CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 24th MAY 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF  24th  MAY 2022

1. Commonwealth Day is traditionally commemorated on the second Monday of March. India and a few other countries celebrate it on 24 May.
2. GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandha has won 36th Reykjavik Open 2022.
3. Former independence fighter and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Jose Ramos-Horta has been sworn in as President of East Timor (Timor-Leste).
4. Indian Railways and IIT Madras will partner to develop India’s first indigenous Hyperloop.
5. Manchester City has won over Aston Villa in the final game of 2021-22 Premier League Football championship.
6. Khadi commission Chief Vinai Kumar Saxena will be appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.
7. India-Jordan struck an agreement to cooperate in fertilisers sector. A high-level group led by Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya visited Jordan in a first-of-its-kind endeavour with goal of securing fertilisers for the short and long term.
8. The Army Training Command and Gandhinagar-based Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a Wargame Research and Development Centre by the prototype name ‘WARDEC’ in New Delhi. It will be India’s first simulation-based training centre which will use artificial intelligence (AI) to create virtual reality wargames.
9. The state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has become the first Indian exploration and production firm to sell domestic gas on the Indian Gas Exchange.
10.  Haryana won the Hockey India sub-junior women's national championship 2022 in   Imphal, defeating Jharkhand 2-0 in the final.
11. The DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) has granted air operator’s permit to Jet Airways to start commercial flights.
12.  Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of Health, addresses at the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva and advocated for simplifying WHO’s vaccine and treatment approval procedures.
13.  Minister for Energy and Urban Development Arvind Sharma has launched the SAMBHAV (Systemic Administration Mechanism for Bringing Happiness and Value) portal for disposal of public grievances and monitoring programmes and schemes of the two departments in Uttar Pradesh.
14.  India joined a dozen other nations to launch the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), a US-led trade initiative meant to counter China’s aggressive expansion in the region.
15.  The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to examine using non-fungible tokens (NFT) for Women’s T20 Challenge.
16. The Department of Information and Public Relations of J&K signed a MOU with the National Film Development Corporation Limited for the National Film Festival of Jammu and Kashmir.