Current Affairs Recap of the Day: 30 May 2016

•    The Indian woman author who won the 'Scholastic Asian Book Award' for 32000-word manuscript "Codex: The Lost Treasure of the Indus" is - Aditi Krishnakumar

•    He was adjudged as the player of the match in the final match of 2016 Indian Premier League - Ben Cutting


•    He was adjudged as the player of the series in the final match of 2016 Indian Premier League - Virat Kohli

•    The Indian-American scientist who received the prestigious Springer Theses award for his research in which he developed transgenic mice to study a critical tumor-suppressor called A20 - Arnab De

•    Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar inaugurated second submarine assembly workshop at - Mazagon Dock Limited

•    Nine-coach Spanish train Talgo’s trial run was conducted on rail route - Bareilly-Moradabad route

•    The football club that won 2016 European Champions League by defeating Atletico Madrid is - Real Madrid

•    The Nepali soldier won the world's highest marathon on Mount Everest is - Bed Bahadur Sunuwar

•    The annual world's highest marathon on Mount Everest marks the anniversary of the first summit of the peak by - Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary in 1953

•    The six regional languages in which the official website of Prime Minister's Office will be available are - Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali 

•    The theme of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers 2016 that is observed annually on is - Honouring Our Heroes

•    The President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented the Malti Devi Gyan Peeth Puraskar for the year 2016. The award is given in the field of – Education

•    The 17th Asian Junior Athletics Championships will be held from 3 June to 6 June 2016 in - Vietnam

•    A V S Ramesh Chandra was recently appointed the Ambassador of India to – Romania

•    The discus thrower from India who recently qualified for the Rio Olympics 2016 is - Seema Punia

•    She was conferred the Nari Jagran Samman-2016 award by the Nari Jagran magazine in Varanasi - Heeraben (PM Modi’s Mother)

•    She became the fourth woman Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory after assuming charge of Puducherry -Kiran Bedi  

•    The country that declared the launch of first quantum communication through a satellite in the world - China

•    This is the first experimental inflatable room attached to the International Space Station that was successfully deployed by NASA in May 2016- Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM)