CURRENT AFFAIRS 2ND MAY 2019

1. Lebanon’s capital Beirut has set a new Guinness

world record for the number of national flags
raised in a city for 24 hours
2. Alfred brown well an environment lawyer and
activist were awarded the gold man environmental
prize
3. Niramai the Bangalore based healthtech start up
nailed gold prize at the hack Osaka event japan
imprinting India’s technology at global level
4. CBSE announced new internal exams # the circular
has been sent to schools with proper guidelines
and will be implemented from board 2020
5. US is withdrawing from the United Nation Arms
Trade Treaty
6. All India football federation (AIFF) recommended
the names of Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and Jeje
Lalpekhlua for the prestigious Arjuna award 2019
7. A total of 3000kg of solid waste has been collected
from Mt Everest campaign launched by Nepal
8. India and French navies conduct Varuna 19.1
Bilateral Exercise Off Goa
9. JUSTICE Abhay Srinivas Oka appointed as the Chief
Justice of Karnataka High Court
10. Iraq has for the second year in a row become
India’s top crude oil supplier
11. India Rating and Research Projected Country’s
GDP growth of financial year 2019-20 is 7.3%
12. BUDDHIST largest stucco sculpture excavated
in Telangana
13. Paytm launches recurring payments service
for merchants
14. G. sathiyan becomes first Indian to break into
top-25 of table tennis world rankings
15. # Happy Foundation Day both the states of
Gujarat and Maharashtra were formed after the
Bombay reorganisation act 1960 was enacted by
parliament on 25 April 1960 and the act came into
effect on 1st May 1960
16. Airtel launches music video application Wynk
Tube