INTERNATIONAL 1) Which organization representatives agreed to widen and strengthen regional cooperation to promote the integral development of those territories on 4 May 2013? Ans:- ACTO(Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization) 2) Who elected as a Prime Minister of Pakistan on 14 May 2013? Ans:- Nawaz Sharif INDIA & WORLD 1) With how many votes UN General Assembly Approved Syria Resolution? Ans:-107 2) Which country PM talk with the Indian PM on a civil nuclear deal on 29 May 2013? Ans:-Japan 3) With which country India sign extradition treaty on 30 May 2013? Ans:- Thailand NATIONAL 1) What is the name of the program launched by Women and Child Development Minister to improving child development and nutritional outcomes for children? Ans:- ICDS Systems Strengthening and Nutrition Improvement Project (ISSNIP) 2) What is the name of the scheme will launch the Government of India from 1 June 2013? Ans:- Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG (DBTL) 3) Which area in India declared as a World Biosphere Reseve by UNESCO? Ans:- Nicobar Islands STATES 1) How many seats Congress won in Karnataka Assembly Elections? Ans:-121 CONFERENCES 1) When the SAARC judges meeting was held in Thimpu on Child rights in South Asia? Ans:- 23 May 2013 AWARDS & HONOURS 1) Which product of Zydus Wellness Ltd got the “Product of the year 2013″ award? Ans:- Nutralite Omega-3 2) Who is the Miss Panama 2013? Ans:- Carolina Brid 3) Who honoured with the Whitley award, also known as Green Oscar in London on 2 May 2013 by Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth? Ans:- Aparajita Datta 4) Who got the ISRO young scientist award 2013 from Meghalaya? Ans:- Jenita Mary 5) Who got the National Florence Nightingale award 2013 from Andhra Pradesh? Ans:- N.Leela Samuel 6) Who was elected for the prestigious Global Leadership Award-2013? Ans:- Malala Yousafzai 7) Who is the Indian-American girl won America’s Top Young Scientist Award for inventing a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge a cellphone in less than 20 seconds? Ans:- Esha Khare 8) Who conferred with the 47th Jnanpith Award for the Year 2011? Ans:- Pratibha Ray SPORTS & GAMES 1) Who won the FWA player of the Year Award on ? Ans :-Gareth Bale 2) Who won the World Snooker Championship title? Ans:- Ronnie O’Sulivan 3) Who won the Spanish Grand Prix Title in Barcelona? Ans:- Fernando Alonso 4) Who won the Players Championship title on 12 May 2013? Ans:- Tiger Woods 5) Who won the “England Player of the award-2013″? Ans:- Prior 6) Who is the Indian archer bagged two silver medals in the Archery World Cup? Ans:- Deepika Kumari 7) Who won the Mes’s Singles Rome Masters Tennis Tournament title on 19 May 2013? Ans:- Rafael Nadal 8) Who won the Women’s Singles Rome Masters Tennis Tournament title on 19 May 2013? Ans:- Serena Williams ECONOMY 1) According to a survey by global research firm Ipsos ,which country got the first position in the most economically confident countries in the world? Ans :- Saudi Arabia 2) Who got the place in Forbes Philanthropy List on 30 May 2013 from India(first place)? Ans:- Biocon Chief Kiran Mazumdar SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1) Which computers are more faster than the super computers? Ans:- Quantum computers 2) What are the names of two exoplants discovered by the NASA on 1May 2013? Ans:- KOI-200b,KOI-889b 3) What is the name of the second Inshore Patrol Vessel built by the Hindustan Shipyard Ltd for the Coast Guard? Ans:- Rani Avantibayi 4) What is the new type of wheat developed by the British scientists to increase productivity? Ans:- Super Wheat 5) What is the name of the planet discovered with the help of Einstein’s “General Relativity Theory”? Ans:- Einstein or Kepler-76b 6) What is the name of the unmanned carrier Fight Deck? Ans:- X-47B 7) What is the name of the Vaccine developed by the India to eradicate the Rotavirus diarrhoea in infants? Ans:-Rotavac Vaccine 8) What is the name of the aircraft received by the Indian Navy on 15 May 2013? Ans:-Boeing P-8I Aircraft PERSONS IN NEWS A) APPOINTMENTS 1) Who is the present MCC president ? Ans:- Gyating 2) Who is the new president of Asian Football Confederation? Ans :- Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman Ebrahim Al-Khalifa 3) Who Indian leg spinner elected as a player representative on the ICC Cricket Committee? Ans :- Laxman Sivaramakrishnan 4) Who is the new Director General of WTO? Ans:- Roberto Azevdo 5) Who is the 4-years old boy elected as a Mayor of the town Dorset of Minnesota town in America ? Ans:-Robert Tufts 6) Who is Sworn as Chief Minister of Karnataka? Ans:-Siddaramaiah 7) Who is the present CAG of India ? Ans:- Shashi Kant Sharma B)RESIGNS 1) Who is the Union Railway Minister of India resigned on 10 May 2013? Ans:-Pawan Kumar Bansal C) DEATHS 1) Who is the executive chairman of ATP died on 3 may 2013? Ans:- Brad Drewett 2) Who is the english film director,actor,screenwriter and novelist died on 8 May 2013? Ans:- Bryan Forbes 3) Who is the former Maharashtra MLA and first woman MLA of Cngress from Sinnar died on 9 May 2013? Ans:- Rukminibai Waje 4) Who is the famous Bollywood photographer died in Mumbai on 13 May 2013? Ans:- Jagadis Mali 5) Who is the Islamic scholar,author and activit died in Mumbai on 14 May 2013? Ans:- Asghar Ali 6) Who is the PCC Chief of Chhattisgarh dead in naxels attack on 25 May 2013? Ans:- Nanda Kumar D) VISITORS 1) Which country PM visited the Myanmar on 23 May 2013( first time Since 1977)? Ans:- Japan E) MISCELLANEOUS 1) Who is the first woman included in a FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List? Ans:- Joanne Chesimard alias Assata Shakur 2) Who is he the Indian-American become the youngest graduate topper of the prestigious University of California in more than a century? Ans:- Ritankar Das 3) Who is the first Saudi Woman climbed the Mount Everest? Ans:- Raha Moharrak 4) Who are the two Indian twins climb Mount Everest? Ans:-Tashi and Nancy Malik PLACES IN NEWS 1) What is the name of the Cyclonic Storm formed over Bay of Bengal on May 2013? Ans:- Mahasen ABBREVIATIONS IN NEWS 1) What is the full form of ‘ CNEN ‘ ? Ans:- National Commission for Nuclear Energy BOOKS IN NEWS 1) What is the name of the book released by Prof. Chamanlal on 3 may 2013? Ans:- Understanding Bhagat Singh 2) Who wrote the book ” Gandhi’s Outstanding Leadership” ? Ans:- Pascal Alan Nazareth COMMITTEES IN NEWS 1) When the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) committee recommended setting up of the Indian Bill Payment System (IBPS) in the country formed? Ans:- 6 May 2013 DAYS & DATES 1) Which day was celebrated on 11 May 2013? Ans:- National Technology
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