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TNPSC Current Affairs May 2016
Miscellaneous 

• Important Days
• May 1 - International Labour Day
• May 5 - World Asthma Day
• May 11 - National Technology Day
• May 21 - Anti Terrorism Day
• Awards
• 63rd National Awards
• Best Film - Baahubali
• Best Featured Film - Bajrangi Bhaijaan
• Best Director - Sanjay Leela Bansali 
• Best Actor - Amitabh Bachchan
• Best Actress - Kangana Ranaut
• Manoj Kumar - was awarded the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 2016 {VERY IMPORTANT}
• 3 Indian Scientists Elected for the Royal Society
• Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
• Sriram Ramaswamy
• Ramanujan Hedge
• North Star
• It was the highest civilian award in Mongolia.
• Lokesh Chandra and Mansura Haider was awarded North star award by the mongolian govt.
• Guiness World Record
• Pankaj Rarak from Maharashtra sets the guinness world record for 'man with the most expensive gold shirt worth 10 crore'
• The Aguada Central Jail
• It is located in Goa.
• This jail was converted into a museum recently.
• Namma Metro
• South India's first underground metro rail services was flagged off in Bengaluru.

Polity

• Vijay Mallya 
• Indian Industrialist and Rajya Sabha Member sent his resignition letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari.
• His resignition letter was rejected citing the absence of his signature.
• Important Committees
• R M Lodha Committee - MCI
• Supreme Court appointed a committee under the chairmanship of R M Lodha to monitor the functioning of the Medical Council of India for a minimum Period of one year.
• Important Appointments
• Sunil Lanba - to be appointed as the Next Navy Chief

Economy

• Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana Scheme
• PM Narendra Modi launched the New scheme to provide subsidised LPG connections to women of Poor households.
• It aims to provide 5 Crore connection within next 3 years.
• The total estimate of this scheme is 8000 Crore
• UJALA Scheme
• UJALA - Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for all.
• This scheme was launched by the Union government for providing led at affordable prices for the domestic consumers.

Science and Tech

• Bitcoin 
• It is a digital virtual currency without a central repository.
• It was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto.
• Recently Craig steven Wright from Australia claims the invention of Bit Coin.
• Huroof
• It is the name of the Android app launched by the Islamic State exclusively for the children.
• This app is to teach Arabic Alphabets to children.
• BHUVAN
• It is the geo-portal of ISRO.
• This portal helps the users to view the 2D picture of the earth particularly India in higher resolution.
• WATSCAN
• It is tool for water resources evaluation and management at watershed level.
• It is developed by CII - Confederation of Indian Industry.
• It helps to identify the geographical areas in which the water is generated and losses occur.
• Antonov An-225 Mriya
• It is the world's largest cargo aircraft.
• It was landed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad
• Prithvi-II - Test fired
• India's indigenously developed nuclear capable missile.
• Range - 350 KM
• Payload - 500 to 1000 kg.
• HIFiRE
• Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation is a programme in which the scientists engaged to develop Hypersonic flight.
• Hypersonic means five times the speed of sound or 5 Mach.
• LIGO
• LIGO - Laser Interferimeter Gravitationlal-wave Observatory was founded by Ronald W P Drever, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss.
• They have been awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize for the detection of the gravitational force.

Environment and Health

• Corono Effect
• It is a devastating phenomenon on electrical components mainly electricity distribution system.
• It is mainly caused by the Industrial pollution.
• Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Datebase 2016
• It is a report released by WHO. HQ; Geneva
• It released the report in two categories PM 2.5 and PM 10.
• PM stands for the Particulate matter and the number denotes the size
• PM 2.5 
• 1st Place - Zambol,Iran
• 2nd Place - Gwalior
• 3rd - Allahabad
• 11th -Delhi
• PM 10
• 25th place - Delhi
• Project ReAnima
• It is the world's first clinical trial to be conducted on the revival of the brain dead patients using stem cells.

World

• Miss Africa
• Miss Africa 2016 Contest is conducted for the first time.
• Rebecca Asamoah (Miss Ghana) is crowned as Miss Africa.
• Nepal President visited India.
• Nepal President K P Sharma Oli participated in Simhastha Kumbh in Ujjain.
• Hun Sen - Prime Minister of combodia
• Tim Cook - Apple CEO

Sports

• World Snooker Champion ship 2016
• Location: England
• Mark Delby of England won the title
• Mike Powell
• The World record holder in long jump (8.95m) event from America visited India.
• Shashank Manohar
• He was appointed as the New chairman of ICC - International Cricket council.
• He is also served as the former President BCCI.
• Nour El Sherbini
• She was an egyptian squash player who became the youngest ever women's squash champion.

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