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1.Tropical Storm Cristobal Hits Louisiana, Mississippi Coasts

Tropical Storm Cristobal has reached the southeastern United States, bringing heavy rains and sustained winds of up to 50 mph.Storm surge warnings have been issued for the southeast coast of Louisiana as well as the Mississippi coast.Cristobal is the third named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.If the storm maintains its current track, Mississippi could be the state hardest hit.Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency ahead of the tropical storm and some communities in Mississippi and Louisiana have been ordered to evacuate.Phillips said that winds will likely top out at around 50 miles per hour, with the strongest likely to come around the Mississippi coast.

2.India, Denmark sign MoU for developing cooperation in power sector

India and Denmark have signed an MoU for developing cooperation in the power sector.The MoU signed is to develop a strong, deep and long-term co-operation between two countries in the power sector on the basis of equality, reciprocity and mutual benefit.It provides for collaboration in areas like offshore wind, long term energy planning, forecasting, flexibility in the grid, consolidation of grid codes to integrate and operate efficiently variable generation options, flexibility in the power purchase agreements and variability in renewable energy production. Indian electricity market will benefit from this cooperation with Denmark.Under the MoU, a Joint Working Group will also be established.

3.Govt mandates distinct colour strip on top of sticker carrying details of registration for BS-VI vehicles

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has mandated a strip of green colour of one centimetre width on top of the existing sticker carrying details of registration for  BS-VI vehicles of any fuel type.For petrol and CNG vehicles, there is a light blue colour sticker and for diesel vehicles, it is of orange colour.The Ministry in a statement said that such stickers will now have a green strip of one centimetre width on top for BS VI four wheel vehicles.Green strips of such thickness for BS 6 vehicles for stickers of registration details are being stuck on windshields of 4 wheelers.

4.Centre allocates highest ever funds of Rs 1,01,500 crore under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme during 2020-2021

A provision of one lakh one thousand 500 crore rupees has been made under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the current financial year 2020-2021.It is the highest ever provision of funds under the programme.A sum of 31 thousand 493 crores has already been released in 2020-2021, which is more than 50 percent of the budget estimate of the current Financial Year.Average number of persons to whom work offered in May this year has been 2.51 crore per day, which is 73 percent higher than the work offered in May last year.

5.Indian Air Force designs, develops & manufactures ARPIT

The Indian Air Force has designed, developed and manufactured an Airborne Rescue Pod for Isolated Transportation (ARPIT).This pod will be utilised for evacuation of critical patients with infectious diseases including COVID-19 from high altitude areas, isolated and remote places.Requirement of an air evacuation system with facility to prevent spread of infectious aerosol from a COVID-19 patient during air travel was felt by IAF when COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic.This indigenously designed system has been developed at a cost of Rs. 60,000 only, which is very less as compared to the imported systems costing up to Sixty Lakh.The system has been developed as a lightweight isolation system made from aviation certified material.

6.Jharkhand gives BRO approval to employ 11,800 workers for border projects

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has permitted the Border Roads Organization (BRO) to employ more than 11,800 workers from the state for critical national projects.Jharkhand is also set to sign a first-of-its-kind memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the BRO for ensuring the welfare of workers in all recruitments in the future.The MoU, prepared by the CMO and the state’s labour department, will ensure an institutional framework safeguarding the benefits and welfare of workers from the state going to work at high-altitude projects of the BRO.The 11, 815 workers that the BRO had requested for recruitment are needed for Operation Vijayak in Ladakh (about 8,000 workers required), Project Shivalik in Uttarakhand, Project Deepak in Himachal Pradesh, Project Beacon in Jammu and Kashmir.

