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    1] List of Important International Days in May 2015

    1 May - International Workers Day / Labour Day

    3 May - World Press Freedom Day

    8-9 May - Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War

    9-10 May - World Migratory Bird Day

    15 May - International Day of Families

    17 May - World Telecommunication and Information Society Day

    21 May - World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

    22 May - International Day for Biological Diversity.

    23 May - International Day to End Obstetric Fistula

    29 May - International Day of UN Peacekeepers

    31 May - World No-Tobacco Day

    2] The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari was presented with a book entitled Seal of

    the Surya by its author Shri Amritanshu.

    3] The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari released a book entitled China Confucius

    in the Shadows written by Smt. Poonam Surie, an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Chinese

    Studies, New Delhi.

    4] Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari today dedicated to the

    nation two major Highway projects in the North East at a function near Shillong. The projects

    considerably ease the travel from Guwahati towards Shillong and other parts of the North East.

    These include Shillong Bypass and four laning of Jorabat-Barapani Section of NH-40.

    5] Highest Civilian Award of Japan, that is conferred on academicians, politicians and military

    officers- the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, will be conferred on Professor

    C.N.R. Rao for his contribution to promoting academic interchange and mutual understanding

    in science and technology between Japan and India.

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    6] Contribution of the country's smaller towns - known as beyond-15 cities (B15) - to mutual

    funds' asset base has surged 36 per cent to Rs 1.89 lakh crore at the end of March.

    7] Floyd Mayweather defeated Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision in their long-awaited

    welterweight world title showdown. In a bout branded boxings latest Fight of the Century

    Mayweather took his unblemished record to 48-0 adding the Filipino greats World Boxing

    Organization title to his World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council crowns.

    8] PM Modi joins Chinese social media platform Weibo.

    9] India on went ahead with the signing of an agreement with Iran for the development of the

    strategically important Chabahar port which will give India sea-land access route to Afghanistan

    bypassing Pakistan.

    10] The Chandrayaan-2, Indias second mission to the Moon, has Orbiter, Lander and Rover

    configuration. It is planned to be launched during 2017- 2018 timeframe by Geosynchronous

    Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

    11] International Monetayr Fund said India is a bright spot in Asia and as it pegged India be one

    of the fasted growing emerging economies earlier. With higher political certainty improved

    business confidence, reduced external vulnerabilities and lower commodity prices, real GDP is

    forecast to rise to 7.2 per cent in FY 2014/15, accelerating to 7.5 per cent in 2015/16.

    12] In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron has returned to Downing Street with the

    Conservative party winning the general election and securing 325 seats. As Cameron retained

    power in UK's hotly-contested polls, he vowed to hold a referendum on the country's EU

    membership and quick devolution of powers to Scotland and Wales. The Conservative Party has

    reached the half way mark of 325 seats with Labour party securing 229 seats.

    13] The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari released a book entitled Unbelievable

    Delhi to Islamabad written by senior Advocate Prof. Bhim Singh.

    14] The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, released a commemorative coin to mark the birth

    centenary of Swami Chinmayananda.

    15] Government had constituted a Committee on Finance Sector Reforms (CFSR) headed by Dr.

    Raghuram Rajan which has submitted its report to the Government. The CFSR had also, iner-

    alia, made recommendation on the issue of provision of interest free finance on a larger scale,

    including through the banking system.

    16] The Government proposes to set up an autonomous Bank Board Bureau to improve the

    Governance of Public Sector Banks. The Bureau will search and select heads of Public Sector

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    Banks and help them in developing differentiated strategies and capital raising plans through

    innovative financial methods and instruments. This would be an interim step towards

    establishing a holding and investment Company for Banks.

    17] The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee during conferment of Honorary Doctorate

    from Russian Diplomatic Academy at Moscow in Russia on May 8, 2015.

    18] President Pranab Mukherjee attended 70th Victory Day (9 May) celebrations in Moscow,

    the Day commemorates the victory of allied forces over Nazis in the Second World War.

    19] Sardar Patel, the latest Naval establishment of Indian Navy, was commissioned at

    Porbandar, Gujarat by Smt. Anandiben Patel, the Honble Chief Minister of Gujarat today 09

    May 15.

    20] Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the Rs 16,000-crore revamped and modernised

    IISCO Steel plant at Burnpur to the nation.

    21] Actor-filmaker Shashi Kapoor received the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award. The

    award was presented to the actor by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley

    in Mumbai.

    22] National Technology Day - 11 May.

    23] Eminent banker K V Kamath has been appointed as head of the USD 50 billion New BRICS

    Development Bank being set up by the five emerging economies of BRICS grouping.

    24] The 119th constitutional amendment bill on India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement

    was passed in the Rajya Sabha.

    25] French President Francois Hollande has met Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on a

    historic trip to Havana. Hollande is the first French president to visit Cuba since 1898, and the

    first Western head of state on the island since its thaw with Washington.

    26] Industrial production grew at a five-month low of 2.1 percent in March even as both

    manufacturing activity and capital goods' offtake improved during the month.

