• 1st of May is celebrated as the International Worker’s Day across the World with a theme of “Celebrating the International Labor Movement”.
• PM Modi launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in Ballia, UP which will felicitate 5 crore LPG cylinder worth 8000 crore spending to below-poverty-line people and poor woman for 3 years.
• PM Modi launched country’s 1st solar powered e-Boat at Assi Ghat, river Ganga in Varanasi, UP.
• Govt declared that along with Sanskrit all 4 south language Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Odiya.
• India and New Zealand signed agreement for direct Air service between two countries.
• Paytm tied up with Wipro for payment banks to deal with anti money laundering and payment bank business IT service.
• GBI and Airtel tied up for a partnership for operating in West Asia.
• Wipro launched 1st all-woman IT Park in Saudi Arabia.
• Andhra Pradesh will become 1st open defection free state in India by 2nd October, 2016.
• Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ministry ruled Real Estate Act effect from 1st May, 2016 after a long 8 years.
• Hanle, Ladakh is nominated as one of place where world’s largest Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) can be set up. India holds 10% in this project along with China, Japan, Canada and USA.
• Indian naval ship INS Airavat reached at ADMM Plus (ASEAN Defense Minister Plus Meeting) Naval Exercise to take part which will going to be conducted in Brunei and Singapore.
• List published by Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union Intellectual Property Office stated that India ranked 5th in export of forge (fake) goods trade where China is ranked 1st with 63% share in worldwide fake goods trade. Top countries affected by fake goods are-USA, Italy, France, Switzerland, Japan.
• An Indian American journalist Neela Benerjee receives Edgar A Poe Award by President Barack Obama for journalism ethics.
• Indian navy’s 1st Scorpene class stleath submarine INS Kalavari starts trial.
• Indian Archery Team won 1 silver, 2 bronze in Archery World Cup held in Shanghai, China.
• Pro boxer of India Vijender Singh won his 5th consecutive match.
• Anil Ambani owned Reliance Defense captured 15 new defense license.
• A 625 acre campus of IIT will be set up at Jagti, Nagrota, J&K.
• Australian Craig Wright declared himself as the founder of virtual currency system Bitcoin. He developed it with a pseudo name “Satoshi Nakamoto”.
• IAS officer Ajay Mittal appointed as the Information & Broadcasting secretary of India.
• Nico Rosberg of Mercedes won Russian Grand Prix.
• Aam Admi Party founding member Ilyas Azmi quit the part for lack of inner democracy within the party.
• According to e-learning site Coursera after USA and China India is the 3rd largest e-learning country with 1.3 million registered users.
• UK born New Zealand citizen William Trubridge created a world record in free diving by plunging 122 meter in Deans Blue Hole in Bahamas.
• Leicester City forward Jamie Vardy named player of the year by Football Writers Association
• Health care start-up Practo hired former InMobi CFO Manish Dugar.
• Indian racer Gaurav Gill won Whangarei International Rally 2016.
• Indian origin US based squash player Vikram Malhotra won PSA Charlotte Open.
• China replaced all business tax and replaced it with VAT in 4 sector- real estate, construction, finance and consumer service.
• Canada based biochemist created world’s smallest thermometer from DNA and its size is 20000 times smaller than human hair.
• Amritsar based Golden Temple launched “free Wi-Fi” for the devotees.
• Gujarat govt said that 300 Smart Villages to be developed in the state.
• Axar Patel, bowler of IPL team King XI Punjab took 1st Hat-trick of IPL 2016.
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