DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS (30-May-2021)

Hey The, Here are your Top 10 News for today 

1. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to move the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 to the UAE in view of the Covid-19 situation in India. The IPL matches are expected to resume tentatively on September 18 or 19, 2021

2. Rajasthan government has approved Saint Gobain's proposal to invest worth Rs 1,200 crore in the state. For the last two years, Rajasthan has been successfully attracting investments due to its very attractive industry policy framework, despite having a focused fight against Covid-19

3. The Union Power Ministry has transferred the 220 kV Srinagar-Drass-Kargil-Khaltsi-Leh transmission link to the state-run Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. PGCIL’s transmission network has 169,829 circuit km of transmission lines and 257 substations

4. Infosys Ltd has cut its carbon emissions by nearly 46% in FY21 mainly through the successful enablement of work-from-home. The data was given in its Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) report 2021-21

5. The government of Karnataka is introducing a city-wide sewage surveillance system in Bangalore. It will help officials track the virus at an early stage, even among asymptomatic individuals

6. The government has announced the appointment of BVR Subrahmanyam as the new Officer on Special Duty (OSD) and Secretary, Commerce. Subrahmanyam, 1987-Batch IAS officer, is the incumbent Chief Secretary of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir

7. Art critic, author, and journalist Dr. Alka Raghuvanshi passed away in May 2021. Dr. Raghuvanshi was India’s first trained art curator who had trained at the Goldsmiths College, London, and the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford

8. International Everest Day is celebrated on May 29 every year. The day is observed in the memory of the first summit of Mount Everest by New Zealand’s Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa that took place on May 29, 1953

9. Every 29th May, the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) celebrates World Digestive Health Day (WDHD). The theme for the year 2021 is "Obesity: An Ongoing Pandemic"

10. OneWeb has launched another batch of 36 satellites by Arianespace from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia. OneWeb is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications operator, co-owned by Bharti Global and the UK government