Current Affairs - May 20, 2022 Current Affairs

The Supreme Court sentenced Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu to a one-year jail term in a three-decade-old road rage case in which a person had died.

Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma will continue to hold his previous portfolios including Finance, Power, Rural Development and Science and Technology under the new portfolio allocations by the new Tripura CM Manik Saha.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the country's first 5G test bed to enable start-ups and industry players to test their products locally.

Organisation Internationale des Constructeursd 'Automobiles (OICA), India has overtaken Germany and has become the 4th largest vehicle market in the world.

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud elected president for the second time in Somalia, defeating incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in a final round.

A veteran Cameroonian activist, Cecile Ndjebet is the recipient of the 2022 Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award by the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), which is chaired by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Deaflympics 2021 was held at the Festa da Uva Main Pavilion in Caxias do Sul city in southern Brazil.

India Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme is an initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs, wherein participants from ITEC member countries are trained.

India Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme is an initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs, wherein participants from ITEC member countries are trained.

President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed former bureaucrat Anil Baijal (70) as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.

According to a recent report on pollution and health published in The Lancet Planetary Health, Air pollution was responsible for 16.7 lakh deaths in India in 2019, which is 17.8% of all deaths in the country that year. This is the largest number of air pollution-related deaths in any country.

The Supreme Court Wednesday ordered the release of A G Perarivalan, one of the life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Perarivalan, who was 19 years old at the time of Gandhi's killing in 1991, was accused of buying the two 9-volt batteries used in the bomb to assassinate the former prime minister.

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai informed that the Aam Aadmi Party-led government will soon launch its Urban Farming Policy, inculcating the best practices and solutions from across the globe.

Adani Group which belongs to Gautam Adani is set to acquire swiss multinational company Holcim's stake in Indian companies Ambuja Cements.

Odisha were crowned as the champions of the 12th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship 2022.

India won 16 medals at the Deaflympics 2021, which includes eight golds, one silver and seven bronze.

Sri Lanka has decided to lower the amount of foreign currency that individuals can hold to $10,000 from $15,000.

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel inaugurated the Vadnagar International Conference in Gandhinagar in collaboration with the Union Ministry of Cultural Affairs.

China has been placed at 1st position in the terms of the largest vehicle market in the World.

Air pollution has responsible for 16.7 lakh deaths in India in 2019, which is 17.8% of all deaths in the country that year.