1. PM Modi undertakes aerial survey of cyclone affected areas in Odisha and West Bengal.
2. Union Government has accorded approval for substantial hike in salary of employees who are working under National Health Mission (NHM) in Jammu and Kashmir .
3. 20.57 crore COVID vaccine doses administered in country so far* . Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh have administered more than 10 lakh beneficiaries of the age group 18-44 years for their first dose of COVID vaccine.
4. BJP President J P Nadda says, WB CM Mamata Bannerjee’s absence from PM’s meeting is murder of constitutional ethos and culture of cooperative federalism. He said that PM stands strong with the citizens of West Bengal in wake of cyclone Yaas, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should also set aside her ego for the welfare of people.
5. The centre has issued an order to recall West Bengal’s top bureaucrat from the state on a day a row broke out over a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.* Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay’s tenure was extended for three months only four days ago.
6. Donations For Construction Of Ayodhya Mosque Made Tax Free.
The government has granted tax exemption to those contributing for the construction of the mosque in Ayodhya, for which the Supreme Court had allotted five acres in the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi land dispute case.
7. The Election Commission has decided not to hold bye-election to the one seat of Rajya Sabha from Kerala due to outbreak of 2nd wave of COVID-19. The Rajya Sabha seat from Kerala fell vacant due to the resignation of KC(M) leader Jose K Mani from the Upper House.
8. The Centre on Friday invited non-Muslims like Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists belonging to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and residing in 13 districts of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Punjab to apply for Indian citizenship.
9. Centre announces financial assistance of Rs 500 crore for Odisha for post cyclone relief and rehabilitation measures.
10. Nagaland govt extends statewide total lockdown with existing guidelines till 11th June.
11. Delhi unlock process to begin from May 31; factories, construction activities allowed for 1 week.
12. The lockdown-like-restrictions in Maharashtra on account of the coronavirus pandemic have been extended by 15 days but a fresh set of guidelines will be issued on June 1
13. Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday set up a three-member committee to resolve differences among its leaders in Punjab amid an open war of words between Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and his former cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu.
14. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested Mumbai-based builder and film financier Yusuf M Lakdawala in a money laundering case linked to an alleged forging of document for the purchase of a prime land in Maharashtra’s Khandala.
15. Domestic air travel set to become costlier by 15% from June 1. The move is aimed at helping the airlines amid a devastating second wave of COVID-19 which has reduced air travel significantly.
16. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested Siddhartha Pithani, a flatmate of Sushant Singh Rajput, in a drug case linked to the Bollywood actor’s death last year,
17•The J&K police arrested a newly recruited militant in Kulgam district of south Kashmir on Friday. The security forces said the militant was identified as Shakir Ahmad from Ardkhera Imamsahib Shopian. He was arrested from Frisal Yaripora in Kulgam.
18•Indian Navy working on war footing for rescue and relief operations in after cyclone Yaas wreaked havoc in Odisha. The (Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief) HADR Naval team have set up community kitchen at the Multipurpose Cyclone Shelter. Team is clearing trees that fell by strong winds.
19. The 140th course of the National Defence Academy (NDA) passing out parade for spring term 2021 will be conducted on 29th May 2021. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh will be the Reviewing Officer for the ceremonial Passing Out Parade of the 140th batch of the National Defence Academy (NDA), which will be held on Saturday when over 300 cadets will pass out of the academy after three years of rigorous training.
20. Every year, two batches of cadets pass out from India’s premier tri-services military academy which based at Khadakwasla in Pune to continue with the one more year of pre-commissioning training at the academies of their respective forces –– Indian Military Academy in Dehradun for Army, Air Force Academy in Dundigal and and Indian Naval Academy in Ezhimala.
21. Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar launched Directorate General National Cadet Corps (NCC) Mobile Training App Version 2.0 in New Delhi on May 28, 2021.
✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1• External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan during which they held wide-ranging discussions and agreed that people-to-people ties and shared values are the foundation of the US-India strategic partnership that is helping to end the pandemic.
2• The rising number of COVID-19 cases in India and the vaccine shortage that has emerged from that tops the list of issues to be discussed between External Affairs Minister of India S Jaishankar and his US counterpart Antony Blinken during the meeting in the US.
3. In a humanitarian gesture in these testing times, *Iran on Friday sent as many as 300 oxygen concentrators to India* to be used in its fight against a runaway second COVID-19 wave.
4• In view of the ongoing standoff between India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, the *Indian Army is planning to lease Israel’s Heron TP drones* . These drones – Heron will be deployed along the LAC to keep a watch on the Chinese troops and their activities.
5• Indian Red Cross Society will soon receive OxyTruck mobile oxygen filling stations, produced by Collins Aerospace unit in Lübeck, Germany.
6•India was among 14 countries that abstained from voting on a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council to launch an investigation into alleged violations and crimes during the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
7•Suspension of international flights extended till next month. The COVID-19 pandemic-induced suspension of scheduled international passenger flight services has been extended till 30 June 2021. The announcement was made by the aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Azerbaijan has accused the Armenia’s Army for firing on border today. One Azeri soldier was reportedly injured in the incident.
2. The World Health Organization, WHO, has said that 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are needed in African countries within six weeks* to make sure second doses can be administered within the recommended time frame
3. Every year since 1998, Pakistan has celebrated May 28 as Youm-e-Takbeer (the day of greatness). The occasion marks the anniversary of the first nuclear weapon tests conducted by Pakistan on May 28, 1998, at the Chagai hills in Balochistan.
4• The open threat by China to Bangladesh reveals China’s growing insecurity with the *Quad* . (Here: The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) of four countries, Japan, the US, Australia and India, was formed in 2007 with the initiative coming from Japanese PM Shinzo Abe. … The aim of the Quad is to support a “free, open and prosperous” Indo-Pacific region that China seeks to threaten) China, which had once dismissed the *Quad* as just a froth in the ocean, is now intimidating Bangladesh against joining the *Quad* .
5. French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Rwandans to forgive France for its role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which about 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died.
6. World Menstrual Hygiene Day is observed every year on May 28. The day is marked across the globe to address societal stigma and to raise awareness on maintaining menstrual hygiene.
7. Hong Kong mountaineer, Tsang Yin-hung, recorded “world’s fastest ascent of Everest by a woman” in just 26 hours. The highest mountain above sea level, in world, is located in Mahalangur Himal sub-range of Himalayas. China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its snow height is of 8,848.86 m recorded.
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