May 2013 Current Affairs: In this chapter, information has been given about the latest current affairs based on India and the world in the month of May 2013 from the point of view of upcoming competitive examinations. Here you can find various fields of India and the world like: Appointments, Resignations, Sports and Sportsmen, Politics, Awards and Honors, Important Days, Deaths, Reports, Business, Planning, Politics, Education, Books and Authors, Economy, Accidents, Science, Technology You can get general knowledge about important current affairs related to geography, records, settlement, convention and entertainment etc.

31 May 2013 | Awards Current Affairs
Bilal Habib from India was named as one of the six winners of the Young Scientist Awards instituted by the Unesco. The announcement was made by the International Co-coordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, which met at the Unesco headquarters May 27 to 30.
30 May 2013 | Obituaries Current Affairs
Acclaimed filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh passed away in his sleep due to a massive cardiac arrest. He died at 7:30 am and was merely 49 years old. He had pancreatitis. His films had won 12 national awards and he came to limelight with his movie Unishe April in 1994 though he started his career with Hirer Angti.
29 May 2013 | Appointments Current Affairs
GMAC announced the appointment of Sangeet Chowfla as president to succeed David A. Wilson, who has served for the past 18 years as both president and CEO. Chowfla will join GMAC as president in September and assume the CEO role on January 1, 2014.
28 May 2013 | Sports Current Affairs
Nine-year-old Ananya Gupta from Mumbai has won a bronze medal at the World School Chess Championship in Greece. She has been trained at the South Mumbai Chess Academy (SMCA).
27 May 2013 | World Current Affairs
The number of birds that come to Chilka Lake has reduced significantly this year and the decline is from 77,609 to 59,687. The lake sprawls over 1,100 sq. km. and there is decline in tidal water which affected the salinity of the lake. Experts feel this may be the reason for the dip in bird population.
26 May 2013 | Appointments Current Affairs
R K Mathur appointed as the New Defence Secretary. * Amitabh Choudhary retains Jharkhand State Cricket Association President’s post. * Ex-Justice Raveendran to head News Broadcasting Standards Authority. * Veteran playback singer TM Soundararajan passes away.
25 May 2013 | Appointments Current Affairs
FMCG giant Nestle India Pvt Ltd has appointed Etienne Benet as its new MD, as per a stock market disclosure. He will be succeeding Antonio Helio Waszyk who is currently the chairman and managing director of the Nestle India.
24 May 2013 | Appointments Current Affairs
Indian-American Sri Srinivasan, who enjoys a substantial support among Republicans, is among the three candidates being vetted by US President Barack Obama as potential nominees for a rare vacancy at the Supreme Court.
23 May 2013 | Appointments Current Affairs
K.J. Sengupta appointed as new chief justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court. *Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy gets UN award for ‘Mass Contact Programme. * K.J. Sengupta appointed as new chief justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court.
22 May 2013 | Person Current Affairs
Arunima Sinha becomes first Indian amputee to scale Mount Everest. * Chinese premier to be conferred Pakistan’s highest honour. * Bangalore girl Subha Ashok topped the Postgraduate Entrance Test in Medical Stream. * Arunima Sinha becomes first Indian amputee to scale Mount Everest.
21 May 2013 | Appointments Current Affairs
Defence secretary Shashi Kant Sharma would be the next Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. President Pranab Mukherjee has approved the appointment of Sharma as the next CAG to replace Vinod Rai, who retires on Wednesday.
20 May 2013 | Person Current Affairs
Samina Baig, the first Pakistani woman to cold, hungry and roughly 800 feet from Mt. Everest's summit. As the first Pakistani female to reach the top of Everest, she would be sending a message to fellow citizens in a country sometimes criticized for its subjugation of women and where, in the most commonly known example, a teenager named Malala Yousafzai.
19 May 2013 | Person Current Affairs
Raha Moharrak became the first soudi Arabian woman from her country to climb Mount Everest. Raha Moharrak was one of 64 climbers who scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain on Saturday. May is the most popular month for Everest climbs because of its mild weather.
