INTERNATIONAL
1) Which organization representatives agreed to widen and strengthen regional cooperation to promote the integral development of those territories on 4 May 2013?
Ans:- ACTO(Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization)
2) Who elected as a Prime Minister of Pakistan on 14 May 2013?
Ans:- Nawaz Sharif
INDIA & WORLD
1) With how many votes UN General Assembly Approved Syria Resolution?
Ans:-107
2) Which country PM talk with the Indian PM on a civil nuclear deal on 29 May 2013?
Ans:-Japan
3) With which country India sign extradition treaty on 30 May 2013?
Ans:- Thailand
NATIONAL
1) What is the name of the program launched by Women and Child Development Minister to improving child development and nutritional outcomes for children? Ans:- ICDS Systems Strengthening and Nutrition Improvement Project (ISSNIP)
2) What is the name of the scheme will launch the Government of India from 1 June 2013?
Ans:- Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG (DBTL)
3) Which area in India declared as a World Biosphere Reseve by UNESCO?
Ans:- Nicobar Islands
STATES
1) How many seats Congress won in Karnataka Assembly Elections?
Ans:-121
CONFERENCES
1) When the SAARC judges meeting was held in Thimpu on Child rights in South Asia?
Ans:- 23 May 2013
AWARDS & HONOURS
1) Which product of Zydus Wellness Ltd got the “Product of the year 2013” award?
Ans:- Nutralite Omega-3
2) Who is the Miss Panama 2013?
Ans:- Carolina Brid
3) Who honoured with the Whitley award, also known as Green Oscar in London on 2 May 2013 by Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth?
Ans:- Aparajita Datta
4) Who got the ISRO young scientist award 2013 from Meghalaya?
Ans:- Jenita Mary
5) Who got the National Florence Nightingale award 2013 from Andhra Pradesh?
Ans:- N.Leela Samuel
6) Who was elected for the prestigious Global Leadership Award-2013?
Ans:- Malala Yousafzai
7) Who is the Indian-American girl won America’s Top Young Scientist Award for inventing a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge a cellphone in less than 20 seconds?
Ans:- Esha Khare
8) Who conferred with the 47th Jnanpith Award for the Year 2011?
Ans:- Pratibha Ray
SPORTS & GAMES
1) Who won the FWA player of the Year Award on ?
Ans :-Gareth Bale
2) Who won the World Snooker Championship title?
Ans:- Ronnie O’Sulivan
3) Who won the Spanish Grand Prix Title in Barcelona?
Ans:- Fernando Alonso
4) Who won the Players Championship title on 12 May 2013?
Ans:- Tiger Woods
5) Who won the “England Player of the award-2013”?
Ans:- Prior
6) Who is the Indian archer bagged two silver medals in the Archery World Cup?
Ans:- Deepika Kumari
7) Who won the Mes’s Singles Rome Masters Tennis Tournament title on 19 May 2013?
Ans:- Rafael Nadal
8) Who won the Women’s Singles Rome Masters Tennis Tournament title on 19 May 2013?
Ans:- Serena Williams
ECONOMY
1) According to a survey by global research firm Ipsos ,which country got the first position in the most economically confident countries in the world?
Ans :- Saudi Arabia
2) Who got the place in Forbes Philanthropy List on 30 May 2013 from India(first place)?
Ans:- Biocon Chief Kiran Mazumdar
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
1) Which computers are more faster than the super computers?
Ans:- Quantum computers
2) What are the names of two exoplants discovered by the NASA on 1May 2013?
Ans:- KOI-200b,KOI-889b
3) What is the name of the second Inshore Patrol Vessel built by the Hindustan Shipyard Ltd for the Coast Guard?
Ans:- Rani Avantibayi
4) What is the new type of wheat developed by the British scientists to increase productivity?
Ans:- Super Wheat
5) What is the name of the planet discovered with the help of Einstein’s “General Relativity Theory”?
Ans:- Einstein or Kepler-76b
6) What is the name of the unmanned carrier Fight Deck?
Ans:- X-47B
7) What is the name of the Vaccine developed by the India to eradicate the Rotavirus diarrhoea in infants?
Ans:-Rotavac Vaccine
8) What is the name of the aircraft received by the Indian Navy on 15 May 2013?
Ans:-Boeing P-8I Aircraft
PERSONS IN NEWS
A) APPOINTMENTS
1) Who is the present MCC president ?
Ans:- Gyating
2) Who is the new president of Asian Football Confederation?
Ans :- Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman Ebrahim Al-Khalifa
3) Who Indian leg spinner elected as a player representative on the ICC Cricket Committee?
Ans :- Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
4) Who is the new Director General of WTO?
Ans:- Roberto Azevdo
5) Who is the 4-years old boy elected as a Mayor of the town Dorset of Minnesota town in America ?
Ans:-Robert Tufts
6) Who is Sworn as Chief Minister of Karnataka?
Ans:-Siddaramaiah
7) Who is the present CAG of India ?
Ans:- Shashi Kant Sharma
B)RESIGNS
1) Who is the Union Railway Minister of India resigned on 10 May 2013?
Ans:-Pawan Kumar Bansal
C) DEATHS
1) Who is the executive chairman of ATP died on 3 may 2013?
Ans:- Brad Drewett
2) Who is the english film director,actor,screenwriter and novelist died on 8 May 2013?
Ans:- Bryan Forbes
3) Who is the former Maharashtra MLA and first woman MLA of Cngress from Sinnar died on 9 May 2013?
Ans:- Rukminibai Waje
4) Who is the famous Bollywood photographer died in Mumbai on 13 May 2013?
Ans:- Jagadis Mali
5) Who is the Islamic scholar,author and activit died in Mumbai on 14 May 2013?
Ans:- Asghar Ali
6) Who is the PCC Chief of Chhattisgarh dead in naxels attack on 25 May 2013?
Ans:- Nanda Kumar
D) VISITORS
1) Which country PM visited the Myanmar on 23 May 2013( first time Since 1977)?
Ans:- Japan
E) MISCELLANEOUS
1) Who is the first woman included in a FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List?
Ans:- Joanne Chesimard alias Assata Shakur
2) Who is he the Indian-American become the youngest graduate topper of the prestigious University of California in more than a century?
Ans:- Ritankar Das
3) Who is the first Saudi Woman climbed the Mount Everest?
Ans:- Raha Moharrak
4) Who are the two Indian twins climb Mount Everest?
Ans:-Tashi and Nancy Malik
PLACES IN NEWS
1) What is the name of the Cyclonic Storm formed over Bay of Bengal on May 2013?
Ans:- Mahasen
ABBREVIATIONS IN NEWS
1) What is the full form of ‘ CNEN ‘ ?
Ans:- National Commission for Nuclear Energy
BOOKS IN NEWS
1) What is the name of the book released by Prof. Chamanlal on 3 may 2013?
Ans:- Understanding Bhagat Singh
2) Who wrote the book ” Gandhi’s Outstanding Leadership” ?
Ans:- Pascal Alan Nazareth
COMMITTEES IN NEWS
1) When the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) committee recommended setting up of the Indian Bill Payment System (IBPS) in the country formed?
Ans:- 6 May 2013
DAYS & DATES
1) Which day was celebrated on 11 May 2013?
Ans:- National Technology Day