• The Indian wildlife and environment cartoonist who won the 2017 WWF International President’s Award is - Rohan Chakravarty
• India recently became the second largest steel producer in the world. The largest steel producer in the world is – China
• The winner of the women's title at the Asian Continental Blitz Chess Championship in Chengdu, China is - R Vaishali
• The 70th World Health Assembly recently commenced at – Geneva, Switzerland
• This state’s government has ordered an indefinite ban on sand mining in Narmada River –Madhya Pradesh
• The two-day ‘Start up India Summit’ was convened in this country- The United Arab Emirates
• The United States has issued a travel advisory, cautioning its citizens from travelling to this Muslim nation – Pakistan
• The UN has released the first draft of its treaty that would legally prohibit the possession of- Nuclear Weapons
• State that signed an MoU with IIT Kharagpur to devise Happiness Index - Madhya Pradesh
• Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off India’s first high-speed and feature rich train ‘Tejas Express’ that will run between - Mumbai and Goa
• Person elected as Mayor of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation - Neema Bhagat
• Online payment app that recently announced to offer 4% interest on savings - Paytm
• Interpol has issued an arrest notice for fugitive former Panamanian President to face charges he engaged in political espionage during his 2009-2014 term - Ricardo Martinelli
• Dharmendra Pradhan, the Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, in May 2017 co-chaired the 2nd India-OPEC Institutional Dialogue at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) that was held in - Vienna, Austria
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 52nd Annual Meeting of African Development Bank (AfDB) in - Gandhinagar, Gujarat
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 22 May 2017 inaugurated and laid foundation stone for various projects of the Kandla Port in Kutch district of Gujarat like - Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Convention Center, 14th and 16th Cargo berths, Railway Bridge at Sal junction, Mechanised fertilizer handling facility and purchase of two mobile harbor crane
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