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1. Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Friday gave Rs 10 lakh to the Tamil Nadu Animal Welfare Board CSR fund to feed stray animals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has announced that the lockdown that is currently in force across the state, has now been extended till June 8, 2021.
3. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal inaugurates a free vaccination facility at a govt school at ITO for journalists and their family members.
4. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra yesterday wrote to Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and urged him to not hold Class 12 board exams amid the pandemic, saying children will be subjected to great injustice if they are pushed into circumstances that endanger their lives.
5. The Centre has allocated three thousand 411 Crore rupees grant to Gujarat under Jal Jeevan Mission to provide safe and potable piped drinking water to all the rural household in the state. Out of which the first tranche of more than 852 Crore rupees for the current financial year has been released.
6. A show-cause notice is being served to West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay for failing to report to the Department of Personnel & Training (DOPT) : Bengal’s top officer Alapan Bandyopadhyay retired as Chief Secretary yesterday, Mr Bandyopadhyay had recently been granted a three-month extension in Bengal on Ms Banerjee’s request.
7. After Trinamool Congress (TMC) registered a thumping third consecutive poll victory in Bengal, turncoats who had quit the party before the elections to join the BJP now seem to be making a beeline to re-enter the Mamata Banerjee camp, the latest being Dipendu Biswas. the footballer-turned-politician Dipendu Biswas was elected from Basirhat Dakshin assembly seat in the 2016 elections on a TMC ticket but he quit the party after being denied the poll ticket this year.
8. After a month-long lockdown imposed due to a surge in COVID-19 cases, markets reopened in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday as the process of partial unlock started in the Union Territory.
9. The committee, constituted by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to resolve factionalism within the party’s Punjab unit, on Monday met around 25 leaders, including state chief Sunil Jakhar, ministers and legislators. Punjab Congress president Jakhar said the panel is working to strengthen the state unit and the Punjab government so that the party can return to power in 2022.
10. RBI cancels licence of Pune-based Shivajirao Bhosale Sahakari Bank
As per data submitted by Shivajirao Bhosale Sahakari Bank, more than 98 per cent of the depositors will receive the full amount of their deposits from the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC).
11. AIIMS doctors to observe ‘Black Day’ on June 1 over Baba Ramdev’s comments : The association urged the authorities to book Ramdev under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 for trying to create public unrest against the vaccination drive and harassing healthcare services personnel.
12. Bollywood Actor Juhi Chawla files suit in Delhi High Court against the implementation of 5G in India.
13. Government will take a final decision within the next two days on whether to conduct class 12 board exams amid the Covid Pandemic Attorney General K K Venugopal told this to Supreme Court bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari which was hearing a plea seeking directions to cancel the class 12 exams of the CBSE and Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination, CISCE in view of the current situation.
14. Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Ropar in Punjab has developed a device – AmbiTag that records real-time ambient temperature during the transportation of perishable products, vaccines and even body organs and blood.
15. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday approved imposing restrictions on the import of 108 military weapons and systems such as next-generation corvettes, airborne early warning systems, tank engines and radars.
16. Indian Amry distributes essential items in J&K Besides distributing essential food items to the needy, the Indian Army personnel also distributed COVID medical kits, including PPE kits, masks and sanitisers in J&K’s Kupwara village. The humane gesture was well-received by locals and they lauded the brave men, who put their lives at risk to bring relief to the villagers.
17• A Maoist was killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jharkhand’s Gumla district on Monday.
18. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has established a near isothermal forging technology used in manufacturing critical aero engine components.
19. Rear Admiral I.B. Uthaiah, VSM took over as the Admiral Superintendent, Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam. from Rear Admiral Sreekumar Nair, Rear Admiral I.B. Uthaiah, VSM was commissioned into the Indian Navy in November 1987.
20. BSF initiates a unique precedence of felicitating superannuating personnel: On 31st May, DG BSF Rakesh Asthana felicitated Daftry (Non-Combatized) Janhvi Devi, who is proceeding on superannuation after completing more than 29 years of service to the force.
At a felicitation ceremony organized at Force HQ BSF Delhi, DG BSF decorated her with a Director General’s Commendation Roll for her sincere & dedicated service to the force, Pension Payment Order, terminal benefits, BSF Memento and a gift for her family.
✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. The Government of Japan decided to extend Emergency Grant Aid of approximately 14.8 million US dollars to India in response to the current surge of COVID-19 infections in India.
2. In a humanitarian gesture in these testing times, Iran sent as many as 300 oxygen concentrators to India* to be used in its fight against a runaway second COVID-19 wave.
3. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reaffirmed the Biden administration’s commitment to deepen the India-US comprehensive global strategic partnership.
4.•The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday extended the suspension of passenger flights from India till June 30 to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
5. India to convene standalone meeting of BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Relations today: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil Ambassador Carlos Alberto Franco França, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Ambassador Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Wang Yi and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa Ms. Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor are expected to participate.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1 • Nepal’s Opposition alliance on Sunday urged all state institutions not to support Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli government’s “unconstitutional” and “anti-democratic” activities and expressed hope that the Supreme Court’s verdict on the petitions against the dissolution.
2• The United States (US) has now expedited its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, with the US Central Command officials saying that 4-6% of the process has already been accomplished with the full withdrawal deadline set for September 11, 2021 by US President Joe Biden.
3. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) used a partnership with Denmark’s foreign intelligence unit to spy on senior officials of neighbouring countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
4. According to space official of China, a three-man crew of astronauts will be sent for three-month mission on new space station of China in June 2021. Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony is third and largest space station launched by China. Space Crew will be sent to station to practice spacewalks and conduct repairs, maintenance and conduct scientific operations.
5. China said that married couples may have up to three children, a policy shift from the existing limit of two after recent data showed a decline in births in the country.
6. World No Tobacco Day is observed around the world every year on 31 May. This yearly celebration informs the public on the dangers of using tobacco, the business practices of tobacco companies, The Member States of the WHO created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes.
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