Current Affairs
- Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa resigned from his post.
- 16-year-old Shivangi Pathak has become the youngest woman in India to climb Mt. Everest from Nepal.
- The US Senate has appointed Gina Haspell as the first woman director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
- Which state has launched the 'State Start-Up Ranking Framework' recently? -Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).
- Guwahati : India's first solar powered railway station.
- Switzerland is hosting the 71st World Health Assembly (WHA-2018).
- Lionel Messi (footballer) has won the 2018 European Golden Shoe.
- Nicolas Maduro is the newly elected President of Venezuela.
- China recently launched the Queqiao relay satellite to study of the Moon.
- The deadly Nipah virus has been detected in Kerala state.
- Olga Tokarczuk has won the prestigious 2018 Man Booker International Prize for fiction.
- C K Prasad has been appointed the new chairman of the Press Council of India (PCI)?
- The 2018 World Turtle Day (WTD) is observed on May 23.
- Bill Gold passed away recently. He was a well known Graphic Designer.
- Philip Roth who died recently was a renowned Author.
- New Delhi is hosting the ASEAN India Film Festival 2018.
- Cambodia hosted the 5th India-CLMV Business Conclave 2018.
- India’s was 44th rank in the 2018 IMD’s competitiveness ranking.
- European Union's has brought into effect a new data protection rule.
- Indonesia has passed a tougher anti-terror law.
- Ganeshi Lal has been appointed as the new Governor of Odisha.
- The 9th edition of ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav’ has started in Uttarakhand.
- According to RSA Fraud Report, India is the most targeted for phishing.
- MobiKwik is the first industry player to offer UPI access to a huge base of three million merchants on its app.
- Sushil Chandra is the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
- Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk was appointed as the interim Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- Queen Maxima is the queen of the Kingdom of Netherlands.
- Alan LaVern Bean was the fourth man to walk on the Moon & died.
- Paris will the OECD Forum meet for 2018 be held.
- Russia has conducted the world's longest surface-to-air missile test.
- Mountain ranges have been discovered Antarctica continent.
- Amar Devulapalli has been elected as the new President of Indian Journalists Union (IJU).
- Dehradun to host the main event of 4th International Yoga Day celebrations (IDY-2018).
- Haryana government has constituted a state Animal Welfare Board.
- Kamaljit S. Bawa has become the first Indian to be honoured with the Linnean Medal in Botany.