    27] To cash in on growing online shopping trend, India Post Delhi circle has started its e-

    commerce centre.

    28] Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Wild Goose Pagoda and gifted Bodhi tree

    sapling. Chinese President Xi Jinping accompanied PM Modi. The Pagoda was established in the

    6th Century. The Pagoda marks Monk Xuan Zang's journey to India.

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    29] The Prime Minister presented President Xi Jinping replicas of a stone casket of Buddhist

    relics and a stone statue of Buddha that were excavated from a 3rd -4th century AD stupa at

    Dev-ni-Mori a site 80 kms east of Vadnagar, Gujarat in 1957.

    30] Governor Raghuram Rajan said RBI moots legislative changes to speed up financial sector

    reforms. He further reiterates that there is no differences with government on contours of

    Public Debt Management Agency. RBI governer Raghuram Rajan has said that the central bank

    plans to set up an IT wing to address the rising challenges from cyber world.

    31] The 6th National Conference on Nuclear Energy was organized by ASSOCHAM in New

    Delhi today. The theme of the conference was Nuclear Energy: a Clean Energy option.

    32] M.J. Joseph has been appointed as the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) in the

    Ministry of Finance. Prior to this appointment, Shri Joseph was the Director General of the

    Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). He succeeds Shri Jawahar Thakur who has been appointed as

    OSD (Accounting Reforms) in the Office of CGA.

    33] Indian and the Chinese firms have signed 26 agreements worth $22 billion investment in

    India.

    34] The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee in his message to the Post Graduate Institute

    of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi

    which is celebrating World Hypertension Day on the theme Know Your Blood Pressure on

    May 17, 2015.

    35] Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj. Several key

    issues to strengthen bilateral cooperation between both the countries were discussed during

    the meet. It's the first ever visit of an Indian Prime Minister to Mongolia.

    36] Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnessed the opening ceremony of Naadam Festival.

    Naadam which means games and is biggest event of the Mongolian year.

    37] Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy was sentenced Saturday by a Cairo court to

    death the latest judicial setback for the ousted leader. He was convicted in a 2011 prison break.

    Morsy's name, along with those of more than 100 other defendants, will be passed to the

    Grand Mufti, the highest legal authority in Egypt, who will have the final say on their sentence.

    The verdict will be confirmed June 2.

    38] Upgrading India and Mongolia's relationship from Comprehensive to "Strategic

    Partnership", Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a credit line of 1 billion US dollars to

    Mongolia to expand its economic capacity and infrastructure.

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    39] The Prime Minister presented President Park Geun-Hye two finely woven pashmina stoles

    on which a poem that Rabindranath Tagore had written specially for Korea is hand embroidered

    in English and Korean.

    40] India and South Korea today signed 7 agreements in the summit level talks.

    41] Prime Minister Narendra Modi met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Seoul and

    discussed key global issues with him.

    42] After 42 years in coma, KEM nurse Aruna Shanbaug dies - Shanbaug was raped by a

    hospital staff member in 1973 and was in coma ever since. The 68-year-old was critical and was

    on life support in the last few days. Her battle led to lanmark changes in legislation that now

    permit passive euthanasia. Four decades of suffering, four decades of existential struggle four

    decades of confined solitude that's the story of Aruna Shanbaug a woman who spent most part

    of her life ridden in a hospital bed. Aruna was a victim of a sexual assault at her workplace in

    1973.

    43] The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the Golden Jubilee Celebrations

    of Indias first historic climb of Mt. Everest in 1965 organized by The Indian Mountaineering

    Foundation today (May 20, 2015) at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

    44] In the Union Budget, 2015, an increase in the rate of Service Tax from 12% to 14% had been

    proposed from a date to be notified. The Finance Bill, 2015 has since been enacted and the

    Central Government has notified 1st June, 2015 as the date from which the rate of 14% would

    become applicable. The provisions levying Education Cess and Secondary and Higher Education

    Cess would also cease to have effect from same date i.e. 1st June, 2015, as the same would be

    subsumed in the service tax rate of 14%. Certain other changes have also been notified with

    effect from 1st June, 2015. However, the date of giving effect to the provisions relating to

    imposition of a Swachh Bharat cess on all or any taxable service will be done in due course.

    45] The Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully test landed a Mirage-2000 on the Yamuna

    Expressway near Mathura on Thursday as part of its trials to use national highways and civil

    airstrips for emergency landing by its fighter jets in future.

    46] Anti-Terrorism Day is being observed today. Every year it is observed throughout the

    country on 21st May.

    47] G Mohan Kumar appointed as new Defence Secretary.

    48] Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai has won Britains prestigious Man Booker

    International prize 2015 for his achievement in fiction as he edged out Indias Amitav Ghosh

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    and eight others to bag the top literary award. Chair of judges Marina Warner, an academic and

    writer, compared Krasznahorkais work to Franz Kafka Krasznahorkais own personal literary

    hero and Beckett.

