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May31st Current Affairs

1)Andhra Pradesh State gets its state symbols. Neem is declared as the state tree,Black Buck as state animal,Parakeet as State Bird,Jasmine as state flower.
2)ePDS(electronic Public Distribution System) app was launched by Himachal Pradesh Food,Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department for ration card holders.
3)Under PMAY(U) Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) 1.5 lakh new houses was sanctioned in 34th meeting of the central sanctioning and Monitoring Committee for Various states.
4)India has been placed at 113th position in the list of 175 countries in “End of Childhood Index 2018” indexed by global child rights group, Save the Children.
5)During Business,Innovation and community event Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched 3 Indian Mobile Payments apps namely Rupay Card,BHIM app and UPI(Unified Payment Interface) in Singapore.
6)Paree Pain Katha Tiye( A word for the little Angel) campaign was launched by Odisha State Police and UNICEF to create awareness about importance and role of every member of society in preventing child sexual abuse.
7)International Bank of Reconstruction and Development(IBRD) an arm of World Bank signed a loan agreement of USD 500million with the Indian government for PMGSY rural roads project.
8)First biannual IAF commanders conference of 2018 was inagurated by Nirmala Sitaraman at Air Headquarters New Delhi.
9)ADB(Asian Development Bank) approved $375 millions for a project to improve irrigation in Madhya Pradesh and to increase farmers income.
10)Mahindra and Mahindra signed an MoU with Maharastra government to improve its next phase of expansion of Electric Vehicles(EV's) and to become completely electric ready.
11)YES bank signed an MoU with SIDBI(Small Industries Development bank of India) to extend banking facilities to small and medium enterprises customers of SIDBI.The MoU is a formal agreement between YES BANK and SIDBI to channelize various banking solutions to SMEs by extending YES BANK’s banking solutions to these SMEs.
12)Amit Khare IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre has been appointed as the Secretary of Information and Broadcasting.
13)Baba Ramdev's Patanjali has introduced a messaging platform named Kimbho as a direct challenge to the popular messaging app Whats app.
14)At 14th Visa Asia Pacific Security Summit , HDFC Bank has been recognised with the Champion Security Award.
15)Kendrick Lamar recently made history by becoming the first hip-hop artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music for his acclaimed 2017 album DAMN during a ceremony at Columbia University in New York City.
16)Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi was honoured with ‘Santokba Humanitarian Award’ 2018 in Surat by President Ram Nath Kovind for his services aimed at the betterment of society.




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