Current Affairs Recap of the Day: 31 May 2016

•    Indian music composer who has been awarded with the Japan's Fukuoka prize 2016- AR Rehman

•    The name of the campaign of World No Tobacco Day observed annually on 31 May – Get Ready for Plain Packaging

•    The Draft Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill 2016 makes clear distinction between the - Trafficker and Trafficked


•    Noted Kannada writer who passed away and played an important role in getting the classical language status for Kannada- D Javare Gowda

•    Veteran TV and film actor who passed away and was known for his role in TV Serial FIR- Suresh Chatwal

•    The cricketer who broke Sachin Tendulkar's record and became the youngest to reach 10000 runs in Tests cricket is - Alastair Cook

•    This University in Chandigarh signed a MoU with Ministry of Railways to set up Kalpana Chawla Chair on Geospatial Technology for Indian Railways at the campus - PEC University of Technology

•    Vice Admiral A R Karve recently took charge of - India's Southern Naval Command

•    The Bollywood actor who recently became the Goodwill Ambassador for the LEPRA India is - R Madhavan

•    The 1985 batch IPC officer who was recently appointed the Director General of West Bengal Police is - Surajit Kar Purkayastha

•    The Formula One driver who won the 2016 Monaco F1 Grand Prix is - Lewis Hamilton

•    Name of the wheelchair racer who became the first to complete a mile-long race in less than three minutes - David Weir

•    This country hosted the 42nd G7 Summit in May 2016 – Japan

•    This Indian boxer won the silver medal in 2016 World Boxing Championships in 57kg category –Sonia Lather

•    This city hosted the 2016 Women’s World Boxing Championships in May 2016 – Astana in Kazakhstan

•    He became the first Indian to play top-tier European football league match - Gurpreet Singh Sandhu

•    He was officially declared to be the president-elect by the parliament of Philippine -Rodrigo Digong Duterte

•    He was named as the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year and also International Batsman of the Year 2016- Joe Root

•    He was conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award in the CEAT cricket awards 2016- Dilip Vengsarkar