Top GKToday’s News Headlines-26 May 2020

INDIA

• IAF to launch its squadron Number-18 – Flying Bullets with a fleet of LCA Tejas at its Sulur base near Coimbatore

WORLD

• Japan: PM Shinzo Abe lifts coronavirus state of emergency in the entire country
• Africa Day observed on May 25; foundation day of Organisation of African Unity (now African Union) in 1963
• World Thyroid Day observed on May 25

BALBIR SINGH

• Hockey legend Balbir Singh Dosanjh, also known as Balbir Singh Sr., dies in Mohali aged 95
• Was member of Olympic gold medal winning teams in 1948 (London),1952 (Helsinki) and Melbourne (1956, captain)
• Holds record for scoring most goals by an individual in the men’s hockey final at Olympics: 5 in India’s 6-1 win over Holland in 1952 final