MAY 2021 Current Affairs | Monthly Current Affairs of May by ICD Kollam

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Current Affairs is a very vast and dynamic topic. Sometimes we need proper analysis as well. Apart from understanding the concept, it requires memorizing the facts and figures. The facts and figures are constantly changing, and all the aspirants need to keep themselves updated. We get almost 50 different news to read every day, and remembering all the current news of the past 6-8months is not an easy nut to crack. And to make easy for you, ICD Kollam is here. This is the Current Affairs of May 2021

Banking/Financial Awareness (May 2021 Current affairs)

RBI

Increased the Way and Means Advances (WMA) from Rs.32,225 crore to Rs.47,010 crore
Enhanced the limit of maximum balance at end of the day maintained in Payment Bank from Rs 1lakh to Rs 2lakh per individual
Announced to conduct the open market purchase of govt securities of Rs 1lakh crore under G-sec Acquisition Programme
RBI constituted an advisory group to assist the 2nd Regulatory Review Authority (RRA 2.0) – headed by SBI MD S Janakiraman.

ICICI

ICICI & Axisbank- Amazon&Visacards– New Umbrella Entity (NUE) for retail payment.
ICICI Bank and PhonePe– FAST agusing UPI on the PhonePe App.
Merchant Stack– For Retail merchants.

SBI

SBI Funds Management Pvt.Ltd-1^st mutual fund house in India to cross the Rs. 5 lakh crore Average Assets Under Management (AAUM) mark
SBI- Japan Bank $ 1bn – to provide loan to Japanese Automobile manufacturers in India
Shivrai Technologies partnered withYono SBI to help smallholder, marginal, and large- holder farmers by way of a free application- Farmizo Khata . Shivrai also owns their own B2B brand, FarmERP.
HyperVerge & SBI – facilitate the AI-powered Online Account Opening.

MISCELLANEOUS

Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO) – $ 137 mn in India’s Green Growth Equity Fund (GGEF)
Jana SFB partnered with Aries securities – to offer Banking and Investment
Ujjivan SFB – Mobile App ‘nLines’ & nStore Technologies
Indian Bank– Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched ‘Madhukranti Portal’– Honey producers
Union Bank of India– UNI -CARBON CARD, an HPCL co-branded credit card on Rupay platform
Axis Bank– Share Purchase Agreement – for sale of 100 % stake in its subsidiary, Axis Bank UK Limited to OpenPayd Holdings Ltd.
Bharti Airtel– RelienceJio Infocomm – ‘Right to Use’ – 800 MHz spectrum.
Facebook partnered with Indian govt – to roll out a Vaccine Finder Tool on its mobile app – USD 10 million
Wipro– 3rd largest Indian IT services company by market capitalization of $ 2.65 trillion
New Development Bank– $ 1 bn – Covid 19 assistance to Russia
Flipkart–set up Asia’s largest fulfillment centre at Gurugram
RBL Bank – Tide India Platform – to provide Bank accounts for Small and medium Enterprise customers
Google cloud and SpaceX– provide internet service through Starlink satellite
Jana Small Finance Bank – launched I Choose My Number feature
Yes Bank– Implemented Transunion’s Onboarding solution for digitising onboarding of its credit card customers
IDBI Bank – Launched fully digitized loan processing system- 50 products to MSME and Agriculture Sector
HDFC Bank– top arranger of corporate bond deals in 2020-21
HDFC Bank – Launched the Chatbotcalled Eva –to provide banking services to rural India
PayCore Company Became a Certified Partner of Rupay SoftPOS by NPCI
Equitas SFB – 1^st SFB to offer Online Account opening – for NRIs
Kotak Mahindra Bank – 1^s^t to issue Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPL) to alternate investment funds incorporated in GIFT International Financial Services Centre
Edelweiss General Insurance – launched 1^st of its kind portal Integrated Partner Onboarding Solution (IPOS) to its customers
Airtel Payment Bank partnered with SafeGold to launch DigiGold (24k Gold)
Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank – Awarded with 5 Awards by Pention Fund Regulatory and Development Authority for various enrolment of Atal Pension Yojana

NATIONAL (STATE NEWS) (May 2021 Current affairs)

TELENGANA:

MoU with Wadhwani Institute– developing AI based mobile App for cotton farmers.
Biggest floating solar power plant in India – at Ramagundam
Launched Medicine from the sky – delivery of medicines through drones

RAJASTHAN:

