Current Affairs - May 2021

Current Affairs for May 2021

  1. May Day 2021
  2. Lag B’Omer
  3. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
  4. Special 301 Report
  5. Allied Democratic Forces
  6. P-8I patrol aircraft
  7. M440K variant
  8. Dadasaheb Phalke
  9. Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)
  10. Operation Samudra Setu II
  11. Rushikulya river
  12. Mukhya Mantri Chiranjeevi Swasthya Bima Yojana
  13. Brachycephalus rotenbergae
  14. Xylophis deepaki
  15. State Disaster Response Fund
  16. Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojna
  17. Crimson Solar Project
  18. Ebola
  19. Oktoberfest
  20. Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
  21. Mayflower 400
  22. Cicadas
  23. Sheikh Zayed Book Award
  24. Colosseum
  25. White-bellied heron
  26. World Press Freedom Day
  27. IPC’s Section 124A
  28. Etelis boweni
  29. Bryocrumia malabarica
  30. Pizzly bears
  31. Asiatic Lions
  32. SVAMITVA
  33. VINCOV-19
  34. Yamatosaurus izanagii
  35. US Climate Normals
  36. India-UK Enhanced Trade Partnership
  37. International Fire Fighters Day
  38. Coal Miners Day
  39. World Asthma Day
  40. Hoolock gibbon
  41. White-toothed shrew
  42. INS Shardul
  43. Migration and mobility partnership
  44. Arouca 516
  45. Sauropod
  46. National Food Security Act
  47. Long March 5
  48. BVLOS operations
  49. RERA, 2016
  50. India-UK Global Innovation Partnership
  51. Social Security Code
  52. DDoS attack
  53. SEBC Act, 2018
  54. Osteocytes
  55. PESCO
  56. World Hand Hygiene Day
  57. Cinco de Mayo
  58. Asian American, Pacific Islander heritage month
  59. Strategic Disinvestment
  60. Channel Islands
  61. West Bengal Housing Industry Regulation Act, 2017
  62. Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grants
  63. Giant wood moth
  64. UDID project
  65. Al-Badr
  66. Global Report on Food Crisis
  67. Global Network Against Food Crises
  68. Lord’s Resistance Army
  69. TaxiBot
  70. 102nd Constitutional Amendment Act
  71. Strumigenys ayersthey
  72. Cassini Mission
  73. Cloudburst
  74. Sputnik Light
  75. World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
  76. Aedes aegypti
  77. Kabasura Kudineer
  78. e-Sanjeevani OPD
  79. Foam path
  80. Atman AI
  81. HrC test
  82. Defender-Europe 21 Exercise
  83. Neev Fund II
  84. Fiscal deficit
  85. Lumpy skin disease
  86. Glyphosate
  87. World Athletics Day
  88. Mtoto
  89. Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti
  90. Ampelorhiza heteroxylon
  91. US Fifth Fleet
  92. Twaite shad
  93. Sahonachelys mailakavava
  94. Mindoro Fanged Frog
  95. Shuvuuia deserti
  96. Maharana Pratap
  97. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  98. Mucormycosis
  99. INS Vikramaditya
  100. Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine
  101. MPLAD
  102. Dahla Dam
  103. Ransomware
  104. 2-DG drug
  105. Goliath frog
  106. Canary trap
  107. Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission
  108. Osiris-REx
  109. Broadbalk experiment
  110. International Nurses Day
  111. Yazidis
  112. Bucharest Nine
  113. Doge-1 satellite
  114. Dogecoin
  115. Al-Aqsa Mosque
  116. National Technology Day
  117. Pavlovian conditioning
  118. Swaraj Island
  119. Five Deeps Expedition
  120. World Economic Situation and Prospects Report
  121. Iron Dome
  122. PM Kisan Samman Nidhi
  123. Article 311
  124. Ivermectin
  125. Hamas
  126. HPIV
  127. Pacific football fish
  128. Vineyard Wind Project
  129. Axiom Mission 1
  130. UK’s Action Plan for Animal Welfare
  131. Maharashtra Mission Oxygen
  132. James Webb Space Telescope
  133. Rapid Antigen Test
  134. Indian Pitta
  135. PLI scheme for National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell Battery Storage
  136. Voyager 1
  137. Nok Culture
  138. Heartbeat Bill
  139. Punjab Prison Rules, 2021
  140. Desulfovibrio diazotrophicus
  141. Chhattisgarh Mahtari Dular scheme
