Latest Who is Who - May 2016 - Free PDF Download

Hi Aspirants, here is the latest Important Personalities in India holding various Posts as of May 2016. This will be very useful for all upcoming competitive exams in India. You can also download this as Pocket PDF for ready reference from the below link. 

1. President of India- Shri Pranab Kumar Mukherjee

2. Prime Minster of India- Narendra Modi

3. Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India: Justice T. S. Thakur

4. Chairman of NITI Aayog: Narendra Modi

5. Vice chairman of NITI Aayog: Arvind Panagariya

6. Chairman of Sangeet Natak Academy: Shekhar Sen

7. President of Sahitya Academy: Dr. Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari

8. Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG): Shashi Kant Sharma

9. Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC): K V Chowdary

10. Chairman of the Election Commission /Chief Election Commissioner: Dr. Nasim Zaidi

11. Attorney General of India: Mukul Rohatgi

12. Solicitor General of India : Ranjit Kumar

13. Governor of Reserve Bank of India: Raghuram Rajan

14. Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Sumitra Mahajan

15. Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha: M Thambidurai

16. Chairman of the Rajya Sabha: Mohammad Hamid Ansari

17. Deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha: P.J. Kurien

18. Law minister to the Government of India : D. V. Sadananda Gowda

19. Chief of the Army Staff: General Dalbir Singh Suhag

20. Chief of the Air Staff: Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha

21. Chief of the Naval Staff: Admiral Robin K. Dhowan

22. Chairman of Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI): U. K. Sinha

23. Central Information Commissioner (CIC): Radhakrishna Mathur

24. Chairperson of Prasar Bharti of India: Dr A Surya Prakash

25. Chief Executive Officer of Prasar Bharti of India: Shri Jawhar Sircar

26. Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII): Sumit Mazumder

27. Director General of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII):  Chandrajeet Banerjee

28. President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industries (FICCI): Harshavardhan Neotia

29. President of National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM): R Chandrasekhar

30. Chairman of National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM): C P Gurnani

31. Chairman of National School of Drama: Ratan Thiyam

32. Director General of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research: Dr. Girish Sahni

33. Director of Indian Agriculture Research Institute(IARI): Dr. Ravinder Kaur

34. Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC): S.K. Roy

35. Chairman cum Managing Director of (CMD) of General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC): Mrs Alice G Vaidyan

36. Chairman of Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority (IRDA):  T S Vijayan

37. Chairman of National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD): Harsh Kumar Bhanwala

38. Chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC): Vipul Ved Prakash

39. Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI): Mahendra Mohan Gupta

40. Chairman of the State Bank of India:  Arundhati Bhattacharya

41. Secretary General of Lok Sabha:  Anoop Mishra

42. Secretary –General of the Rajya Sabha: Shumsher K Sheriff

43. Chairperson of the Children Film Society of India: Mukesh Khanna

44. Chairman of National Film Development Corporation of India: Ramesh Sippy

45. Chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC): Deepak Gupta

46. Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI): Ram Sewak Sharma

47. Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India: Pradeep Kumar Sinha

48. President of ASSOCHAM: Mr Rana Kapoor

49. Chief of the Integrated Defense staff: Air Marshal P.P. Reddy

50. Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI): Anil Sinha

51. Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO): A.S.Kiran Kumar

52. Chairman of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB): T. Nanda Kumar

53. President of Indian National Congress: Smt. Sonia Gandhi

54. President of Bharatiya Janata Party : Amit Shah

55. General Secretary of CPI(M): Sitaram Yechury

56. Chairman Atomic Energy Commission: Sekhar Basu

57. Foreign Secretary of India: S. Jaishankar

58. National Security Adviser of India: Ajit Doval

59. Director General of CRPF:     K Durga Prasad

60. Present two Election Commissioner's: Sh. A K Joti and Sh. Om Prakash Rawat
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Current Affairs May 2016 PDF Download - First Week

Hi Aspirants, Here are the Important Current Affairs Questions from the first week of May 2016 useful for all upcoming competitive exams. We have covered all the important happenings of the week keeping in mind all the upcoming exams like Civil Services Exam 2016, SBI PO 2016, SBI Clerk 2016, University Assistant Exam 2016, SSC CGL 2016 Tier-1, SSC Stenographer Exam, SSC CHSL 2016 etc. You can download the PDF from the below link.

