Current Affairs 24th May 2016

Current Affairs 24th May 2016

National News:

• Mizoram’s fresh initiative to take back tribal refugees from Tripura
• Gujarat Government launches Smart Village program
• Only 1% water remains in Marathwada dams
• Global warming to impact milk production: National Dairy Development Board
• An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 hit the Bhaderwah town of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.
• French firm to help Railways for safety measures
• Govt electrifies 108 villages across the country
• Amid Amma chants, Jayalalithaa sworn-in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for the sixth time
• More than two crore LPG consumers join PAHAL scheme: Assam
• IndiGo plane flew close to road; DGCA suspends license of two pilots
• Himachal Pradesh begins artificial propagation programme of Golden Mahseer fish for conservation

International News:

• New poll shows Trump beating Clinton in general election
• Seoul calls for Pyongyang’s denuclearisation stance before talks
• India, Thailand, Myanmar to be linked by highway
• Barack Obama announces full lifting of Vietnam arms embargo

Awards & honours:

• British director Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake has won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival
• Billboard Music Awards were presented at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas
• Romanian CristianMungiu& France’s Olivier Assayas share best director prize at Cannes
• Sikkim CM PawanChamling conferred with Nepal’s literary award

Banking & Business:

• India Post Payments Bank To Be Functional By March
• Axis Bank ends 1%; to raise US$ 500 mn via green bonds
• AXA plans to stop investment in tobacco sector
• 3D CAD firm Onshape launches its operations in India
• P2P lending website Faircent launches eSign facility with eMudhra

Science & Technology:

• Nano-carrier can deliver drug to kill deadly brain tumour
• New findings to boost space weather forecast
• India Successfully Launches Its Own Space Shuttle

Sports:

• Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam to lead Indian women’s hockey team in 4-nation event in Darwin
• Kohli fifty books No. 2 spot for RCB
• Boxer Pooja fails to qualify for Olympics
• PankajAdvani Wins Asian 6-Red Snooker

Obituaries:

• CPM leader K Anirudhan dies
• Oldest Olympic champion SandorTarics dies