DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS (25-May-2021)

Hey The, Here are your Top 10 News for today

1. India’s first drones to deliver covid-19 vaccines are expected to take off in Telangana in the next two to three weeks. They will carry a total of 10,000 vials from a central location to primary health centers nearby

2. Roche Pharma India and Cipla have announced the launch of the first batch of Regeneron’s antibody cocktail of casirivimab and imdevimab in India at ₹59,750 per dose. The drug will be used to treat high-risk non-hospitalized covid patients

3. Zydus Cadila has launched Ujvira, a drug used for the treatment of breast cancer. The company has launched Trastuzumab Emtansine, the first antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) biosimilar and a highly effective drug for treating both early and advanced HER2 positive breast cancer, under the brand name Ujvira

4. The ninth season of TCS CodeVita has won a Guinness World Records title as the world’s largest computer programming competition. It had 136,054 participants from 34 countries

TCS CodeVita is a coding contest for engineering and science students. It contest aims at identifying the talent

5. SEBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 5.25 cr on Cairn India for making a misleading announcement regarding the buyback of shares in 2014. The market regulator has also levied a fine of Rs 15 lakh each on P. Elango, Aman Mehta, and Neerja Sharma. Click here to read more

6. Jane Goodall, the world-renowned primatologist and conservationist, has won the 2021 Templeton Prize. She is only the fourth woman to win the award, established by the late investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton

Templeton Prize award is presented annually to a living person who has “made an exceptional contribution to life’s spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works

7. Diageo has pledged ₹45 crores to help nodal government hospitals in 21 districts in India in setting up oxygen plants based on Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) technology, besides providing state governments with mini-hospital units in another 15 critical districts

8. An engineering student Nihaal Singh Adarsh from K.J. Somaiya college invented a ventilation system for PPE Kit. The Cov-Tech ventilation system takes the surrounding air filters it and pushes it into the PPE suit

9. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mount Nyiragongo erupted on 23 May 2021. It turned the sky red and brought in a strong smell of sulfur to the streets of the city which is home to nearly 2 million people

10. Supreme Court's e-Committee has released a manual for its free e-Courts Services Mobile App in 14 languages. The app is available in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Khasi, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu