23 May 2021

• Uttarakhand govt announces Vatsalya Yojana for youngsters orphaned thanks to Corona : Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat has announced Chief Minister Vatsalya Yojana for orphaned children who have lost their parents thanks to Covid-19. Under the scheme, the government will make arrangements for his or her maintenance, education and training for employment up to the age of 21 years. Chief minister said that such orphaned children of the state are going to be given a maintenance allowance of 3000 rupees per month.
• Bihar Government Launches ‘HIT COVID’ App to trace Home Isolated Patients : In Bihar, Nitish Kumar Government has launched an innovative mobile application called ‘Home Isolation Tracking (HIT)’ COVID, to stay an eye fixed on the condition of COVID-19 patients recovering at their residence. The HIT Covid App will ensure regular monitoring and tracking of these COVID-19 patients, who are in home isolation across the state.
• SC's E-Committee releases manual for its free e-Courts Services Mobile App : Supreme Court's E-Committee has released manual for its free e-Courts Services Mobile App in 14 languages. The app is out there in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarathi, Kannada, Khasi, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. Law and Justice Ministry said, the app aimed to profit Litigants, Citizens, Lawyers, Law firms, Police, Government Agencies and other institutional litigants. The mobile app and its manuals in English and other regional languages are often downloaded freed from cost from the official website of the e-Committee, Supreme Court of India.
• INS Jalashwa arrives Visakhapatnam with COVID Relief Consignment from Brunei & Singapore : As a part of ongoing COVID Relief Operation 'Samudra Setu II’ launched by the Indian Navy, INS Jalawsha embarked with 18 Cryogenic Oxygen Tanks and other critical COVID Medical Stores including 3650 Oxygen Cylinders and 39 Ventilators from Brunei and Singapore, arrived today in Visakhapatnam.
• International Day to finish Obstetric Fistula is observed on 23 May : Every year, United Nations’ (UN) International Day to finish Obstetric Fistula is marked on 23rd May since 2013 to market action towards treating and preventing obstetric fistula, a condition that affects many ladies and ladies during child birth in developing countries. Theme for 2021 is “Women’s rights are human rights! End fistula now!”
• UN announces release of twenty-two .5 M US Dollars for rising humanitarian needs in Gaza : The UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock announced the discharge of twenty-two .5 million US Dollars towards the response to rising humanitarian needs in Gaza. the quantity includes a 4.5 million Dollars' allocation from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and up to 18 million Dollars from the Occupied Palestinian Territory Humanitarian Fund.
• China successfully launches new ocean observation satellite ‘Haiyang-2D’ : China successfully launched a replacement ocean-monitoring satellite Haiyang-2D (HY-2D) into orbit on May 19, 2021, on Long March-4B rocket, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China. The HY-2D will form a constellation with the HY-2B and HY-2C satellites to create an all-weather and round-the-clock dynamic ocean environment monitoring system of high frequency and medium and enormous scale to supply early warning on marine disasters.
• State Bank of India and HyperVerge Partner to supply AI-powered Online Account Opening amid Covid : HyperVerge, the AI product startup, has partnered with India’s largest bank, depository financial institution of India (SBI), with one among its flagship products, the Video Banking solution, to supply convenient digital banking services to the purchasers of SBI. Under the partnership, SBI customers can instantly open bank account using Video Banking process, during the pandemic, with minimal ID documents.
• APEDA organizes Virtual Buyer-Seller Meet to reinforce mangoes exports to South Korea : In a bid to extend mangoes exports to South Korea , Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) together with Indian embassy, Seoul and Indian Chamber of Commerce in Korea (ICCK), organised a Virtual Buyer-Seller Meet. The mangoes exported to South Korea , were treated, cleaned and shipped from the APEDA assisted and registered packhouse and vapor heat treatment facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh and exported by IFFCO Kisan SEZ. within the current season, 30 Metric Tonnes of Mangoes are exported to EU, UK, Ireland, Middle East countries among several others.
• Narinder Batra re-elected as FIH President for a second term : Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra has been re-elected as president of the International Hockey Federation during a virtual presidential election
• Chipko Movement Leader Sunderlal Bahuguna Passes Away : Noted environmentalist and Gandhian activist, Sunderlal Bahuguna, who was the leader of the Chipko Movement, has gave up the ghost thanks to COVID-19 complications. He was 94. the thought of Chipko movement was given by his wife and therefore the action was taken by him. The movement began in 1973 in Uttarakhand, (then a neighborhood of Uttar Pradesh), at the foothills of Himalayas.

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