Check out the One liner’s current affairs of May 2022. It covers completely all the important events that happened in May. It is hard to go through all the current affairs in detail during the revision. At this insistence this one liner current affairs will be a great help to the aspirant preparing for the government exam and general awareness for all the exams like SSC, Railways, UPSC or the State PCS.
In this blog, topics of current affairs like important appointments, current Affairs from the Sport section, Important days that were observed during this month with complete details and the awards that were given during May 2022 are compiled under the single blog with the PDF.
One liner Current Affairs of May 2022
- Russia is removed from the UNWTO (United Nation world tourism organisation), due to the Russia Ukraine war.
- Mukhyamantri Mitaan Yojana was launched by the Chhattisgarh government for the doorstep delivery of the 100 public services.
- Miyan ka Bada railway station of the Rajasthan name had been changed to Mahesh Nagar halt.
- RBI has increased the Repo rate from 4% to 4.40%.
- The Maharashtra government has launched a Loan scheme for the prisoners in the Jail of Maharashtra. The interest will be changed by 7%, starting from Yerwada Jail.
- India and Germany signed the Green Hydrogen Task force and forest Landscape restoration. They aim to increase Hydrogen production and Renewable energy.
- Odisha to host India’s first tribal health observatory.
- Vehicle movement Tracking System mobile app was launched by the Haryana government to track the Vehicle used for the transportation related to the mining.
- Kami Rita Sherpa scaled Mt Everest 26th time, he is from Nepal.
- India is elected to chair the Association of Asian Election Authority. Whose headquarter is in Manila.
- Thrissur Pooran festival is celebrated in Kerala to worship the Lord shiva.
- COP-15 (United Nation Convention to combat desertification) held in Africa, Ivory Coast.
- Saudi Aramco oil company has become the world’s most valuable stock replacing Apple.
- Rohan Pash festival celebrated in Jammu and Kashmir.
- South Korea joined the cooperative cyber defence group of NATO and has become the first Asian country to join this group of NATO.
- The Tamil Nadu chief minister has announced a breakfast scheme to provide nutritious breakfast on all the working days for all government primary school students from 1st to 5th standards.
- Mukhyamantri Muft Sewer Connection Yojana has been launched in Delhi.
- India’s first organic waste-powered EV charging station has been inaugurated in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
- Bharti AXA life Insurance company has launched its financial literacy campaign InspiHE₹ Enabling an empowered future.
- The Maharashtra government has approved the ‘Gene Bank’, first of its kind project in India for biodiversity conservation.
- Indian Navy has successfully test-fired Anti-ship version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile. The range of this advanced version of the missile is 350 km.
- The SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) has included India’s Statue of Unity in its 8 Wonders of SCO list. The 182 metre tall statue is the world’s tallest statue located in Kevadia, Gujarat.
- Book titled “Leaders, Politicians, Citizens” is authored by Rasheed Kidwai.
- Chhattisgarh has launched “Mukhyamantri Mitaan Yojana” for the doorstep delivery of 100 pulbic services.
- The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways is set to build India’s first indigenous hydrogen fuelled electric vessels at Cochin Shipyard.
- NATO has conducted the Defender Europe 2022 and Swift Response 2022 exercise with Poland and 8 other its members.
- RailTel has set up a Health Cloud in collaboration with WHO at Andhra Pradesh.
- India has ranked 150 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index 2022 released by the Reporters without Borders.
- Bangladesh has discovered a new gas field with the capacity to produce 20 million cubic feet of gas per day at the Koilastila Gas field.
- INS Surat and INS Udaygiri are the 2 Indian Navy warships launched by Rajnath Singh from Mumbai.
- Devasahayam Pillai became the first Indian LayMan to be declared saint by Pope Francis. He was born in Tamil Nadu in 1712.
- Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve is declared as the 52nd Tiger Reserve, it is located in Rajasthan.
- Kenton Cool became the first foreigner to climb Mt. Everest for the 16th time, he is from Britain.
- XV World Forestry congress was organised in Seoul, South Korea also known as the Seoul declaration. It was organised by the Food and Agriculture organisation (FAO). Theme was “Building a green, healthy, Resilience future with forest”.
- New Development Bank regional office will be set up in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. NDB headquarters is in Singhani China.
- The World Economic Forum meeting 2022 started in Davos. Piyush Goyal from India will lead the meeting. The theme is “working together restoring trust”.
- Baljeet kaur from Himachal Pradesh became the first India to scale 4 mountains above 8000 mt peak in Just 25 days.
- Travel and Tourism Development Index 2021 has been released by the World economic forum. India ranked at 54 and the list is topped by Japan.
All the Appointment in May 2022
- Sangeeta singh appointed as the Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes.
