Current Affairs Recap of the Day: 01 May 2016

•    The Indian shooter who was named as the goodwill ambassador of India's Olympic contingent is - Abhinav Bindra

•    The former Jana Sangh President who died on 2 May 2016 in New Delhi is - Balraj Madhok



•    The state government that launched Adi Praman, a web-based application for tribal caste validity certificate is - Maharashtra

•    The former KPMG Director who was appointed Senior Vice President - Strategy & New Business Initiatives of Housing.com is - Dilip Tuli

•    The German Formula 1 Mercedes Driver who won the 2016 Russian Grand Prix is - Nico Rosberg

•    The IISc professor who was elected as the Fellow of the Royal Society for 2016 is - Sriram Ramaswamy

•    The theme of the International Labour Day that was celebrated on 1 May 2016- Celebrating the international labour movement

•    The scheme that was launched by PM Modi on 1 May 2016 to provide cooking gas connections to five crore below-poverty-line beneficiaries over the next three years- Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

•    India and Papua New Guinea on 29 April 2016 signed four agreements/MoUs during the official visit of - President Pranab Mukhrejee to Papua New Guinea

•    India on 1 May 2016 signed an Air Services Agreement paving the way for introduction of direct flights between the two countries with - New Zealand

•    High Court of a state on 30 April 2016 termed reservation in promotions in the state as unconstitutional - Madhya Pradesh

•    Indian team on 1 May 2016 bagged one silver and two bronze medals at Archery World Cup at - Yuanshen Stadium in Shanghai

•    Indian shooters bagged three gold medals and a bronze, on 1 May 2016, the opening day of the ISSF Junior World Cup in - Suhl, Germany 

•    An Indian-American journalist who was felicitated with a prestigious with Edgar A. Poe award on 1 May 2016 by US President Barack Obama - Neela Banerjee

•    The state that launched the Chandranna Bima Yojana, an insurance scheme for the working class people on the occasion of May Day - Andhra Pradesh

•    The first of the Scorpene class submarines that went to sea for the first time under its own propulsion for the first sea trial, off the Mumbai coast on 1 May 2016- Kalvari

•    This month was declared as Autism Awareness Month by the Union Government - April