Weekly Current Affairs One Liners :- 01 - 07 May 2019

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• May 1 – World Labor Day, 2019 Theme: “Sustainable Pension for all: The Role of Social Partners”.
• IGNOU to begin course on GST in collaboration with the Bombay Stock Exchange Institute Limited from its July 2019 session.
• Selvaraj has taken charge as the Chief General Manager (CGM) of Andhra Pradesh Regional Office of the NABARD.
• Lifetime Achievement Award for Sobha Naidu presented by by Nartanasala Dance Academy
• Kyrgyzstan women officers get training in Officers Training Academy, Chennai.
• The DGP presents the award every year on Maharashtra Day to police personnel selected from across ranks based on their track record and incidents where they displayed exemplary action.
• Amazon Pay enables instant money transfer on Android
• Bharti Airtel launches Wynk Tube music app
• Amazon eyes $5 bn in exports from India
• Contract Signing with M/S CSL and M/S GRSE for Acquisition of Sixteen Anti Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC) for Indian Navy
• Japan welcomed the start of a new Reiwa imperial era and a new emperor, Emperor Naruhito (59) was formally invested after his father, Akihito, 85, stepped down.
• V. Sindhu, K. Srikanth and Saina Nehwal will lead the Indian challenge at the Sudirman Cup mixed team badminton championships at Nanning (China) from May 19 to 26.
• Bengaluru Central University, CII sign MoU for giving a boost to higher education learning initiatives.
• Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria Takes Over as Vice Chief of the Air Staff
• Air Marshal Sk Ghotia VSM takes over command as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief training command
• Former Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara became the first non-British president of the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club.
• All the modules are getting ready for Chandrayaan-2 launch during the window of July 09 to July 16, 2019, with an expected Moon landing on September 06, 2019.
• Indian and French Navies conduct the first part of the Indo-French joint naval exercise Varuna 19.1 Bilateral Exercise Off Goa coast from 1st – 10th May 19.
• GST Revenue collection for April, 2019 recorded highest collection since GST implementation.
• BASF India has reorganised its businesses in six key segments as per the new corporate strategy of its parent BASF Societas Europaea, Germany.
• Asian Development Bank (ADB), is involved with the $1 billion Mumbai metro.
• I-T Dept., GSTN to sign MoU for sharing data to prevent anomalies
• Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar was listed as a designated terrorist by the UN Security Council 1267 Committee.
• Analysis of a fossil jawbone containing molars recovered from Baishiya Karst cave in Xiahe, Gansu, China shows Denisovans lived in the Tibetan Plateau some 1,60,000 years ago.
• HI recommends Sreejesh for Rajiv Khel Ratna Award
• Indian shooting ace Apurvi Chandela attained the world number 1 position in the women’s 10m air rifle event while compatriot Anjum Moudgil rose to number two.
• May 3 – World Press Freedom day, 2019 Theme “Media for Democracy: Journalism and Elections In Times of Disinformation”.
• The issuing of RC for all classes of motor vehicles has been blocked for not integrating high security registration plate (HSRP) with the ‘Vahan’ database.
• International airlines could start providing Internet onboard over Indian skies in the next three months becoming the first to do so.
• Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu unveiled commemorative postage stamps on the 750th birth anniversary of ‘Vedanta Desikan’ a religious philosopher.
• Kuwait-based Jazeera Airways, the Middle East’s first private airline, is keen that India increases the bilateral agreement of 12,000 seats a week.
• VIT has signed a MoU with Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Toledo, Spain, for academic and research cooperation.
• CSL inks Rs. 6,311-crore pact to build anti-submarine ships for Navy.
• Asia’s largest content marketing event CMS Asia comes to Mumbai.
• PayPal integrates One Touch with Google Smart Lock in India.
• India’s spending rose by 3.1%, while Pakistan’s military spending rose by 11%.
• The Indian Air Force has focussed on air defence preparedness in the eastern and north-eastern sector with an eye on the country’s ‘eastern neighbour’.
• Central banks bought 145.5 tonnes of gold in the first quarter a 68% jump from the same period in 2018 and also the strongest start to a year since 2013.
• JSW Group has organised paints business in the country with the launch of JSW Paints.
• India’s HS Prannoy stunned Tommy Sugiarto, into the men’s singles quarterfinals of the New Zealand Open badminton tournament in Auckland.
• May 4 – International Firefighters’ Day (IFFD).
• Kohinoor’s Consumer Electronics Show 2019, India’s biggest electronics festival Consumer Electronics Show 2019 held at Mumbai.
• Cyclone Fani pronounced as Foni name was suggested by Bangladesh. It means ‘Snake’ or ‘hood of snake’.
• The Navyug Children’s Theatre and Movie Village, in association with the Kerala Children’s Film Society, is organising film workshop for children.
• Krishnamurthy Subramanian – New Member of Finance Commission’s Advisory Council.
• SpaceX to send organs on a chip to the International Space Station
• Nepal to start construction of railways linking Kathmandu with India, China
• Bajrang Punia bags gold in Ali Aliyev wrestling tournament
• H S Prannoy loses in the men’s singles quarterfinal, concludcurrent affairs es India’s campaign at the New Zealand Open badminton tournament, in Auckland.
• May 5 – World Hand Hygiene Day, 2019 Theme – “why infection prevention and hand hygiene are important for quality care”.
• India, UK in talks to build Naval super carrier under ‘Make in India’.
• Mumbai likely to be first to try out ‘One Nation One Card’ system.
• In a record-breaking feat, a dozen Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) across Telangana collected 100% property tax of the demand raised in the financial year 2018-19.
• Transgender student performs at a varsity inter-zone fest in Kerala.
• Endobot, this robot is to be marketed by an IIT Madras checks pipelines for leakage.
• Madonna, a pioneer for gay rights, accepted the Advocate for Change Award at the 2019 GLAAD Media Awards.
• Baqir, a Pakistani economist working for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been appointed as the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP).
• Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa have finished on top in the Asian squash championship.
• Gaurav Solanki and Manish Kaushik bagged a gold each as Indian boxers finished with six medals at the 36th Feliks Stamm International boxing tournament in Warsaw, Poland.
• Riyan Parag becomes youngest player to score half-century in IPL.
• May 7 – World Athletics Day
• Sushma Swaraj, Shah Mehmood Qureshi to attend SCO meet
• SpiceJet launches 12 flights from T2 in slots left vacant by Jet
• Trump awards highest US civilian honour to Tiger Woods.
• Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi have successfully 3D bioprinted human skin models
• IIT Kanpur identifies novel molecule to control hyper inflammation.
• India and the United States held the India-U.S. Bilateral Trade meeting in New Delhi.
• Vela, the fourth Scorpene class submarine being constructed by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited for the Indian Navy, was launched.
• INS Ranjit gets decommissioned upon completion of 36 years.
• The Trump administration is proposing a hike in the H-1B visa application fee to increase funding for the expansion of an apprentice programme.
• Federation International de Football Association (FIFA) announced two new award categories to promote women’s football across the globe.

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