Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 24th to 30 May 2021

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 24th to 30 May 2021

Dear Aspirants,

As we all know that General Awareness/ Current Affairs Part is playing a major role in any exam weather it will be SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, LIC, SSC, Railway, or any other government examinations. So here we are providing the weekly one liner current affairs for every upcoming exam which has GA section. Weekly one liner current affairs consist top news in one line which is important for every exams. Check Weekly current affairs below and update yourself with weekly one liner current affairs here.

National News

• Cyclonic Storm Yaas to form in Bay of Bengal
• India-Israel signs 3-year program for Cooperation in Agriculture
• Mohali international hockey stadium renamed after Balbir Singh Senior
• Kerala launch Smart Kitchen Scheme
• Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Appoints ‘Guardian Ministers’
• Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) to be renamed as Indian Broadcasting and Digital Foundation (IBDF)

International News

• Israel and Palestinians Conflict
• Mukesh Ambani Asia’s richest and Gautam Adani second richest persons
• Collinet Makosso appointed Republic of Congo’s new PM
• Dr Harsh Vardhan chairs 74th World Health Assembly
• IMF proposes $50 billion global vaccination plan
• Guillermo Lasso: Ecuador’s first right-wing President
• Bashar Al-Assad Re-Elected for 4th term as Syria’s President
• Hong Kong woman Tsang Yin-hung breaks record for fastest ascent of Everest

Banking and Financial

• Kotak Mahindra Bank issues India’s first FPI licence to GIFT AIF
• Foreign direct investment jumps 19% to $59.64 bn in 2020-21
• Barclays pegs India’s FY22 GDP growth at 7.7% in bear-case scenario
• India’s GDP to contract by less-than-expected 3% in FY21: SBI
• NPCI partners PayCore to help merchants accept contactless payments
• IFSCA constitutes an expert committee on Investment Funds headed by Nilesh Shah
• Value and volume of banknotes in circulation increased by 8% and 7.2% respectively in 2020-21: RBI
• Frauds reported by banks fell by 25% in value terms to Rs 1.38 lakh crore in 2020-21: RBI
• RBI Annual Report 2021 READ MORE………
• ICICI Bank has collaborated with NPCI to link its ‘Pockets’ digital wallet to the UPI
• Tata Digital acquired 64% stake in BigBasket
• RBI imposes Rs 10 crore penalty on HDFC bank over irregularities in auto loan portfolio

Appointment and Resignation

• Rajesh Bansal appointed as CEO of Reserve Bank Innovation Hub
• Narinder Batra re-elected as FIH President
• Prashant Kumar Mishra Appointed As Chief Justice Of Chhattisgarh High Court
• CISF chief Subodh Kumar Jaiswal appointed CBI director for two years
• Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5^th
• Jagjit Pavadia elected as president of Vienna based INCB
• appointment of B V R Subrahmanyam as Commerce Secy from July
• One-year extension for RAW chief Samant Goel, IB head Arvind Kumar

Awards

• Kerala’s Shaji N.M. wins India Biodiversity Award 2021
• Amartya Sen conferred Spain’s Top Award in Social Science
• Dr Nageshwar Reddy becomes first Indian to won Rudolf V Schindler award
• Bharat Ratna Professor CNR Rao honoured with International ENI Award 2020
• 3 Indian peacekeepers Corporal Yuvraj Singh, civilian peacekeeper Ivan Michael Picardo, and Moolchand Yadav to be honoured with UN’s prestigious medal
• Tamil movie ‘Seththumaan’, Karishma Dube’s ‘Bittu’ win at IFFLA

Defence

• Defence Minister launches SeHAT OPD Portal
• Aashritha V Olety is India’s 1st woman flight test engineer

Sports

• Max Verstappen Won Monaco GP
• Casper Ruud won Men’s Singles title at Geneva Open tennis
• Bayern Munich: Robert Lewandowski won European Golden Boot
• Chelsea beat Manchester City 1-0, won Champions League for second time

Book and Author

• A book title “Nehru, Tibet and China” authored by Avtar Singh Bhasin
• Neena Gupta announces autobiography “Sach Kahun Toh”

Important day

• 23^rd May: World Turtle Day (Theme 2021– ‘Turtle Rocks!’)
• 24^th May: Commonwealth Day (Theme 2021: Delivering a Common Future)
• 25^th May: World Thyroid Day
• 25^th May: International Missing Children’s Day
• 28^th May: World Hunger Day (Theme 2021: Access Ends Hunger)
• 28^th May: International Day of Action for Women’s Health
• 29^th May: International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (Theme 2021: “The road to a lasting peace: Leveraging the power of youth for peace and security.”)
• 29^th May: International Mount Everest Day
• 31^st May: World No Tobacco Day (Theme 2021: ‘Commit to quit.)

Obituary

• Nuclear Scientist Srikumar Banerjee Passed Away
• Freedom fighter Doreswamy passes away
• Vir Chakra awardee Panjab Singh passes away

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