Bihar Affairs
Rs300 crore sanctioned for payment against Covid deaths
The state cabinet sanctioned the release of Rs300 crore from the contingency fund for meeting expenditure on the payment of compensation to the next of kin of those who died due to Covid-19 up to March 31, 2022. The compensation amount, as already announced by the government, is Rs4 lakh for each death due to the Covid-19 infection.
The cabinet also approved the release of Rs1,173.93 crore from the state contingency fund for the implementation of the schemes under the PM Awas Yojana and Mahatma Gandhi Rural EMPLOYMENT Guarantee schemes (MNREGS) during the 2021-22 fiscal.
The cabinet also approved the anticipated expenditure of Rs36.41 crore to be incurred on the purchase of vehicles for the anti-riot forces. Besides, the cabinet cleared the release of Rs 456.05 crore for the acquisition of 108.98 acres of land required for the construction of Danapur-Bihta elevated corridor.
National and International Affairs
Citizenship to Afghanistan, Pakistan minorities not tied to CAA: Govt
The Centre on Monday told theSupreme Courtthat its notification of May 28 delegating powers to collectors of some of districts to grant to members of the minority community from Afghanistan,Pakistanand Bangladesh was not related to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and that such exercise had been done earlier too since 2006.
By the notification, the Centre has delegated power to grant citizenship in such cases to the collectors of 13 more districts Morbi, Rajkot, Patan and Vadodara in Gujarat; Jalore, Udaipur, Pali, Barmer and Sirohi in Rajasthan; Durg and Balodabazar in Chhattisgarh; Faridabad in Haryana; and Jalandhar inPunjaband to the Home secretaries ofHaryanaand Punjab. Now, district collectors of 29 districts and home secretaries of 9 states can exercise such powers.
Shenzhou-12 Manned Mission of China
A Chinese spacecraft “Shenzhou XII” with three crew members docked with China’s new space station module Tianhe 1. This follows the launch of the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft, which delivered critical supplies to the space station.
Highlights:
About six hours after taking off from the Jiuquan launch centre in the Gobi Desert, the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft connected with the Tianhe space station module.
The three-man crew will spend three months on the Tianhe module, which will orbit the Earth at 340km to 380km altitude.
This is the first of two manned space missions scheduled for this year, as part of a intense launch schedule aimed at completing the Chinese space station by 2022.
The three astronauts are the first to live in the main living module, where they will conduct experiments, test equipment, perform maintenance, and prepare the station for the arrival of two laboratory modules next year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted the risk that children working in informal processing face as a result of discarded electronic devices, or E-Waste, in its report Children and Digital Dumpsites. It is the world’s first WHO report on electronic waste and child health.
Approximately 12.9 million Women work in the informal waste sector, exposing them to toxic e-waste (such as nickel, lead, and mercury) and putting themselves and their unborn children at risk.
Children are especially vulnerable to the toxic chemicals found in e waste because of their smaller size, less developed organs, and rapid rate of Growth and development.