Current Affairs & GK Questions May 2021: Free Daily Current Affairs

Current Affairs May 2021: You might be looking for latest current affairs of May 2021. This post provides you all happenings (nationally & internationally) in May 2021 at one place. We are covering various sections including banking & finance, Indian and International affairs 2021, business & economy, environment current affairs, defense and many more.

Important Days in May 2021

Look at the important days & dates in May 2021:

Days in May Events
May 1 International Labour Day or & Maharashtra Day
May 3 Press Freedom Day
May 4 International Firefighters Day
May 5 World Laughter Day
May 7 World Athletics Day, World Asthma Day & Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti
May 8 World Thalassaemia Day & World Red Cross Day
May 10 Mother’s Day
May 11 National Technology Day
May 15 International Day of Families & National Endangered Species Day
May 16 Armed Forces Day
May 17 World Hypertension Day, World Telecommunication Day & National Endangered Species Day
May 18 International Museum Day & World AIDS Vaccine Day
May 21 National Anti-Terrorism Day
May 22 International Day for Biological Diversity
May 23 Eid al-Fitr
May 24 Eid
 May 25 National Memorial Day (USA)
May 31 Anti-Tobacco Day

Famous Cricketers’ Birthday in May

Cricketer Name Date of Birth Place
Ravi Shastri May 27, 1965 Mumbai
Bob Woolmer May 14, 1948 Kanpur
Woorkeri Raman May 23, 1965 Chennai
Ramesh Powar May 20, 1978 Nagpur
Pranav Dhanawade May 13, 2000 Kalyan
B. S. Chandrasekhar May 17, 1945 Mysore
Anjum Chopra May 20, 1977 New Delhi
E. A. S. Prasanna May 22, 1940 Bangalore
Amay Khurasiya May 18, 1972 Jabalpur
Javed Burki May 08, 1938 Meerut
Laxmi Ratan Shukla May 06, 1981 Howrah
Pankaj Roy May 31, 1928 Kolkata
Siddarth Kaul May 19, 1990 Pathankot
Vijay Dahiya May 10, 1973 Delhi
Shreevats Goswami May 18, 1989 Kolkata

May 2020 Current Affairs

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29th May 2020

Premier League is going to start from 17th June 2020.

Monsoon might hit Kerala in between 1st to 2nd June 2020.


28th May 2020

The FIA has approved Formula 1 cost cutting plan.


27th May 2020

Covid cases crosses 1.5 lakhs in India.

US company started vaccine trials on Human.


25th May 2020

US Government restricts travellers from Brazil.

India is set to resume domestic flights today.


23rd May 2020

Hana Kimura, a Japanese wrestler and Netfix fame is no more- dies at an age of 22.


22nd May 2020

Repo rate reduced to 4% where reverse repo rate reduced to 3.35% by RBI.


21st May 2020

IPL is likely to commence after monsoon.

Around 5 million Covid cases recorded globally till date.


20th May 2020

Total coronavirus cases in Russia is likely to hit 300,000.


19th May 2020

Benjamin Netanyahu is the new Israel Prime Minister (PM).

Cornoavirus cases cross 1 lakh in India.


18th May 2020

Spain and Italy ease out the lockdown due to fall in death across the country.

Lockdown 4.0 starts in India from today.


15th May 2020

Total death across world due to Corona exceeds 300,000.

Colleges and schools in the US will reopen- Says trump.


14th May 2020

Coronavirus infection may not end ever- WHO warns.

Lockdown 4.0 will start from 18th May 2021 in India.


13th May 2020

The Prime Minister of India announced $264bn relief packages for country.

IAS Manoj Ahuja has been apointed as CBSE new chairperson.

Twitter staffs are allowed to work from home forever- as per the official.


12th May 2020

Covid infection rate in increasing in Germany as it eases the lockdown.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar urges Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase lockdown till 31st May 2020.


11th May 2020

Lockdown in UK has been extended till June 1, 2021.

Indian Railway set to start pessenger train from 12th May 2021.

11th May is celebrated as National Technology Day in India.


9th May 2020

Magician Roy Horn welcomes death- dies aged 75 due to Covid contact.

Financial aids to 4000 underprivileged people have been provided by Sachin Tendulkar.


8th May 2020

e-token system has been launched by Kejriwal Government for the sale of liquor.

Germany’s Bundesliga is set to resume from 16th May 2020.


7th May 2020

Gas leakage in Visakhapatnam, India- 8 dead, many injured.

Germany’s Bundesliga is likely to resume this month.


6th May 2020

Lockdown in Telangana has been extended till 29th May 2020.

White House is planning to disband virus task force.


5th May 2020

Spain’s La Liga is likely to resort in June.

2900 Covid cases recorded in India on  Monday.


4th May 2020

US Presidents thinks that the vaccine for Covid-19 will be formulated by end of this year.

Lockdown in India has been extended for two weeks till 17th May from today.


1st May 2020

A co-founder of the Afrobeat musical genre and renowned Nigerian drummer Tony Allen died on 30th April aged 79.

NASA selected the companies suppose to develop landers in order to send astronauts to the Moon’s surface. Names of such companies are- Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, and Alabama-based Dynetics.

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