Important Weekly Current Affairs Revision Tit-Bits (15th to 21st May 2017) - Download-in-PDF

Important Weekly Current Affairs Revision Tit-Bits (15th to 21st May 2017) - Download-in-PDF:
Dear Readers, Here we have given the list Important Current Affairs Weekly Revision Tit-Bits (15th to 21st May 2017). Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming IBPS PO/Clerk 2017-18 can make use of it.

· The International Day of Families was observed on 15 May 2017, what is the 2017 Theme – “Families, education and well-being”

· Second meeting of National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR) was held on 15 May 2017 in New Delhi, it was inaugurated by - Home minister Rajnath Singh

· Which airport in India has become the world's busiest amongst the single-runway facilities by handling 837 flights a day or one in 65 seconds on an average in fiscal 2017 - Mumbai Airport

· River conservation project ‘Narmada Seva Mission’ was launched on 15 May 2017 in Madhya Pradesh, by - Prime Minister Narendra Modi

· State which recently introduced a logo for identifying vehicles driven by persons with hearing impairment and has become the first state in the country to do so - Telangana

· Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda launched (PCV) against Pneumonia under the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP). PCV stands for - Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine

· India’s rank in World Bank’s electricity accessibility list - 26^th rank

· The Country which World Health Organization (WHO) recently has declared an Ebola outbreak - Congo

· Nepal has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China Under which initiative - OBOR (One Belt and One Road)

· Recently Hubert Minnis was elected as a new Prime Minister of - Bahamas

· The Winner of prestigious Woodrow Wilson Award for Global Corporate Citizenship recently - Chanda Kochhar (MD & CEO of ICICI)

· Winner of Madrid Open title 2017- Rafael Nadal

· Winner of Spanish Grand Prix Formula One championship 2017 - Lewis Hamilton

· First Indian to win a GP3 Series (a feeder series to GP2) race at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona is – Arjun Maini

· US-based Indian squash player who won his maiden Professional Squash Association (PSA) title - Ramit Tandon

· S Ramaswami who passed away recently. He is the former CM of - Puducherry

· The State recently has topped in the public affairs index - Kerala

· The State Government that recently announced to accept Aadhaar as proof of residence for caste - West Bengal

· With which organization Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur has collaborated to turn Varanasi into a smart city? - British Geological Survey

· The Government Sector to install CCTV cameras at over 900 stations under Nirbhaya fund is - Indian Railways

· Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister, Mr Ananth Kumar has announced to establish Plastic Park over 75 acres at - Panipat

· India’s rank in World Bank’s electricity accessibility list - 26

· The Port Trust that made MoU with TANGEDCO to upgrade Coal Jetties is - VO Chidambaranar Port

· Who has launched the Foundation dedicated to wellness of Mother and Child - Suresh Raina

· Indian Navy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with which organizations on Data Sharing and Scientific cooperation in the field of Meteorology and Oceanology - Space Application Centre

· The Country which won the Eurovision-2017 Song Contest for the first time ever with a melancholy ballad performed by a singer who suffers from a serious heart condition - Portugal

· RBI has initiated 'Prompt Corrective Action' (PCA) framework on which bank on account of high bad loans and negative return of assets - UCO Bank

· Eco Village that has won a Smart Village award for being a sustainable project in rural Maharashtra - Govardhan

· New Prime Minister of France - Edouard Philippe

· New Deputy Executive Secretary of UNFCCC - OvaisSarmad

· The women cricketers sets new Record to become the world’s first pair, either male or female, to forge a 300-run opening-wicket partnership in One-Day Internationals (ODIs) - Deepti Sharma and Poonam Raut

· World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) was observed on - May 17

· Venkaiah Naidu recently announced a separate 24x7 DD Channel for state? - Jharkhand

· Name the Olympics Medal winner who was appointed as a Group-1 officer in the government through the amendment passed in Andhra Pradesh Assembly - P. V. Sindhu

· The State government formed The ‘Maa’ committee to check mid-day meal quality in schools - Uttar Pradesh

· In how many central universities, WiFi services will be launched starting July this year announced by HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar - 38

· Who conquered Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak morning for the fourth time, setting a new record – Anshu Jamsenpa

· The Indian Businessmen has featured in the Forbes Global Game Changers List for 2017 - Mukesh Ambani

· Which Airport is set to become south India's first airport to go 100% LED-lit - Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (Hyderabad)

· Which mountaineer has broken her own world record for the most Everest summits by a woman after scaling the world's tallest peak for the eighth time - Lhakpa Sherpa

· For fiscal 2017-18, FICCI predicted India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth will be around - 7.4%

· Who was conferred with the first Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Lifetime Achievement Honour - Pawan Kumar Chamling

· Name thecommittee which has been constituted to prepare guidelines for desiltation of river Ganga from Bhimgauda (Uttarakhand) to Farakka (West Bengal), submitted its report to Ministry of Water Resources - Chitale committee

· The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released a two-part book series written by the eminent agricultural scientist Dr. M.S. Swaminathan. The series is titled - M.S. Swaminathan: The Quest for a world without hunger

· PN Pradhan has been appointed as the Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Operations). Who is PN Pradhan - Air Marshal

· 52^nd Annual Meetings of AfDB to be held in Which of the following States - Gujarat

· Who inaugurated the Test Track Facility developed by Global Automotive Research Centre in Chennai - Union Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Minister

· Who has been given additional charge of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) after the demise of Union Minister Anil Madhav Dave? - Harsh Vardhan

· The State in which the ambitious Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana has proved to be a successful scheme in terms of increasing number of beneficiaries - Assam

· The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee received the first copy of book ‘Metaphysics, Morals and Politics’ in Kolkata. The author of the book is - Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay