Current Affairs

1. All night all blood is black – novel – international booker prize, 2021 – David Diop.
2. Younger author to win booker prize – 2020- Marieke Lucas Rijeneled
3. Kalianga Ratna award 2021 – Bisha Bhusan Harichandra
4. Best picture award 2021 oscars – namadland
5. Saraswati samman 2020 - book sanatan- Sharankumar Limbale
6. E-panchayat puraskar 2021 – Uttar Pradesh
7. World food prize 2021 – aquatic food system – dr. shakauntala haraksingh
thilsted
8. ICC development awards 2020 – Argemtina, Uganda, Vanuatu, brazil
9. 51st dadashaeb – Rajnikant
10.Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2021 -Arabic Oration: Art and Function – Tahera
Qutbudin
11.2021 Laureate of the UNESCO / Guillermo Cano world press freedom prize – maria
ressa
12.Arline Pacht Gliobal Vision Award, 2021 – justice gita mittal
13.Whitley awards, 2021 – green Oscars – Y nuklu phom
14.Forest man of india – jadav paying
15.Spain’s top award in the Social science category- amrta kumar sen
16.UN land for life award 2021 – Indian – shyam sundar gyani
17.Pulitzer prize 2021 - Indian – Niel bedi, Megha Rajagopalan
18. Asia pacific productivity champion award – RS SODHI
19.International business book of the year award- transformation in times of crisis – jerry
wind, nitin rakesh
20. Pen pinter prize 2021 – tsitsi dangarembga
21.National film award “sWarna Kamal” best film in the environment conservation
category – Water burial
22.WHO Director general special award for the effors to control tobacco consumption in
india _-dr. harsh Vardhan
23.India Biodiversity award 2021 – individual category of conservation of domesticated
species- shaji NM
24.Padma vibushan award 2021 – former PM of Japan – Shinzo abe
25.Gandhi peace prize for the year 2020 – sheikh mujibur Rahman, 2019 – sultan Qaboos
bin said al said
26.Vyas samman – 2020 – Prof sharad pagare
27.Global women of excellence 2021 – Tamilsaoi soundrarajan
28. Maha vir chakra – 2021 – Colonel B santosh Babu
29.Indian – origion author poet has won prestigious TS ELIOT PRIZE – book hwo to
wash a heart- Bhanu Kapil
30.Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak Posthumously- Muhammed Muhsin
31.Canada’s hindi writers guild – Ramesh pokhriyal
32.Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2021- Rajendra kumar bhandari
33.Unesco has decided to launch an international prize in the field of “creative economy”
in the name of – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
34.Trick BOOK- written by Domenico Starnone – Translator won john Florio Prize-
Jhumpa lahiri
35. SERB (science and engineering Research Board ) women excellence award 2021-
Shibna Kappor, Antara Banerjee, Sonu Gandhi, Ritu Gupta, 15 lacks for three years is
given for doing research
36.Skoch CM of the year Award- YS JAGAN REDDY – ANDHRA PRADESH
37.WCCB (the wildlife crime control bureau) – received The Asia Environmental
Enforcement award- 2020 by UNEP- HQ of WCCB – New Delhi
38. Prime Minister Kisan National award, 2021 – Andhra Pradesh – Distt. Anantapuramu.
39.International Anti-Corruption Champions Award by the USA- Anjali Bhartwaja
40.Highest number of beneficiaries authenticated under the PM -kisana Scheme -
Karnataka
41.30th Bihari puraskar award- Taslima : Sangharsh aur sahitya – Mohankrishna Bohara
42. Dan davud prize, 2021- dr. Anthony fauci he is from America
43.Swadhinta Puraskar is the civilian award of Bangladesh
44.Golden peacock award- Into the darkness ( danish movie) – 51st edition of
international film festival
45.FIAF, 2021 (International Federation of film archives) Amitabh Bachchan
46.Sahitya Akademi award, 2020 the poetry collection “When God is a Traveller”-
Arundhari Subramaniam
47.Human Right’s defender- Gowsalya Shankar Tamil Nadu, IWOC International
Women of Courage
48.Sahitya Akademi Award 2014 novel Udya- Nanda Khare ( refused to accept)
49.Best feature film 67th national film awards – Marakkar
50.Maharashtra bhusan award for the year 2020 – asha Bhosle (LATA MAGESHWAR
1997)
51.Three awards have been won by HYDERABAD as SMART CITIES INDIA awards
BY INDIA TRADE PROMOTION ORGANIZATION. 1 greem and clean city 2.
Smart waste disposal 3. Startup
52.Tiger Award at rottemdam film festival 50th edition 2021- KOOZHANGAL
(PEBBLES)
53.Golden sparrow international film festival 2021- sijou
54.UNEP’s 2020 young champions of the earth award- Vidyut mohan. He is the co-
founder of TAKACHAR (bio-mass use)
55.janngarha city goverance award- odisha
56.skoch challenger award for e-goverance – Ministry of tribal affairs
57.Indian personality of the year award – in the international film festival of India-
Biswajit Chatterjee
58.DEVI SHANKAR AWASTHI AWARD for the book Pitra Vadh- Ashutosh Bhardwaj
59.WILD INNOVATOR AWARD 2021 1st woman – krithi K Karanth
60.Chhatisgarh veerni award- Dutee chand
61.The kalinga literary festival has named its mystic kalinga award and mystic inida
festival lifetime achievement award after MANOJ DAS
62.JCB prize for literature 2020 for novel MOUSTACHE – S hareesh
63.Global teacher prize 2020- Ranjit singh Disale- 1. Girl education 2. Introduced QR
code in textbook 3. World bank has appointed him as councellor
64.Windham Campbell Prize 2020 – Bhanu Kapil
65.Indian Council of Agricultural Research (icar) has been awarded the prestigious king
bhumibol world soil 2020 award – tilochan Mohapatra
66.Mother Teresa memorial award 2020 kerela’s health minister
67.Digital india awards 2020 “pandemic category”- Bihar
68.Antyodaya saral project has won the digital india awards 2020 – Haryana
69.DRDO;s scientist of the year- Hemant kumar pandey (herbal medicine)
70.Legion of merit award of usa- narendra modi, scott Morrison, Shinzo abe
71.Booker Prize 2020 for Shuggie bain- Douglas Stuart
72.Nobel prize in economics – paul Milgrom, Robert Wilson(auction theory)
73.Nobel peace prize 2020- world food programme (rome, itlay)
74.Nobel prize in literature – Louis Gluck
75.Chemistry- Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna (genome editing)
76.MK STALIN- Tamil nadu (CM) Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party 1949
77.Assam CM- Himanta Biswa Sarma
78.Thawar Chand Gehlot Governor of – Karnatka. He is also a minister of social
justice and empowerment
79.Jharkhand Governor- Ramesh Bais
80.Ministry of corporation (newly formed)- amit shah
81.Ministry of chemical and fertilizers is clubbed with ministry of health – Minister
is Mansukh Mandaviya
82.1st time cabinet minister from telagana – G kishan Reddy – Ministry of culture
and tourism and ministry of development of the north eastern region
83.Railway minister – Ashwnini Vaishnav
84.Education + skill development – Dharmendra Pradhan
85.Justice NV Ramana – 48th recommended by 47th CJI SA Bobde
86.Chief Statistician of India – GP Samanta
87.New director general of assam rifles – Pradeep Chandran Nair
88.CBI director – Subodh Kumar jaiswal
89.Vice chief of air staff – air marshal vivel ram chaudhari
90.Head of nhrc- AK Mishra
91.United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, geneva, switzerland – 1st
woman secretary general – Rebecca Grynspan (Costa Rica)
92.UN general assembly (New York)- 76th Prez Abdulla Shahid (Maldives). His chef
de cabinet (advisor) K Nagaraj Naidu
93.Director general of National investigation agency- Kuldip singh
94.BCCI’s anti-corruption unit head- Shabir Hussein
95. Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)- Director – Dr. Chintan Vaishnav
