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Daily Current Affairs 21st May 2018 GK GS Bulletins
Daily Current Affairs GK GS Bulletins
1. JDS' Janata Dal (Secular) legislative party leader, HD Kumaraswamy will take oath as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka on 23rd May 2018.
2. Google has marked achievements of legendary cartographer & geographer, Abraham Ortelius on 20th May 2018 with a Doodle.
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated construction of Rs 6,809 crore Zojila tunnel project in Jammu and Kashmir’s Leh.
4. Supreme Court has approved Centre’s draft Cauvery Management Scheme for smooth distribution of water among four southern riparian states/UT viz. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry.
5. Russia has launched world’s first floating Nuclear Power Station named as Akademik Lomonosov.
6. India’s Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) has distributed over 30 crores light emitting diode (LED) bulbs across the country under zero-subsidy Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) scheme.
7. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has appointed Anil Kumar Jha as full-time Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Coal India Limited (CIL).
8. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur has set up India’s first Centre for Energy Regulation (CER) with the help of Government of United Kingdom.
9. India’s Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh International, was honored with the 2018 Nikkei Asia Prize in Japan for his contribution to Asia’s development.
10. The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held an extraordinary summit in Istanbul, Turkey to discuss recent Israeli violence against Palestinian protesters in Gaza Strip.
11. The US Senate confirmed Gina Haspel as the first female director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
12. India’s Mountaineer Shivangi Pathak from Haryana becomes the youngest woman to scale world highest peak of Mount Everest.
13. First National Para Games, under Khelo India Scheme, will be held from 28th June to 7th July 2018 in Bangalore.
