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1.
India successfully test-fired the
indigenously built Akash missile
2.
Malaysian private equity company Navis
Capital Partners acquired the stake of Samir Kuckreja the co-owner of Nirula’s
to gain complete control over homegrown fast food chain
3. Kolkata
Knight Riders beat Chennai Super Kings to win Indian Premier League Season 5
4.
Praveen Rana, the young Indian wrestler,
clinched the 66kg freestyle title on the final day of the first Hari Ram Indian
Grand Prix wrestling championship
5.
Sahara India Pariwar signed an agreement
with the Bangladesh government to design and develop a new city Notun Dhaka
(New Dhaka) on 28 May 2012
6.
Cyrus Mistry, the Chairman-designate of
Tata groups was appointed as an additional director on the board of Tata Steel
on 21 May 2012
7.
he Andhra Pradesh High Court on 28 May
2012 invalidated the 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities carved out of the 27
per cent
8.
Tripura Industrial Development
Corporation (TIDC) on 28 May 2012 announced to set up North-East India’s fifth
Software Technology Park in Tripura
9.
India’s third largest private sector
lender Axis Bank on 28 May 2012 signed an agreement with Ahli United Bank
B.S.C., Bahrain for remitting money from Bahrain to any person in India
10.
Rahul Bhattacharya, the Delhi-based
author, on 29 May 2012 won the prestigious Ondaatje Prize 2012 for his
book The Sly Company of People Who Care.
11.
Pakistan on 29 May 2012 successfully
test-fired a short-range Hatf 9 (Nasr) missile. The missile which has a range
of 60 kilometers
12.
Mark Webber of Red Bull raced ahead to
emerge victorious in the Monaco Grand Prix on 27 May 2012
13.
India’s ace chess player Vishwanathan
Anand on 30 May 2012 claimed the FIDE ( Federation Internationale des Echec)
World Chess Title for the record fifth time
14.
India’s leading telecom company Bharti
Airtel on 23 May 2012, acquired 49 per cent stake in Qualcomm’s broadband
wireless access
15.
paniard Rafael Nadal defeated world no.
1 Novak Djokovic to claim his sixth Italian Open Title on 21 May 2012
16.
Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova
defeated Li Na of China to retain the Italian Open title on 20 May 2012
17.
Honda launched Dream Yuga, its first low
cost mass motorcycle in Indian market on 16 May 2012
18.
Jean-Marc Ayrault a moderate Socialist
took over as the France’s new Prime Minister on 16 May 2012
19.
Saurabh Chandra, Secretary, Department
of Industrial Policy and Promotion, was slated to hold the additional charge of
the post of Secretary of the Department of Commerce
20.
Malaysia defeated Pakistan to win the
Junior Hockey World Cup 2012.
21.
The Union Government of India appointed
Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar as the new chairman of the Telecom Regulatory
Authority of India
22.
akistan successfully test-fired Hatf III
Ghaznavi missile on 10 May 2012
23.
Vladimir Putin the former Russian Prime
Minister and the president of the United Russia Party took the oath as the
President of Russia
24.
UTI Mutual Fund's Chief Marketing
Officer Jaideep Bhattacharya stepped down from his post
25.
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee
on 4 May 2012 was elected as Chair of the Asian Development Bank’s Board of
Governors
26.
Union Rural development Ministry of
India roped in National award winning actor Vidya Balan as the brand ambassador
for improving the state of sanitation in the country
27.
Seven-time World snooker champion
Stephen Hendry announced his retirement 1 May 2012 after losing in the
quarterfinals at the World Championships
28. RBI
on 2 May 2012 published guidelines for implementation of the new global capital
adequacy norms, called Basel III, by March 2018
29.
BV Vanchoo was appointed the Governor of
Goa on 28 April 2012. A 1976-batch IPS officer from West Bengal cadre
30.
India's top-seeded snooker player Aditya
Mehta defeated compatriot and seven-time world champion Pankaj Advani to win
28th Asian snooker title.
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