The UAE government awarded Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt with its Golden Visa. The Golden Visa system essentially offers long-term residency to people with outstanding talents.
In 2019, UAE implemented a new system for long-term residence visas enabling foreigners to live, work & study there without the need of a national sponsor & with 100% ownership of their business.
UAE:
Capital: Abu Dhabi
Currency: UAE dirham
CBSE launched a nationwide Young Warrior movement to engage 5 million young people to fight against Covid-19. This movement is expected to impact 50 million people.
The Board has launched the movement together with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, YuWaah-UNICEF, and a multi-stakeholder consortium of over 950 partners.
The government will be opening One-Stop Centres (OSCs) in 10 missions across nine countries. These centers will be supported by the Women and Child Development Ministry and operated by the External Affairs Ministry. One OSC will be established in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the UAE, Australia, Canada, and Singapore, while two will be established in Saudi Arabia.
300 more OSCs will also be opened across India.
Ayush Ministry launched its Ayush Clinical Case Repository (ACCR) portal and the 3rd version of Ayush Sanjivani App in a virtual event. The portal will provide access to clinical outcomes in the field of alternative therapy, and further research and analysis. This portal aims to aggregate information about clinical outcomes achieved by Ayush practitioners on a large scale.
App facilitates study & documentation regarding efficacy of selected Ayush interventions
Based on years of meticulous archival research, the book titled, ‘Nehru, Tibet & China’ authored by Avtar Singh Bhasin, in fascinating detail, analyses the events from 1949 to the Indo-China war in 1962 and its aftermath to explore the answers to these burning questions.
Celebrated academic and former children's commissioner Dame Cindy Kiro will be New Zealand's next governor-general. Kiro becomes New Zealand's 22nd governor-general, the fourth woman to hold the role, and the first Maori woman.
New Zealand:
Capital: Wellington
PM: Jacinda Ardern
Businessman, banker, and center-right conservative politician Guillermo Lasso has been sworn in as Ecuador's new President for the next four years. Lasso became the first liberal president of Ecuador in the last two decades after a period of institutional instability between 1997 and 2007.
Ecuador:
Capital: Quito
Currency: US Dollar
Bangladesh agreed to give Sri Lanka loans of at least $200 million from foreign exchange reserves under a currency swap deal. Sri Lanka will repay over three months with 2% interest on the Libor rate. Sri Lanka’s foreign currency reserves stand around $4 billion.
It is the 1st time Bangladesh is giving loans to another country from the reserves by swapping currency.
Economist and Philosopher Amartya Kumar Sen, who studied the causes of famines, to be recognized with the Princess of Asturias award in the social sciences category. The 50,000-euro award is one of 8 prizes, including in the arts, communications, and sports, handed out annually by the Asturias Princess Foundation, which is named for Spanish Crown Princess Leonor.
Sen won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998.
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers May 29 is a day to pay tribute to all those who have served & continue to serve in UN peacekeeping operations for their high level of professionalism, dedication & courage. Theme for 2021: The road to a lasting peace: Leveraging the power of youth for peace and security.
As part of the Lakshmi Bhandar project, poor families will receive a monthly allowance of Rs 500 from the government. Families from Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe families are eligible to receive Rs 1,000. Student Credit Card initiative launched to help students receive low-interest loans up to Rs 10 lakh for higher studies.
The ration home delivery scheme, “Duare Ration [ration at doorsteps]” is also launched.
International Everest Day 2021 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 29th of May 1953.
In the year 2008, Nepal decided to celebrate International Everest Day every year on 29th of May.
British named it Mount Everest after Sir George Everest, a British surveyor of South Asia