CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 26th MAY 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF  26^th  MAY 2022

1. World Health Organisation has re-appointed Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director-General of WHO for the second term with effect from 16^th August 2022.
2. Union Health Secretary, Rajesh Bhushan has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee B at the 75^th World Health Assembly (WHA).
3. The World Economic  Forum’s (WEF) ranked India 54^th position with a score of 4.1 in its Travel and Tourism Development Index 2021, but still, India remains the top performer in South Asia.
4. A new book titled “Listen to Your Heart: The London Adventure” authored by Ruskin Bond was published by Penguin Random House India (PRHI) on Ruskin Bond’s 88^th birthday.
5. The Olympic Values Education Programme (OVEP) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was launched in Odisha by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, in collaboration with the Abhinav Bindra Foundation Trust (ABFT).
6. Kolkata is the first metro city in the country to prepare a detailed register of biodiversity.
7. The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has signed 2 quadripartite agreements for development of sewage infrastructure for Maheshtala in West Bengal under Hybrid Annuity Mode.
8.  President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the National Women Legislators’ Conference-2022 in Thiruvananthapuram on 26 May 2022.
9.  Narinder Batra has tendered his resignation from the post of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President.
10. West Bengal’s Piyali Basak, on 22 May 2022, became the first Indian woman to scale Mt. Everest without supplementary oxygen.
11. Nirdeshak, a survey vessel of the Indian Navy, was launched at Kattupalli near Chennai on 26 May 2022.
12.  Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated India’a ‘First Lavender Festival’ in Bhaderwah, Jammu and Kashmir on 26 May 2022.