Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (May 08th to 15th May 2022)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs of May 08th to 15th May 2022. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming SBI Clerk 2022 and other competitive exams can make use of it.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS

• World Red Cross Red Crescent Day is celebrated on 8 May each year.
• Border Roads Organisation or BRO is celebrating its 62^nd Raising Day on 7^th
• In a bid to encourage sports activities throughout the world, May 7 is celebrated annually as World Athletics Day.
• People around the globe observe World Thalassemia Day on 8 May every year.
• Russia Victory Day commemorates the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.
• The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) proclaimed 10 May the International Day of Argania.
• International Nowruz Day is being celebrated globally on 21 March every year.
• National Technology Day is celebrated on 11 May in India, to celebrate the achievements made by the scientists, engineers, teachers and researchers across the nation.
• International Nurses’ Day is celebrated annually on 12 May in memory of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, but also to honour nurses as an invaluable resource, and raise awareness of the challenges they face.
• To raise awareness for the safety of plants, The United Nations has announced that May 12 will mark the International Day of Plant Health.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: NATIONAL NEWS

• Union Minister for MSME Shri Narayan Rane and Minister of State for MSME Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma along with other State Ministers and senior officials inaugurated the ‘Enterprise India National Coir Conclave 2022’ being organised under the “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav” at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the inaugural session of Jain International Trade Organisation’s ‘JITO Connect 2022’ on 6th May 2022 through video conferencing.
• The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) will be receiving India’s first semi-high speed train set for Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) at Alstom’s Savli in Gujarat.
• Minister of Information & Broadcasting Anurag Thakur has announced that the World’s largest film restoration project under National Film Heritage Mission (NFHM) will begin with a budget of INR 363 crores, which is awarded by the Ministry.
• Jagat Prakash Nadda has inaugurated the three-day Utkarsh Mahotsav being organized by Central Sanskrit University in New Delhi.
• Tata Power Solar Systems has won India’s largest solar engineering procurement and construction (EPC) order for a 1 GW project worth Rs 5,500 crore from state-owned SJVN Ltd.
• Adani Wilmar Ltd (AWL) has trounced Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) from the position of largest FMCG company in India.
• The Supreme Court is set to regain its full strength of 34 judges with two fresh appointments to the top court
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla launched the Kalam website, a literary initiative by the Prabha Khaitan Foundation (PKF) to support and encourage vernacular literature on May 7.
• The unemployment rate for persons of 15 years and above in urban areas slipped to 7 per cent in October-December 2021 from 10.3 per cent in the year-ago quarter, showed a periodic labour force survey by the National Statistical Office (NSO).
• The World Economic Forum (WEF), in partnership with the Government’s think-tank Niti Aayog, is focusing on putting emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and drones, to better use to ensure they benefit farmers, particularly small and marginal.
• The AIM-PRIME Playbook was launched at the Dr Ambedkar International Center, New Delhi.
• The Ministry of Tourism under its ‘Incredible India’ brand line is participating in the Arabian Travel Market (ATM), Dubai-2022 which is being held from 9th to 12th of May.
• The three Jan Suraksha schemes of the Indian government, Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY), Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY), and Atal Pension Yojana (APY) has completed 7 years of providing social security with the commitment of recognizing the necessity to protect human life from unanticipated risks and economic uncertainty.
• India has been unanimously elected as the new Chair of the Association of Asian Election Authorities (AAEA) for 2022-2024.
• RailTel, a Mini Ratna PSU, has launched Prime Minister Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (PM-WANI) scheme based on access to its Public WiFi services across 100 railway stations across the country.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed ‘Utkarsh Samaroh’ in Bharuch, Gujarat via video conferencing.
• To enable Khadi Institutions across the country, the Ministry of MSME has established a Centre for Experimentation, Innovation, and Design for the Khadi Village and Industries Commission (KVIC).