1^ST State – provide free health insurance facility

ARUNACHAL PRADESH:

Inaugurated 1^st school with indigenous language system ‘NyubuNyvgamYerko’

NAGALAND :

Health minister S PangnyuPhom launched ‘i-Learn’

ODISHA:

Utkal Divas on April 1
Has announced GopabandhuSambadikaSwasthyaBimaYojana – for journalists

MAHARASTRA :

Declared Amboliregion in Western Ghats as Biodiversity heritage site (Fish: SchisturaHiranyakeshi)
The Mahindra Group Chairman, Anand Mahindra initiated a project titled ‘Oxygen on Wheels’– to ease the transportation of oxygen from producing plants to hospitals and homes
Launched Mission Oxygen Self-Reliance scheme

J&K :

Launched 2 mobile app ‘HamariSadak’ & ‘TameerTaraqqi’ – e-governance & public work system
World’s highest railway bridge (359 m) – Chenab river

PUNJAB:

World Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) – $300 mn- Drinking water project
Declared Malerkotlaas 23^rddistrict of the state
1^st Indian State to join COVAX Alliance

MIZORAM:

World bank – $32mn – to improve health service quality

TAMIL NADU :

CM – M K Stalin(DMK) , Governor BanwarilalPurohit

HIMACHAL PRADESH–

Under ParvatDharaScheme- rejuvenation of water sources and recharging aquifers through forest department – Rs 20 Crore. 10 forest divisions (Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Jogindernagar, Nachan, Parvati, Nurpur, Rajgarh, Nalagarh, Theog and Dalhousie)
Launched AyushGhar-Dwar program – to keep the home isolated Covid-19 patients healthy by practising Yoga

UTTARAKHAND–

State Police launched a drive- Mission Hausla
Launched Chief Minister VatsalyaYojana for Orphaned Children

JHARKHAND–

1^st in Impliementation of Smart City Mission schemes.
Launched Amrit Vahini App – Online Booking of Hospital beds

BIHAR–

Launched HIT Covid App – monitoring Covid 19 patients

HARYANA–

1^st state to allow Reimbursement of GST on Covid Items Donations
Launched Sanjeevani Pariyojana – to treat COVID patients at home

MANIPUR –

MOMA Market – home delivery of fresh vegetables

KERALA –

Launched Smart Kitchen Scheme

WEST BENGAL –

Implementation of 3 welfare Projects – ‘Lakshmi Bhandar Project’, ‘Student credit card initiative’ and ‘Duare Ration’

CHHATTISGARH –

Inaugurated a Web portal- CGTeeka to facilitate ease of registration process for COVID-19 vaccination.

NATIONAL NEWS (May 2021 Current affairs)

PM KUSUM (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Uthaan Mahabhiyan ) – Ministry of New & Renewable Energy.
Food and Agriculture Organisation released ‘Forest Governance by Indigeneous& Tribal People
Atal Innovation Mission launched ‘AIM-PRIME’ (Program for Researchers on Innovations, Market-Readiness & Entrepreneurship)
UNDP- Spice Board India – Supply chain in ‘e-spice Bazar’
Ramesh Pokhriyal (Education minister) launched ‘MyNEP2020’ – National Council For Teachers Education.
11^th edition of Indo-US exercises VajraPrahar 2021 – Himachal Pradesh
Supreme Court of India – AI portal ‘SUPACE’ – (Supreme Court Portal for Assistance in Courts Efficiency)
India’s 1^st Agriculture Export Facilitation Centre- Pune
‘Drive in Vaccination Center’ – inaugurated by MP Rahul Shewale in Mumbai.
CM of Union Territory of Puducherry– N Rangasamy
The armed forces launched operation “CO-JEET”- to aid anti-COVID-19 efforts
The Indian Army recently launched the 1^st Green Solar Energy harnessing plant in Sikkim
The Indian Navy launched Operation SamudraSetu-II– to help in faster transportation of medical oxygen and other requirements from other countries to India.
8 instalment of PM KisanSammanNidhi – Govt of India Transfers Rs 6000 to account of small and marginal farmers.
Taukate – Cyclone that hit Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, etc.
DIPCOVAN– Covid -19 antibody detection kit – by DRDO
IREDA – awarded Green Urja Award
New Delhi – Launched vehicle helpline COVI Van to help senior citizens
ZebPay – launched India’s 1^st Crypto-based lending platform
Precision Health Platform – Environment Surveillance Platform in Asia – in Bangalore- for Sewage Surveillance
India launched UNITE AWARE – mobile app – improving safety of UN Peacekeeping Force
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights – Launched Tele- Counselling Helpline SAMVEDNA
MyGov& Department of Higher Education – to launch Indian Language Learning
Bombay stock Exchange MoU with Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India – to promote Small and Medium Enterprises environment.
1^st Private Digital Court launched by Jupitice Justice Technologies (Chandigarh) using Blockchain & AI
Pune – topped ‘State of Indian Healthcare- Indian Cities through the lens of Healthcare 2021 report
National Bamboo Mission (NBM) launched MIS Module to develop Agarbatti industry.