96.Economics affairs secretary – ajay seth
97.Grievance officer for india by facebook – spoorthi Priya
98.Public enterprises selection board- Mallika Srinivasan
99.Noura Al- Matroushi 1st female astronaut of UAE
100. SIDBI chairman – S ramann, 1990, Lucknow
101. Chairman and managing director of Bharat Earth Movers Limited – Amit
Banerjee
102. National Commodity and derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) CEO is Arun
Raste
103. Indian American appointed as the associate attorney general of The US-
Vanita Gupta
104. External Auditor chosen by Organisation for the prohibiton of chemical
weapons – GC Murmuru
105. Director of Indian Institute of Rice Research Hyderabad telagana– Raman
Meenakshi Sundaram
106. 1st woman officer appointed as officer commanding in the BRO Borders
roads organization – Vaishali S Hivase
107. Chair of WHO executive board – Dr. Patrick Amoth, he is from Kenya.
108. International Narcotics Control Board – (Vienna , Austria) president –
Jagit Pavadia
109. COP 26 People’s advocate for the UK’s Presidency of The UN climate
change summit --- David Attenborough
110. Rajesh Agarwal – re-appointed as deputy mayor of -london
111. WHO Global Air Pollution and Health- technical advisory group- Mukesh
Sharma
112. UN Humanitarian Chief- Martin Griffiths
113. High Court Andhra Pradesh CJI – Arup Kumar Goswami, Sikkim –
Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari, Allashbad Munishwar Nath Bhandari, Calcutta ,
Rajesh Bindal, Chattisgarh Prashant Kumar Mishra, guahati hC, Sudhanshu
dhulia, HP- ravi malimath, JK Pankaj Mithal
114. Kabar taal lake – bihar (Ramsar)
115. Tso kar lake – ladakh, sur sarovar/keetham lake Agra, Lonar Lake
Buldhna (Maharashtra), asan barrage- uttrakhand
116. asia’s largest freshwater oxbow lake- ghokur lake,
117. world wetland day- 2nd February, 1997—2020 theme wetlands and
biodiversity 2021 Wetlands and water
118. Ramsar – 2nd February 1971
119. All India Football federation (AIFF) 1st Vice Prez- Abhishek Yadav
120. 2020 Rabindra Nath tagore Literary Award- 2020 Raj Kamal Jha- The city
and the sea
121. 1st woman umpire a men’s one day international- Claire Polosak(Australia)
122. ICC panel 1st Indian female referee- GS Lakshmi
123. 1st female finance minister of Assam – Ajanta Neog
124. CEO of godrej consumer products- Sudhir Sitapati
125. RBI executive director- Jose J kattoor
126. Mylab Discovery Solutions- ambassador- Akshay Kumar
127. World press freedom day – 3rd may
128. Golden glove 2020 best female actress in motion film drama- renne
Zellweger
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134. Assosiate Atttorney general of US- Vanita Gupta
135. Indian Institute of rice research- Telangana- raman Meenakshi suundaram
136. BRO border roads organization 1st woman commanding officer- Vaishali S
Hivase
137. WHO executive board _dr Patrick amoth- kenya
138. Jagjit Pavadia – President of international narcotics control board- HQ-
Vienna, Austria
139. WHO Global Air pollution and health- technical advisory group- member-
Mukesh Sharma
140. UN humanitarian chief - martin Griffiths
141. Ajanta Neog – 1st female minister northeast state- Assam
142. Godrej- MD and CEO- Sudhir Sitapati
143. National Asset Reconstruction company ltd. Padmakumar M Nair
144. ED of RBI- Jose K kattoor
145. Counsellor in India’s Permanent Mission in WTO, Geneva – Aashish
Chandorkar

