1) S Christopher appointed DRDO chief:
--> Eminent scientist S Christopher was
on 28 May 2015 appointed as Director General of the Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO) for a two-year term.
--> Christopher is presently
Distinguished Scientist and Programme Director (airborne early warning and
control system) and Director, Centre for Air-Borne Systems in the DRDO.
--> Another scientist G S Reddy was
appointed as the Scientificc Adviser to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar for a
two-year term.
2) K Sivan appinted VSSC Director:
--> K Sivan will be the new director of
the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thumba.
--> He will succeed M Chandradathan who
is stepping down on 29 May 2015.
--> Sivan is currently director, Liquid
Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) which has its Headquarters at Valiamala,
Thiruvananthapuram.
3) India tops world hunger list with 194 million people:
--> India is home to 194.6 million
undernourished people, the highest in the world, according to the annual report
by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released.
--> This translates into over 15 per
cent of India’s population, exceeding China in both absolute numbers and
proportion of malnourished people in the country's population.
4) Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar is Mysuru’s new
‘Maharaja’:
--> Yaduveer Raj, was crowned as the new
Maharaja of Mysuru, a titular and nominal head of the 600-year-old Wadiyar
dynasty in southern India.
--> The coronation ceremony was held at
the Wadiyar dynasty’s Amba Vilas Palace in Mysuru.
--> He is 23-year-old and economics
graduate from the University of Massachusetts, US.
5) Abhinav Bindra becomes 4th Indian shooter to qualify for
2016 Rio Olympics:
--> Abhinav Bindra has become the fourth
Indian shooter to win a quota place for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
--> He got qualified to 2016 Olympics
after finishing sixth in the Men’s 10 metre Air Rifle final at the
International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Shooting World Cup held in
Munich, Germany.
6) Latha Venkataraman, an NRI scientist creates first single
molecule device:
--> Latha Venkataraman, an NRI scientist
from the United States, has created a single molecule device that can be used
for nano-scale devices.
--> It has been claimed that it can
perform 50 times better than all the designs that have been created so far.
--> The idea for it was suggested way
back in 1974, by Mark Ratner and Arieh Aviram.
7) Sevilla won record 4th Europa League trophy:
--> Colombian striker Carlos Bacca
claimed a double as Sevilla made Europa League history by seeing off Dnipro to
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