1.Stephen Hawking space flight next year
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking(71) said his aim is to go
join British tycoon Richard Branson on a space flight in 2014
2.Earthquake in North India
On 1 May 2013, an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale shook
Jammu & Kashmir and many other parts of north India, including the national
capital.
3.US, India and Japan hold trilateral cooperation talks
On May 2 ,India, the United States and Japan held their fourth trilateral
dialogue at the State Department in Washington, exchanging views on a wide
range of regional and global issues of mutual interest.
4. .Mobile subscribers largest in Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
6.Japan – UAE signed Nuclear Agreement
7.Meghalaya Woman Scientist Jenita Mary Gets ISRO Award
9.Amazonian Countries Signed Strengthen Regional Cooperation
Agreement(Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam and
Ecuador)
10.Aamir Atlas Khan won the Asian Squash individual championship
11.Vamsi Vakulabharanam Won Prestigious Amartya Sen Award,This award
newly instituted this year by the Indian Council for Social Sciences Research
(ICSSR).
13.Finland Top Ranked in World To Be a Mother
14.Congress Won in Karnataka Assembly Elections
17.On 10 May Union Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Union Law
Minister of India Ashwani Kumar resigned from their posts.
18.Kapil Sibal gets additional charge of Law & C.P. Joshi gets
Railway
20.Fernando Alonso of Spain won the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona
21.Prime Minister of China, Li Keqiang to visit India from May 19-21
22.The famous Bollywood photographer Jagadis Mali died
24.‘Einstein’s Planet’ Discovered With Help Of General Relativity Theory
25.Scientists used a Einstein’s special theory of relativity
to discover new planet ouside of our solar sysem.
26.UN General Assembly Approved Syria Resolution
28.In France now onwords allow same-sex couples to marry
29.Bill Gates is the Richest Person in the world
30.Indian Police Unit in Congo Gets UN medal
31.5.9 earthquake strikes Japan off Fukushima coast
32.45th Indian Labour Conference Held in New Delhi
33. The IAF’s
premier Academy located at Dundigal, Hyderabad on 31 May 2013 inducted basic
trainer aircraft Pilatus PC 7 MKII from Pilatus, Switzerland.
34. India,Thailand
signed Extradition Treaty nearly after Two Decades of Negotiations
35. Integrated Action
Plan (IAP), a specially conceived development programme for the worst
Naxal-affected districts
36. UNESCO declared
Nicobar Islands as World Biosphere Reserve:- Biosphere reserves are sites established by
countries and recognized under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme
to promote sustainable development based on local community efforts and sound
science. nine of them are now located in India.
37. PM Manmohan Singh
re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam for the Fifth Time
38. Peter Higgs,
Francois Englert received Award for God Particle Discovery
Physicist Peter Higgs and
Francois Englert won the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award
39. Rituparno Ghosh,
National Award Winning Filmmaker died at the age of 49
Ghosh came into limelight
by his direction of a children's film Hirer Angti in year 1994. His film Unishe April won national award
winner in 1995.Some of his famous films include Dahan, Asukh, Chokher Bali, Raincoat, Bariwali, Antarmahal and
Noukadubi.He had won the Best Director National Award for Abohomanin
year 2012. His directional debut was Hirer Angti (The diamond ring).
40.MP Government
announced Special Relief Package for Omkareshwar Project
The Omkareshwar
Multipurpose Project is proposed across river Narmada
41.India, USA and
Australia joined Hands to develop Climate-resilient Crops
42.BCCI constituted 3-Man
Probe Panel to probe IPL Betting
The committee consisting
of Former Judge of the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu High Courts Justice T. Jayaram
Chouta, Former Judge of the Tamil Nadu High Court Justice R Balasubramanian,
and Secretary of BCCI Sanjay Jagdale.
43.V. Narayanasamy
inaugurated ISRO Navigation Centre (INC) at Byalalu, about 40 km from Bangalore
44.Indian Telecom
Sector Became the Second Largest Telephone Network in the World
45.Union Defence
Minister AK Antony dedicated New Air Force Station at Thanjavur to Nation
46.World Hunger Day was observed on 28
May 2013
47.Chile and Argentina
Issued Red Alert in Wake of Copahue Volcano Eruption
48.66th Cannes Film
Festival: Blue is the Warmest Colour won Prestigious Palme d'Or award
49.Australia ranked as
the World's Happiest Developed Nation
50.President of
Afghanistan Hamid Karzai was on two days Visit to India from 20-22 May 2013
51.European Union
lifted Arms Embargo on Syrian Rebels
52.Valuemart Gold and
Jewels Launched Gold Coins with Sachin Tendulkar’s Face and Signature
53.Congress Party Convoy
Attacked by Maoists at Dharba Valley in Chhattisgarh
Among the injured was
former central Minister and senior Congress leader V.C. Shukla. The Maoists
triggered the blasts with heavy Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on the road.
The Maoists abducted Chhattisgarh Congress president Nand Kumar Patel along
with his son. During the firing, Mahendra Karma, the Senior Congress leader and
former leader of opposition as well as the former legislator Uday Mudaliar were
killed.
