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31stMay 2022
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Q1. Who is the current Secretary General of the Lok Sabha
➢ SHRI UTPAL KUMAR SINGH
➢ 17th Lok Sabha Speaker: Om Birla, BJP
➢ First Lok Sabha was constituted on 17 April 1952 after India's first general
election.
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Q.2 Who is the current Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha
➢ PC Mody, former chairman of the CBDT, will be the new secretary general of Rajya
Sabha.
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Q.4 Who is the current Chairperson and Managing Director of the Export-Import
Bank
➢ Exim Bank (India), a finance institution in India, established in 1982 under Export-
Import Bank of India Act 1981
➢ Harsha Bhupendra Bangari becomes new MD of EXIM Bank
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Q.2 Who is the current Chairperson of the National Bank for Agriculture and
Rural Development
Today’s News
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➢ FIEO launches B2B digital marketplace for exporters, MSMEs and farmers
➢ FIEO ने ननर्यातकों, MSMEs और ककसयनों के लिए B2B डिजिटि मयकेटप्िेस िॉन्च ककर्य
▪ The Federation of Indian Export Organizations has launched an online marketplace for
Indian exporters and foreign buyers.
▪ Indian business portal acts as B2B and helps micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME)
exporters, artisans and farmers to identify new markets for their products for sales.
▪ The marketplace has been designed and developed in partnership with Global Linker.
▪ It provides a business networking platform for SMEs and start-ups.
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▪ The portal will digitize Indian exporters and help them become discoverable online,
promote exports from all Indian states, and showcase a wider range of products and
services.
▪ Till date, more than 2,000 small businesses have joined it.
▪ It contains listing over 40,000 products and services.
▪ FIEO will promote the marketplace worldwide.
Appointments
▪ The Karnataka government appointed senior IAS officer Vandita Sharma as the state’s
new chief secretary.
▪ Sharma is a 1986-batch IAS officer and holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a
post-graduate degree in English.
▪ Currently, working additionally as chief secretary and development commissioner.
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National News
▪ The 17th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short Fiction and
Animation films began in Mumbai.
▪ The festival was inaugurated by Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal.
▪ The opening ceremony held at the weeklong biennial film festival at the Nehru Centre.
▪ MIFF 2022 has received 808 film entries from 30 countries with the great response.
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National News
▪ Out of 808 films, 102 will be screened under the Competition Category, 35 in international
competition, 67 in the national competition and 18 Films will be screened under ‘MIFF
Prism Category’.
▪ 11 movies from Bangladesh will be telecast at the festival.
▪ The Best Film of the Festival will receive the Golden Conch award, along with a cash prize
of Rs 10 lakhs.
▪ Other awards carry cash prize from five to one lakh along with Silver Conch, trophy and
certificate.
About MIFF:
• MIFF is the oldest and biggest film festival in South Asia.
• It was started in 1990, and focuses on documentary, short fiction and animation films.
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National News
▪ India has achieved the milestone of 50 per cent of rural households (nine crore fifty lakh)
having access to tap water connections.
▪ States like Telangana, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman
and Diu, Puducherry and Haryana have already achieved 100 per cent household water
connections.
▪ Punjab, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Bihar have covered more than 90 per cent of the
households and moving towards attaining the status of ‘Har Ghar Jal’.
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National News
▪ The Jal Jeevan Mission aims to empower Panchayati Raj Institutions and communities by
engaging them in water supply schemes.
▪ Till May 2022, all households in 108 districts, 1,222 blocks, 71,667-gram panchayats and
1,51,171 villages have been provided with drinking water through taps.
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National News
▪ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the 11th instalment of Rs 21,000 crore under
the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme to more than 10 crore
farmers on May 31 in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
▪ The fund is transferred directly to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries.
▪ Under the PM-KISAN, financial benefit of Rs 6,000 per year is provided to the eligible
farmer families, payable in three equal instalments of Rs 2,000.
