Current Affairs – Today’s Headlines: May 23-24, 2021

May 24, 2021

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for May 23-24, 2021:

Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat gives assent to Bill that penalises fraudulent conversion by marriage
Journalist Rajkumar Keswani, who warned of Bhopal gas tragedy (December 2-3, 1984), dies at 72 of post COVID-19 complications
Noted Sanskrit scholar Pandit Rewa Prasad Dwivedi dies
Telugu film producer and veteran journalist B. A. Raju passes away at 62
Cheetah to be re-introduced in India from Africa in November at the Kuno National Park: MP govt
Country’s last spotted cheetah died in Chhattisgarh in 1947 and it was declared extinct in the country in 1952.
Chhattisgarh: CM Bhupesh Baghel suspends Surajpur Collector Ranbir Sharma for slapping youth for violating Covd-19 rules
Haryana to launch anti-Covid ‘Sanjeevani Pariyojana’ for quick medicare access at home
Cyclone Yaas to intensify into a “very severe cyclonic storm” and cross the Odisha and the West Bengal coasts on May 26: India Meteorological Department (IMD)
Operation Samudra Setu II: INS Jalashwa reaches Visakhapatnam with 300 metric tonne oxygen
Former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Srikumar Banerjee dies in Mumbai; won Padma Shri in 2005 and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1989
Kerala’s Shaji N.M. wins India Biodiversity Award 2021 in the individual category of ‘Conservation of domesticated species’

CSIR-CSIO (Central Scientific Instruments Organisation) transfer UV Disinfection technology to combat SARS-CoV-2 to indigenous manufacturers
India challenges $1.2 bn Cairn award, says never agreed on tax arbitration

Nepal: President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolves House of Representatives and announces mid-term polls in November
Pfizer-BioNTech pledge 2 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses to middle and low-income countries over the next 18 months
Commonwealth health ministers seek equal access to Covid-19 vaccines
Environment ministers from G-7 nations pledge to accelerate efforts to slow global warming
0 magnitude earthquake rattles China’s Qinghai province, one dead
International Day for Biological Diversity celebrated on May 22; theme: “We’re part of the solution”
Yuan Longping, China’s “father of hybrid rice”, who revolutionised agriculture, dies at 91’ awarded World Food Prize in 2004
Nigeria’s army chief, Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, dies in plane crash at the age of 54
Volcano Mount Nyiragongo erupts in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 15 killed
Ana, first named Atlantic storm of 2021, forms near Bermuda
World Turtle Day celebrated on May 23
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula observed on May 23, theme: “Women’s rights are human rights! End fistula now!”
Obstetric fistula is an injury that can occur during childbirth

Incumbent Narinder Batra of India re-elected as the International Hockey Federation (FIH) President for a second term till 2024
Atletico Madrid clinches La Liga football title in Spain
Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece wins men’s singles title at Lyon Open tennis in France
Norway’s Casper Ruud wins men’s singles title at Geneva Open Tennis
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen wins Formula One Monaco Grand Prix
Two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar arrested in May 4 murder case in Delhi
Hockey India wins Etienne Glichitch Award of FIH (International Hockey Federation) for growth and development of the sport in the country
Odisha bureaucrat V. Karthikeya Pandian wins FIH (International Hockey Federation) President’s Award at the FIH Congress
Norway’s Casper Ruud wins men’s singles title at Geneva Open Tennis