7.Engineer from Maharashtra develops ‘Coro-bot’ to reduce physical contact of care-givers with COVID-19 patients

A robot named ‘Coro-bot’ has been developed by an engineer from Thane district of Maharashtra, in order to reduce the physical contact of care-givers with COVID-19 patients.Instrumentation Engineer, Pratik Tirodkar developed the ‘Coro-bot’ to cut away the requirement of physical contact of nurses and ward boys with the patient as they confront a great risk while working in the COVID-19 hospitals.The robot ‘Coro-bot’ will be operated by a special app from any location in the world based on the idea of Internet of Things (IoT).This robot can provide various services such as delivering food, water and medicines to the patients suffering from COVID-19, without any necessity of physical presence of nurses as well as other care-givers.Impressed by its performance, Thane Guardian Minister Eknath Shinde has indicated to deploy Coro-bot in over a dozen government and private hospitals of the district.

8.Andhra Pradesh launches online waste exchange website “APEMC”

Online waste exchange website of Andhra Pradesh Environment Management Corporation (APEMC) has been launched by the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.Andhra Pradesh has become India’s first state to launch a waste exchange website. Through this platform, the state government seeks to protect the environment by covering 100% safe disposal of toxic waste, proper tracking, scrutiny as well as audit of waste.With this platform, the Andhra Pradesh government will promote the six ‘R’s namely Reduce, Refurbish, Reuse, Recycle, Redesign and Remanufacture.The platform has been set up by the government as there was a need for an appropriate system for the scientific disposal of the waste generated by the various companies in the state.Hence, APEMC will monitor the generation of waste across the State and will also take effective measures for its scientific disposal.

9.Manipur CM inaugurates Plant Health Clinic in Imphal

With an aim to boost economic growth of Manipur through agriculture and horticulture, Chief Minister N. Biren Singh inaugurated a Plant Health Clinic at the Directorate of Horticulture and Soil Conservation, Imphal.The aim to open the clinic is to boost the economic growth of Manipur through agriculture and horticulture. Along with the clinic, the Chief Minister also launched a mobile soil testing laboratory van.The state government has decided to give more emphasis on agriculture and horticulture sectors in this hour of the pandemic COVID-19.The initiative taken up by the department to set up such a plant clinic will provide plant health diagnostic services to farmers.

10.Tech Mahindra signs UN Global Compact Initiative to reduce emissions

Tech Mahindra has signed a joint declaration with UN Global Compact and hence joined 155 global companies in calling for policies to build resilience against future shocks by supporting the activities targeted to hold global temperature rise to within 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, in order to reach net-zero emissions before 2050.Tech Mahindra seeks to reduce carbon footprint and emissions by moving towards a zero-carbon resilient economy. It will achieve its objective with the use of new-age technologies such as the internet of things, artificial intelligence and blockchain.These 155 global companies from across 34 sectors have a combined market capitalization of more than $2.4 trillion, representing five million employees.The business voices of the above signatories will be convened by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and its business ambition for 1.5°C campaign partners, the UN Global Compact and the We Mean Business coalition.

11.India’s economy to contract by 3.2 per cent in fiscal year 2020-21: World Bank

The World Bank expects India’s economy to contract 3.2% in the current fiscal year, a sharp downgrade from its April projection of 1.5%-2.8% growth.The Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report released said the lockdown would severely curtail activity despite fiscal and monetary stimulus.The latest report expects the economy to make a modest recovery to 3.1% growth in the next fiscal year.A number of firms including Goldman Sachs and Nomura have projected a contraction of as much as 5% for India in FY21.

12.Monika Kapil Mohta appointed India’s next Ambassador to Switzerland

Diplomat Monika Kapil Mohta has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Switzerland, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced.Presently, Mohta, an Indian Foreign Service officer of 1985 batch, is India’s Ambassador to Sweden.Mohta has served as the Ambassador of India to Poland and Lithuania from July 2011 to January 2015.She served as the Director of The Nehru Centre and Minister (Culture) at the High Commission of India to the United Kingdom from 2006 to 2011.She has also served at Indian Embassies in France, Nepal, and Thailand, and in the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO.