CURRENT AFFAIRS 22 ND MAY 2019

1. The kilogram will be redefined by a fundamental

property of nature known as Planck’s constant
2. Facebook has built new maps that can help its
health partners better understand where people
live how they are moving and whether they have
connectivity
3. Noida to become Zero-Discharge City will treat
waste water and supply it to homes
4. Every year May 21 is observed as Anti-Terrorism
day in India
# The day is observed in the memory of former
Indian PM Mr. Rajiv Gandhi who passed away on
this day
5. PCT Humanity a charity run by an Indian in the
UAE has entered the Guinness book of World
Records
6. A three-member team led by Ashish Kumar will
represent India at the second world challenge cup
series gymnastics tournament in Osijek, Croatia
7. ISRO has announced to conduct 7 mega missions
for the upcoming 10 years and also prepared a
road map for the next 30 years
# The 7 Mega Missions includes India’s second
moon mission chandrayaan-2, XPoSaT and Aditya
L-1
8. Pakistan appoints Mueenul Haq as new High
commissioner to India
9. The 8th Indo-Myanmar coordinated patrol (IMOR)
is being organised at Andaman and Nicobar
command
10. An estimated 67.11% of the nearly 91 crore
electors turned up to cast their vote in 2019s
seven-phase Lok Sabha elections
# This is the highest ever turnout recorded in any
parliamentary polls in India
11. Joko Widodo elected president of Indonesia
for the second term
12. Volodymyr Zelenskiy takes oath as Ukraine’s
new president
13. Council of scientific and Industrial Research
and National Physical Laboratory CSIR-NPL
introduced redefined International System of
Units for the country
 # The redefined systems are Kilogram, Kelvin,
Mole and Ampere
14. Comedian actor Kapil Sharma has been
acknowledged as the most viewed stand up
comedian in India and abroad by the World book
of records London
15. Maharashtra to be most affected by heatwave
report by India Meteorological Department
16. Niki Lauda three times formula one world
champion dies aged 70
17. India sets Guinness World Records of largest
laundry lesson
18. Jasbir Jaspal becomes the first Sikh woman to
be appointed to the UK council’s cabinet
19. Reliance Industries was also the most
profitable company in the country with a net
profit of more than double that of IOC in FY2019
20. House speaker Nancy Pelosi awarded john F
Kennedy profile in courage award
21. The UK government has passed an
amendment by which Sikh’s in the country will be
allowed to carry kirpans
22. All rounder Irfan Pathan became the first
Indian to be included in the Caribbean premier
league’s players