1. *Cyclone Yaas to intensify into a “very severe cyclonic storm” and cross the Odisha and the West Bengal coasts on May 26:* India Meteorological Department (IMD).
2. *Director General NDRF S.N. Pradhan has said that more than 100 teams of NDRF are being deployed in 5 states and 1 UT, Odisha, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Andaman & Nicobar Islands in view of Cyclone Yaas.* He said, teams are being airlifted from different parts of the country.
3. *Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that the West Bengal government has made all necessary arrangements in dealing with the aftermath of cyclone Yaas, which might affect 20 districts of the state.*
4. *Yaas is the name of a tropical cyclone which is set to hit eastern coastal areas of Odisha and West Bengal on Wednesday,* barely a week after cyclone ‘Tauktae’. The current cyclone, which will be called ‘Cyclone Yaas’ when it forms, is named by Oman, following a standard procedure. *The word Yaas is said to have originated from the Persian language and it means Jasmin in English.*
5. *Oxygen Expresses deliver highest ever single day load of more than 1142 MT of Oxygen relief to various states across country.*
6. Uttar Pradesh director general of police HC Awasthy, Sashastra Seema Bal DG Kumar Rajesh Chandra and Special Secretary Home Ministry VSK Kaumudi were short-listed for the post of Central Bureau of Investigation director during a meeting of a high-powered committee, comprising PM Modi and two others.
7. *All India Institutes of Medical Sciences director Randeep Guleria on Monday said it is better to identify mucormycosis by its name rather than by the colour* as labelling the same fungus with names of different colors can create confusion.
8. *18 states have reported 5,424 cases of black fungus; highest in Gujarat, Maharashtra*
9. After Black Fungus and White Fungus, a case of Yellow Fungus reported to a 45-year-old patient in Ghaziabad was found to have symptoms of Yellow Fungus.
10. The symptoms of Mucor septicus (yellow fungus) are lethargy, reduced or loss of appetite, and weight loss. As it progresses, severe symptoms such as leakage of pus and slow healing of wounds, sunken eyes due to malnutrition and organ failure and necrosis (a form of cell injury which results in the premature death of cells in living tissue).
11. *The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is expected to hold class 12 board exams from July 15 to August 26* . The exact date sheet for the same will be released on June 1 after the board holds a review meeting to access the feasibility of holding exams. The board exams will be held in offline mode. A section of students has been protesting on social media platforms seeking the cancelation of class 12 offline exams.
12. *The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) has opposed the Central Government’s decision to conduct the Class 12th board exams amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic* The Union Government in a meeting on Sunday, May 23, discussed the issue of pending Class 12th exams and entrance exams (JEE and NEET) where it proposed two options for conducting Class 12th exams. While one option was to have the Class 12th students write exams in only a select few 19 major subjects, the second option was to hold exams in schools but change the exam pattern to one that has only objective questions.
13. *Lunar Eclipse 2021: Blood Moon will appear on May 26 but the Chandra Grahan will not be visible from most parts of India*. This will be the first total Lunar Eclipse since January 21, 2019 and will be a supermoon. The Moon will appear larger in the sky than a normal Full Moon and will also look reddish in colour.
14. Lockdown In Bihar To Continue Till June 1, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said.
15. *The Tamil Nadu government on Monday requested the Centre to take immediate action either to stop or ban the release of ‘The Family Man 2’ webseries on Amazon Prime, saying it depicted the Eelam Tamils in a “highly objectionable manner*. Earlier, Naam Tamilar Katchi top leader Seeman had alleged ‘The Family Man 2’ web series sought to portray the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as terrorists and Tamils as vicious and demanded that its airing be cancelled.
16. *Aashritha V Olety is India’s 1st woman flight test engineer*
; first for women in the Indian military, an officer of the Indian Air Force (IAF) has graduated from the Air Force Test Pilot School as the country’s first woman flight test engineer.
17. Navy ship INS Makar on Monday located tugboat Varaprada seven days after it went adrift in the Arabian Sea during Cyclone Tauktae fury. All the 274 personnel who were on board barge P305 that sank and tugboat Varaprada that went adrift during Cyclone Tauktae fury have been accounted for with the recovery of 16 bodies along Maharashtra and Gujarat coasts.
18. Passengers travelling abroad will need to carry a negative RT-PCR test report with a QR code, the Union ministry of civil aviation said in a set of guidelines issued last week to ensure minimum physical contact. “The airline operators are advised to accept only those passengers who are carrying a negative RT-PCR test report with QR code for boarding international flights departing from India.
*✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS*
1. *Sputnik V production begins in India; 100mn jabs to be manufactured per year* : Domestic pharma major Panacea Biotec in collaboration with Russian sovereign wealth fund Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has begun the production of ‘Sputnik V’ COVID-19 vaccine in India.
2. *Bahrain suspends entry of travellers from India; UAE extends curbs till June 14* : Non-resident Indians seeking to return to their workplaces in the Middle East, Bahrain has announced that entry of travellers from India would be suspended.
3. *Pakistan Would Like Afghanistan To Break Relations With India* ,” Says former Afghan President, Hamid Karzai
4. *External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Monday landed in New York, as part of his US visit* , to meet with senior United States officials, and discuss Covid-related cooperation between the two countries. Ambassador of India to the UN TS Tirumurti received EAM Jaishankar.
5. *China again defended its controversial USD 60 billion CPEC project with Pakistan* , disregarding India’s protests as it is being laid through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, saying it is an economic initiative and has not affected its principled stand on the Kashmir issue. *China is planning to extend its controversial CPEC project to regional countries, including Afghanistan.*
*?WORLD NEWS?*
1. Former State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in court in the capital city Naypyitaw on Monday in person for the first time since the military took over power from the civilian government on February 1. Suu Kyi is facing charges ranging from illegally procuring communication equipment to violating state secrets law punishable by 14 years in prison.
2. *Poland to become first NATO country to buy Turkish drones*
: Poland will buy 24 armed drones from Turkey.
3. Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolves House of Representatives and announces mid-term polls in November.
4. Nigeria’s army chief, Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, dies in plane crash at the age of 54
5. Volcano Mount Nyiragongo erupts in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 15 killed.
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