Current Affairs - May 28, 2022 Current Affairs

The World Economic Forum (WEF) ranked India 54th position (down from 46th in 2019) with a score of 4.1 in its Travel and Tourism Development Index 2021.

World Health Organization has re-appointed Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director-General of WHO for the second term with effect from 16th August 2022. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is an Ethiopian public health researcher, and official who has been Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017.

Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, the National Health Authority, has introduced a modified Ayushman Bharat Health Account, Abha mobile application to manage health records.

NAS 2021 conducted on November 12 last year assessed over 34 lakh students in 1.18 lakh schools at 720 districts across 36 states and Union Territories.

West Bengal State Education Minister Bratya Basu said that the state cabinet has unanimously decided to appoint Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the Chancellor of all state-run universities.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has launched the first public outreach programme, 'Lok Milani', which started in Chandigarh to reach out to citizens for redressal of grievances.

Kolkata is the first metro city in the country to prepare a detailed register of biodiversity.

Union Health Secretary, Rajesh Bhushan has been appointed as the Chairman of Committee B in the 75th World Health Assembly.

Swachh Survekshan has introduced by MoHUA in 2016 as a competitive framework to encourage cities to improve the status of urban sanitation.

Commercial utilisation of drones to bring quality healthcare to Indians in the remotest areas is already becoming a reality. Redcliffe Labs, a unit of Redcliffe Lifetech in the US, has come up with its first commercial drone flight in the country’s healthcare sector. The company has opened its commercial drone corridor between Uttarkashi and Dehradun.

The third edition of the Indian Navy (IN) - Bangladesh Navy (BN) bilateral exercise 'Bongosagar' began at Port Mongla, Bangladesh.

A new book titled "Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure" authored by Ruskin Bond.

A Gopalakrishnan, Director of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has won the VASVIK (Vividhalaxi Industrial Refinement Development Centre) Industrial Research Award for the year 2020 in the category of Agricultural Science and Technology.

International Missing Children's Day is an awareness event that is being celebrated every year on the 25th of May.

At least 48 percent of students across the country walk to school, while nine percent of them use school transportation.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has been placed at the third position on the World Air Power Index in terms of the total fighting strength of the various air services of different nations of the world.

The United Arab Emirates has become the first Gulf state to record a case of monkeypox.

The Olympic Values Education Programme (OVEP) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has launched in Odisha by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, in collaboration with the Abhinav Bindra Foundation Trust (ABFT).

The third edition of Indian Navy (IN) - Bangladesh Navy (BN) Bilateral Exercise 'Bongosagar' commenced at Port Mongla, Bangladesh.

A supercomputer named Param Porul has been inaugurated at NIT Tiruchirappalli under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).