अंतर्राष्ट्रीय प्रकाश दिवस (International Day of Light) प्रत्येक वर्ष 16 मई को मनाया जाता है, इस दिन भौतिक विज्ञानी और इंजीनियर थियोडोर मैमन द्वारा 1960 में लेजर के पहले सफल ऑपरेशन की वर्षगांठ है। अंतर्राष्ट्रीय प्रकाश दिवस 2021 का संदेश “Trust Science” है।

प्रसिद्ध गणितज्ञ प्रोफेसर एम.एस. नरसिम्हन का हाल ही में 88 वर्ष की आयु में निधन हो गया है। उन्हें नरसिम्हन-शेशाद्री प्रमेय (Narasimhan-Seshadri Theorem) के लिए जाना जाता था, जिसे एक अन्य गणितज्ञ सी.एस. शेषाद्रि के साथ प्रतिपादित किया गया था और दोनों को रॉयल सोसाइटी, लंदन के फेलो के रूप में चुना गया था। वह विज्ञान के क्षेत्र में किंग फैसल अंतर्राष्ट्रीय पुरस्कार (King Faisal International Prize) प्राप्त करने वाले एकमात्र भारतीय थे।

फ्रेंच टेनिस दिग्गज राफेल नडाल ने नोवाक जोकोविच को हराकर रिकॉर्ड 10वीं बार इटालियन ओपन खिताब जीता। महिलाओं के फाइनल में, मौजूदा फ्रेंच ओपन चैंपियन इगा स्विएटेक ने कैरोलिना प्लिस्कोवा को 6-0 6-0 से हराकर खिताब जीता।

पूर्व मध्य रेलवे के धनबाद डिवीजन में झारखंड के हजारीबाग कस्बे में वाई-फाई की शुरुआत के साथ, भारतीय रेलवे ने 15 मई तक 6,000 रेलवे स्टेशनों पर वाई-फाई की स्थापना कर दी है। भारतीय रेलवे ने जनवरी, 2016 में मुंबई रेलवे स्टेशन में पहली बार वाई-फाई सुविधा का विस्तार किया था।

संयुक्त राष्ट्र द्वारा हर साल 16 मई को ‘शांति में एक साथ रहने का अंतर्राष्ट्रीय दिवस’ (International Day of Living Together in Peace) मनाया जाता है। इसका उद्देश्य शांति, सहिष्णुता और एकजुटता को बढ़ावा देने के लिए अंतर्राष्ट्रीय समुदाय के प्रयासों को संगठित करने के साधन के रूप में कार्य करना है। अंतर्राष्ट्रीय शांति दिवस 2021 की थीम “Recovering better for an equitable and sustainable world” है।

केंद्र ने कहा है कि इस वर्ष अगस्त से दिसंबर के बीच भारतीय नागरिकों के लिए 216 करोड़ कोविड टीके उपलब्ध होंगे। 

अवसंरचना क्षेत्र की कंपनी लार्सन एण्ड टुब्रो (एल एण्ड टी) ने कहा कि उसकी निर्माण इकाई को चेन्नई मेट्रो रेल कार्पोरेशन से 5,000 करोड़ रुपये का ठेका प्राप्त हुआ है।

इर्लिंग हालैंड और जादोन सांचो के दो - दो गोल की मदद से बोरुसिया डोर्टमंड ने लिपजिग को 4-1 से हराकर जर्मन कप फुटबॉल टूर्नामेंट का खिताब जीता।

सीमित ओवरों के बल्लेबाज ग्लेन फिलिप और आलराउंडर डेरिल मिशेल को पहली बार न्यूजीलैंड क्रिकेट के अनुबंधित खिलाड़ियों की सूची में शामिल किया गया है।

आईआईटी के पूर्व छात्र/छात्राओं की परिषद द्वारा स्थापित मेगालैब ने आयुर्वेद कोविड19-वैक्सीन विकसित करने के लिए 300 करोड़ रुपये का शुरुआती कोष जुटाया है, यह वैक्सीन दो खुराक में दी जाएगी और इससे पहली खुराक के कुछ दिनों के भीतर संक्रमण के प्रतिरोध की क्षमता पैदा हो सकती है। 

नेपाल में राष्‍ट्रपति विद्या देवी भंडारी ने के. पी. शर्मा ओली को दोबारा प्रधानमंत्री नियुक्‍त किया है।

टाइम्स ग्रुप की अध्यक्ष इंदु जैन का कोविड-19 संबंधी जटिलताओं के कारण निधन हो गया। वह 84 वर्ष की थीं।

आम आदमी पार्टी (आप) के पूर्व विधायक जरनैल सिंह का कोविड-19 संबंधी जटिलताओं के कारण निधन हो गया।

सर गंगा राम अस्पताल में लंबे समय से कार्यरत और प्रसिद्ध प्रसूति एवं स्त्री रोग विशेषज्ञ डॉ. एस. के. भंडारी का कोविड-19 के कारण निधन हो गया। डॉ. भंडारी की उम्र 86 वर्ष थी।

मणिपुर के बीजेपी अध्यक्ष प्रोफेसर एस. टिकेंद्र सिंह का इम्फाल के शिजा अस्पताल में निधन हो गया। वह 69 वर्ष के थे।

1-Centre has said that 216 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines will be available between August and December this year for Indian citizens. 

2-Infrastructure company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) said its construction arm has bagged an up to Rs 5,000 crore contract from Chennai Metro Rail Corporation. 

3-Erling Haaland and Jadon Sancho both scored twice as Borussia Dortmund withstood a second-half fightback in teeming rain to beat Leipzig 4-1 in the German Cup final. 

4-White ball batsman Glenn Phillips and all-rounder Daryl Mitchell have been included for the first time on New Zealand Cricket’s list of centrally contracted players.