CURRENT AFFAIRS: INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited three European Countries- Germany, Denmark and France from 2nd to 4th May, 2022 for bilateral as well as multilateral engagements.
• The World’s Longest Glass Bridge named Vietnam’s Bach Long pedestrian bridge was opened in Moc Chau District, Son La Province, Vietnam.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: STATE NEWS

• Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh launched the Direct Benefit Transfer for 18,000 registered farmers under Horticulture Department for Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region (MOVCDNER), Phase- III (2020-23).
• The Kerala government is set to launch an Android app named ‘Shaili App’ with an aim to diagnose and control lifestyle diseases among people in the southern State.
• Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh launched the Direct Benefit Transfer for 18,000 registered farmers under Horticulture Department for Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North Eastern Region (MOVCDNER), Phase- III (2020-23).
• The Kerala government is set to launch an Android app named ‘Shaili App’ with an aim to diagnose and control lifestyle diseases among people in the southern State.
• The Haryana government has launched the e-Adhigam scheme under which nearly three lakh tablets were distributed to government school students of grade 10 and 12.
• The Maharashtra Department of Prisons has launched a loan scheme called Jivhala for inmates serving sentences in jails across Maharashtra, being offered by the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank.
• To mark the completion of DMK government’s first anniversary, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin announced that all Government primary school students from 1st to 5th standards will be provided nutritious breakfast on all working days.
• As per Mercom’s India Solar Project Tracker, Rajasthan became the first state in India to surpass 10 GW of cumulative large-scale solar installations.
• Under the ‘Mukhyamantri Muft Sewer Connection Yojana, a total of 25,000 households in East Delhi will be provided free sewer connections.
• Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has launched the second phase of the Ladli Laxmi scheme (Ladli Laxmi scheme-2.0).
• In Manipur, the Poumai tribe has declared that Poumai inhabited areas will be a Drug-Free Zone supporting the State government’s War on Drug campaign.
• India’s leading sustainable energy solutions provider and renewable power producer, Azure Power has successfully commissioned its 90 MW solar power project in Assam, the largest in the state.
• In remembrance of Lata Mangeshkar, a new crossroad is set to be developed in Ayodhya that will be named after the late legendary singer to honour her memory.
• The Lokpal of India is set to move into a permanent office at World Trade Centre in south Delhi’s Nauroji Nagar.
• Haryana agriculture and farmers’ welfare minister JP Dalal launched Chaara-Bijaee Yojana (fodder cultivation scheme) for
• As part of the ‘Azadi ka mrit Mahotsav’ celebration, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) holds a two-day regional conference in Lucknow with NHAI officials and other regional stakeholders from Uttar Pradesh East & West, Uttarakhand and Bihar.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BUSINESS NEWS

• The second phase of the mandatory hallmarking of Gold Jewellery and Gold Artefacts will come into force on the 1st of June this year.
• Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd has reported a 22.5 per cent rise in net profit for the quarter ended March on the back of bumper oil refining margins, steady growth in telecom and digital services and strong momentum in the retail business.
• The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance has released the 2nd monthly installment of Post Devolution Revenue Deficit (PDRD) Grant of Rs. 7,183.42 crore to 14 States.
• India’s retail inflation surged to 7.79 per cent in April, largely driven by rising fuel and food prices.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BANKING AND ECONOMY

