GK Current Affairs Quiz: May 13, 2017

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The actor Amitabh Bachchan has been appointed as World Health Organization’s Goodwill Ambassador for Hepatitis in South-East Asia Region.

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Nagpur is set to become the country’s first city to get a fleet of electric cabs. The pilot project will see around 200 electric cabs in Nagpur and the local body will also provide charging stations across the city.

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According to the rankings of the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index, India has moved up to the 26th spot in the global electricity accessibility. India was at the 99th position in 2014, and jumped 73 ranks in 2016 to be at the 26th position.

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Former India batsman V.V.S. Laxman has been elected an honorary life member of Marylebone Cricket Club. Laxman joins Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and SouravGanguly as an honorary life member of MCC.

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A massive ransomware Cyber Attack dubbed WannaCry, targeted computers in 99 countries including India.More than 57,000 attacks have been detected so far and cyber security firms Kaspersky and Avast have confirmed this.

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India’s cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar was given the Fellowship Award at the 7th Annual Asian Awards. After retiring from cricket he now wants to spend time in helping the under- privileged.

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The Presidential Awards for Classical Tamil have been instituted to give recognition to distinguished scholars. The President gave the award for 2015-16 to Dr R Kalaikkovan.

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The annual hunting festival ‘BishuParv’ was observed in the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary in Jharkhand for the third consecutive year in a symbolic manner without bringing any harm to the wildlife of the Sanctuary.

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Online classifieds company Quikrhas acquired Zimmber, an on-demand household services provider, to further scale its hyper local household services business. This will help it shore up its growth in household services segment.

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The cultural wing of the Indian Embassy in Egypt (Cairo), the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culturewill hold the Tagore Festival, from May 8-12 featuring a dance show, film screening, a play and painting competition.