  142. Platyceps josephi
  143. Tranquility module
  144. PFAS
  145. SWAMIH Fund
  146. 2020 International Religious Freedom Report
  147. Mount Pumori
  148. YSR Rythu Bharosa scheme
  149. Migration and Development Brief
  150. DSR Technique
  151. Gaza Strip
  152. Zhurong rover
  153. Utopia Planitia
  154. Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
  155. Tlatolophus galorum
  156. Quad Plus
  157. Defence National OPD
  158. Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy, 2020
  159. KALIA scheme
  160. Red-eared slider
  161. Ostrea edulis
  162. Kumtor mine
  163. Rural Infrastructure Development Fund
  164. Spain’s Climate Change and Energy Transition Act
  165. Remount Veterinary Corps
  166. N-0385
  167. Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
  168. DICGC
  169. CAWACH initiative
  170. Simorgh supercomputer
  171. World Hypertension Day
  172. Grotta Guattari
  173. Sunflower sea star
  174. Common crane
  175. Winchcombe meteorite
  176. Cyclone Tauktae
  177. Anthocerotibacter panamensis
  178. Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services
  179. Breakthrough infection
  180. eSaksham
  181. Farzad-B gas field
  182. Dongria Kondh
  183. Bonda tribe
  184. Snow leopard
  185. Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978
  186. International Day for Biological Diversity
  187. Jal Jeevan Mission
  188. HIT Covid App
  189. Electronic Gold Receipt
  190. Queen’s Green Canopy
  191. Vande Tripura
  192. Global Health Summit
  193. Coelacanth
  194. Sudano-Sahelian Zone
  195. Safe Climatic Space
  196. World Economic Forum
  197. Jagrut Tripura
  198. Neuroblastoma
  199. Ceuta
  200. Western Area Peninsula National Park
  201. Darwin Island
  202. Abu Sayyaf
  203. Emissions Trading System
  204. Securities Appellate Tribunal
  205. Wholesale Price Index
  206. Test Positivity Rate
  207. World AIDS Vaccine Day
  208. Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
  209. Hadal snailfish
  210. Anti-Terrorism Day
  211. National Gallery of Modern Art
  212. International Museum Day
  213. Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana
  214. FakeBuster
  215. 2020 Millennium Technology Prize
  216. Solexa-Illumina Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS)
  217. World Sparrow Day
  218. Open Skies Treaty
  219. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
  220. FCRA
  221. Amphotericin-B
  222. Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Jan Aarogya Yojana
  223. Oxygen recycling system
  224. ClearSpace-1
  225. Arctic Council
  226. Epidemics Diseases Act, 1897
  227. Allen Coral Atlas Monitoring System
  228. POFMA
  229. Stabiae
  230. HY-2D
  231. E-Way Bill
  232. Larsen C
  233. SiRNA
  234. Community Reinvestment Act
  235. Andhra Pradesh Industrial Gases and Medical Oxygen Manufacturing Policy 2021-22
  236. Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Bill
  237. World IBD Day
  238. Massospora cicadina
  239. YSR Matsyakara Bharosa Scheme
  240. INS Rajput
  241. Kyasanur forest disease
  242. SBIRS
  243. Rhisotope Project
  244. Clyde’s Spot
  245. Juno Spacecraft
  246. World Bee Day
  247. National Beekeeping and Honey Mission
  248. Competition Commission of India
  249. National Sports Awards
  250. Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
  251. DIPCOVAN
  252. Vax and Scratch program
  253. ECMO
  254. Sovereign Gold Bonds
  255. Corpse flower
  256. Mylab Coviself
  257. Di-ammonium phosphate
  258. Zebrafish
  259. Japan Trench
  260. CoronaCentral
  261. Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover
  262. Neutron-Gamma Emission Tomography system
  263. ExoMars
  264. Templeton Prize
  265. Guadeloupe Islands
  266. International Tea Day
  267. NIDHI4COVID2.0
  268. Global Pandemic Radar
  269. White fungus
  270. Why are Vaccine manufacturers declining vaccine requests by Indian states?
