DAILY FREE CURRENT AFFAIRS 22 MAY 2015

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 22 MAY 2015
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1.   BARACK OBAMA ENTERED GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORD:
i. United States President Barack Obama entered Guinness Book of World Record.
ii.   Obama entered Guinness Book of World Record for Reaching a million followers on twitter in a spam of mere 5 hours after going live.
iii.  Previous the record was hold by Iron Man Star Robert Downey Jr.
2.   INDIA –SOUTH AFRICA JOINT MINISTERIAL COMMISSION:
i.    9th session of India-South Africa Joint Ministerial commission held in Durban
ii.  Session was chaired by minister for external affairs and overseas Indian affairs SushmaSwaraj and her counterpart MaiteNkoanaMashabane
iii.  Next session will held in 2017 in India
3. ASTRA MISSILE SUCCESSFULLY TEST FIRED:
i. Indigenously developed Astra Missile successfully test fired from ITR Chandipur in Odisha
ii.  Astra is a Bengal Visual Range (BVR) air – to- air missile
4. ANTI TERRORIST DAY OBSERVED:
i. Anti Terrorist Day was observed across the country on 21stMay, 2015
ii.  This day is annually observed on the death anniversary of seventh Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
iii.  Its motive is to promote unity, peace and harmony across the nation.
5.TWO STATES GETS NEW GOVERNOR:
States
Governors appointed
Replaced
a.      Tripura
Tathagata Roy
PadmanabhBalkarishna (also governor of Nagaland)
b.      Meghalaya
Sharmuganathan
KeshriNathTripathi (He was handling West Bengal & Meghalaya)