146. High-Level Advisory Group (HLAG) formed by the world bank and IMF
fpr the dua; crisis posed by the COVID 19 and climate change- Montenk Singh
Alluvalia
147. Karim Khan- chief prosecutor for international criminal court—Britain
148. New ministry of external affairs spokesperson – Arindam Bagchi
149. *UIDAI- Unique Identification authority of india CEO- Saurabh Garg
150. Airport Authority of india- Chairman- Sanjeev Kumar
151. MD of Food corporation of India- Arvind singh
152. Re-appointed as the chairman of the panel of external auditors of the UN
for 2021- GC Murmu
153. Indian Council for research on International Economic Relations
(ICRIER) Director and chief executive- Deepak Mishra
154. CRPF DG- *Kuldeep Singh*
155. DG- National Security Guard- * MA Ganapathy
156. Asset Reconstruction of CO India Ltd- Pallav Mohapatra
157. New vice- chief of Indian army- Lt Gen Chandi Prasad Mohanty
158. Consultant by world bank- Ranjit singh disale
159. Soma Mondal- CEO of SAIL
160. Railway Board Chairman and CEO- Suneet Sharma
161. BCCI national selection committee- Chetan Sharma
162. Administration Covid 19 vaccine head of the committee – RS Sharma
163. ASEAN association of southeast asian nations india ambassador- Jayant N
Khobragade
164. International cricket council – greg Barclay- he replaced interim chairman
– Imran Khwaja
165. US president senior advisor – Neera tanden
166. BCCC Broadcasting content complaints council- 1st woman – Justice gita
mittal
167. National health authority- CEO- RS Sharma
168. NASA acting chief of staff- Bhavya Lal
169. 1st chairperson of reserve bank innovation hub- Kris Gopalakrishnan
170. Election commission of india Sonu sood as state icon
171. Alia Zafar 1st femal director of Pakistan’s Cricket Board
172. ASSOCHAM ( associated Chamvers of commerce and Industry of india)
president- Vineet Agarwal
173. UNEP- Assistant secretary general and head of the new York office – Ligia
Noronha
174. 1st indian chairperson of the advisory committee of UN human rights
council – Ajai Malhotra
175. 1st ever minister for loneliness – Japan
176. Chief information commissioner of india- yasvardhan kumar Sinha
177. Secretary- department of pharmaceuticals- S Aparma
178. Fssai- arun Singhal
179. Nabard- govinda Rajulu Chintala
180. Indian Oil- chairman- Shrikant madhav Vaidya
181. 1st CDS of india- general bipin rawat
182. ED of world bank- Rajesh Khullar
183. ED of Asian development bank sammer kumar khare
184. NASSCOM 1st woman chairperson- Rekha M. Memom
185. Meghalaya governor- Satyapal malik
186. ED of sebi- GP garg
187. Justice Hima kholi- telagana 1st female
188. National Anti-doping Agency- DG- Siddharth Singh Longjam- new delhi-2005
189. 1st Vice Chancellor of delhi sports university- Karnam Malleshwari
190. Minister of youth &sports- Anurag thakur
191. Pran vayu devta pension yojana- occasion of world environment day 5th june-
Haryana
192. CM Vatsalya Yojana – Orphaned children – uttrakhand
193. Sanjeevani pariyojna- Haryana
194. Palanhar scheme- rajasthan
195. SARTHAQ- students and teachers holistic advance through quality education-
Ramesh pokhriyal
196. Mid-day meal scheme- 15th August, 1995
197. Muktijoddha sochlarship scheme- india announced it for BANGLADESH
198. Ashirbad scheme- odisha
199. Student credit card scheme- west Bengal
200. YUVA scheme by ministry of education for young authors
201. Smart kitchen yojana- kerela
202. Mission oxygen self-reliance- Maharashtra
203. Mukyamantri covid upchar yojana- Madhya Pradesh
204. CM anuprati coaching scheme- rajasthan
205. EBC economic backward woman nestham – Andhra Pradesh
206. Atal bhujal yojana- uttar Pradesh
207. Samagra shiksha scheme after the leader name- netaji subhash chandra bose
208. PM- KUSUM (kisan urja) farm bases solar power plant in rajasthan
209. Stand up india scheme completed 5 years on 5th April 2021
210. Khelo india 2021-22 extended to 2025-26
211. MITRA mega integrated textile region and apparel
212. Ujjwala scheme benefitiares extended to 1 crore
213. Swarna Jayanti nari sambal yojana- himachal Pradesh
214. Ayushman bharat mahatma Gandhi swasthya bima- rajasthan
215. PANKH ABHIYAN- protection, awareness for their rights, nutrition,
knowledge, health- madhy apradesh
216. National girl child day- 24th jan
217. SVAYEM- swami vivekanand ASSAM youth empowerment.
218. New industrial development scheme – jammu Kashmir
219. Jeeva kranthi scheme – women- Andhra Pradesh
220. 1st standard body to join one nation, one standard’ research design and standards
