• Union Cabinet approves the Polavaram Project. • India ranked no 1 in Twenty20 International Team ranking. • Trap Shooter, Manavjit Sandhu ranked at third spot in ISSF World Ranking. • K Natarajan takes over as 21st Command of Coastal Guard Region (A&N). • RBI allows the minors of age above 10 years to open Savings bank account. • Archana Ramasundara, appointed as first Woman Additional Director of CBI. • President of India launches Indigenous Card payment System Rupay. • SEBI exempts Etihad from making open offer in Jet deal. • India honoured with New Frontiers Award 2014. • Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Janardhan Reddy dies. • President confers National Florence Nightingale Awards on 35 nursing personnel. • RBI allows bank branches abroad to sell structured products. • Manipur wins Senior National Women’s Football Champions title. • Nayak Committee to Review Governance of Boards of Banks in India submits its report to RBI. • Pankaj Advani wins CCI Billiards title. • Russi Mody, the former Tata Steels Chairman dies. • Nitish Kumar resigns as Bihar Chief Minister. • N Srinivasan, the veteran nuclear scientist dies. • Nabam Tuki sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. • Competition Appellate Tribunal upheld 630 crore rupees penalty on DLF. • President appointed Narendra Modi as Prime Minister. • Jitan Ram Manjhi took oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar. • RBI directed all banks to install disabled friendly new ATMs. • RBI eased gold import norms under 20:80 Scheme. • Indian-American student Akhil Rekulapelli won National Geographic Bee Championship. • Project Mobile Seva under Deity won the 2014 United National Public Service Award. • Naveen Patnaik sworn-in as Chief Minister of Odisha for fourth consecutive term. • Pawan Chamling sworn-in as Chief Minister of Sikkim for record 5th term. • Bharatiya Mahila Bank included in Second Schedule of RBI Act, 1934. • Anandiben Patel sworn-in as first woman Chief Minister of Gujarat. • TR Zeliang sworn-in as new Chief Minister of Nagaland. • RBI tightened acquisition & merger rules for Non-Banking Financial Companies. • Sachin Tendulkar selected as goodwill ambassador for 35th National Games. • Vishwanath Tripathi received Vyas Samman 2013. • India signed loan agreement with World Bank for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan III. • RIL announced to buy 78 percent in Network18 for 4000 crore rupees. World Watch (Banking General Awareness- May 2014) • Four Indians win Harvard Business School New Venture Competition awards. • Elena Baltacha, the former British Tennis player dies due of liver cancer. • Waqar younis appointed as head coach of Pakistan cricket team. • Mark Selby wins World Snooker Championship 2014. • Vikaram Sunderam wins Best Chef in the Mid-Atlantic of James Beard Awards 2014. • Kuwait renews crude supply contracts with BPCL. • IAA receives International Arch of Europe Award. • O’Sullivan named as Snooker’s Player of the Year. • Indian documentary ‘Silent Screams’ wins three awards at US festival. • Caparo Group wins International Business of the Year award 2014. • Indian-American Mitul Kadakia wins 2014 Gregory Bradeb Memorial Fellow of the Year Award. • 6.5 Million Jobs globally provided by Renewable Energy in 2013: IRENA • Rafael Nadal wins Madrid Open Title. • Maria Sharapova defeats Simona Halep to win Madrid Open title. • Shah Rukh Khan features on the cover page of magazine Forbes Middle East. • AIBA approved Boxing India as the new provisional member to represent India. • Novak Djokovic wins the Men’s Italian Tennis Open 2014 for the third time. • Serena Willliams wins the Women’s Italian tennis Open 2014 for the third time. • UK based Marks & Spencer announced to open 100 stores in India. • Russia and China signed 30 year deal on natural gas worth of 400 billion dollars. • Dalia Grybauskaite won the Presidential election of Lithuania. • Japan won the Thomas Cup 2014 of badminton. • Japan won AFC Women’s Asian Football Cup 2014. • Film Winter Sleep honoured with Palme d’Or Award at 67th Cannes Film Festival. • Brazil announced measures to make FIFA World Cup 2014 eco-friendly. • Brazuca balls to be used in FIFA World Cup 2014 to have six in-built HD cameras. • Azlan Shah-The Father of Malaysian hockey died at 86. • Maya Angelou, the American author and poet died. • 8 Indian Soldiers posthumously awarded with prestigious Dag Hammarskjold Medal of UN.
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