Current Affairs One liner, 11 May 2017

• Theme of the 2017 World Thalassaemia Day - Together for Humanity

• Person appointed as Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India - Sohail Mahmood

• Awards that are part of the ‘Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil’ - Tolkappiyar award, Kural Peedam and Young Scholar awards

• Cashback portal Cashkaro.com tied up to launch card-linked offers with - Yes Bank

• India’s largest cab aggregator Ola partnered to launch a range of integrated digital offerings to customers with - Airtel

• The organisation that hosted the Season II of Indian Speed Star culminated on 10 May 2017 in New Delhi with selection of 7 athletes – GAIL

• This state’s government is planning to launch district-level action plans to reduce infant mortality rate – Rajasthan

• This country has initiated its second attempt to test its simulated space cabin - Yuegong-1- for future long duration moon mission – China

• The PWD ministry has expressed deep anxiety about the state of disrepair of most bridges in this Indian state- Kerala

• This Indian city would be hosting the biggest ever International Yoga Day event on 21 June 2017 – Ahmedabad

• This Indian actress won the best actress award at the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) 2017 – Konkona Sen Sharma

• The Indian wrestler who won a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman weight divisions in 80kg category on the opening day of the Asian Wrestling Championship is - Harpreet Singh

• With an aim to generate more revenue by providing better facilities to the tourists, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government on 9 May 2017 decided to merge the local bodies of two temple towns - Ayodhya-Faizabad and Mathura-Vrindavan

• The Co-Chairs of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC) was held on 10 May 2017 in - New Delhi

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