1. Leading Cooperative IFFCO Launches World’s First ‘Nano Urea’
Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited – IFFCO introduced the world’s first Nano Urea for farmers . A 500 ml bottle of nano liquid urea will replace at least one bag (45 kg) of conventional urea . IFFCO has priced Nano Urea at Rs 240 per 500 ml bottle for farmers, which is 10% cheaper than the price of a bag of traditional urea. Nano liquid urea increases production along with improved nutritional quality and has a major positive impact on ground water quality. Its use will significantly reduce global warming with effects on climate change and sustainable development.
2. Government announces pension scheme for dependents of those who lost their lives from Kovid-19
The Central Government announced to provide various other facilities including pension to the dependents of those who lost their lives due to Kovid-19 . A statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said that in addition to the pension for dependents, the government will ensure increased, liberalized insurance compensation for families affected by Kovid-19. The dependent members of the family of such victims will get a pension equal to 90 percent of the average daily salary . This benefit will be effective from March 24 last year and will be applicable for cases up to March 24, 2022, the statement said. The maximum amount received under the benefit of insurance has been increased from six lakh rupees to seven lakhs while the minimum amount will be 2.5 lakh rupees. This scheme will be applicable for the next three years from 15 February 2020.
3. Extended loan without guarantee
The scope of loans given to MSMEs under the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) has been increased. Now entrepreneurs take loans of up to two crores with only 7.5 percent interest to build hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and oxygen generation plants.Will be able to take In another important decision, the time given to entrepreneurs to repay the loans so far received under ECLGS has also been reduced from four to five years. Entrepreneurs will be able to pay only interest for the first 24 months and will have to pay the principal amount for the next 36 months. The banks do not have to give any kind of guarantee to the banks in lieu of loans given under the ECLGS. This loan scheme, fully guaranteed by the government, was announced in May last year under the Self-Reliant India Package. Under this, the MSME was to be given a loan of three lakh crore rupees. The duration of this scheme was ending on 30th June this year, which has been extended to 30th September. The loan sanctioned will be given by 31 December this year.
4. Two-day Climate Summit concludes
World leaders have called on all countries to take more action and cooperation in the global campaign for clean and green earth . A two-day climate summit was held in South Korea . Year 2018 Copenhagen after the inaugural meeting in the second summit of its kind that focuses on public-private partnerships, especially in developing countries. Various countries have set ambitious emissions-reduction targets in recent months, as well as being carbon neutral by 2050.planned to be. South Korea has recently announced a cut in finance allocation for international coal projects. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on nations to end their dependence on fossil fuels. He said that the climate crisis is as much a threat to people’s lives and economy as the Kovid-19 epidemic. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said countries must now fulfill their green promises.
5. Decision to allow couples in China to have a family of up to 3 children
China has made a major change in its population policy , allowing couples to have a family of up to three children . In this country with the world’s largest population, families of up to two children were allowed till now. This has been done because the recent census has seen a significant decline in birth rate. The official news agency Xinhua reports that the Politburo meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping approved this change. China had in 2016 decided to change the one-child policy to allow two children in the family, but its policy failed to increase the declining birth rate in the country. In many cities of China, the couple do not want to increase the family due to the increase in the cost of raising children.
6. Death of more than 13 lakh people in India every year due to tobacco consumption – Dr. Harsh Vardhan
Health Minister Dr. Harsh ‘s World No Tobacco Day led the resolution of non-tobacco on occasion. Presiding over the program organized on the occasion, he said that every year in India more than 13 lakh people die due to tobacco consumption.it occurs. He said that three and a half thousand people die every day due to tobacco consumption. The Health Minister said that cigarette smokers have a 40 to 50 percent higher risk of death from serious diseases. A study by the World Health Organization has found that the expenditure on diseases caused by tobacco consumption in India is estimated to cause an economic burden of one lakh 77 thousand crore rupees. It is about one percent of the GDP. Dr. Harsh Vardhan said that the efforts of the Central and State Governments have reduced the consumption of tobacco and it has come down from 34 decimal six percent in 2009-10 to 28 decimal six percent in 2016-17.
7. Special Award of Director General of World Health Organization to Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan
This year’s World Health Organization Director General’s Special Award has been given to Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan . The organization gives this award every year to an individual or organization in its six regions for their efficient work on prohibition of tobacco. The Director General of the organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, appreciated Dr. Harsh Vardhan’s leadership in making legal provisions in 2019 to ban e-cigarettes and tobacco products. Dr. Harsh Vardhan has tweeted that he will continue efforts towards the important goal of building a tobacco-free family and a tobacco-free society.
