The world’s largest all-electric aircraft completed its first successful flight on 28 May 2020.The Cessna Caravan aircraft is retrofitted with an electric engine and flew for about 290km before landing safely in Moses Lake. The plane holds a seating capacity of nine passengers. The aircraft can cruise at 183kmph.

The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has deposited Rs 30,000 each as out of pocket allowance (OPA) in accounts of 2,749 Khelo India athletes, a total of Rs. 8.25 crores. The allowance is for the first quarter of 2020-21.

United States President Donald Trump has announced that America is terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the Coronavirus. He blamed WHO and China for the deaths and destruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe.

In an effort to retain the migrants who have returned to the state during the lockdown, the state government of Uttarakhand has launched a scheme called Mukhya Mantri Swarojgar Yojana, to provide self-employment opportunities to youth and encourage skilled and unskilled artisans, handicrafts and unemployed youths to start their own business.
The scheme envisages to provide loans to these migrant workers so as to help them start their own ventures.

The Kerala State government has announced the Kerala Fibre Optic Network (K-FON) project will be commissioned by December 2020. The project aims to provide free internet access to the poor in the State. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the decision after a meeting with the heads of companies of the consortium.

Infosys Limited, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, has entered into the partnership with Avaloq, a Swiss company that develops and provides software for core banking, to offer end-to-end products and services as Software-as-a-Service across the world to its clients.

The theme of World No Tobacco Day 2020 is “Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use”.

Venkataramani Sumantran has been appointed the independent director of the airline company IndiGo.

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced the launch of the ‘Rozgar Setu’ scheme.
It would help secure employment for skilled workers who have returned.

According to the study published in the Journal ‘Bioscience Research’, Professor Mathews Plamoottil, head of the Department of Zoology at the BJM Government College, Chavara (Kerala), has detected a new species of silver colored small freshwater fish “Puntius sanctus” of the Cyprinidae family in Velankanni,Tamil Nadu(TN).

London-based Anish Kapoor, has topped the Hurun India Art List 2020 for the second year with Rs 44.39 crores.

New Delhi-based painter Rameshwar Broota shot up 9 places to second place with sales of Rs 11.89 crores, followed by modernist painter Krishen Khanna in third place with Rs 6.87 crores.

The World Athletics’ anti-doping body has handed a four-year ban to long-distance runner Kiranjeet Kaur, for testing positive for a banned substance.
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) accredited laboratory tested her samples, taken in December 2019.