Current Affairs of May 2012

The new Chief of Army Staff who succeeded General VK Singh on 31 May 2012	General Bikram Singh
As the revised estimates released by Central Statistical Organisation the per capita national income of India at 2004-05 prices is	Rs. 37,851/-
The frightening virus which has infected the PCs in Iran and other middle east countries (discovered by Kaspersky) is named	Flame
The Israeli chess player whom Viswanathan Anand defeated to win the FIDE World Chess Championship 2012	Boris Gelfand
The team which has bagged the Santosh Trophy 2012, the final of which was held at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack	Services
The French film directed by Michael Haneke which has been awarded the Palme D'Or (Golden Palm) Award at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012	Love (Amour)
The former Indian defence minister who has been awarded the International Jurists Award 2012 alongwith Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry	Mulayam Singh Yadav
The winner of 2012 edition of Indian Premier League cricket championship	Kolkata Knight Riders
The aircraft which is being acquired by the Indian Air Force to replace its HPT-32 trainer aircraft	PC-7 MkII from Pilatus Aircraft Ltd, Switzerland
The Expert Technical Group set up by the Govt of India to revisit the Tendulkar methodology for estimation of the poverty and identification of the poor is headed by	Dr. C. Rangarajan
The place in Maharashtra at which High Altitude Cloud Physics Laboratory was inaugurated by the Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Shri Vilasrao Deshmukh on 24 May	Mahabaleshwar
The first rocket launched by a private company Space X carrying cargo capsule Dragon to the International Space Station is named	Falcon 9
The place at which Pakistan is developing its 4th nuclear reactor	Khushab
The Hindi movie directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, which has figured in the TIME magazine's 10 greatest movies of the millenium	Devdas
The venue of 38th G-8 summit held on 18-19 May 2012	Camp David, Maryland (USA)
The 73-year old Japanese woman who has become the oldest woman in the world to conquer Mt. Everest on 19 May 12	Tamae Watanabe
The year by which India is expected to achieve total sanitation coverage, as per the Ministry of Rural Development, Govt of India	2017
The disease which has been declared by the Union Government to be a mandatorily notifiable disease in order to provide better diagnosis and treatment and reduce its transmission	Tuberculosis
The new Chairman of the Asian Development Bank Board of Governors elected at the 45th Annual meeting of the ADB at Manila	Mr. Pranab Mukherjee
The sitar maestro who has been nominated for the first Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony, instituted by the government to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, for promoting values of universal brotherhood.	Pt. Ravishankar
The film actress who has been selected as the brand ambassador of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, a programme of the rural development ministry to spread awareness about sanitation and cleanliness in the country	Vidya Balan
The new President of France who defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy	Francois Hollande
The new Chairman of the Standing Committee of Parliament on Personnel Public Grievances, Law and Justice	Shantaram Naik.
The noted Tamil writer who has been chosen for the 6th NTR National Literary Award by the NTR Vignan Trust	Ashokamitran
The new chairman of Atomic Energy Commission	Ratan Kumar Sinha
The joint exercise carried out by the Army and the Indian Air Force in the desert of Rajasthan is named	Exercise Shoorveer
The newsletter released by Union Labour & Employment Minister Shri Mallikarjun Kharge on the occasion of May Day to provide extensive awareness regarding a number of good labour practices and initiatives taken by the Central as well as state governments to all concerned stakeholders on a regular basis is named	Shram Sansar