1) Who was appointed as the next Chief of the Naval Staff on 5 May 2016? - Vice Admiral Sunil Lanba

Note: He will assume the charge on 31 May 2016 as the 23rd chief of Indian Navy and 21st as an Indian. He will succeed present Navy Chief Admiral Robin K. Dhowan, who will superannuate from the post on 31 May 2016.

2) President Pranab Mukherjee on 3 May 2016 conferred National film awards for the year 2015 in various categories at the 63rd National Film Awards Function held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The President also conferred 2015 Dada Saheb Phalke Award to? - Manoj Kumar

3) Which club was crowned as champions of English Premier League on 2 May 2016? - Leicester City

Note: This is the first time in the club’s 132-year history that Leicester is champion of England.

4) Who was on 6 May 2016 appointed as head coach of Pakistan Cricket Team? - Mickey Arthur

Note: He succeeded Waqar Younis, who resigned after Pakistan's early exit from the World T20 tournament.

5) Which bank on 6 May 2016 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the New Development Bank (NDB) of BRICS to establish a strategic partnership in the areas of bond issuances, co-financing, treasury management and human resources? - ICICI Bank

Note: NDB is a multilateral development bank established by the BRICS states which are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

6) Which country on 6 May 2016 won the Asian Kabaddi Championship 2016 (Circle Style)? - Pakistan

Note: Tournament was held at Wah Cantonment in Pakistan. They defeated India by 19 points.

7) World Press Freedom Day was on 3 May 2016 observed across the world with the theme? - Access to Information and Fundamental Freedoms - This Is Your Right!

8) Who on 1 May 2016 won 2016 Russian Grand Prix? - Nico Rosberg

9) Who on 24 April 2016 created a record by scoring 21-ball century in the Tobago Cricket Association’s T20 tournament at Louis D'or? - Tobago batsman Iraq Thomas

10) Alberta Wildfire hit which country in the first week of May 2016? – Canada

11) Name the Indian who won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2016, for the Asia region? - Parashar Kulkarni

12) Who on 2 May 2016 won World Championship title of Snooker? - Mark Selby

13) Supreme Court banned all diesel cabs in which city from May 1? - NCR-Delhi

14) Who on 28 April 2016 won the prestigious Mandela - Graça Machel Innovation Award 2016 in Bogota, Colombia? - Tabassum Adnan, a women’s rights activist from Pakistan

15) International Labour Day was celebrated on 1 May 2016 with theme? - Celebrating the international labour movement

16) The International Jazz Day 2016 was observed across the world on? - 30 April 2016

17) Who on 4 May 2016 took over as the part-time Chairperson in the National Statistical Commission? - Dr Radha Binod Barman

18) United States of America (US) Navy on 2 May 2016 tested the world's largest unmanned surface vessel named ____ in San Diego? - Sea Hunter

19) ____ Committee on Yoga Education in Universities has recommended seven programmes for implementation in universities on 5 May 2016? - H.R. Nagendra Committee

20) Who was on 5 May 2016 appointed the Chief of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)? - Senior IPS officer Kumar Rajesh Chandra

21) Who was re-elected as Prime Minister of Ireland on 6 May 2016? - Taoiseach Enda Kenny

22) Which state government on 1 May 2016 launched Chandranna Bima Yojana? - Andhra Pradesh

23) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1 May 2016 launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) at? - Ballia, Uttar Pradesh

24) Which organization recently released a report titled ‘Protecting people through nature’ with the subtitle ‘Natural world heritage sites as Drivers of sustainable development.'? - World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

25) Name the new Offshore patrol vessel launched on 5 May 2016? - ICGS Shaurya

26) Indian Navy on 28 April 2016 decommissioned Indian Naval Ships ____ and ___ at a ceremony in the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai? - (INS) Veer and Nipat

27) Which state government recently launched Adi Praman, online app for tribal caste validity certificate? - Maharashtra 

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