Daily Current Affairs Quiz 27 May 2019

Corporation Bank has launched ‘Corp SME Suvidha’, a product for GST-registered MSMEs. The product has been designed as part of the bank's efforts to provide best products to MSME sector. PV Bharathi is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the bank

China won 2019 Sudirman Cup.

Scientists attempting to document indigenous medicinal knowledge of Zeliangrong ethnic group in Manipur have found new medicinal plants. Scientists identified plants like Gynura cusimbua, Hedyotis scandens, Mussaenda glabra and Schima wallichii whose medicinal usage are reported for the first time. Zeliangrong ethnic group is one of the 32 tribes in Manipur

World Thyroid Day observed on May 25.

TAFE, India’s second largest tractor manufacturer by volumes, appointed Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar as its brand ambassador for the Massey Ferguson brand of Tractors. TAFE is present across 100 countries as of now with a cumulative sale of about 2.5 million tractors.

Apurvi Chandela won gold medal in 10m Air Rifle in ISSF World Cup.

India bagged 57 medals at Open International tournament.

Police Officer Jitender Kumar posthumously was honoured with the Dag Hammarskjold Medal by the United Nations on 24 May 2019. He made the supreme sacrifice while serving in the UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). India is the fourth largest contributor of uniformed personnel to the UN peacekeeping

Shailesh Tinaikar is appointed as head UN peacekeeping operation in South Sudan.

Priyanka Mohite, a mountaineer from Satara, Maharashtra became the first Indian woman to successfully scale Mount Makalu. Mount Makalu is the fifth-highest mountain in the world at 8,481 metres. In 2013, Mohite had become the youngest girl from her state to have conquered the 8,848m Mount Everest — the highest peak in the world — becoming only the thirdyoungest Indian to do so.