RANKS (May 2021 Current affairs)

Global gender gap report 2021 (WEF) – India 140^th , Bangladesh 1^st
Forbe’s 35^thAnnual World’s Billionaries List, Jeff Bezos -1^st. MukeshAmbani 1^st in Asia
India – 2^nd largest Insurance Technology Market in Asia-Pacific (S&P Global Market Intelligence data)
USA – topped EY’s Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index. India -3^rd
Forbes Highest Paid Athletes – Conor McGregor 1st

INTERNATIONAL NEWS (May 2021 Current affairs)

‘Leader’s Summit on Climate’ host by US
Japan – India 4 Agreements – Financial Support Rs 1.93 crore – Healthcare development projects
India- USA – Energy Partnership- Targeted Renewable Energy Generation of 450 Gigawatts
Netherland’s PM &Modi – setup 25 centres of Excellence in Indian Agriculture Sector
India’s 1^st Indo-Korean Friendship Park at Delhi Contonment.
New Zealand –2^nd Country to pass legislation giving Mothers and their Partners the right to paid leave (miscarriage or stillbirth). India -1^st
India – Bangladesh 5 MoUs –boost bilateral cooperation
Daniel Smith– US interim envoy to India
SHANTIR OGROSHENA 2021 – mulltinational Military Exercise in Bangladesh.Theme : Robust Peace Keeping Operations
Prahlad Singh Patel(Union Minister of State for Tourism & Culture) participated in G20 Tourism Ministers’ Meeting held in Italy
Russia– World’s 1^st animal vaccine against the novel coronavirus.
India and Russia have agreed to establish a ‘2+2 Ministerial Dialogue’ – Foreign & Defence
Ethiopia added 2 armed groups to its “terror list”, including the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
The world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge-“Arouca” was opened in Portugal
The first-ever India-France-Australia Trilateral Foreign Ministerial Dialogue was held in London, UK
UK – 1^st country – allow driverless cars on roads
China – 1^st country to ban all synthetic cannabinoid substances
China –launched aLong March- 4B rocket carrying Haiyang–2D (HY-2D) satellite
Iran developed Supercomputer- Simorgh
NATO has launched joint military exercises “DEFENDER-Europe 21” in Albania
NASA– 1^st Mobile Robot Rover to Moon, VIPER
Switzerland MoU with WHO – To setup 1st WHO BioHub Facility For rapid Genome Sharing of Viruses & Pathogens
India –Israel signed 3 year 5^th Indo-Israel Agriculture Action Plan (IIAP)
International Energy agency (IEA) released ‘Net Zero by 2050 ‘ report – frame a Road map to achieve Net Zero Global Carbon emissions by 2050
OneWeb Partnered with Japan’s SoftBank Group to Promote its Satellite Communication
INTERPOL Launched ID – Art Mobile App to help identify Stolen aircrafts

SPORTS (May 2021 Current affairs)

ChinkiYadav – gold medal- ISSF World cup – Women 25m pistol
Hubert Hurkacz – Miami open Men’s Single Title
NuwanZoysa(Former Sri Lanka player and coach) has been banned from all cricket for 6 years – breaching the ICC anti-corruption code.
ThisaraPerera (Sri Lankan all-rounder and former captain) has announced his retirement from international cricket.
AniyanMidhun of Nattika– won gold – South Asian Wushu Championship in Nepal
AIBA Men’s World Boxing Championships – Tashkent
Lewis Hamilton– won the Portuguese Grand Prix.
The All India Chess Federation has launched the ‘Checkmate Covid Initiative’ to help the chess community affected by the pandemic.
Mark Selby(English professional player) has become the World Snooker Champion for the fourth time.
Badminton World Federation announced that India shuttler PV Sindhu and Canada’s Michelle Li -nominated as athlete ambassadors for the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) ‘Believe in Sport’ campaign
Rafael Nadal– 10^th Italian open title
Max Verstappen– Monaco Grand Prix 2021
Sami Khedira (German Footballer)- retired from International football
FIFA U-12 Women’s World Cup to be conducted in India
International Table Tennis Federation partnered with Stupa Sports Analysis for AI Based real time match analysis
2022 Women’s Rugby World Cup – host by New Zealand