organization
221. Soil health card scheme- 2015
222. SERB-POWER promoting opportunities in exploratory research – science and
engerring research board
223. Parivar pehchan patra- Haryana
224. Madhu babu pension yojana- transgender- orissa
225. Samadhan se vikas- Haryana
226. Balaram scheme- orrisa-
227. Mukhyamantri Chiranjeevi yojana- Haryana
228. AWAS DIWAS- 20th November- housing for all
229. FASTER ADOPTION OF MANUFACTURING of electric vehicles- extended
to 2 years
230. CM dalit empowerment programmer- telangna

231. Youngest ever- chess grandmaster – Abhimanyu Mishra

232. French open women’s single title- Barbora krejcikova
233. French open men’s title- novak djovik
234. MMA event 1st time india- Arjun Bhullar
235. India first fencer to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic games- Bhavani devi
236. India women sailor to qualify for the okympics Netra kumanan
237. ICC hall of fame list- Indian cricketer- VInoo Mankad
238. 2032 olympic games- Brisbane, Australia
239. 2024- paris
240. 2028- los angeles
241. President of tokoyo Olympic organsing committee- Seiko Hashimoto
242. Indian origin tennis player doubles of australiaan open- Ankita raina
243. Re-elected as president of the boxing federation of india- ajay singh
244. President of the Asian cricket council- jay shah
245. Khelo india university games 2021- karnatka 1st bhuneswar
246. India’s emerging player of the year 2021 by BBC- Manu bhaker(shooter)
247. Tokoyo Paralympics india’s first ever taekwono entry- aruna tanwar
248. Commonwealth table tennis championship 2021- Panchkula
249. Overtook lionel messi to become highest active international goal- scorer- Sunil
Chhetri
250. Laurel Huubard- 1st transgender- new-zealland
251. New Life Invitational meet in the usa- Sarabani nanda
252. Seema antil- discuss throw
253. Indian judoka – tokoyo- sushila devi
254. Belgrade trophy swimming competiton- shoan Ganguli, sajan Prakash, Srihari
Natraj
255. French grand prix- max Verstappen
256. Asian boxing championship 2021- sanjeet kumar
257. FIH world ranking hocket men rank- 4th rank.. womem- 9th
258. Bandminton world federstion (BWF) council for 4 year period- himanta biswa
sarma
259. Youngest para-badmintion player in the world to qualify for tokoyo 2021
paraolumpics- palak kohli
260. Mohali international hockey stadium- Balbir singh sr. rename
261. WTA tour rankings 1st rank- ashliegh barty
262. Italian open 2021 men’s single- Rafael nadal
263. 2021 AIBA men;s world boxing championship- Serbia
264. Formula one Spanish grand prix 2021- lewis Hamilton
265. MALLAKHAMBA- Maharashtra, gatka-punjab, kalarippayattu – kerela, thang
ta- Manipur
266. Ambassador for international Olympic committee ‘ believe in sports’ PV sindhu
267. Portugese grand prix- lewis Hamilton
268. 68th grandmaster of india- arjun kalyan
269. Babur Azam- cricket
270. DG of nada- Siddharth singh loghiyam
271. Chattisgarh veerni award- dutee chand
272. FIFA SUSPENDED- Pakistan, chad
273. Ajay thakur- kabaddi
274. Chandra naidu- cricket
275. 2023 men’s boxinf world championship- Uzbekistan
276. Baharain grand prix- lewis hailton
277. Broke 23 year old federation cup record of PT usha- S dhanlakshmi
278. BBC Indian sportswoman of the year- koneru humpy
279. Women’s singles title in swizz open 2021- Carolina marin
280. Matteo pellicone ranking series, vinesh phogat
281. Chairman of international boxing association – mary kom
282. Austrlian open men’s title- novak women- noami osaka
283. Sreeshankar murali- long jump
284. Prof golf tour kapil dev
285. Gymnastics federation of india- president Sudhir mittal

286. Syed mustaq ali trophy- cricket

287. Thailand open badmintion- Carolina
288. Calir polosak- Australia
289. International cricket council- greg barcley chairman
290. Rajib Gandhi kehl ratbna – rohit sharma
291. Vishesh bhriguvashi- basketball
292. Kockey india prez- gyanedro ningomab,
293. Sued modi championship – bandmintion
294. Sveriges riksbank prize- Amartya sen (nobel prize in economics)
295. Kilimanjaro mountain- Tanzamia
296. Last ruler to sit on peacock throne- Muhammad shah
297. Relics of buddha are stored- STUPAS
298. ASEAN members-
299. Sarhul festival- Jharkhand
300. India’s 1st genetically modified rubber tree plant- Kerela
301. Topped khelo india winter national medal- jammu and Kashmir
302. Land of rising sun- Japan
303. Guardian ministers- assam
304. Supercomputer “Simorgh”- Iran
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