Current Affairs - May 1st Week

India launched its own payment gateway 'RuPay', equivalent of Visa and Mastercar.
Waqar Younis appointed as head coach of Pakistan cricket team.
New dancing frog species found in Western Ghats.
Virat Kohli ranked no 1 in ICC One Day International rankings.
Libya’s General National Congress (GNC) elected Ahmed Maetig as the country’s new prime minister to succeed Abdullah Al-Thinni Mark Selby won World Snooker Championship 2014.
Dipika Pallikal ranked 10th in Women Squash Association rankings.
Sania Mirza and Cara Black won WTA Portugal Open 2014.
Archaeologists discovered a granary at Rakhigarhi in Haryana.
India ranked no 1 in Twenty20 International Team ranking.

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Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh died in Delhi on 20 March at the age of 99.

Kushwant Singh was well known for classics like "Train to Pakistan", "I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale" and "Delhi".

He also contributed a great deal in non-fictional works varying from politics, biographical and many other.

His autobiography, "Truth, Love and a Little Malice", was published by Penguin Books in 2002.

Singh was a Member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986.

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 but returned it in 1984, in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by the Indian Army.

In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan. 

Singh will be cremated in Lodhi Auditorium, Delhi at 4 pm on Thursday.


Source: http://ddinews.gov.in/Current%20Affairs/Pages/singdead.aspx

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