General Awareness

• The winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize – Laszlo Krasznahorkai
• PM of Mongolia – Chimed Saikhanbileg
• World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) – 17 May
• MD and CEO of Syndicate bank – Arun Shrivastava
• India's Position in Global Human Capital Index 2015 - 100

Top 10 of Forbes World's Most Powerful Women List

1. Angela Merkel (German Chancellor)
2. Hillary Clinton (US presidential hopeful)
3. Melinda Gates (Philanthriopist / Bill Gate’s wife)
4. Janet Yellen (Federal Reserve Chair)
5. Mary Barra (GMCEO)
6. Christine Lagarde (IMF Chief)
7. Dilma Rousseff (Brazilian President)
8. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook COO)
9. SusanWojcicki (YouTube CEO)
10. Michelle Obama (US First Lady)

IndianWomen in the List

• Arundhathi Bhattacharya - 30th Rank
• Chanda Kochhar - 35th Rank
• Kiran Mazumdar Shaw - 85th Rank
• Shobhana Bhartia - 93rd Rank

Awards and Honours

• Anurradha Prasad - Pt. Haridutt Sharma Award (Journalism and Social Services)
• C.N.R. Rao - the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star Award (Japan's highest civilian award)
• Charlie Hebdo (French satirical magazine) - 2015 PEN Freedom of Expression Courage award
• Dr. Siva Mandjiny - UNC Board of Governors 2015 Award for Excellence in Teaching
• Gurnimrat ‘Nimmy’ Sidhu - University of Oxford Inspirational Teacher Award
• Harkeert Singh Saini - Top Civilian Supervisor of the Year (Texas)
• Lance Naik Nand Ram, Raju Joseph - UN’s Dag Hammarskjold Medal
• Laszlo Krasznahorkai - Man Booker International Prize 2015
• Manabi Bandopadhyay - 1st third gender principal in India
• Masaan (Indian Film) - FIPRESCI Award at 68th Cannes film festival
• Nadia district (West Bengal) - 2015 United Nations Public Service Award
• Neel Mukherjee (The Lives of Others) - UK's Encore Award 2015
• Punjab -World No Tobacco Day Award 2015
• Shashi Kapoor - Dada Saheb Phalke award 2015
• Sivanadane Mandjiny - UNC Board of Governors 2015 Award
• Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Limited (TNPL) - Dun and Bradstreet Corporate Award

New Appoinments

• Achal Kumar Jyoti - Election Commissioner
• Akhil Amar - Member, National Council on Humanities (US)
• Anindo Majumdar - CMD, Delhi Finance Corporation
• Arun Jha - Secretary, Tribal Affairs
• Arun shrivastava - MD & CEO, Syndicate bank
• Arvind Saxena - Member, UPSC (first RAWofficer)
• Deepak Iyer - CMD, Bharti AXA General Insurance
• Dr Syed Ahmed - Governor,Manipur
• Draupadi Murmu - 1st Woman Governor of Jharkhand.
• G Mohan Kumar - Secretary, Ministry of Defence (MoD)
• George Yeo - Chancellor, Nalanda University
• GS Reddy - Scientific Adviser, Defence minister
• Harbhajan Kaur Dheer - 1st Asian woman elected mayor, Ealing Council in London
• J Jayalalithaa - Chief Minister, Tamil Nadu
• J P Nadda - President, 68thWorld Health Assembly
• J P Rajkhowa - Governor, Arunachal Pradesh
• Justice Cyriac Joseph - Head, NHRC (National Human Rights Commission)
• KV Kamath - President, New Development Bank (BRICS Bank)
• MJ Joseph - Controller General of Accounts (CGA)
• Manoj Mishra - CMD, National Fertilizers Ltd (NFL)
• Mhairi Black - Britain's youngest member of parliament
• Mukesh Khanna - Chairperson, CFSI
• Navneet RajanWasan - DG, BPR&D
• Nirbhay Sharma - Governor,Mizoram
• Parvinder Singh Batth - Mayor of Britain’s Wokingham Borough Council (1st Sikh)
• Pawan Goenka - Honorary Ambassador, Korea
• Pradeep Kumar Sinha - Cabinet Secretary
• Ranjit Singh Baxi - Head, Bureau of International Recycling
• S Chandra Das - Singapore's non-Resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka
• Sanjita Pradhan - US President's Advisory Commission(AAPIS)
• Satish Reddy - Chairman, National Safety Council (NSC).
• Selvin Christopher - Chief, DRDO
• SS Ahluwalia - Chairman, JPC on Land Acquisition Amendment Bill 2015
• Sunil D’Souza - MD,Whirlpool India
• Surender Singh - Director General, CISF
• Tathagata Roy - Governor, Tripura
• V Shanmuganathan - Governor,Meghalaya
• Veena Jain - (DG) of News, Doordarshan
• Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodeyar - Head, Mysuru royal family

Venues forthcoming sports

VENUES OF FORTHCOMING SPORTS TOURNAMENTS
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2016 Olympics - Rio de Genero (Brazil)
2020 Olympics - Tokyo (Japan)
2016 Summer Paralympics - Rio de Genero (Brazil)
2018 FIFA World Cup - Russia
2022 World Cup Football - Qatar
2018 Commonwealth Games - Gold Coast (Australia)
2016 Euro Cup Football - France
2016 ICC World Twenty20 - India
2019 World Cup Cricket - England
2016 T-20 World Cup Cricket - India
2023 World Cup Cricket - India