JJP offers to back Congress against Haryana BJP
government
The BJP government in
Haryana seems to come in minority after three independents have
withdrawn their support .
On Wednesday, JanNayak Janta Party ( JJP ) chief Dushyant Chautala said that he would “
consider “ offering outside support to Congress if it made an offer to topple
the government
Congress has said that JJP should submit to the governor that it does not
support BJP , president rule should be imposed and fresh elections need to be
conducted
In March , JJP had withdrawn support from BJP over a dispute
of seat sharing in Lok Sabha seats .
CM Nayab Saini has rubbished the claims that BJP government
was in “minority “ ,insisting that the BJP government was
“safe “ and was
running with “ functioning with full strength “ .
“Center says the it sanctions CBI probe against other states
SC on Wednesday refused to accept the central government’s
claim that it had no control over the CBI .
SC asked who else would control CBI otherwise .
The court was hearing a suit filed by West Bengal govt that the central Govt transfers many of state
government’s cases from the state to CBI.
“ Who would be the authority to authorise the CBI to proceed
to another state for investigation. “ , Justice B. R. gavai asked .
In recent times CBI has registered a total 15 cases to CBI .
CBI is established under Delhi Special Police Establishment
Act ( DSPE Act ) .
Section 5(1) of the act authorise , central government to
any orders regarding investigation in state cases .
Rain gods. cloud seeding not the answer to forest fires ,
SC tells Uttarakhand government
The Supreme Court ( SC ) on Wednesday told the Uttarakhand
government that rain God God and cloud seeding would not doude forest fires .
“ Cloud seeding or depending on rain God is not the answer .
You ( Uttarakhand government ) have to take preventive measures , “ Justice
Sandeep Mehta said .
Two judge bench is hearing a petition filed against
Uttarakhand government handling of Forest fires .
The Uttarakhand government downplayed the forest fires
assuring that the emergency was over .
“ We don’t know but will surely like to hear if the
emergency is over or not “ Justice Gavai replied.
The court has listed
the case on Wednesday .
Meanwhile IAF has continued to help causing forest fires in
Pauri Garhwal sector in Uttarakhand .
IAF is taking Bambi Bucket operations using Mi17 helicopters
.
India is now third largest producer of solar power
In 2023 ,India overtook Japan to become the world’s third highest producer
of Solar Power ,said a report by Ember .
India generated 113 Billion Units ( BU ) of solar power in
2023 compared to Japan’s 110 BU.
The leading two producers are China ( 584 BU ) and USA ( 228
BU ) .
The energy produced by renewable energy currently is 30 % .
Ember is an International energy Analytics agency .
5457 ‘ illegal ‘ migrants identified in Kamjong : Manipur
CM
Manipur CM N Biren Singh on Wednesday said , that his
government had detected 5,457 illegal immigrants in Kamjong , district on May 7
.
Out of which biometric data has been collected for 5,713 .
Mr Biren Singh wrote on X that his government was handling
the “ alarming “ situation “ with utmost sensitivity “ , “ we have been giving
humanitarian aid to all the illegal immigrants who were detected so far ,” .
Kamjong district
shares a border with Myanmar . Due to ethnic conflict many Myanmar
people living in the border region has crossed the border into Mizoram and
Manipur .
Most of these are Chin Kuki tribe which has ethnic
similarity with Kuki Zo of Manipur .
Panel investigating Manipur violence gets 11,000
affidavits
The three member Commission of Inquiry ( CoI ) notified by
the Ministry of Home Affairs ( MHA ) , to investigate the ethnic violence in
Manipur has received around 11,000 affidavits . A senior official said .
In November 2023 , The commission had asked members of the
public to submit “ statement , allegation complaint “ , in the form of an
affidavit .
The majority of the affidavits have been filed by the
individuals who were affected by the violence , and few of them have been filed
by civil society groups from the hill and valley areas . No charges were taken
from those filing complaints .
The commission is expected to probe the cause of riots , the
extent of violence , and riots targeting the members of different communities .
Center asks Air India to Express to resolve staff issue
promptly
90 out of 369 daily flights of Air India Express were
cancelled on Wednesday . This is among the single largest flight cancellation
in recent times .
The cancellation occurred as more than 200 cabin crew
reported “ sick “ to protest issues emerging related to its merger with Air
Asia .
The Government has asked the Airline to resolve its
employees issue “ promptly “ .
The employees of Air India Express are saying that after its
merger with Air Asia , the latter’s employees were being treated preferentially
.
In 2022 , AirAsia merged with Air IndiaExpress to build a
large low carrier airline to compete with Indigo .
World
US halts bomb shipment to Israel over Rafah concern
The United States halted the load of 907 kg bombs and 226 kg
bombs after Israel had not “fully addressed”
U.S. concerns about ground operation in Rafah last week , an US official said on Tuesday .
This was the first instance when the US has acted on its
warnings to Israel .
The US is reviewing the transfer of other weapon transfers ,
including the use of precision bomb kits known as JDAMs .
The US even blasted the “ unacceptable “ closure of Rafah
border crossing with Egypt .
Russia targets Ukraine on a day , marking the second
world war defeat of Nazis
Russia on Wednesday launched more than 50 cruise missiles on
Ukraine . The missiles were targeted to
the power grids and rail networks .
Russia has been targeting the power and energy
infrastructure of Ukraine .
Strike on the Power grid alone has caused 12.5 billion
dollar damage to Ukraine . Loss of about a billion dollars came in last week .
AstraZeneca withdraws COVID 19 vaccine
UK based Pharmaceutical major AstraZeneca has started global
withdrawal of its CoVID 19 vaccine .
The withdrawal is due to a surplus of available vaccine
doses , the company said in a statement .
In a recent report it was said that the vaccine had a rare
side effect on blood clotting and lowering of platelet counts .
The vaccine in India was manufactured by Serum Institute of
India , with the name Covishield .
China and EU candidate Serbia sign an agreement to build a ‘ shared future ‘
China and EU candidate Serbia signed an agreement on
Wednesday to build a “ shared future “ , making the Balkan country
the first in Europe to agree on such a document .
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Serbina President Vucic
announced they would. “ deepen and
elevate the comprehensive strategic partnership
between China and Serbia “ , and “ build a new era of a community with a
shared future between China and Serbia . “
The term “ community for shared future “ was launched by Xi
years ago .
Though this does not mean any initiative , many believe that
it’s significance is that of an alliance .
Nearly a decade ago Serbia had become the first Strategic partner to China in the Central and
Eastern European region .
Serbia became the first European country to be part of “
community of shared future “ .
Science
NASA working out a
time standard for the moon
In September 2025 ,
NASA’s four member Artemis crew is scheduled to fly around the moon .
NASA has been directed to establish a Coordinated lunar time
( LTC ) to stadarise time telling to the moon .
The LTC will be standard to measure lunar cis lunar
operations with earth’s UTC ( Universal Time Coordinate ) .
Currently each country uses its own country’s time for the
lunar mission .
The White House celestica Time standardisation policy seeks
to assign a time to each celestial body and its surrounding space environment .
