CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 14th MAY 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF  14^th  MAY 2022   

1. ‘World Migratory Bird Day’ is marked twice a year since its inauguration in 2006. International Migratory Bird Day has been celebrated on 14 May and will be celebrated 8 October, 2022. The theme for World Migratory Bird Day 2022 is ‘Light Pollution’.  
2. Dr. Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author, receives the 2022 Templeton Prize.
3. UAE President and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan passed away.
4. Lionel Messi has topped the list of Forbes Highest-Paid Athletes 2022 with a reported income of $130 million.
5. Indian Pilstol pairs Esha Singh and Saurabh Chaudhary clinched the mixed team pistol gold at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup in Suhl Germany.
6. India’s first ‘Amrit Sarovar’ has come up in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur. It was inaugurated by the Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on 13 May 2022.
7. Astronomers unveiled first image of a super massive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way Galaxy, a cosmic body known as ‘Sagittarius A*’.
8. Tata Group has appointed Campbell Wilson as Air India’s New Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD).
9. The Winners of the Pulitzer Prize 2022 were announced in May 2022. The Natanyahus by Joshua Cohen won in the fiction category. Frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss won in the poetry category.
10.  Chairman of Bajaj Finserv Limited, Sanjit Bajaj has assumed the office of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) President for the year 2022-2023, after replacing the CEO of Tata Steel, TV Narendran.
11. Indian archers wrapped up a highly successful Asia Cup 2022 Stage-2 campaign in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq with a total of 14 medals-eight golds, four silvers and two bronze.
12.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi used video conferencing to address the Utkarsh Samaroh in Bharuch, Gujarat.