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Thursday 21 May 2015

Current Affairs, 21 May 2015

IAF conducted the successful trial run of landing on Yamuna Expressway near Mathura under the plan of use of national highways in emergency situations.
Type Ia supernovae are destructive explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs and are used empirically to measure cosmological distances.

The discovery of the new species was published in the journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
Barack Obama debuted on Social Media Platform Twitter with @POTUS account.
The new building came up at a sprawling 27000 Sq. Ft. area and it was built by the National Building Corporation (NBCC)
It will be launched by the PSLV C-34 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
The two ministers Swaraj and Mashabane agreed to work under the framework of a five year strategic programme of cooperation and decided to establish a new Joint Working Group on Trade & Economic matters on it.
Further, the committee would examine the matter relating to levy of MAT on FIIs for the period prior to 1 April 2015.
The present test was a part of the series of tests planned to test the missile’s subsystems like propulsion, navigation and guidance and the smooth separation of the missile from the aircraft, etc.
The fines were imposed as part of the settlements reached between the banks and the governmental agencies probing the charges.
Shanmuganthan’s oath of office and secrecy was administered by Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court Uma Nath Singh. He was appointed as the new Governor on 12 May 2015.
It received ISO 9001-2008 certification for best quality practices like facilitating darshan and funding various activities of public interest.
The Chief Justice of Tripura High Court, Deepak Gupta, administered the oath of office at a ceremony held in Raj Bhavan.
UP FDA during its routine tests found that the noodles contained high lead content of 17.2 parts per million (ppm), which is nearly seven times more that the permissible limit, which is between 0.01 ppm and 2.5 ppm.
The day is annually observed on the death anniversary of seventh Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who was assassinated by a suicide bomber from the LTTE on 21 May 1991.
The amendment to Factories Act, 1948 will clear a way for women employees to work in night shifts, that is, women will be allowed to work post 7 pm, which was earlier banned under Section 66(1)(c) of the Act.
He will succeed KS Balasubramanian, who is retiring on 31 May 2015.
He was Director at the Delhi School of Economics (DSE) and policy advisor to the Union Government.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai became the sixth winner of the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for 2015. His was awarded at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
2015 Theme is Men in Charge? Gender Equality and Children’s Rights in Contemporary Families. It also highlights prevention of family violence through fair family law frameworks and a variety of programme interventions.





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