GK Current Affairs Quiz: May 21, 2017

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Scientists at NASA have named a new organism discovered by them after former president A P J Abdul Kalam.

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The world’s largest Tech fund, backed by Japan’s Sof tbank Group and Saudi Arabia’s main sovereign wealth fund, has raised over USD93 billion.

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Trade ministers of 16 countries, including India, will meet in Vietnam to discuss progress in the ongoing negotiations of proposed mega trade deal RCEP.

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Brijmohan Sharma has become the first civilian from the Indian Navy to summit Mount Everest.

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Every year May 21 is observed as National Anti-Terrorism day because on this day Former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, was assassinated by a suicide bomber while conducting an election campaign in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu.

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India and Chile have signed a pact on the expansion of the India–Chile Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA).This agreement will improve commercial relations between both the countries.

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India registered its vote in 1947 against the partition of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly. In 1974, India became the first Non-Arab State to recognize PLO as sole and legitimate representative of the people of Palestine. Recently,India and Palestine has signed five agreements in different areas including health, agriculture, and Information Technology.

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David Letterman will receive the 2017 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the annual award given out annually by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

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Bajrang Punia won the gold medal on the penultimate day of the Asian Wrestling Championship, after defeating South Korea’s Seunghui Lee 6-2 in the men’s 65kg freestyle category at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex.

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A Indian National Science Academy (INSA) medal in the Young Scientist category for 2017 has been awarded to a professor in the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Dr Aravind Kumar Rengan, assistant professor in the department of biomedical engineering at IIT Hyderabad, has been given the award for having devised a novel way of nano-delivery using liposomes and gold nano particles, which is useful for both imaging and therapeutics.