a placement-oriented skill development scheme, named ‘Roshni’. This scheme will target 50000 rural youth in the country’s 24 most Naxalism-affected districts.
• In Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Congress won with 121 seats out of 224 seats.
• Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang visited India. India and China signed MoUs covering such area as pharmaceutical, buffalo meat and fisheries.
• Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal and Union Surface Transport Minister C.P. Joshi got additional charge of LAW and Railway portfolio respectively after resigning of Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Bansal.
• K. Siddaramaih has been appointed as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka by the Governor H.R. Bhardwaj.
• India got the observer status in the Arctic Council along with that of five other countries – China, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
• The Ventral Government revised the guidelines of Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) and made it mandatory to have a toilet for all houses constructed under this scheme. Only 21 percent IAY houses have toilets.
• The Union Cabinet gave approval for increasing the creamy layer income criterion from Rs. 4.5 lakh to Rs. 6 lakh per annum for OBC.
• Ms. Arunima Sinha has become India’s first amputee to conquer Mount Everest on a prosthetic leg.
• Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh lays the foundation stone of the Indian National Defence University which is the country’s first defence university in Gurgaon, Haryana.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal for the implementation of the National AIDS Contro Support Project (NACSP) at a cost of Rs. 2550 crore.
• Shashi Kant Sharma has been appointed as the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
• Maoist attacked on the Congress workers and leaders in the hilly areas of Darbha while returning from Sukma near Raipur in Chhattisgarh.
• Reserve Bank of India ruled out a ban on sale of gold coins by banks.
• India and Thailand signed a long awaited extradition treaty.
• A delegation from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) has visited India.
• India’s GDP growth fell to 4.8 percent in the fourth quarter of the 2012-13 financial year.
• Jagmohan Dalmia has been made in-charge of the Board’s working group for looking into day-today affairs after the IPL-6 spot-fixing controversy.
• India and Australia agreed to hold a joint naval exercise in 2015 to raise their defence cooperation to a higher level.
• The Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security held in New Delhi to set up the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC).
• Lt. General (Retd.) Mr. Nirbhay Sharma has been appointed as the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh.
• Dr. Avinash Chander has been appointed as the Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister and Director General of DRDO.
• Premlata Agarwal became the first Indian woman to scale the top peaks of the seven continents which are popularly known as ‘Seven Summits’.
• West Bengal Forest Department has announced that there are 103 tigers at the Sundarban Tiger Reserve.
• Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) appointed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the chairman of the National Election Campaign Committee.

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International News

• Mr. Nawaz Sharif took the oath of the office of Prime Minister by the President Asif Ali Zardari.
• Roberto Azevedo has been named to take the helm of the World Trade Organizer (WTO).
• USA granted conditional authorization to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries including India that don’t have a free trade agreement (FTA) with it.
• The President of Myanmar Mr. Thein Sein became the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century.
• Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura became the world’s oldest person to climb Mount Everest at the age of 80.
• Cannes International Film Festival celebrated 100 years of Indian cinema with the screening of the movie ‘Bombay Talkies’.
• China has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pakistan on a transport corridor expected to pass through Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) despite of India’s concern.
• Mr. Srikant Crinivasan has been nominated by US President Mr. Barack Obama to the Federal appeals Court DC Circuit. He became the first-ever South Asian-American to serve as a circuit court judge in the US history.
• The African Union (AU) summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• The highest court of Egypt ruled that the country’s Islamist-dominated legislature and constitutional panel were illegally elected.
• North Korea and South Korea held their first official talks for more than two years.
• The 1^st phase of Sri Lanka’s northern railway project which is funded by a line of credit facilitated by India has been commissioned.

Sports Updates

• Mumbai Indian has won the IPL-6 crown by beating Chennai Super Kings in the final.
• Rafael Nadal of Spain won the Madrid Masters title 2013.
• Tiger Woods won the US PGA Tour Players Championship 2013 title.
• Indian swimmer Sandeep Sejwal has clinched two Gold medals in the 56th Malaysia Open Swimming Championship 2013.
• Delhi Police Special Cell smashed a spot-fixing racket in the ongoing IPL-6 tournament and arrested Indian pacer S. Sreesanth and two of his teammates from Rajasthan Royals.
• Suresh Raina became the first Indian batsman to score 4000 runs in T20 cricket.
• Deepika Kumari won two Silver medals at the World Cup Stage I Archery Champioship in Shanghai, China.
• India won the Asian team snooker championship title 2013.

French Open Tournament 2013 winners :

• Men’s singles – Rafael Nadal of Spain
• Women’s single – Serena Williams of USA
• Men’s doubles – Bob and Mike Bryan of USA
• Women’s doubles – Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia
• Mixed doubles – Lucie Hradecka and Frantisek Cermark of Czech Republic

Prize and Award Winners

• Hon’ble President Pranab Kukherjee presented the 47th Jnanpith Award for the year 2011 to Dr. Pratibha Ray for her outstanding contributions to Indian literature.
• Sharmila Tagore has been honoured with the Srimanta Shankardev Award for the 2008 at a ceremony in Guwahati, Assam.
• Late Indira Goswami has been posthumously honoured with the Assam Ratna Award.
• Team India Captain M.S. Dhoni has been presented with the ICC ODI Shield by former ICC President David Morgan in London.
• Tripurai Sharma has been conferred the Sangeet Natak Academy.
• Lydia Davis won the Man Booker International Prize 2013.
• Hindi writers Ramdarash Mishra and Narendra Kohli won the prestigious Vyas Samman for 2011 and 2012 respectively.

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