General Knowledge & Current Affairs
May 2022 -1st to 8th
- 21 NPF (Naga People’s Front) MLAs join NDPP (Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party) in 60-member Nagaland Assembly
- EAM S. Jaishankar calls on Bhutan’s PM Lotay Tshering in Thimphu
- Degrees of students joining medical colleges in Pakistan after Dec 2018 not valid in India: National Medical Commission
- Foundation day of Maharashtra and Gujarat celebrated on May 1
- PM Modi meets Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin
- External Affairs Ministry accepts Tamil Nadu government’s proposal to send aid to Sri Lanka
- Satyajit Ray film festival being organized in Mumbai on May 2-4 by the National Museum of Indian Cinema
- IRS officer Sangeeta Singh given additional charge of CBDT Chairperson
- PM Modi, Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen Mette Frederiksen hold delegation level talks in Copenhagen; Review progress of Green Strategic Partnership between two countries
- India, Germany ink pact for encrypted connection between foreign offices
- India and Germany sign joint declaration of Intent on Forest Landscape Restoration
- India and Germany sign joint declaration of Intent on Indo-German Hydrogen Task Force
- 2nd India-Nordic Summit held at Copenhagen in Denmark; participating Prime Ministers – India: Narendra Modi, Denmark: Mette Frederiksen, Finland: Sanna Marin, Iceland: Katrin Jakobsdottir, Sweden: Magdalena Andersson and Norway: Jonas Gahr Store
- PM Modi meets Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II in Copenhagen
MONETARY POLICY REVIEW - RBI’s monetary policy committee (MPC) votes unanimously to increase repo rate by 40 basis points (bps)
- Repo rate increased to 4.40%, with immediate effect
- Standing deposit facility (SDF) rate stands adjusted to 4.15%
- Marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate stand adjusted to 4.65%
- Cash reserve ratio (CRR) of banks hiked by 50 basis points to 4.5% of net demand and time liabilities (NDTL) from May 21
- PM Modi holds talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris
- Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates 3 floating Border Outposts named Sutlej, Kaveri and Narmada on Indo-Bangladesh Border
- Prashant Kishor says will set up Jan Suraaj to work for Bihar’s development
- WHO says 47 lakh people died in India because of Covid-19; Indian govt.’s figure 4.81 lakh in 2020 & 2021
- EAM Dr S. Jaishankar holds bilateral talks with visiting Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio in New Delhi
- PM addresses JITO Connect, a global summit organised by Jain International Trade Organisation (JITO) in Pune
- Fertility rate drops to 2 children; now below replacement level: National Family Health Survey (NFHS)
- Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar virtually inaugurates five NIELIT (National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology)) Centres in North East Region
- Meghalaya CM Conrad K. Sangma and Sikkim Prem Singh Tamang inaugurate Northeast Food Show in Shillong
- Constitution bench to decide who will control Delhi government bureaucrats
- Home Ministry launches portal for retired CAPF and Assam Rifle personnel seeking re-employment with private security agencies
- Germany takes Italy to UN court (International Court of Justice) over Nazi compensation claims
- International Jazz Day observed by UNESCO on April 30
- World’s oldest person, Kane Tanaka, dies in Japan aged 119
- NATO exercises — Defender Europe 2022 and Swift Response 2022 — begin along its eastern flank, says Poland’s armed forces
- US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv
- International Labour Day celebrated on May 1
- World Tuna Day observed on May 2
- World Press Freedom Day celebrated on May 3; theme: “Journalism under digital siege”
- World Asthma Day observed on May 3
- Norway tops World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders; India ranked 150th among 180 countries
- World Portuguese Language Day celebrated by UNESCO on May 5
- EU announces new sanctions against Russia over Ukraine issue; plans to cut off European purchases of Russian crude oil within six months
- US Fed hikes rate by a half-percentage point; sharpest increase since 2000
- Taliban stops issuing driving licence to women in Kabul & other provinces in Afghanistan
- Taiwan scraps deal to buy US anti-submarine helicopters
- Australia’s Robert Piper becomes UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ special adviser on internal displacement
- Russia to open humanitarian corridor for evacuation of civilians from the blocked Azovstal plant in Ukraine’s Mariupol
- India highlights food, energy security challenges emanating from Ukraine conflict at UNSC
- SpaceX brings back 4 astronauts back to earth after six months’ stay at International Space Station
- Sri Lanka: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declares state of emergency
- India launches pilot phase of UPI-type protocol ONDC (open network for digital commerce) in 5 cities
- ED seizes over Rs 5,000 crore of Xiaomi Technology India under provisions of FEMA
- To plug support package loopholes, NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) plans farmer distress index
- Shell buys Indian renewables firm Sprng Energy for $1.55 billion
- Indian Oil Corp rolls out methanol-blended petrol on pilot basis
- India to receive 10 billion euros for green projects from Germany until 2030
- Food processing minister Pashupati Kumar Paras launches three ‘One District One Products’ brands” Brand Anaras: Ri Bhoi, Meghalaya, Brand Madhurmithas: Muzaffarnagar, UP, Brand Pind Se: Amritsar, Punjab
- NHAI awarded 6,306 km of highways projects in FY22; built 4,325 km
- Unemployment rate at 8.7% in October-December 2021, says NSO survey
- RBI gives no-objection for merger of Equitas SFB, Equitas Holdings
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman flags anonymity as ‘inherent risk’ in use of blockchain
- Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda wins Oslo Esports Cup rapid online chess tournament
- P. V. Sindhu wins bronze at Badminton Asia Championships at Manila (Philippines)
- Football: Real Madrid wins 35th La Liga title in Spain
- 2022 Badminton Asia Championships organised in Manila, Philippines: Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia wins men’s singles title; China’s Wang Zhiyi wins women’s singles title
- Khelo India University Games conclude in Bengaluru; host Jain University tops medals tally
- Santosh Trophy football: Kerala beat West Bengal in penalty shootout to lift title for seventh time; final played at Payyanad Stadium in Malappuram
- 19th Asian Games, originally scheduled to be held in Hangzhou, China from September 10 to 25, 2022, postponed because of Covid-19 concerns
- 4th Khelo India Youth Games to be held at Panchkula, Haryana from June 4 to 13