  271. According to the recent RBI study, why will inflation target below 6% might hurt growth?
  272. What has been agreed upon under the new 3 year agricultural cooperation program signed by India-Israel?
  273. New targets set by WHO to vaccinate the poorest countries of the world
  274. Shahi Litchi from Bihar exported to UK
  275. Study suggests Sniffer dogs are 88% accurate in detecting Covid
  276. National Green Tribunal sets up panel on Mekedatu dam construction
  277. Optogenetic Therapy
  278. United Kingdom initiate process to discuss free trade talks with India
  279. National biomass mission to be set up by the power ministry
  280. African Violet Plant discovered in Mizoram
  281. Guillermo Lasso: First right-wing president of Ecuador in the last 14 years
  282. State Bank of India’s Ecowrap report
  283. India among top requesters of Facebook’s user data
  284. New Earth System Observatory of NASA
  285. Protected Planet Report 2020
  286. One Health panel to advise on Animal Disease Risk set up
  287. One-Stop Centres to be set up by WCD
  288. New IT rules come into force
  289. New CBI Director appointed
  290. Forensic Auditors for listed companies to be Appointed by SEBI
  291. IMF warns about Ricochet Impact
  292. PM Modi addresses Virtual Vesak Global Celebrations
  293. Tasmanian Devils born in Australia after 3000 years
  294. Environmental DNA (eDNA) Analysis
  295. Smart Window Material Developed by IIT Guwahati
  296. Pest Management based on AI
  297. UN warns Tigray at risk of famine
  298. Nomadic tribe of Uttarakhand: Van Gujjars
  299. Lakshadweep Prevention of Anti-Social Activity (PASA) Act
  300. Sacrificial Pit found in Chinese City
  301. Rise in the number of smokers in India
  302. Recovery of Damages to Property Act: Haryana
  303. Ayush Clinical Case Repository Portal (ACCR) to be launched
  304. Veteran Children’s author Eric Carle passes away
  305. Guardian Ministers Scheme: Assam
  306. Smart Kitchen Scheme of Kerala
  307. Citizenship by Investment Programme
  308. Sixty Broadband Starlink satellites launched by SpaceX
  309. Annual Report of RBI-2021
  310. SeHAT OPD Portal Launched
  311. Highlights of Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update
  312. MIT’s Smart Clothes
  313. Panel set up to examine Valuation of Services by Online Gaming Companies
  314. New NHAI Guidelines to reduce waiting time in Toll Centres
  315. Unified Health Interface
  316. Syria: Bashar Al-Assad Re-Elected as President
  317. IIT Mandi reveals key Covid-19 virus protein structure
  318. COVID-19 Management: Dharavi Model
  319. DNA vaccines effective in Hamsters: COVID-19
  320. May 28: World Menstrual Hygiene Day
  321. Mid-Day Meal Scheme:DBT approved
  322. Hong Kong Woman mountaineer records world’s fastest ascent of Mt. Everest
  323. International Eni Award: Prof. C.N.R Rao wins the award
  324. Public Sector Companies receive Govt support for vaccine production
  325. Calls on Probe into Covid Origin supported by India
  326. Mobile App Launched: NCC
  327. Citizenship Application invited by the Government
  328. Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) renamed
  329. Steadfast Defender 21
  330. Vaccine Partnership discussed between India and USA
  331. Second BRICS Sherpas’ Meeting
  332. Central Allocation of Remdesivir to be discontinued by the Central Govt.
  333. YUVA Scheme
  334. Aspergillosis
  335. ECLGS 4.0
  336. Launch of Four New National Helpline Numbers
  337. Three Astronauts to be sent to new space station by China
  338. Social Security Relief for Dependants: Labour Ministry
  339. May 31: World No Tobacco Day
  340. Mali suspended by ECOWAS
  341. SC questions Govt’s Digital Divide: Covid-19
  342. World’s First Nano Urea to be launched by IFFCO
  343. Mixed Vaccine testing in India
  344. Superworms
  345. Maternal and Child Survival Rates: China
  346. Colourful clouds spotted on Mars by Curiosity Rover: NASA
  347. AmbiTag