Current Affairs of May 2022

1. Which are two Indian cities recognised as the ‘2021 Tree City of the World' by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation?

Ans: Mumbai and Hyderabad

 

2. Which became first country to give legal rights to wild animals?

Ans: Ecuador

 

3. Who was named as India's G20 chief co-ordinator?

Ans: Harsh Vardhan Shringla

 

4. Who was honoured with first Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award?

Ans: Narendra Modi

 

5. As per recent report of NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office's Orbital Debris Quarterly News, for how many spaces debris item India is responsible?

Ans: 114

 

6. The first Khelo India National Ranking Women Archery will be held at:

Ans: Jamshedpur

 

7. Who was re-appointed as the chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities?

Ans: Iqbal Singh Lalpura

 

8. Who was named as the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2022?

Ans: Falguni Nayar

 

9. Which country has lifted their fourth title of FIH Junior Women's Hockey World Cup 2022?

Ans: Netherlands

 

10. Who has won the prestigious Reykjavik Open chess tournament in Iceland?

Ans: R. Pragganandhaa

 

11. Which city will host the Commonwealth Games in 2026?

Ans: Victoria, Australia

 

12. Which country will host the Street Child Cricket World Cup in 2023?

Ans: India

 

13. Which country has successfully tested 'Iron Beam' new laser-based air defence system?

Ans: Israel

 

14. Name the Indian economist and political commentator, who has been selected for the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2022?

Ans: Prabhat Patnaik

 

15. Which state has won the men's title in the 71^st Senior National Basketball Championship?

Ans:  Tamil Nadu

 

16. Which country has recently stopped imports of agricultural products from India, citing a failure to register laboratories that evaluate food safety and issue certificates of analysis?

Ans: Indonesia

 

17. Who has won the men's 200 m butterfly gold at the Danish Open swimming meet in Copenhagen, Denmark?

Ans: Sajan Prakash

 

18. Which is India's first-ever radio channel for the visually impaired, launched in Nagpur, Maharashtra?

Ans: ‘Radio Aksh'

 

19. Name the Russian vessel that has sunk as a result of a Neptune missile strike' by Ukraine.

Ans: Moskva

 

20. Who was named as the India's next Chief of Army Staff?

Ans: Lt. Gen Manoj Pande

 

21. Who has authored the book “The Boy Who Wrote a Constitution: A play for Children on Human Rights”?

Ans: Rajesh Talwar

 

22. Which team has emerged as the champions of the 12th Senior Men’s National Hockey Championship?

Ans: Haryana

 

23. Name the state in which the Government of India and the World Health Organization agreed to establish the Global centre for Traditional

Medicine?

Ans: Gujarat (Jamnagar)

 

24. India's First radio channel for visually-impaired people is:

Ans: Radio Aksh

 

25. What is the theme of International Mother Earth Day 2022?

Ans: Invest in our planet

 

26. Who has been appointed as India's next Director General of Military operations?

Ans: Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar

 

27. Which city is the venue of first-ever 'Incredible India International Cruise Conference 2022?

Ans: Mumbai

 

28. Who has been appointed as new vice chairman of NITI Aayog?

Ans: Suman K Bery

 

29. What is the theme of World Intellectual, Property Day 2022?

Ans: IP and Youth Innovating for a Better Future

 

30. India's First carbon neutral panchayat is:

Ans: Palli (Jammu)

 

31. Who has penned down the book ‘August 17?

Ans: S. Hareesh

 

32. Name the vaccine that has been approved for administration in children aged 5-12 years by - the Drugs Controller General of India?

Ans: Corbevax

 

33. In India, the first case of omicron's BA.2.12 strain was reported in:

Ans: Delhi

 

34. Name the portal launched for consumer grievance redressal in Kerala?

Ans: e-Daakhil

 

35. The cyber defence exercises called 'Locked Shields’ were conducted by NATO in:

Ans: Estonia

 

36. Name the intercontinental ballistic missile capabale of carrying a big nuclear payload test fired by Russia?

Ans: RS- 28 SARMAT

 

37. The first state in India to launch a bus service with a totally digital ticketing system is:

Ans: Maharashtra

 

38. Who was selected as Global Peace Ambassador 2022?

Ans: Babita Singh

 

39. Which state in India has launched the Social Awarness and Action to Neutralise Phenumonia Susccessfully (SAANS) campaign?

Ans: Karnataka

 

40. Which social media netwrok is agreed to acquire by Elon Musk for $ 44 billion?

Ans: Twitter

 

41. India's first pure green hydrogen plant commissioned in:

Ans: Assam

 

42. Name the sixth and last submarine constructed under project- 75 launched by Indian Navy?

Ans: VAGSHEER

 

43. Who was elected as Prime Minister of Slovenia?

Ans: Robert Golob

 

44. Which state government has announced that December 18 will be observed as Minorities Rights Day at the state level every year?

