Current Affairs May, 2017

Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar has launched an Anti-Ragging Mobile App of the University Grants Commission (UGC) to help students register complaints against the menace of ragging in the country.

• PM lays Foundation Stone for IARI at Gogamukh
• India and Mauritius Inks Four Agreements
• Tropical Cyclone “Mora” in Bay of Bengal

India’s C.A Bhavani Devi has become first Indian to win a Gold Medal in an international fencing tournament.

Construction works for building Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) has commenced in Chile. After completion, the Extremely Large Telescope will become the world’s largest optical telescope which will be five times larger than the top observing instruments that are in use today.

A deep depression in the Bay of Bengal has been declared intensified into a tropical cyclone named Mora.

Maharashtra’s chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has inaugurated India’s first multi-modal electric vehicle project at the Nagpur Airport Complex.

India and Mauritius have signed four agreements after delegation-level talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind Kumar Jugnauth in New Delhi.

Election contestants will have to declare their own and their spouses’ sources of earning in the affidavits filed before contesting polls.

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the Foundation Stone of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute at Gogamukh in Assam’s Dhemaji district located on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. This will be the third Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI).

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has been given back the power to grant licenses for defence manufacturing.

• Government bans Sale of Cattle for Slaughter
• PM lays Foundation Stone for AIIMS at Changsari
• Anurag Tripathy Appointed as Secretary of CBSE

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone for All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Changsari in the Kamrup District of Assam.