5-The IIT Alumni Council-founded Megalab has secured a Rs 300-crore seed funding and is developing a two-dose Ayurveda-based coronavirus vaccine that can stop the spread of the deadly virus and prevent infection within a few days of the first dose.

6-In Nepal, President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has re-appointed KP Sharma Oli as Prime Minister. 

7-Times Group chairperson Indu Jain died due to Covid-related complications. She was 84. 

8-Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Jarnail Singh passed away due to COVID-19 complications. 

9-One of the longest serving doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and renowned obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr S K Bhandari died due to Covid-19. Dr Bhandari was 86.

10-Manipur BJP chief Prof S Tikendra Singh passes away at Shija Hospital in Imphal. He was 69. 

Article 311 of the Indian Constitution

 

Why in News

 

As of late, a cop was excused from the help by Mumbai Police Magistrate under Article 311(2)(b) of the Constitution without a departmental inquiry.

 

Central issues

 

Article 311:

 

Article 311 (1) says that no administration representative both of an all-India administration or a state government will be excused or eliminated by a position subordinate to the owner that selected him/her.

 

Article 311 (2) says that no government employee will be excused or eliminated or decreased in position besides after a request in which s/he has been educated regarding the charges and offered a sensible chance of being heard in regard to those charges. 

 

Individuals Ensured under Article 311: The individuals from

 

Common help of the Association,

 

All India Administration, and

 

Common help of any State,

 

Individuals who hold a common post under the Association or any State.

 

The defensive shields given under Article 311 are appropriate just to government employees, for example public officials. They are not accessible to safeguard staff.

 

Special cases for Article 311 (2):

 

2 (a) - Where an individual is excused or taken out or decreased in position on the ground of direct which has prompted his conviction on a criminal accusation; or

 

2 (b) - Where the authority enabled to excuse or eliminate an individual or to diminish him in position is fulfilled that for reasons unknown, to be recorded by that expert recorded as a hard copy, it isn't sensibly practicable to hold such request; or

 

2 (c) - Where the President or the Lead representative, all things considered, is fulfilled that in light of a legitimate concern for the security of the State, it isn't convenient to hold such request.

 

Other Ongoing Case Identified with Utilization of Article 311(2) Subsections:

 

As of late, the Jammu and Kashmir organization set up an Extraordinary Team (STF) to investigate instances of workers associated with exercises requiring activity under Article 311(2)(c).

 

Three government workers, including two educators, were terminated utilizing the Article.

 

Alternatives to Excused Representative:

 

The public authority worker excused under these arrangements can approach either council like the state managerial court or Focal Authoritative Council (Feline) or the courts.

 

Other Related Protected Arrangements:

 

Part XIV of the Constitution of India manages Administrations under The Association and The State.

 

Article 309 enables the Parliament and the State lawmaking body to control the enlistment, and states of administration of people selected, to public administrations and posts regarding the issues of the Association or of any State individually.

 

As indicated by Article 310, aside from the arrangements given by the Constitution, a government employee of the Association works at the joy of the President and a government worker under a State works at the delight of the Legislative head of that State (English precept of Joy).

 

In any case, this force of the Public authority isn't supreme.

 

Article 311 puts certain limitations on the outright force of the President or Lead representative for excusal, evacuation, or decrease in a position of an official.

 

Google Cloud Joined With Spacex For Providing Satellite Internet Service

Last week, Google Cloud and SpaceX'sStarlink entered an association to offer high-velocity satellite web to clients around the world. SpaceX will set up Starlink ground stations inside Google's server farms to give cloud and network access. It will be accessible for big business clients in the second 50% of 2021.

 

Till now, SpaceX has dispatched near 1,600 Starlink satellites into space and hopes to take the absolute count to 12,000 by 2027. Then again, Google Cloud is accessible in 144 organization edge areas and 200+ nations and regions. Before long, it intends to extend to Delhi (India), Doha (Qatar), Toronto (Canada), Melbourne (Australia), and so on

 

Google Cloud's high-limit private organization would uphold the conveyance of Starlink's worldwide satellite web access, bringing undertakings and shoppers consistent network, empowering the conveyance of basic endeavor applications to essentially any area.

 

Further, Google said organizations in rustic or far off regions chipping away at edge organizations will presently approach cloud applications like examination, man-made brainpower, AI, and so on UrsHölzle, SVP of the framework at Google Cloud, said the association would empower associations to have consistent, secure, and quick admittance to basic applications and administrations they need to keep their groups going across nations and landmasses.

 

Gwynne Shotwell, president, and COO at SpaceX, said consolidating Starlink's rapid, low-inertness broadband with Google's foundation will give worldwide associations a protected and quick association.

 

SpaceX last year [October 2020] had reported an arrangement with Microsoft Purplish blue distributed computing organization to assemble an interconnect web organization to convey rapid web to anyplace in the world. At that point, Shotwell said, "Where it bodes well, we will work with [Microsoft]; co-offering to our common clients, co-offering to new undertaking and future clients."

 

In the interim, Amazon's Task Kuiper, which likewise means to offer moderate broadband across the globe, has its cloud foundation set up and is probably going to use Amazon Web Administrations for network availability in-country and distant areas. Amazon is additionally intending to dispatch near 3,236 satellites into space soon.

 

India unsure

 

In India, the Division of Media communications (Speck) encouraged SpaceXStarlink to share a point-by-point guide to get endorsement for dispatching its administrations.

 

Star connect, on its site, has made its beta variant accessible for pre-request with a completely refundable store of $99 (near INR 7,000). Further, it referenced that its broadband administrations for Indian clients (in select areas) would be accessible toward the beginning of 2023.