APPOINTMENTS (May 2021 Current affairs)

N V Ramana – 48^th Chief Justice of India
T Rabi Sankar(RBI executive director) – 4^th Deputy Governor of the central bank
Chintan Vaishnav – New Mission Director of NITI Aayog’s AIM
S . Raman – New Chairman & MD of SIDBI
Subash Kumar– Chairman & MD of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
Virat Kohli – Brand Ambassador of Vivo, Brand Ambassador of Digital Insurance
MukhmeetBhalia – Director General of Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)
Vjosa Osmani –President of Kosovo
AdilZainulbhai – chairman of Capacity Building Commission
Tarun Bajaj – new Revenue Secretary under the Ministry of Finance
Nguyen XuanPhuc – President of Vietnam
Pham Minh Chinh– PM of Vietnam
Anvee Bhutani – Oxford student union president
Mallika Srinivasan – Chairperson of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB)
Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou – PM of Niger
Shabir Hussein Shekhadam Khandwawala – BCCI Anti-Corrruption Unit Chief.
Mahesh Balasubramanian – MD of Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Company Limited (KLI)
Ramesh Powar– Health coach of Indian Women’s Cricket team
Martin Griffiths – New chief at UN office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Neera Tanden – Senior adviser to U.S President Joe Biden
Satoshi Uchida – New company Head of Suzuki Motorcycle India
Penpa Tsering – President of Tibet
Bashar Al-Assad – President Of Syria
Gunjan Shah– CEO of Bata India
Moctar Ouane – PM of Mali
Martha KarambuKoome– 1^st Woman Chief Justice of Kenya
Narinder Batra : President of International Hockey Federation (FIH)
Rajesh Bansal – CEO of Reserve Bank Innovation Hub.
Andrew R Jassy – CEO of Amazon
Jagjit Pavadia – President of the International Narcotics Control Board
T V Somanathan – New Finance Secretary
Amitabh Chaudhry – MD & CEO of Axis Bank
R M Sundaram – Director of Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR)
Prafulla Chandra Pant– Acting chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission
Bill Nelson – administrator of NASA
Subodh Kumar Jaiswal – Director of CBI
Anatole Collinet Makosso – PM of Congo
Arvind Kumar – MD of Chennai Petroleum corporation
David Attenborough – People’s Advocate of UN Climate Change Conference Of the Parties

BOOKS AND AUTHORS (May 2021 Current affairs)

Names of the Women- JeetThayil
Suparipalana- Dr Shailendra Joshi (Telugu translation of Echo T Calling: Towards People-Centric Governance)
ManoharParrikar : Brilliant Mind , Simple Life – NithinGokhale
OdishaItihaaas– UtkalnKeshariHarekrushnaMahtab
Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance – Preet Mohan Singh Malik.
Nehru, Tibet and China – Avtar Singh Bhasin
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present – ShivshankarMenon
“7 Lessons from Everest Expedition Learnings from Life and Business – Aditya Gupta
The Bench (Children’s Book) – Meghan Markle
Elephant in the Womb – Kalki Koechlin
All Time Favourites For Children – Ruskin Bond
1971 : The Beginning of india’s Cricketing Greatness – Boria Majumdar & Gautam Bhattacharya

AWARDS AND HONOURS (May 2021 Current affairs)