54.Mumbai Indians
Defeated Chennai Super Kings in Final to Lift its First IPL Trophy
55.Vyas Samman for 2011
and 2012 were conferred to Prof. Ramdarash Mishra and Dr Narendra Kohli for
their works Aam ke Patte and Na Bhooto Na Bhavishyati.
56.Dan Brown’s book
Inferno irked Authorities of Manila
57.Indian National
Defence University to be Established at Binola, Gurgaon
58.Union Cabinet of
India Approved to Classify Malayalam as the Classical Language
59.A New Variety of
Mango was named Nirbhaya after Delhi Rape Victim
60.Yuichiro Miura, Japanese
Mountaineer Became Oldest Man to Climb Mount Everest
61.Mangalore
University and BARC Signed MoU for Collaborative Research on Radioactivity
62.Pratibha Ray Conferred
With the 47th Jnanpith Award for the Year 2011.Pratibha Ray was born in Alabol,
a village in Jagatsingpur district of Odisha.
63.Preeti Beniwal won
gold in 2013 Senior National Women's Boxing Championship
64.American Writer Lydia
Davis won 2013 Man Booker International Prize. The Man Booker International
Prize recognises one writer for his or her achievement in fiction
65.The Chief Minister of Kerala, Oommen Chandy won
United Nation's Public Service Award for his Mass Contact Programme
66. Election Commission of India and National
Literacy Mission signed an MoU on Electoral Literacy
67.Scientists
discovered that Vitamin C kills Tuberculosis (TB)
68.The Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai (15) was
selected for UNA-USA's Global Leadership Award called Champion for Global
Change Award for 2013.
69.Shashi Kant Sharma
Appointed as the New Comptroller & Auditor General of India
70.Arunima Sinha
became the First Indian Amputee to Scale Mt Everest
71.2014 Declared As
the Friendship Year to Promote Understanding between India and China
72.Nunshi and Tashi Malik, two Indians from
Dehrahdun became first twins to scale Mount Everest
73.45th Session of the
Indian Labour Conference Concluded in New Delhi
74.France became the
14th Country in the World to legalise Gay Marriage
75.ISRO has planned to launch GSLV D5 from Sriharikota
in July 2013 to place communication satellite GSAT-14 in orbit.
76.Union Cabinet Gave its
Nod for Establishment of the Gandhi Heritage Sites Mission
77.Lausanne Talks
succeeded to devise Roadmap to bring India Back to Olympic Fold
78. Rajasthan Royals cricketers Shreesanth, Ajit
Chadila and Ankeet Chavan arrested for their alleged involvement in spot fixing
in the 6th edition of the IPL.
79.The Cyclonic Storm
MAHASEN formed over Bay of Bengal
80.Siddaramaiah
sworn-in as the 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka
81.National Technology
Day was Observed on 11 May 2013
82. Year 2013 as Water Conservation Year 2013 was
approved by the Union Cabinet of India
83.Dadasaheb Phalke
Award for Lifetime Achievement to Veteran Actor Pran
84.Alex Ferguson announced
retirement as Manchester United Manager
85.Brazil's Roberto
Azevedo appointed Head of World Trade Organization
86.Sanaullah Ranjay,
the Pakistani Prisoner died at PGI Chandigarh.
87.Lok Sabha Speaker
unveiled Statue of N T Rama Rao in Parliament
88.Sex-Superbug named
H041 can be more dangerous than AIDS virus because of its aggressive nature. It
was first reported in Japan in 2011.
89.Uttar Pradesh
accounted for Largest Number of Mobile Subscribers in India
90.The Supreme Court of
India directed that the Kudankulam nuclear plant situated in Tamil Nadu could
start its operations now.
91.India and China pulled
back their troops from the stand off point at Daulat Beg Oldi sector in
Ladakh
92.Environment
Ministry of India Decided to Put a Ban on the Trade of Peacock Feathers
93.India's rising
shuttler PV Sindhu on won her maiden Grand Prix Gold title Malaysia
Open women's final.
94.A young Indian
biologist, Dr. Aparajita Datta was honoured with the Whitley award, also known
as Green Oscar, in London on 2 May 2013.
95.On 3 May 2013, Indian
cinema completed exactly 100 years with the release of two films- Bombay
Talkies and Shootout at Wadala.
96.Sarabjit Singh, the
Indian national and a death row prisoner in the Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail died
on 2 May 2013 at the Lahore's Jinnah hospital.
97.World Press Freedom
Day is celebrated across the world on 3 May 2013. The theme for World Press
Freedom Day 2013 is Safe to Speak.
98.Haryana won the
Third Hockey India Senior Women National Championship
99. Abdul Hamid was
sworn in as Bangladesh President to replace Zillur Rahman
100.Vice President of India
Released a Book Titled an Ardent Patriot – Dinesh Goswami
101.President of India
Inaugurated the 14 Mega Watt Solar Power Project at Deoghar
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