    49] SBI and Amazon signed a Memorandum of Understanding, identifying areas of

    cooperation to build a digital India which meets the aspirations of the next generation of

    customers and small businesses. SBI and Amazon will develop trusted and frictionless

    payments and commerce solutions for customers and small businesses, capitalizing on the

    exponential growth in internet penetration to drive the adoption of e-commerce and m-

    commerce in India.

    50] SBI wins top honors at IAA Leadership Awards 2015

    Arundhati Bhattacharya wins CEO of the Year Award.

    B Sriram wins Marketer of the Year: Banking Award.

    Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, SBI was awarded the CEO of the Year award at the

    IAA Leadership Awards 2015.

    51] State Bank of India, countrys premier Bank and PayPal, the worlds leading open digital

    payments company, today entered into a strategic partnership to promote cross border trade

    and facilitate payments for SBI and PayPal users both in India and abroad. The partnership will

    enable SBI Debit cardholders to use PayPal when buying products from overseas websites and

    allow SBIs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) customers to gain access to PayPals

    secure payment solutions. We would also collaborate on providing innovative financial

    solutions to the merchants who are using PayPal services.

    52] AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa took oath as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu after 8 months

    following her acquittal in the disproportionate assets case by High Court. AIADMK supremo

    Jayalalithaa takes oath as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for the 5th time.

    53] Ashok Kumar Gupta (1981- batch Tamilnadu Cadre) who was special secretary in the

    Department of Defence Production today took over as the new Secretary, (Defence

    Production).

    55] Mumbai Indians clinched their second IPL title following a crushing 41-run win over Chennai

    Super Kings in a lop-sided summit clash.

    56] Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the country's only dedicated TV Channel for

    Farmers, from Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi

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    57] Lt General (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma was sworn-in as the Governor of Mizoram at the Durbar

    Hall of Raj Bhavan in Aizawl .

    58] The Committee on Direct Taxes matters headed by Justice A.P. Shah which was

    constituted on 20.05.2015, held its first meeting on 25.05.2015. In accordance with the terms

    of reference, the Committee has decided to examine the matter relating to MAT on FIIs for the

    period prior to 01.04.2015.

    59] Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is the flagship outcome-based skill training

    scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and has been approved by

    the Cabinet on 20th March 2015.

    60] The Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise: A Practitioner's

    Diary: Pradeep Baijal Former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman Pradip

    Baijals book The Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise: A

    Practitioner's Diary was in news in fourth week of May 2015.

    61] A bit over 18 years after the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was enforced in

    Tripura, the state government on Wednesday decided to withdraw the Act.

    62] Digital Locker 1,00,000 Mark in 100 Days

    Digital Locker is one of the key initiatives under the Digital India vision, which is aimed at

    eliminating the usage of physical documents. Digital Locker will allow various agencies to push

    the documents into the Digital Locker of citizens mapped to their Aadhaar Number. It also

    allows citizens to upload their own electronic documents with or without digitally signing them

    using the e-sign facility allowing them to store all such documents for posterity.

    63] FIFA President Sepp Blatter won a fifth term at the helm of soccers top governing body and

    moved to quickly reassert control over a group convulsed by a global criminal probe, deep

    internal divisions and unsettled corporate sponsors.

    64] The Prime Minister has approved the appointment of Shri Pradeep Kumar Sinha, IAS

    (UP:77), as the next Cabinet Secretary, with effect from June 13, 2015. He succeeds Shri Ajit

    Seth.

    65] Centre for United Nations Peacekeeping (CUNPK) celebrated the UN Peacekeeping Day on

    29 May 2015 at the Manekshaw Centre in Delhi Cantt. Lt Gen Philip Campose, the Vice Chief of

    Army Staff was the Chief Guest at the function.

    66] As part of Make in India, Finance Minister Arun Jaitely inaugurates Indigenous New Bank

    Note printing lines at Security Paper Mill in Hoshangabad. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today

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    inaugurated the New Bank Note Paper Line of 6,000 metric tonnes capacity at Security Paper

    Mill, Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh. The Bank Note Paper Line in Mysore with 12,000 Metric

    Tonnes capacity is expected to be commissioned by the year end. The government is expected

    to save foreign exchange worth 1,500 crore rupees by commissioning two new bank paper lines

    in Hoshangabad and Mysore for indigenously printing Indian currency The production of the

    Bank Note paper from these two units will reduce the import considerably. This will also reduce

    possibility of diversion of the paper supplied by the foreign suppliers to the other destinations

    for the purpose of generating the fake currency.

    67] State Bank of India, countrys premier Bank and PayPal, the worlds leading open digital

    payments company, today entered into a strategic partnership to promote cross border trade

    and facilitate payments for SBI and PayPal users both in India and abroad. The partnership will

    enable SBI Debit cardholders to use PayPal when buying products from overseas websites and

    allow SBIs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) customers to gain access to PayPals

    secure payment solutions. We would also collaborate on providing innovative financial

    solutions to the merchants who are using PayPal services.