BiswabhusanHarichandran – KalingaRatnaSamman (Odia Literature)
SharankumarLimbale – SaraswatiSamman (Sanathan)
Rajinikanth – 51^stDadasahebPhalke Award
Alfred V. Aho – Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award (Nobel Prize of Computing)
Maria Ressa -2021 laureate of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
MahinderGiri (Rajaji Tiger Reserve) – International Ranger Award
Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet– National Book Critics Circle Prize
SumanChakraborty – 30^th GD Birla Award for Scientific Research
AshutoshBhardwaj– DevishankarAwasthi Award (for his work – Pitra_ Vadh)
Dutee Chand (Indian sprinter) – Chhattisgarh Veerni Award
Singer Pink – Icon Award at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs)
The Japanese Government awarded the “Order of Rising Sun” to a Bengaluru based Japanese teacher- Shyamala Ganesh
Jacinda Ardern – Topped World’s 50 Greatest Leaders’ List for 2021 (Fortune Magazine)
Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank – International Invicible Gold Medal of 2021
Andrea Meza – Miss Universe 2020
Suresh Mukund– 10^th Annual World Choreography Award 2020
V Kartikeyan Pandian– International Hockey Federation (FIH) President’s Award
Valeria Luiselli–International Dublin Literary Award 2021. Novel – Lost Children Archive.
Naomi Osaka – Sportswoman of the Year at the 2021 Laureus World Sports Awards. Sportsman – RafelNadal
Anupam Kher – Best Actor award – New York City International Film Festival
Dr. D Nageshwar Reddy – 1^st Indian to win Rudolf V Schindler Award from American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE).
C. N. R. Rao – 2020 Energy Frontier Award (International Eni Awards)
Amartya Sen – Princess of Asturias Award (social Science category)
Hockey India – Won Etienne Glichitch Award
Jane Goodall – 2021’s Templeton Prize
Y Nuklu Phom – Whitley Award 2021 for creating Biodiversity Peace Corridor – to protect Amur Falcon
Shakunthala Haraksingh Thilsted – 1^st women of Asian heritage to receive the World Food Prize

IMPORTANT DAYS (May 2021 Current affairs)

May 1– International Labour Day
May 2 – World Tuna Day (by UN)
May 3 –World Press Freedom Day.Theme : Information as a Public Good
May 4- Coal Miners’ Day.
May 4- International Firefighters’ Day
May 5 – World Athletics Day.
May 5 – World Hand Hygiene Day.Theme : Seconds Save Lives : Clean Your Hands
May 5 – International Day of the Midwife. Theme : Follow the Data : Invest in Midwives.
May 6 – International No Diet Day. Symbol is Light Blue Ribbon
May 8 – World Migratory Bird Day 2021.Theme : Sing, Fly, Soar – Like a Bird
May 8- World Thalassemia Day. Theme : Addressing Health Inequalities Across The Global Thalassaemia Community.
May 8 – World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day. Theme: Unstoppable
May 12 – International Nurses Day
May 15- International day of Families. Theme : Families and New technologies
May 16- International Day of Light (IDL)
May 16 – National Dengue Day
May 16 – International Day of Living Together in Peace
May 18 – International Museum Day. Theme: The Future of Museums: Recover and Remagine.
May 20 – World Bee Day.Theme : Bee engaged: Build Back Better for Bees
May 20 – World Metrology Day.Theme : Measurement for Health
May 21 – International Tea Day
May 22– International Day for Biological Diversity. Theme : We’re part of the solution.
May 23- World Turtle Day.Theme : Turtles Rock!
May 25- World Thyroid Day. May 28- World Hunger Day
May 28 – International Day of Action for Women’s Health
May 28- Amnesty International Day
May 28– Menstrual Hygiene and Health. Theme : Action and Investment in Menstrual Hygiene and Health
May 29 – International Everest Day

OBITUARIES (May 2021 Current affairs)

Isamu Akasaki – Nobel Prize Winner in Physics.
K C Chakrabarty– Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor
RadheshyamKhemka – President of Gita Press
Anil Dharker (journalist and author) : founder and director Mumbai International Literary Festival.
Walter Anthony Gustavo WAG Pinto – Lieutenant General (led India-Pakistan War)
Bhagwati Singh – UP minister (Samajwadi Party)
Shashikala Om PrakashSaigal – Veteran Film and TV actress
DigvijaysinhZala – 1^st Environment Minister of India (1982 – 1984)
Fatima RafiqZakaria – Chairman of Maulana Azad Educational Trust and Khairul Islam Trust Mumbai
Chandra Naidu – India’s 1^st Female cricket commentator
K Raghothaman – Central Bureau of Investigation officer
Rajeev Satav– Senior congress leader and Rajyasabha MP
Yuan Longping – Chinese Scientist- developed Hybrid Rice
Michael Collins – Astronaut
Rohit Sardana – T V Journalist
Bikramjeet Kanwarpal– Actor
Chandro Tomar– Shooting
Vanraj Bhatia – Music Composer
Pou lSchlueter – Former PM of which Country.
H S Doreswamy – Freedom Fighter. Pauravani- Newspaper run by him
Sunderlal Bahuguna (Padma Vibhushan ) – He coined the slogan : Ecology is the Permanent Economy