Current Affairs - May 2015

TNPSC Current Affairs May 2015
Miscellaneous 

• 75-Foot Buddha Statue in Srilanka
• A 75 Foot height Buddha Statue was inaugurated at Rambadagalla Vidhyasagara Temple in Srilanka.
• It was made by M Muthiah Sthapathi (From Chennai).
• Important Days
• May 1 - International Labour Day
• May 5 - World Asthma Day
• Festival
• Yangli festival, a kind of harvest festival celebrated in Karbi Anglong district of Assam.
• Buenos Aires - World's Bookstore capital
• Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina is regarded as the World's bookstore capital as it have 25 bookstores for every 1,00,000 people.
• Hong kong is in the second position with 22 bookstores for every 1,00,000 people. 
• Awards
• Pramod Patil, ornithologist form pune was awarded Whitley Award for his efforts on the conservation of the Great Indian busturd. 
• This Whitley Award is also called by the people as Green Oscar.
• Magazine Charlie Hebdo - was given the Freedom of Expression was by the PEN American Centre
• Charlie Hebdo is a French based Magazine.
• Shashi Kapoor - was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke award.
• Yaadhum -  a documentary film on Tamil Muslims won the Bronze Remi Award at the 48th World Film Festival Houston.
• India's first Private Green Field Airport
• Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport is India's First private Green field Airport.
• It is located in West Bengal.
• PM Narendra Modi will be its first Passenger.
• Reang Tribe: Tripura
• Important Books In News
• 100 years of Solitude - by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• A signed first edition book which was stolen during the International Book fair of Bogota 2015 was found.
• Contributions of Thanjavur Maratha Kings with a Brief History of Cholas and Nayaks - by Pratap Sinha Rajebhosle
• George Cross
• It is the highest British Military award for Gallantry.
• The George Cross which was awarded Posthumously to Naik Kirpa Ram (Indian Soldier) in 1946 was stolen. It was traced and it will handed over to his wife Brahmi Devi.
• Ninad Bedekar
• Historian who popularized the history of Maharashtra died recently.
• B B King
• Famous electric guitarist who died recently.
• Natanam
• Mural artist who passed away recently
• Sunil Nesarikar
• Chief fire officer in Mumbai fire department, died after sustaining injuries while fighting with fire in a building.
• Rajabai Clock Tower
• It is built in 1878 in the Mumbai University campus.
• It was reopened recently after a restoration work.

Polity

• Important Appointments
• Justice Cyriac Joseph - was appointed as the Chairman of National Human Rights Commission succeeding Justice Balakrishnan
• V. Shanmuganathan - was appointed as the Governor of Meghalaya

Economy

• K V Kamath - to be appointed as the Head of the BIRCS Bank
• ICF - Integral coach Factory, sets a new record in production by producing 1704 coaches in the last fiscal year.
• ICF was established in 1952 in Chennai.

Science and Technology

• Messenger Spacecraft
• NASA's Messenger Spacecraft was launched on August 3, 2004 to study the Mercury planet.
• The Message Spacecraft ended its 11 year long journey after crashing into the surface of the Mercury
• Asia's First Google campus was opened in South Korean.
• Google has planned to set up its largest Asian Campus in Hyderabad at a cost of about 1000 crore rupees.
• Chandrayaan 2
• India's second moon exploration mission.
• It is expected to be launched in 2017.
• India's first lunar exploration mission Chandrayaan 1 was launched in the year 2008.
• INS Vikrant
• It is India's First indigenously built Aircraft carrier. 
• MOTR - Multi Object Tracking Radar
• Multi Object Tracking Radar was launched at the Satish Dhawan Space centre at Sriharikota.
• It can be used to track multiple objects (upto 10 different objects) moving in space with a range of 1000 Kms.
• With this technology India joins the list with USA, Japan, Israel and Canada.
• Shubham Banerjee
• A 13 year old boy of Indian Origin,who invented a low cost Portable Braille Printer.
• He is now working with Microsoft to integrate the Braille printer with the Windows.

Environment and Health

• Ecological Engineering
• It is a new technology introduced by NIPHM - National Institute of Plant Health Management Hyderabad
• This new technology helps the farmers to control the pests and also in maintaining the biodiversity.
• WHO - Annual Health Statistics 2015
• WHO released the status of Millennium development goals after the dead line of 2015.
• India achieved 4 targets successfully, 2 in progress and the remaining 4 in limited progress.
• Ngapang
• The local name of the fish in Manipur, which was recently discovered by the ZSI as the new species of catfish.
• It's scientific name is Glyptothorax senapatiensis.

World

• President Pranab Mukherjee's Russia Visit
• President Pranab Mukherjee visited Russia in May 2015.
• He attends the victory day parade on 9th May 2015.
• This Victory day (May 9th 1945) marks the defeat of the Hitler's army.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi's China Visit
• Sister city agreement was signed between "Chennai and Chingqing"
• UK Election 2015
• Prime Minister David Cameron was reelected as PM after his Conservative party has won 331 seats out of 650.
• The Labour party won 232 seats.
• Anthony Brutto, a 94 year old American graduated from West Virginia University after a period of 75 years of enrolling. 
• Ananta Bijoy Das
• He was a Bangladeshi blogger, who was killed recently.
• Gun Attack in Karachi
• 43 people from Shia ismalis sect were killed in a gun attack in Karachi.
• Kung Fu Yoga
• Film to be starred by Aamir Khan and Jackie Chan
• Amtrak Train 188
• The train which derailed recently in USA during its journey from Washington to New York
• Sterile Mosquitoes
• In order to tackle the Dengue, more than half a million number of sterile mosquitoes were released in the Guangzhou region of China.

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