1. *PM Modi has directed all concerned departments to ensure timely evacuation of those involved in off-shore activities in view of Cyclone Yaas* which is expected to cross West Bengal and north Odisha coasts on Wednesday evening.
2. *Railways has delivered nearly 14,500 tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen so far to various states across the country.*
3. *Centre has allocated additional 22.17 lakh vials of Remdesivir to all states and Union Territories for the period 23rd to 30th May.* A total of around 99 lakh vials of Remdesivir have been allocated across the country so far.
4. *The first lunar eclipse of 2021 will be on 26* of this Month, but it will be a super celestial event with 3 lunar events will coinciding all at once; an eclipse, a supermoon and a red blood moon. with the moon’s closest approach to Earth it will be a “supermoon” eclipse and the colour of the moon will turn reddish and also known as a blood moon.
5. *Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asks all the Deputy Commissioners to put in place a community surveillance system to avert the COVID pandemic spreading from urban to rural area*.
6. *PM Modi will share his thoughts with the people in @MannKiBaat programme on All India Radio on 30th May.* People can share their views in the NaMo app or @mygovindia Open Forum.
7. *First session of the 15th Kerala State Assembly will begin today with the swearing in of 140 newly elected members* . Election for the speaker post will be conducted on day-after-tomorrow.
8. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan yoga guru Ramdev’s statement on allopathic medicines “extremely unfortunate” and asked him to withdraw the remark, saying it disrespects ‘corona warriors’ and can break the morale of healthcare workers.
9. *Twelve major opposition parties, including the Congress, Trinamool Congress, Left parties, Samajwadi Party, Nationalist Congress Party and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam extended their support to a countrywide protest call given by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha on May 26* , marking six months of the farmers protest against the Centre’s farm laws.
10. The collector of Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district, Ranbir Sharma, was removed from the post on Sunday after a viral video showed him slapping a man and throwing his mobile phone for alleged COVID-19 norms violation. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel issued instructions for the removal of the 2012-batch IAS officer from the post.
11. After Sonali Guha, now Sarala Murmu. wants to rejoin TMC, she had quit the party to join the BJP during the elections. She has expressed her desire to return to the TMC, a day after Banerjee’s former aide, Sonali Guha, made a similar appeal.
12. *Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced extension of the ongoing lockdown in Delhi by another week* , saying the process of unlock will start from May 31 in a phased manner if the number of COVID-19 cases continue to decline.
13. *Lockdown extended in Haryana till May 31 with major relaxations for opening of shops* . The marriages would be allowed to be conducted in either homes or courts with strictly no movement of baraat procession allowed in the state.
14. *Ten unidentified bodies were found at three different locations along the coast in Maharashtra’s Raigad district and Gujarat’s Valsad* , Police suspect they could be of some of the victims of barge P305 that sank off the Mumbai coast in Cyclone Tauktae.
15. PM Modi has expressed grief over the demise of Former Atomic Energy Commission chairman, Dr. Srikumar Banerjee.
16. *High level meeting of Union ministers, state ministers and education officials on holding the Class 12 board exams and entrance tests took place*, the Centre placed two options before the states. *Class 12 students write exams in only a select few major subjects and mark them on the rest on the basis of how they do in these subjects* . The 2nd option was *to hold exams in schools but change the exam pattern to one that has only objective questions and lasts just one-and-a-half hours instead of three*
17. The discussions were held on two issues. The board exams to be conducted for Class 12th by the Central Board of Secondary Education and other State Boards and the All-India Entrance examinations for various higher education institutions and professional courses.
18. *The Centre will examine suggestions received from various State Governments this week and convey further information in this regard to the students by or before the 1st of June.* Ministry of Education requested States and UTs to submit other suggestions, if any, by 25th May. During the meeting, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said the entire country has come together to ensure the safety and academic welfare of the students and smooth functioning of the education system.
19. The Delhi government is not in favour of the CBSE exploring options to conduct the Class 12 board examinations and going ahead with the process without vaccinating the students will prove to be a big mistake, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.
20. *Indian Naval Ships and Aircraft Standby for Rescue and Relief Operations – Cyclone ‘Yaas* ’. As part of the preparedness, eight flood relief teams and four diving teams are prepositioned at Odisha and West Bengal. Four naval ships are on standby with Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) bricks.
21. The Indian Army has set up a covid-19 care facility with 100 beds at Ulsoor in Bengaluru. Out of these beds, around 55 are oxygen-fitted beds.”
22. *COVID STATUS*
▲New
TOTAL CASES : 26750642 ▲240953
TOTAL RECOVERED 23725467 ▲ 356012
TOTAL DEATHS. 303270
▲ 4451
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS*
1. *COVID relief Operation ‘Samudra Setu II, INS Trikand arrived at Mumbai* on 23 May 21 with Covid relief material from Qatar. INS Trikand brought two Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) containers of 20 MT each and 100 Oxygen cylinders.
2. Punjab Police nab 2 activists of Khalistan Tiger Force involved in murder of sect follower
Duo also linked to firing on Phillaur priest in January on directions of KTF chief. The two were acting on the directions of KTF’s Canada-based chief, Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
3. The Indian Army on Sunday dismissed a media report which claimed that a minor face-off between the Indian and Chinese troops took place this month near Eastern Ladakh’s Galwan Valley.
4. Nigeria’s Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 has declared 90 passengers who arrived in Nigeria from Brazil, India and Turkey between 8th May 2021 and 15th May 2021, through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja as persons of interest (POI), noting that they posd considerable danger to public health.
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WORLD NEWS
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1. *Bangladesh is bracing to face the cyclone YAAS which is likely to hit its coast on May 26.* : The Bangladesh Meteorological department said.
2. *The govt of Myanmar has suspended over 1,25,000 teachers for joining the Civil Disobedience movement opposing the military take over govt* . The National Unity Government by the parliamentarians belonging to the anti-military National League for Democracy (NLD) and others has called on the foreign donors to stop funding the education ministry of the military govt in Myanmar.
3. *The govt of Bangladesh has further extended the ongoing lockdown in the country till May 30* in order to contain the spread of Coronavirus. However, further relaxation has been introduced in the latest notification issued by the Cabinet Division on Sunday.
4. *Iran Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) now cannot have access to the records from the cameras monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities* .
5. Around 8000 people crossed into Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to seek refuge following the eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano.
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