♥ Current Affairs ♥
1. O Rajagopal the former Union Minister from BJP who opened the account for BJP in the Assembly Election 2016 for the first time in the Kerala.
2. Punjab inaugurated the world’s largest single rooftop solar power plant with capacity of 11.5 MegaWatt (MW).
3. The United States (US) Senate on 18 May 2016 approved a bipartisan emergency funding of 1.1 billion US dollar to combat the Zika virus in 2016 and 2017
4. Rohit Philip was recently appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of IndiGo
5. The revision of the rehabilitation of bonded labour scheme that will be made a Central Sector Scheme will replace Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act of 1976
6. Patricia Espinosa Cantellano was recently appointed the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
7. The Indian 4x100m women's relay team recently broke the 18-year-old national record at IAAF World Challenge. The event was held in Beijing
8. Odisha state government recently decided to launch Green Passage Scheme for orphan students
9. Rajiv Bhalla was recently appointed as Barco’s Managing Director for India
10. Manzil Saini became the first woman Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)
11. Ola Mobile app platform signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to benefit Safai Karamcharis
12. The World Cities Report 2016, Urbanization and Development: Emerging Futures was released by UN-Habitat
13. Hyundai Eon Indian car model failed the crash tests conducted by Global New Car Assessment Programme (Global NCAP)
14. e-nivaran was launched by Income Tax (IT) department to fast track taxpayer grievances