Being strong with Current Affairs and General Knowledge is an added advantage in Defence Exams and SSB Interview, though this is not the only deciding factor, but this is an important factor because it shows how much aware you are of your surroundings, your country and international affairs. In this Article we will See important AFCAT Exam Current Affair of May 2016 which could prove helpful in preparation of competitive written exams or interviews.

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AFCAT Exam Current Affair of May 2016

• Mark Selby won World Snooker Championship

• Indian team won one silver, two bronze in Archery World Cup

• Indian shooters bagged 3 gold, 1 bronze in ISSF Junior World Cup

• India, New Zealand signed Air Services Agreement

• Supreme Court banned all diesel cabs in NCR-Delhi from May 1

• Indian Parashar Kulkarni wins 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia Region

• President Pranab Mukherjee confers Niryat Shree and Niryat Bandhu Awards

• Vice Admiral Sunil Lanba appointed as Chief of the Naval Staff

• US Navy tested world’s largest unmanned surface vessel, Sea Hunter

• President approves name of Four Judges for Supreme Court

• Indian Navy decommissions fighter planes Sea Harriers

• Indian boxers won 4 medals at 7th Asian Youth Championship

• Shashi Kapoor – the Householder, the Star authored by Aseem Chhabra released

• Novak Djokovic wins 2016 Mutua Madrid Open

• India, China, four others sign agreement enabling automatic sharing of country-by-country reporting

• Maharashtra declares drought in 29000 villages

• Hockey India recommended Ritu Rani and VR Raghunath for Arjuna Award

• Shashank Manohar unanimously elected as Independent ICC Chairman

• India successfully test fires indigenous Advanced Air Defence interceptor missile, Ashwin

• Haryana Backward Classes Act 2016 notified

• IIT student Nandini Bhandaru wins Young Scientist Award of European Material Science Research Society

• 5 Indians posthumously awarded with Dag Hammarskjold Medal of UN

• Women Archers Deepika, Bombayla, Laxmirani named for 2016 Rio Olympics

• India, US held first Maritime Security Dialogue

• South Korean author Han Kang wins 2016 Man Booker International Prize for ‘The Vegetarian’

• 2016 Red Flag Aerial combat exercises conclude in Alaska

• India successfully test fires indigenously developed Prithvi-II missile

• Indian artist Anjali Chandrashekar wins award at UN Poster for Peace Contest

• Indian-American Rupa Iyer awarded with Highest Teaching Award in US

• Director Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake wins 2016 Palme d’Or

• Mukesh Ambani awarded with Othmer Gold Medal for Entrepreneurial Leadership

• AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa sworn-in as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for sixth term

• Pankaj Advani wins 2016 Asian 6-Red snooker title

• Sunil Bharti Mittal receives 2016 Harvard Alumni Award

• Land-attack version of BrahMos missile successfully test-fired by Indian Air Force

• Para athlete Amit Kumar Saroha wins Gold in 2016 French Open Athletics Championship

• Mamata Banerjee sworn-in as West Bengal Chief Minister for a second term

• Sonia Lather won silver in Women’s World Boxing Championships

• AR Rahman conferred with Japan’s Fukuoka prize 2016

• NASA successfully deploys Bigelow Expandable Activity Module

• Manohar Parrikar inaugurates second submarine assembly workshop in Mazgaon

• Indian-American scientist Arnab De wins Springer Theses Award

• Indian author Aditi Krishnakumar wins 2016 Scholastic Asian Book Award