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National News
▪ The national event is being organised under the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
▪ 10th instalment was also released on January 1st, 2022 to more than 10 crore beneficiary
farmer families of over Rs. 20,000 crores.
▪ On 24 February 2019, Narendra Modi launched the scheme in Uttar
Pradesh's Gorakhpur by transferring the first instalment of ₹2,000 each to over one crore
farmers
National News
▪ Adani Hybrid Energy Jaisalmer One Limited has commissioned a 390 MW wind-solar
hybrid power plant at Jaisalmer.
▪ It is India’s first wind and solar hybrid power generation plant.
▪ This is a hybrid power plant which is integrated through solar and wind power generation
armor the full potential of renewable energy by resolving the intermittency of the
generation and rise power demand
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National News
▪ The new plant has a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Solar Energy Corporation
of India (SECI) with tariff at Rs. 2.69 per kWh.
▪ This project is a part of the first construction facility by international banks in Adani
Green with the capacity of 5.8 GW.
▪ The target of total renewable portfolio is 45 GW till 2030.
National News
▪ Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Anurag Thakur inaugurated the
Takshashila Sports Complex built by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) at Viman
Nagar in Pune.
▪ The main purpose is to fund sports facilities through their CSR (Corporate Social
Responsibility) funds and for the importance of creating sports infrastructure at
grassroot level.
▪ The budget for the sports has been increased to Rs. 3,000 crores from Rs. 1,200 crores.
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National News
▪ Under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS), GOI took full responsibility for foreign
training of elite athletes with a monthly stipend of Rs. 50,000/- for each athlete.
➢ About Russia:
• President: Vladimir Putin
• Capital: Moscow
• Currency: Russian ruble
• Prime minister: Mikhail Mishustin
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▪ The INS Gomati was decommissioned from the naval dockyard in Mumbai.
▪ The ship was discharged under the command of Captain Sudip Malik.
▪ INS Gomati derives her name from the vibrant river Gomti and was commissioned on
16 April 1988 by then defence minister, KC Pant, at Mazagon Dock Limited (Mumbai).
▪ The third ship of the Godavari class guided-missile frigates.
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▪ INS Gomati was also the oldest warrior of the western fleet when decommissioned.
▪ IMS Gomati was twice awarded the coveted Unit Citation, in 2007-08 and again in 2019-20,
for remarkable spirit and stellar contribution to national maritime security.
➢ Shaunak Sen’s documentary ‘All That Breathes’ wins L’OEil d’Or award at Cannes
➢ शौनक सेन की िॉक्र्ूमेंट्री 'ऑि िै ट िीथ्स' ने कयन्स में ि'ओइि िी'ओर पुरस्कयर िीतय
▪ Filmmaker Shaunak Sen’s documentary ‘All That Breathes’ honoured with the 2022 L’OEil
d’Or award at 75th Cannes Film Festival.
▪ It is a 90-minute-long film was chosen the winner by the jury, comprising Polish
filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, Ukrainian writer-director Iryna Tsilyk, French actor Pierre
Deladonchamps, journalist Alex Vicente, and Moroccan writer-filmmaker Hicham Falah.
▪ The Film has also won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier.
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History:
➢ In 2021, filmmaker Payal Kapadia had won the award for her documentary ‘A Night of
Knowing Nothing’.
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Other awards:
• Jury Special Award: Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius for final film Mariupolis 2
• Jury Prize: “Eo” and “Le Otto Montagne”
• Palme d’Or: “Triangle of Sadness” by Ruben Östlund
• Grand Prix: “Close” by Lukas Dhont and “Stars at Noon” by Claire Denis
• Special Prize for Cannes’ 75th anniversary: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes, “Tori and
Lokita”
• Best Actress: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, “Holy Spider”
• Best Actor: Song Kang Ho, “Broker”
• Best Director: Park Chan-wook, “Decision to Leave”
• Best Screenplay: “Boy from Heaven”
• Camera d’Or: “War Pony,” directed by Gina Gammell and Riley Keough
• Short Film Palme d’Or: “The Water Murmurs”
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Sports
Sports
▪ The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 has been recently won by Gujarat Titans by
defeating Rajasthan Royals at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad.