18 May 2013 | Appointments Current Affairs
Dhanraj Choudhary, secretary-general of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), was first indian to be elected to the Board of Directors (BoD) of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) during its Annual General Meeting held at the ongoing World Championships in Paris Thursday evening.
17 May 2013 | Appointments Current Affairs
President Obama appointed Daniel I. Werfel, the controller of the Office of Management and Budget, to be the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
16 May 2013 | Person Current Affairs
Honey Singh has been booked by the Punjab Police after the Punjab and Haryana High Court slammed the singer for singing lewd lyrics in his song. He was booked under Section 294 of the Indian Penal Code in Nawansha, 80 km from Chandigarh.
15 May 2013 | Politics Current Affairs
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came to Guwahati in Assam today to file his nominations for the Rajya Sabha for the 4th term which ends on June 14. When the PM arrived, there were protests by some groups who hoisted black flags stating that as promised development had not taken place in Assam
14 May 2013 | Social Current Affairs
Online storage just got bigger and better. Google has tripled its storage space for the users across its platforms like Google+, Gmail and Google Drive and the jump is from 5GB to 15GB and the businesses will see their storage space shoot to 30GB from 25GB.
13 May 2013 | Business Current Affairs
Pakistan's Prime Minister-in-waiting Nawaz Sharif will be inviting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to his swearing-in-ceremony. He also expressed his intentions to smooth out the ties between the two neighbors and adopt definite measure to resolve violence, terrorism and extremist activities that had acted as a deterrent in Indo-Pak ties.
12 May 2013 | Business Current Affairs
India's first gem bourse will set up at Jaipur. A Rs 50 crore project, it would ensure that there is organized trading in the gem business. Major chunk of the business is expected from overseas. In the next six months, the work on the setting up of the bourse will begin.
11 May 2013 | Appointments Current Affairs
Siddaramaiah would be the 22nd Chief Minister of Karnataka and he was entrusted this responsibility in four hours flat by the Congress leaders by unanimously opting for him. He will be taking his oath on Monday.
10 May 2013 | Sports Current Affairs
India compiled nine medals in the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships. It earned seven bronze medals and two silver medals but could not get the gold as its top paddler Sharath Kamal could get only a bronze medal.
9 May 2013 | Sports Current Affairs
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Zaka Ashraf became the country’s first elected head of the sport, winning a four-year term under a new constitution approved earlier this year.
8 May 2013 | Appointments Current Affairs
Brazil’s Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo has been elected as the next director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), signalling the growing importance of emerging economies at the multilateral trading body.
7 May 2013 | Technology Current Affairs
Google is ready to launch subscriptions for some of YouTube’s more popular video channels as per reports in media. The report also further states that this was in pipeline for months, and may be announced this week and will be applicable to as many as 50 YouTube channels.
6 May 2013 | ISRO Current Affairs
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has plans to launch a total of five rockets in 2013 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh which would also include a mission to Mars later this year.
5 May 2013 | Miscellaneous Current Affairs
Due to large usage of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and WhatsApp by manipulators to send information about their target stocks, market watchdog SEBI is thinking over measures it will take to check risks which may emerge with these new-age mobile applications.
4 May 2013 | Technology Current Affairs
Now it will be possible for someone to technically assist their family or friends remotely through Google Hangout. Hangouts Remote Desktop enables a person to take control of another system through the chat service.
3 May 2013 | Inauguration Current Affairs
The South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes inaugurated the country's first national surfing competition in Kerala's Kovalam beach. He was thoroughly enjoying surfing along with the other participants.
2 May 2013 | Obituaries Current Affairs
Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, died at 12.45 a.m. PKT or 1.15 a.m. IST. The medical panel’s head stated he had succumbed to injuries. Sarabjit's lawyer Awais Shiekh informed the media that hospital authorities have confirmed Sarabjit’s death.
1 May 2013 | Miscellaneous Current Affairs
The world's smallest movie has been made by the researchers at IBM. This was done by manipulating single atoms on a copper surface. The stop-motion animation which utilizes a few dozen carbon atoms are in motion around with the tiny tip of what is known as Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM).

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