one-liners current affairs 28-29 May, 2016

           (28 MAY, 2016)

• Today is Menstrual Hygiene Day. It is for raising awareness about the importance of Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM).

• Theme: Menstruation matters to everyone, everywhere.

• The Group of Seven Nations (G7) have pledged to end government support for Coal, Oil and Gas by 2025.

 Extra Knowledge:            

G7 comprises of the United States, France, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Italy & Japan

• Advertisements for contraceptives, birth control, and family planning products on television and radio have been  banned in Pakistan.

Extra Knowledge:            

Who gave the term Pakistan: Choudhry Rahmat Ali

Pakistan first Governor-General was: Muhammad Ali Jinnah

• For enhancing punishment, a ‘hudud’ bill, a Islamic penal code was submitted to parliament by the Malaysian Government.

Extra Knowledge:            

PM of Malaysia: Najib Razak

Currency of Malaysia: Malaysian Ringgit

Capital of Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur

• The Thailand Government has closed three islands namely Koh Khai Nok, Koh Khai Nui and Koh Khai Nai islands, to tourists to protect the beaches and the coral reefs around them.

 Extra Knowledge:            

Capital of Thailand: Bangkok

Currency of Thailand: Thai baht

• If you are lucky, you can meet PM. The government has organised a ‘Governance Quiz’ on its ‘MyGov’ portal, winner will get the chance to meet PM Narendra Modi.

Extra Knowledge:            

Constituency of Narendra Modi: Varanasi

• V Narayanaswamy will become the Chief Minister of Puducherry.

Extra Knowledge:            

Puducherry is the largest Union Territory

• The Telangana Government has got a place in the Limca Book of Records for conducting the most intensive household survey by a State.

Extra Knowledge:            

Chief Minister of Telangana: K Chandrasekhar Rao

Governor of Telangana: E. S. L. Narasimhan       

Capital of Telangana: Hyderabad

• A record 22 satellites in a single mission will be launched by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) next month.

Extra Knowledge:            

Kiran Kumar is the Chairman of ISRO.

• SpaceX has successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket carrying the THAICOM 8 satellite on a drone ship at sea.

• Microsoft has decided to banning certain common passwords like ‘12345’ and ‘qwerty’ across its services including Skype, Xbox and Outlook

Extra Knowledge:            

CEO of Microsoft: Satya Nadella

Microsoft was established on: April 4, 1975, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

The founder of Microsoft is: Paul Allen and Bill Gates

• ‘BMTC Easy Travel Information Planner’ an Android App has been launched by Bengaluru Metro-politan Transport Corporation, which will enable commuters to keep track of real-time movement.

Extra Knowledge:            

Bangalore is known as Silicon Valley of India.

• ‘India Biodiversity Award 2016” has been given to Pakke Tiger Reserve in East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh.

Extra Knowledge:            

CM of Arunachal Pradesh: Kalikho Pul

Governor of Andhra Pradesh: Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan

Arunachal Pradesh is the Eastern most state of India.

• Reynaldo Bignone (88), a former Argentinian dictator has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.  

Extra Knowledge:            

Highest peak of Argentina: Aconcagua

Capital of Argentina: Buenos Aires

Currency of Argentina: Argentine peso

President of Argentina: Mauricio Macri

Lionel Messi is from Argentina

• Stanzlin Laskit, Tashi Laskit and Tsering Angmo all class 12^th girls, have scaled Mount Everest. It was first ever all girls Mount Everest expedition.

Extra Knowledge:            

Other names of Mount Everest are: Nepal as Sagarmatha and in Tibet as Chomolungma

• Infosys Ltd, has appointed Anantha Radhakrishnan as the Chief Executive of the Company’s Business process outsourcing (BPO) subsidiary.

Extra Knowledge:            

CEO of Infosys: Vishal Sikka

Founder of Infosys: Narayan Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora

• CONIFA has organised the football World Cup for unrecognized states, de facto independent states and  autonomous region in Abkhazia.

Extra Knowledge:            

CONIFA-Confederation of Independent Football Associations.

Headquarter of FIFA: Zurich, Switzerland

First FIFA World Cup was won by: Uruguay

FIFA President is: Gianni Infantino

           (29 MAY, 2016)

• Today is International Day of UN (United Nations) peacekeepers.

• Theme: “Honouring Our Heroes”.

• Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari will leave for North Africa tomorrow on a two-nation visit to Morocco and Tunisia.

Extra Knowledge:            

Capital of Morocco: Rabat

Capital of Tunisia: Tunis

• The MOU was signed between India’s BIRAC (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council) and Horticulture Innovation Australia to enhance Research and Development (R&D) capabilities in biotechnology.

• European Union (EU) official’s announced that all Scientific articles in Europe supported by public and public private funds will be freely accessible by 2020.

Extra Knowledge:            

EU established on: November 1, 1993, Maastricht, Netherlands

There are 28 members of EU

• Union Minister Sushma Swaraj has launched the official website of PM Narendra Modi’s office in six regional languages. They are Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu.

Extra Knowledge:            

Malayalam is the official language of Kerala state.

Telugu is the official language of Andhra Pradesh state.

• India’s first integrated web portal designed to promote and mainstream Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) in India has been launched by the Union Ministry of Power and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

• The India Meteorological Department (IMD) will give state-wise monsoon forecast from 2017.

• Sale of loose Cigarettes, Beedis and Tobacco have been banned by J&K Government.

Extra Knowledge:            

First CM of J&K was: Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq

Largest fresh water lake of India is: Wular Lake

• Transgenders has been granted below poverty line (BPL) status by the Odisha Government by this Odisha has become the first state to do so.

Extra Knowledge:            

CM of Odisha: Naveen Patnaik
 

Governor of Odisha: Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir

Capital of Odisha: Bhubaneswar

Classical dance of Odisha: Odissi, also known as Orissi

• Lakshadeep became first Union Territory (UT) in the country to sign 24 x 7 ‘Power for All’ document.

Extra Knowledge:            

There are Seven Union Territories in India only two of them, namely Delhi and Puduchery have their own legislative assemblies.

• According to the data of 27 banks a total of 13,935 Automatic Teller Machines (ATM’s) have been installed during the 2015-2016 fiscal but the target was 15,249.

Extra Knowledge:            

SBI has 49,724 ATM’s
 

HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Bank in India was the first bank to install on ATM’s.

• Vice-Admiral AR Karve today took charge as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-chief of the Southern Naval Command (SNC)  

• Indian author Aditi Krishnakumar has won the prestigious 2016 Scholastic Asian Book Award for her 32,000 word manuscript titled "Codex: The Lost Treasure of the Indus”.

Extra Knowledge:            

The first excavated site of Indus valley civilisation is Harappa

• Arnab De, an Indian-American Scientist, has received the prestigious Springer Theses Award. He was selected for his outstanding research on developing transgenic Mice to study a critical tumor-suppressor A20.

• Real Madrid FC won the 2016 UEFA Champions league for the record 11^th time.

Today’s Word:

Shibboleth\Shi-bo-leth (noun)

An old idea, opinion, or saying that is commonly believed and repeated but that may be seen as old-fashioned or untrue.

Example: There’s a lot of truth in the Shibboleth that if you give some people an inch, they’ll take a mile.