▪ This was the 15th edition of the professional Twenty20 cricket league.
▪ This was established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
▪ Gujarat Titans scored 133/3 in 18.1 over whereas Rajasthan Royals scored 130/9 in 20
overs.
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Sports
➢ List of winners:
▪ IPL 2022 champions – Gujarat Titans
▪ Emerging player of the season – Umran Malik
▪ Super Striker of the season – Dinesh Karthik (strike rate of 183.33)
▪ Game changer of the season – Jos Buttler
▪ Perfect Catch of the Season – Evin Lewis (catch that ended the Kolkata Knight Riders’
campaign)
▪ Purple cap – Yuzvendra Chahal (27 wickets, which is the most by a spinner)
▪ Orange cap – Jos Buttler (863 runs)
▪ Most Valuable Player – Jos Buttler
▪ Super Striker of the Season – Jos Buttler
▪ Fairplay award – Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals
About BCCI:
• President: Sourav Ganguly
• Headquarters: Mumbai
• Founded: December 1928
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National News
▪ To improve the ease of living for the common man, the government is planning to launch
'Jan Samarth' -- a common portal for delivery of various schemes run by different
ministries and departments.
▪ As part of the Narendra Modi government's vision of minimum government maximum
governance, the new portal plans to initially onboard 15 credit-linked government
schemes, sources said.
▪ Pilot testing is being done and loose ends are being tied up before the actual launch takes
place, they said, adding State Bank of India (SBI) and other lenders are doing the testing.
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➢ PM Modi inaugurated world’s 1st Nano Urea Liquid Plant in Gandhinagar, Gujarat
➢ पीएम मोिी ने गि
ु रयत के गयंधीनगर में िनु नर्य के पहिे नैनो र्रू रर्य लिजक्वि प्ियंट कय उद्घयटन ककर्य
▪ PM Narendra Modi has inaugurated World’s first Nano Urea Liquid Plant constructed by
Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO) at Kalol, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
▪ Prime Minister dedicated the Ultramodern Nano Urea Liquid Fertilizer plant to the Nation
at a ceremony held at Gandhinagar.
▪ Nano Urea Liquid Plant has been built at the cost of around Rs 175 crore to boost
productivity and increase farmers income.
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Gujarat
▪ World Bank has approved USD 350 million as financial aid for the Systems Reform
Endeavors for Transformed Health Achievement in Gujarat (SRESTHA-G) project.
▪ Maharashtra and Gujarat celebrated their statehood day on 1st May 2022.
▪ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone and inaugurated the various
projects worth 22,000 crore rupees at a function organized at Dahod in Gujarat.
▪ The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has unveiled a 108 ft statue of Lord Hanuman
ji in Morbi, Gujarat.
Gujarat
▪ World Bank and AIIB stated that the Gujarat government's Mission School of Excellence
project, aimed to improve education quality in the state, will receive a loan of Rs 7,500
crore.
▪ Surat, Gujarat, features a road created entirely of steel waste, which is one of the best
instances of sustainable development.
▪ Gujarat topped Niti Aayog's Export Preparedness Index 2021, followed by Maharashtra
and Karnataka in second and third place, respectively.
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Important Days
Important Days
▪ UN Peacekeeping operations observe the day to strengthen bonds with the local
populations that have been deployed to serve.
▪ Theme 2022: “People Peace Progress: The Power of Partnerships”.
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Important Days
▪ International Day of Action for Women’s Health is celebrated every year on 28th May.
▪ This day is also known as International Women’s Health Day.
▪ This day is celebrated by women and health groups across the world.
▪ This day aims to draw attention towards the issues related to women’s health and to
generate awareness about the rights of women. The day was first observed in 1987
▪ Theme 2022: ‘Resist and Persist’
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