• Public sector Indian Bank has introduced digital broking solution E-Broking & the product was launched in association with the bank’s financial technology partner Fisdom, it allows customers to open a demat and trading account facility, in line with the digitalisation mission of the bank.
• Equitas Holdings Ltd (EHL) and Equitas Small Finance Bank Ltd (ESFBL) received no-objection from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on the voluntary amalgamation of both units.
• On May 4, 2022, City Union Bank Ltd announced that RBI has approved the appointment of M Narayanan (62), independent director, as the part-time Chairman of the Bank for two years.
• The Securities and Exchange Board of India has formed an advisory committee for advising on Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) related matters pertaining to the securities markets.
• Equitas Holdings Ltd (EHL) and Equitas Small Finance Bank Ltd (ESFBL) has received no objection from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on the voluntary amalgamation of both units
• India’s largest private sector bank, HDFC Bank, has launched ‘Xpress Car Loans’ – an end to end digital new car loan journey for existing customers as well as non-customers.
• As per the latest data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), Unified payments interface (UPI) hit a record high with 558 crore transactions amounting to Rs 9.83-lakh crore in April 2022.
• ICICI Bank inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Santander UK Plc, a premier British bank, establishing a framework of partnership between the banks for financial service requirements of the corporate customers in the India – UK corridor.
• Bharti AXA Life Insurance has launched a financial literacy campaign ‘InspiHE₹– enabling an empowered future – a special initiative to spread financial awareness among women and enable them to make informed financial decisions for a secured future.
• Worldline India, a payment services firm, has partnered with Bank of India to digitise e-challan collections for Madhya Pradesh police department.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extended the period of restriction on two co-operative banks namely the Laxmi Co-operative Bank Ltd Solapur, Maharashtra and Sri Guru Raghavendra Sahakara Bank Niyamitha, Bengaluru, Karnataka for up to three and six months, respectively.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: AWARDS AND HONOURS

• Cynthia Rosenzweig, a senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, received the 2022 World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation.
• The Department of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD) received the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration, 2020 for its scheme ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ (ONORC).
• At the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce(IACC) 6th Entrepreneur & Leadership Awards 2022, Dr Bina Modi, Chairperson of Modi Enterprises was adjudged the ‘Woman Transforming India’ Award.
• The winners of Pulitzer Prize 2022 in journalism, books, drama and music were announced.
• The Bengali translation of French novel “Meursault, contre-enquête” (The Meursault Investigation) has won the fifth Romain Rolland Book Prize.
• Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Junior, the son and namesake of the late dictator, has won a 2022 landslide presidential election victory.
• Well-known Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi conferred the prestigious Royal Gold Medal 2022, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture, by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), London, United Kingdom.
• Penguin Press author and Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Dr Frank Wilczek has won the 2022 Templeton Prize.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNATIONS

• Rodrigo Chaves, has been sworn in as the new President of Costa Rica for the period of four year term 2022-2026 promising to fight corruption and revive the economy & he will succeed Carlos Alvarado Quesada.
• Chief executive officer of Penlon, a British medical device manufacturing firm, Gurusamy Krishnamoorthy is all set to receive the Member of the Royal Order of British Empire (MBE) recognition from the Queen at Buckingham Palace, London, UK.
• Pushp Kumar Joshi appointed as the new interim chairman and managing director of India’s third largest oil refining and fuel marketing company Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL).
• On 10 May 2022, Yoon Suk-yeol was sworn in as South Korea’s new president.
• John Lee Ka-chiu was elected as the new chief executive of Hong Kong & he will succeed Carrie Lam.
• Indian Actress Deepika Padukone has become the first ever Indian brand ambassador of luxury brand Louis Vuitton.
• The President of India Ram Nath Kovind has appointed Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh, senior-most Puisne Judge of Gauhati High Court as Acting Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court in Assam.
• In pursuance of clause (2) of Article 324 of the Constitution, President Ram Nath Kovind appointed Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar as the next chief election commissioner.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: MOUS AND AGREEMENT

• A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) in New Delhi which envisages collaboration between the two parties for jointly undertaking installation of Solar Rooftop PV Power Plants.
• The Railways Ministry and the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) have signed an MoU for developing local digital solutions for railways to reduce its dependence on foreign technology.
• Air India Engineering Services Ltd (AIESL) , a wholly owned Subsidiary of Air India entered into an MoU with Boeing for the Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) of critical equipment on key Boeing defence platforms in India, including the P-8I operated by the Indian Navy and the 777 VIP aircraft operated by the Indian Air Force.
• India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Madagascar’s official ORTM (Office de la Radio et de la Television) for cooperation and collaboration in broadcasting.
• Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL), and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) have signed a long-term purchase agreement (LTPA) for upcoming dedicated ethanol plants across India.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: DEFENCE NEWS