- Renil Wickremesinghe has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Sri lanka after the resignation of the Maindera Rajpakashya.
- Rajiv Kumar is appointed as the Chief Election commissioner. He will be the 25th Chief election commissioner of India replacing Sushil Chandra.
- Campbell Wilson appointed as the MD and CEO of Air India.
- Yoon Suk-Yeol has been elected as the President of South Korea.
- Rodrigo Chaves has been sworn-in as the president of Costa Rica.
- B S Raju appointed as the Vice Chief of the Indian Army.
- Shri Suman Bery is appointed as the Vice Chairperson, NITI Aayog.
- Arvind Krishna has been elected as the Board of Directors as a Class B director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- Anthony Albanese elected as the new prime Minister of Australia. He belongs to the Labour Party.
- Manik Saha elected as the Chief Minister of Tripura. After the resignation of Biplab Kumar Deb.
- Abhilasha Barak from Hryan has become the Indian Army first women combat aviator CAA Corps.
- Pradep Kumar Mohanty appointed as the chairperson of Lokpal by the President of India.
- Alkesh Kumar Sharma has been appointed as the new Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
- Vinay Kumar Saxena appointed as the Lieutenant governor (LG) of Delhi.
Current Affairs from Sports May 2022
- Harshada Sharad Garud has become the first Indian to win a gold medal in the IWF Junior World weightlifting championship.
- The Kelo India University game was won by the Jain University and the runner-up was Lovely professional university. The game was hosted by the Jain University, Benglurue.
- Dhanush Srikanth won the gold medal in the men’s 10m air rifle at the 24th Deaflympic in Brazil.
- The 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou in China has been postponed due to the Covid outbreak in China.
- Kerala has won the 75th edition of Santosh Trophy.
- The moscot “Dhakad” launched for the 4th edition of Kelo India youth games 2021 which will be hosted by the Haryana.
- The Italian Open was won by Novak Djokovic and in the women’s category it was won by Iga Swiatek.
- India won the Thomas cup 2022 for the first time defeating Indonesia. It is the men’s badminton tournament.
- South Korea won the Uber Cup 2022, defeating china. It is the women’s badminton tournament for the women’s.
- Nikhat Zareen won the gold medal in the world boxing championship in Turkey in the 57 Kg Category. She became the 5 world boxing champion from India.
- PV Sindu won the bronze medal at Asian Badminton Championship in Manila.
- Ronald Antonio O’Sullivan has won his 7th Title of world snooker.
- Real Madrid won the 35th Spanish League title.
- The 15th edition of IPL-2022 won by Gujarat Tatians defeating the Rajasthan Royal. Jos Buttler won the Orange Cap and Yuzvendra Chahal won the purple cap for taking maximum wickets.
Awards Given on May 2022
- Cynthia Rosenzweig received the World Food Prize 2022. She is a Scientist at NASA.
- Charudutt Mishra was awarded with the Whitley award for working on the conservation of snow leopard, this award is also known as the green Oscar.
- India will be the first official country of honour at Cannes Marché du film in France.
- Mamta Banerjee was honoured with a special Bangla Academy Award for her book “Kabita Bitan”.
- Ajay Piramal and Kishor Jairam receive the top British honorary award “Commander of the British empire’ by the Queen.
- G J R Krishnan and Vijayalakshmi have been awarded the Sangita Kalanidhi for the year 2021.
- Tomb of Sand got the International Booker Prize. It is the first Hindi language book to get this award. It was written by Geetanjal Shree, and translated to English by Daisy Rockwell.
- Indian documentary ”All that breathes” won the L’Oeil d’Or (Golden Eye) award at Cannes film festival, directed by Shaunak Sen.
Important Days of the May 2022
- 1st of May is observed as World Labour Day. On the 1st of May Gujarat and Maharashtra also celebrate the Statehood day.
- BRO (Border and Road Organisation) celebrated its raising day on the 7th of May. It was established in 1960. The present head of the BRO is Rajeev Chaudhary.
- World Red Cross Day is observed on the 8th of May. The theme for the year 2022 is “Be human kind”. The day is celebrated on the birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, the founder of Red cross society.
- National Technology Day is celebrated on 11 May. Theme for 2022 was “Integrated approaches in science and technology for a sustainable future”. It is observed that in 1998 India tested the 2nd Nuclear test.
- Sikkim celebrated its statehood day on 16th May. On 16 May 1975 Sikkim became the 22nd state of India. CM is Prem Singh Tamang and the Governor is Ganga Prasad.
- Anti terrorism Day is observed in 21st May. It is the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
- World Biodiversity Day is observed on 22nd of May every year. The theme for 2022 is “building a shared future for all life”.
- No tobacco Day is celebrated on the 31st of May by WHO. The theme for this year is “Protect the environment”.
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