Ans: Tamil Nadu

 

45. Who has been elected as the Chairperson of the Haj Committee of India?

Ans: A.P. Abdullahkutty

 

46. Who was appointed as the next Chief Executive Officer of Aditya Birla Capital?

Ans: Vishakha Mulye

 

47. Who has been named as the Champions of the Earth Award 2021 under the Lifetime Achievement category by the UNEP?

Ans: David Attenborough

 

48. Which e-Proposal System of the state has been awarded the prestigious UN Award - World Summit on the Information Society Forum

(WSIS) Prizes 2022?

Ans: Meghalaya

 

49. Name the eminent structural biologist who was instrumental in the development of macromolecular crystallography in India, died recently

Ans: M. Vijayan

 

50. Which has become the country's first district with library in every village?

Ans: Jamtara, Jharkhand

 

51. Who was appointed as the Chairman of National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) for 2022-23?

Ans: Krishnan Ramanujam

 

52. Who has penned down the book titled Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping?

Ans: Roger Faligot

 

53. Which has become the first Indian city to have vacuum-based sewer systems?

Ans: Agra

 

54. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes for a second time?

Ans: Vijay Sampla

 

55. Name the largest and most complex annual international live-fire cyber defence exercise in the world.

Ans: Locked Shields 2022

 

56. Who has authored the new book titled Not Just A Nightwatchman: My Innings in the BCCI?

Ans: Vinod Rai

 

57. Which has become first airline to use indigenous navigation system GAGAN?

Ans: IndiGo

 

58. Who was included as a member of the jury in the Cannes Film Festival?

Ans: Deepika Padukone

 

59. Which became first Indian state to develop Migration Tracking System app?

Ans: Maharashtra

 

60. Name the snow leopard conservationist who has won the prestigious Whitley Gold Award.

Ans: Charudutt Mishra

 

61. Which is Kerala's first model district employment exchange?

Ans: Kadakampally, Thiruvananthapuram

 

 

62. India's first indigenous hydrogen-fuelled electric vessels is going to be develop and build at:

Ans: Cochin Shipyard Limited

 

 

63. Name the NATO exercises aimed at building preparedness and interoperability between Allies and partners.

Ans: Defender Europe 2022 and Swift Response 2022

 

64. India's first ethanol plant was inaugurated recently at:

Ans: Purnia, Bihar

 

 

65. Which is neobanking fintech portal that becomes India's 100th and Kerala's first unicorn start-up?

Ans: Open

 

 

66. Name India's first indigenous aircraft carrier, that will be handed over to the Indian navy.

Ans: INS Vikrant

 

 

67. Who was the captain of the 75th Santosh Trophy 2022 title winner Kerala team?

Ans: Jijo Joseph

 

 

68. Which will be the official Country of Honour at the upcoming Marche' Du Film, organized alongside the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, in France?

Ans: India

 

 

69. Which state is going to launch India's first tribal health observatory?

Ans: Odisha

 

 

70. Which state has launched Jivhala loan scheme for the inmates who are serving sentences in various jails across the state?

Ans: Maharashtra

 

 

71. Who has received the 2022 World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation?

Ans: Cynthia Rosenzweig

 

72. Name the operation launched by RPF that aims to take action against, transporting any item through railway network for the purpose of tax evasion or smuggling or commission of crime or acts of terror.

Ans: Operation Satark

 

 

73. In Manipur, which tribe has declared its inhabited areas will be a Drug-Free Zone?

Ans: Poumai tribe

 

 

74. Name the application launched by the Kerala government for diagnosing, and controlling lifestyle diseases.

Ans: Shaili App

 

 

75. Who has become the first Indian woman to climb five peaks above 8000 metres?

Ans: Priyanka Mohite

 

 

76. Name the official mascot of the Fourth Khelo India Youth Games.

Ans: Dhakad

 

 

77. By which year ISRO is planning to launch its Venus orbiter mission?

Ans: 2024

 

 

78. Kerala's first Smart Anganawadi built is located in:

Ans: Poojapura

 

 

79. What is the rank of India in the 2022 edition of the Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders?

Ans: 150

 

 

80. Which Corporation in Kerala launched new e-carts' to collect debris from wards to the processing centres?

Ans: Trivandrum

 

 

81. Who was awarded with the 23rd Padmaprabha Puraskaram?

Ans: Sreekumaran Thampi

 

 

82. Name the online taxi service mobile application launched by the Government of Kerala.

Ans: Kerala Safari