• Air Works, an Indian maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) company is partnered with the Boeing Company in undertaking heavy maintenance checks on three Indian Navy P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft simultaneously at Air Works, Hosur for underscoring the success of the government’s Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) campaign.
• The Indian Navy is looking to acquire a dedicated earth imaging satellite named Geo Imaging Satellite-2 (Gisat-2) as part of its modernisation and network-centric warfare and communications programme in the fiscal year.
• The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has launched a portal named CAPF Punarvaas’ through the Welfare and Rehabilitation Board (WARB) for the benefit of personnel belonging to the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) like CRPF and BSF seeking re-employment after their retirement.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• The Russian space agency conducted a satellite launch using the brand new Angara-1.2 light launch vehicle & the launch took place at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the town of Mirny in the north-western Russian region of Arkhangelsk Oblast.
• Bengaluru-based Bellatrix Aerospace has developed an environmentally benign propulsion system for satellites that promises a possible 20 percent increase in fuel efficiency for space satellites.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: ACQUISITION AND MERGERS

• L&T Infotech and Mindtree, the two independently listed IT services companies under Larsen & Toubro Group have announced a merger that would create India’s fifth-largest IT services provider.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: RANKING & INDEX

• According to the annual report on Vital Statistics based on 2020 Civil Registration System report, The Union Territory of Ladakh recorded the highest sex ratio (1104) at birth in the country in 2020, followed by Arunachal Pradesh (1011), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (984), Tripura (974) and Kerala (969).

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BOOKS & AUTHORS

• Rajnath Singh has released a book titled ‘INDO-PAK WAR 1971- Reminiscences of Air Warriors’.
• The book “Modi@20 Dreams Meet Delivery” by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu was published in New Delhi.
• Vice President (VP) of India, M Venkaiah Naidu, released a book titled “The Struggle for Police Reforms in India: Ruler’s Police to People’s Police” authored by a former IPS officer, Prakash Singh in New Delhi.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : SPORTS NEWS

• The Asian Games 2022, due to be held in Hangzhou, China in September, have been postponed to 2023 due to rising COVID-19 cases in the country, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) was announced.
• A Nepali mountaineer identified as Kami Rita Sherpa has created history by scaling Mount Everest for the 26th time.
• Priyanka Mohite from Satara in western Maharashtra has become the first Indian woman to scale five peaks above 8,000 metres after she climbed Mount Kanchenjunga.
• India won its second gold medal in shooting at the ongoing 24th Deaflympics in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, with Abhinav Deshwal claiming the men’s 10m air pistol
• Red Bull’s reigning champion Max Verstappen won the first-ever Miami Grand Prix after sprinting past Charles Leclerc who started at the pole position.
• Rising Spanish tennis star Carlos Alcaraz clinched the Madrid Open title, beating defending champion Alexander Zverev.
• Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh has emerged champion in the 1st Chessable Sunway Formentera Open 2022 chess tournament.
• Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur launched the mascot ‘Dhakad’ along with the official logo and official jersey of the Fourth Khelo India Youth Games at Panchkula and lauded the effort of Haryana to host the games.
• Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain kickstarted her campaign on an impressive note by notching up a thrilling win at the 12th edition of the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Istanbul.
• Indian archers wrapped up a highly successful Asia Cup 2022 Stage-2 campaign in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq with a total of 14 medals – eight golds, four silvers and two bronze.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: OBITUARIES

• Eminent Odia litterateur Rajat Kumar Kar, a Padma Shri awardee, died in Bhubaneswar.
• Legendary musician and santoor player Pandit Shivkumar Sharma passed away due to a cardiac arrest.
• Veteran Congress leader and former Union minister Pandit Sukh Ram has passed away
• The legendary grandmaster Yuri Averbakh has died in Moscow at 100.
• Ukraine’s first president Leonid Kravchuk, who led the country through the tumultuous early years of independence and agreed to give up its Soviet nuclear arsenal, died.

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