8. IIT Ropar developed the Embitag device which would tell whether the object is still usable or destroyed.
Punjab in the Indian Institute of Technology Aikaiktikropd a tool Mbitag developed during the perishable products, vaccines and even body parts and blood transport record real-time ambient temperature is . This device will help to know whether an object being transported from anywhere in the world is still usable or has been destroyed due to change in temperature. The Ministry of Education stated that this information is particularly important for vaccines including the Kovid-19 vaccine, organs and blood transport. The size of a USB device, the EmbiTag records its surrounding temperature continuously from minus 40 to 80 degrees in any time zone for a full 90 days on a single charge.
9. The new study revealed that the corona virus was made by China in Wuhan’s laboratory
Amidst the demand for a new investigation of the origin of Kovid-19 , a new study has shown that Chinese scientists prepared the virus in a laboratory in Wuhan . Research papers by Professor Angus Dalgleish of Britain and Dr. Berger Sørensen, a scientist from Norway, said that Chinese scientists tried to cover the virus with the reverse engineering version to make it appear that the corona virus evolved from bats. The research paper states that there is no reliable natural form of SARS-CoV-2 and it has been prepared by Chinese scientists who are working on the Gain of Function project in Wuhan’s laboratory.Were working on The research says that the scientists took some part of the natural corona virus found in China’s bats and converted it into a new spike, causing the virus to spread on a large scale.
10. Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar Launches Horticulture Cluster Development Program
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched the Horticulture Cluster Development Program (CDP) through virtual to ensure holistic development of horticulture . The objective of this program is to grow and develop the identified horticultural clusters to make them globally competitive. In a pilot phase, the program will be implemented in 12 horticultural groups out of a total of 53 groups selected for the program.
11. Alapan Bandyopadhyay appointed Chief Advisor to Chief Minister in West Bengal
The West Bengal government has appointed Alapan Bandyopadhyay as the Chief Advisor to the Chief Minister of the state . Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that her term would be for three years from June 1, 2021. Mr. Bandyopadhyay has retired as the Chief Secretary of West Bengal . Home Secretary HK Dwivedi will be the new Chief Secretary of the state. Shri Bandyopadhyay was present at the State Secretariat and participated in the post-cyclone COVID situation review meeting convened by the Chief Minister.
12. Rs 3,411 crore grant to Gujarat for providing water supply through tap to rural families
The Center has given three thousand four hundred and eleven crore rupees to Gujarat to provide drinking water through tap to all rural families under the Jal Jeevan Mission .Has allocated a grant of Rs. Out of this, the first installment of Rs 852 crore has been released for the current financial year. The Ministry of Jal Shakti has said that the Central Government’s allocation for the year 2019-20 was about Rs 390 crore, which was increased to more than Rs 883 crore in 2020-21. In Gujarat, during the last financial year, about 11 lakh rural households were provided tap connections. In the year 2021-22, the state has a plan to supply water to more than 10 lakh families through taps. There are about 93 lakh rural households in Gujarat, of which 83 percent households are currently being provided water through taps. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Water Life Mission on 15 August 2019. The mission aims to provide tap water to every rural household in the country by 2024.
13. Monsoon will reach Kerala by June 3: India Meteorological Department
Recently the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that the southwest monsoon in Kerala this yearWill begin on June 3. Generally, the normal date of onset of monsoon in Kerala is 1st June. As per the new normal dates of onset of monsoon, the southwest monsoon moves over the Andaman Sea around May 22. IMD uses three methods to predict monsoon in India. They are statistical method, dynamic method and dynamic cum statistical method. Under the statistical method, factors affecting the monsoon are identified. They relate to the historical occurrence of monsoons in the past. Under the dynamic method, atmospheric and oceanic conditions are simulated. Dynamic cum statistical method is empirical in nature. Empirical methods are used in countries such as the US, UK, South Africa, Australia, Brazil.
14. China will send three astronauts to space station
According to a Chinese space official, a three-member crew of astronauts will be sent for a three-month mission to China’s new space station in June 2021 . Station first driver confirmed plans to team Tianhe station was (Tianhe Station) for the launch of an automated spacecraft with fuel and supplies. Tianhe is the third and largest space station launched by China. The core module of this station was launched on 29 April 2021. shenzhou 12(Shenzhou 12) capsule will carry the crew. The capsule will be launched from Jiuquan base in northwestern China. The space crew will be sent to the station to practice the spacewalk and perform repair, maintenance and scientific operations.
15. RBI slaps Rs 10 crore fine on HDFC Bank
The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 crore on HDFC Bank for deficiencies in regulatory compliance found in the bank’s auto loan portfolio . According to RBI, HDFC Bank has violated the provisions of Section 6 (2) and Section 8 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. After receiving a complaint from an informant, RBI conducted an examination in marketing and selling third-party non-financial products to the bank’s auto loan customers and found that the bank was in violation of regulatory directives. RBI has imposed monetary penalty in exercise of powers vested by the central bank under the provisions of section 47A(1)(c) read with section 46(4)(i) of the Banking Regulation Act.
