Let us see what are the trending current affairs topics and GK updates on May 20th Wednesday 2015.
India :
INS Kavaratti warship and Anti-Submarine warship have been launched in kolkata today(May20,2015).
Renault announced its new car ” The Kwid ” which is in mid-range price with stunning looks.
Andhra Pradesh 10th SSC results have been released today on www.bseap.org website.
World :
Scientists have discovered a new place and that is the driest place on the whole planet. This place ” Maria Elena South ” is located at Atacama Desert(Chile).
After 2009 terror attacks on sri lankan cricket team in pakistan. For the first time Zimbabwe cricket landed today in pakistan with heavy security for cricket series against pakistan cricket team.
Apple Inc company has bought a new company called “Coherent Navigations”, which is well known in GPS Firm.
Morten Sorby will be now the new head of Telenor group in Asia.
Sports :
Virat Kohli will be the new Test captain for Banglesh Cricket Tour.
RCB vs RR – Royal challengers banglore team will try their luck again for winning the championship cup. Today they will be facing Rajasthan royals team as opponent in the eliminator match. Whereas RR team is very confident about their team performance and they are very much positive about this game. This match will be live at 8:00pm local time IST and the venue is MCA cricket stadium which is located at pune.
Today the BCCI selectors team have selected the cricket team for Bangladesh tour which will be happening after few days from now. Harbhajan singh is back to form as we saw in ipl season 8 matches and this performance has given him place in the team squad for test series against bangladesh.
Indian Cricket Team for Bangladesh Tour 2015 :
Players selected for Test squad:
Virat Kohli (Captain), Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Karn Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Ishant Sharma.
Players selected for ODI squad:
MS Dhoni (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Stuart Binny and Dhawal Kulkarni.
Gk Today – May 20th,2015 :
The famous female athlete sprinter P.T. Usha was born today in the year 1964.
The Saint Kabir who is known as mystic poet was born today in the year 1399. He was born in varanasi(India).
On this day ” Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV)” was launched in the year 1991.
On this day(20th May) Bahameni Sultan Dawood shah was assassinated in the year 1878.
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