1. PM Modi gives new Mantra of ‘Jahan Bimar, Vahin Upchar’ in fight against COVID-19.
2. Income Tax Department to launch new e-filing portal income tax.gov.in on June 7
3. Govt makes efforts to ramp up supply and availability of Amphotericin-B anti-fungal drug for treatment of Black Fungus disease.
4. As Cyclone Yaas set to hit the eastern coast of India by May 26, the Centre on Friday issued guideline to ramp up health infrastructure and also asked the states to follow the release of India Meteorological Department (IMD) and plan in advance the evacuation of hospitals in the path of the cyclone.
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6. At least 13 Naxals were killed in an encounter with police’s C-60 commandos in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra early on Friday. The skirmish took place around 5.30 am in the forest at Kotmi in Etapalli.
7. The government will set up a large ”Defence Enclave” to house top defence brass and personnel under its ambitious Central Vista redevelopment project.
8. A Bangalore-based start-up has developed a novel, point-of-care Electrochemical ELISA test that enables fast and accurate estimation of total antibody concentration of COVID 19 in clinical samples.
9. Former Rajasthan Congress CM Jagannath Pahadia passes away due to Covid-19 at 89.
10. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appears set to take the shot at retaining her post by contesting from her old bastion, the Bhabanipur assembly constituency , after state minister and Trinamool Congress veteran Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay vacated the seat on Friday. Banerjee, who faced defeat at the recently concluded polls from Nandigram, will have to get elected to the assembly within six months to hold on to the chief minister’s chair, as per norms. Chattopadhyay tendered his resignation to assembly speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay in the presence of senior party leader and his ministerial colleague Partha Chatterjee.
11. Goa court acquits journalist Tarun Tejpal of rape charges: Seven years after a woman colleague accused him of sexual assault in the elevator of a luxury hotel in Goa, journalist Tarun Tejpal was acquitted of all charges by a sessions court in the state on Friday.
12. The Central Board of Secondary Education has not yet issued any final decision regarding the cancellation or further postponement of the CBSE Class 12 board exams 2021 but is currently reviewing the Covid-19 situation across the country. The CBSE Board Exams 2021 for Class 10 and 12 students were supposed to commence from May 4 but were postponed due to the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. No new dates for the exams have been issued yet by the national board.
13. Army Chief Gen MM Naravane reviewed India’s operational readiness along the border with China in the Arunachal Pradesh sector during a two-day visit to the Northeastern.
14. Mobile Oxygen Generation Plants, termed ‘Oxygen on Wheels’ designed and developed by Naval Dockyard Visakhapatnam under the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) were inaugurated.
15. An IAF MiG-21 Bison aircraft crashed during heavy rain in a field in Punjab’s Moga district, killing its pilot Squadron Leader Abhinav Choudhary. The aircraft was on a training sortie from Suratgarh in Rajasthan when it crashed in Langeana village on Thursday night. He was 29-year-old and was married in 2019. The Indian Air Force has ordered a Court of Inquiry to ascertain the cause of the accident. During this incident, Squadron leader Choudhary tried to eject himself from the plane, however, he could not open his parachute and the aircraft fell on the ground. More than 400 MiG-21s have been involved in accidents that have claimed the lives of 200 pilots during the last six decades, earning the fighters ominous epithets such as “Flying Coffin” and “Widowmaker”, but due to financial constraints, they continue to be in service.
16. Notably, this is not the first such accident this year. Earlier on March 18, a MiG-21 Bison aircraft had also crashed in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, in which Air Force Group Captain Ashish Gupta lost his life. In these two MiG plane crashes, Indian lost two of his heroes. The lifespan of these aircraft may have exceeded 50 years, but even today an upgraded MiG-21 aircraft can hit any modern aircraft in the sky. This was proven in the year 2019 when Wing Commander Abhinandan Vardhaman of the Indian Air Force shot down Pakistan’s fifth-generation modern aircraft F-16 with a MiG-21 Bison aircraft.
INTERNATIONAL:
1. External affairs minister (EAM) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is travelling to the United States this Sunday for a week-long trip to meet UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York and hold a bilateral meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington to discuss vaccine production, resilient supply chains and the Indo-Pacific.
2. An estimated 4,000 to 6,000 refugees from Myanmar have sought safety in India, a spokesperson for the UN chief has said, as the world body voiced concern over the rising levels of displacement of people since the military coup in the country in February.
3. India takes neutral stand on Israel-Palestine conflict, calls for ‘immediate resumption of dialogue’
4. The Delhi International Airport said it has handled as many as 100 domestic and international flight services for COVID-19 patients since last month amid a surge in demand for such flights in the wake of the second COVID-19 wave.
5. India is among the guest countries invited to join virtually at the 2021 G7 Health Ministers’ Meeting to be held at Oxford University on June 3 and 4 to bring together the world’s leading democracies to agree on life-saving action in critical areas of global health, the UK government announced
INTERNATIONAL:
1. Israel and Palestine finally agreed to a ceasefire bringing to an end 11 days of violence that impacted lives on both sides of the border. Reports suggest that over 200 people died in the conflict in the sieged land of Gaza including 65 children.
2. The Bangladesh Meteorological Department issued a cyclone alert message on Friday warning that a low pressure area is very likely to form over the North Andaman Sea and adjoining east central Bay of Bengal .
3. The local administration in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh which houses Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, imposed a week-long complete lockdown in five Rohingya Camps of Ukhiya from Friday.
4. China on Friday said that any successor to the present Dalai Lama should be approved by it, ruling out recognition to any heir nominated by him or by his followers. The reincarnation of the Dalai Lama and other grand Living Buddhas has been subjected to approval by China against the wishes of the Budhists.
SPORTS:
1. The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports (MYAS) has approved an amount of Rs 2 Lakh for Karnataka’s V Tejaswini Bai, who won the Arjuna Award in 2011 and was a member of the Women’s Kabaddi team that won gold medals at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games respectively.
2. Vinesh Phogat who secured India the 53kg class Olympic quota in September 2019 at the World Championships, will train in Budapest until June 9, travel for the Poland Open (June 9 to 13) and return to Budapest to be based there till July 2. Her coach Woller Akos, sparring partner Priyanka and physiotherapist Poornima Raman Ngomdir will be with her throughout.
3. A proposal from rowers Arjun Lal Jat who belongs to Rajasthan and Arvind Singh who belongs to Uttar Pradesh to train for five weeks from June 1 in Pocinho High Performance Centre in Portugal in preparation for the Olympic Games, has been approved.
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