16. CBSE Board launches #Young Warrior campaign to beat corona virus
The CBSE board has taken an initiative. Accordingly, the Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE has launched a new campaign named ‘ Young Warrior ‘ to combat COVID-19 across the country . The board has sent a letter in this regard to the affiliated schools asking students and teachers to join the movement. The campaign aims to connect 5 million youth. At the same time, 50 million people have been said to be affected. The CBSE Young Warrior movement will be organized with the help of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Yuvah-UNICEF and 950 multi stockholders. At the same time, any student or teacher can join this movement. Apart from this, students should keep in mind that their age should be between 10 to 30 years.
17. Salman Rushdie’s book “Language of Truth: Essays 2003-2020”
Salman Rushdie (Salman Rushdie) the Language of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 wrote a book titled (Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020) . In his new book, Rushdie attempts a defensive casting move. He suggests that his work has been misunderstood and mistreated as literary culture shifts from brio-filled imaginative writing to the humble complacency of autofiction, as exemplified by the work of Elena Ferrante and Carl Ove Knausgaard Has gone.
18. Dugong has a four-year-old history in India
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee , from research conducted on fossils of sea cow (dugong) , discovered that the history of dugong in India was four crore two million years.Is old. Scientists claim that four species of mammal sea cow existed in India. However, now only one species is left and that too is on the verge of extinction. Scientists have warned that the sea cow will cease to exist if it is not protected. The study conducted at IIT Roorkee shows that there were at least four species of herbivorous and mammalian sea cows in India. These included primitive species, which lived in this area about 42 million years ago. Whereas, there has been evidence of the existence of other species about 20 million years ago. The assessment has been done on the basis of studies by IIT Roorkee professor Sunil Vajpayee, his colleagues and students, who are researching fossils of sea cows found in the Kutch region of Gujarat. According to scientists, Dugong, Gulf of Kutch, Gulf of Mannar, Pak Gulf (Tamil Nadu), Fighting for its survival in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The government has banned hunting of sea cows under the Indian Wildlife Protection Act-1972.
19. Zhang becomes Asia’s first visually impaired person to climb Everest
Zhang Hong, 46, a Chinese national , is the first blind person in Asia to have climbed Mount Everest via Nepal . So far three blind climbers of the world have reached this peak. Zhang achieved this feat on May 24 with three guides, reaching the 8849-metre-high peak. Born in Chongqing, China’s southwest city, Zhang is a courageous climber even after being blind from glaucoma.
20. SBI increases withdrawal limit from non-home branches
SBI has increased the cash withdrawal limit for customers through checks or forms from non-home branches . The bank said that this limit has been increased keeping in mind the convenience of customers in the current epidemic era. The self-withdrawal limit by filling the form has been increased to Rs.25,000 , the limit for self-withdrawal by check is Rs.1 lakh and in case of third parties the limit has been raised to Rs.50,000 . In case of third parties, KYC documents of the person concerned will be required.
21. Amit Panghal had to be content with silver medal in Asian boxing competition
Asian Boxing Championships in Amit Pangal the fifty-kilogram class in the silver had to settle. In the final, he was defeated by Rio Olympic champion and world champion Uzbekistan boxer Zoirov Shakhobidin . India has ensured fifteen medals so far while doing its best in the competition. Indian boxers won thirteen medals in the 2019 tournament.
22. Pooja Rani won a gold medal at the ongoing Asian Boxing Championships in Dubai
Defending champion Pooja Rani (75kg) won her second successive gold medal with a thumping win, while six-time world champion MC Mary Kom (51kg) and tournament debutante Lal Butsahi (64kg) were clinched in the final of the Asian Boxing Championships here. After the loss, he had to be satisfied with the silver medal. Pooja Bai, who had qualified for the Olympics and was playing her first match of the tournament after getting a walkover and won India’s first gold medal by defeating Mavulda Movalonova of Uzbekistan. He also won the gold medal in the eighty one kilogram category in the 2019 championship. Earlier, Mary Kom lost 2-3 in the women’s 51kg final to Nazim Kizaibe of Kazakhstan.
23. Chelsea win the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League final
Chelsea (Chelsea) by Portugal in Porto’s Estádio do drago (Estádio do Dragão) May 29, 2021 played the 2020-21 UEFA Champions League final, Manchester City won the title by defeating 1-0 (Manchester City). The only goal of the football match was scored by German forward Kai Havertz. This is the second Champions League title for Chelsea after winning the first in 2012.
24. World Tambaku Prohibition Day
Every year on May 31 the World No Tobacco Day (World No Tobacco Day-WNTD) is observed. Through this event, awareness is created among the people about the ill effects of tobacco use and its trade and the efforts being made by the World Health Organization to prevent the harm caused by tobacco. Through this, apart from betterment of public health, the health of the coming generation is also made aware. The member countries of the World Health Organization decided to observe No Tobacco Day on 31 May every year since 1987 to create awareness about the harmful effects of tobacco. The theme of this year’s 2021 WNTD is Commit to quit.
