Ajit Jogi, who served as the first Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, has passed away. He was 74.
Ajit Jogi had served as the first CM of the state from November 2000 to November 2003.

International Day of UN Peacekeepers is observed on 29 May every year. The day aims to offer a chance to pay tribute to the uniformed and civilian personnel’s invaluable contribution to the work of the Organization. The day also aims to honor more than 3,900 peacekeepers who have lost their lives serving under the UN flag since 1948.

The state government of Uttar Pradesh will develop Herbal roads for 800 km. The roads will have herbal and medicinal trees on both sides, along with the land. The planting of the trees will be done along the national and state highways which pass through the state. The herbal gardens along the trees and roads will keep the bacteria and other diseases in the air at bay. Trees like Peepal, Neem, Sahjan will be planted along the roads in addition to other herb varieties like Brahmi, Ashwagandha and Jatropha.

Industry and the economy are being hit by the increasing coronavirus impact in Tamil Nadu & in the meantime, the state Government is taking various measures to restore the industry which has been hit by the virus. As part of this, the state government has inked 17 memorandum of understandings worth 15,128 crore with various companies based in Germany, Finland, Taiwan, China, France, South Korea, Japan, USA, Australia, England and Netherlands, with the aim to provide employment opportunities to 47,150 people.

The foundation stone for a missile park ‘ Agneeprastha’ was laid at INS Kalinga on May 29, 2020. The missile park will be dedicated to all the Officers, Sailors and Support Staff of INS Kalinga. It will also commemorate the award of the prestigious Unit Citation to INS Kalinga for the year 2018-19. The missile park aims to capture glimpses of Missile History of INS Kalinga since 1981 till date.

The principal bench of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has given its nod to sell 50% stake in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City Co Ltd (GIFTCL) held by crisis hit Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) to the Gujarat state government.

India’s leading ecommerce marketplace Flipkart has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Karnataka State Mango Department and Marketing Corporation, to enable mango farmers to sell their produce online.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has been penalised with amount of Rs 7 lakh by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

Researchers have identified a region in the genome of a rice, which seems to have the potential for improving productivity. The study was conducted jointly by the Department of Biotechnology’s National Institute of Plant Genome Research (DBT-NIPGR), ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), ICAR-National Rice Research Institute (ICAR-NRRI), Cuttack and University of Delhi South Campus (UDSC).

Spectrin is a flexible rod-shaped molecule present in axons, acts as ‘shock absorbers’ and protects axons from damage resulting from the stretch.

National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) based chatbot, PAi, to create awareness around its products like FASTag, RuPay, UPI, AePS on a real-time basis.

The research team of Dr. Sushanta Kumar Panigrahi, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, Professor Rajiv Mishra, University of North Texas and K.Cho, the United States(US) Army Research Laboratory has engineered a magnesium alloy to replace the steel and aluminium in the automobile industry to reduce the carbon footprint and increase fuel efficiency.

Every year, the World Digestive Health Day (WDHD) is observed on 29 May.
The theme of WDHD 2020 is Gut Microbiome – A Global Perspective

Renowned Urdu writer and satirist Mujtaba Hussain, who had returned the Padma Shri award to the union government last year, passed away.
Hussain was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, in 2007 for his contribution to Urdu literature.

The Asian Development Bank and the Government of India today signed a 177 million dollar loan to upgrade 450 kilometers of state highways and major district roads in Maharashtra.

The European Union (EU) Commission has proposed a 750 billion-euro ($825 billion) recovery fund “European breakthrough” to help the bloc’s economy through the deep recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was announced by the commissioner Paolo Gentiloni. The aim is to tackle an unprecedented crisis.

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) announced the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (Modified- 2020) Scheme for senior citizens.

The amphibious transport dock ship, USS Portland (LPD-27) of the United States Navy successfully destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle with a solid-state laser “Laser Weapon System Demonstrator ” from Pacific.

The Tejas Mk-1 FOC aircraft has been inducted into the recently formed No 18 Sqn, the “Flying Bullets” by the Indian Air Force (IAF) at the Air Force Station Sulur. The induction of the Tejas Aircraft marks an important step towards the improvement of the operational capability of the Air Force. The induction of the Aircraft by the Squadron is also an important landmark in the nation’s indigenous fighter aircraft program. Tejas Mk-1 FOC is a single-engine, all-weather, highly agile, lightweight multi-role fighter aircraft and is capable of air-to-air refuelling.

Karnataka government on May 27, 2020 announced that it will be launching a new project to maintain a ‘State Health Register’ comprising the database of all its citizens. The health register, first-of-its-kind, will be a robust and standardized health repository of all the citizens of the state.

Marcos Troyjo has been elected as next President of New Development Bank (NDB).

Author JK Rowling will release her latest children’s book, The Ickabog, online for free. The Harry Potter author stated she would release a couple of chapters at a time, so that children could read it online during Covid-19.

Bank of Baroda will offer up to Rs 12,000 crore in loans to MSMEs under the Rs 3 lakh crore Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) announced by the government.

Tata Capital, Private Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC), has launched a voicebot “TIA” on WhatsApp.The voicebot offers a range of services to its customers like opting for a new loan or getting queries resolved etc to provide seamless and interactive services on the widely used messaging platform, Whatsapp.

Periasamy Kumaran was appointed as India’s High Commissioner to Singapore.
He will replace Jawed Ashraf, who took over as High Commissioner of India to Singapore in November 2016

Researchers have identified a region in the genome of a rice, which seems to have the potential for improving productivity. They identified one long (~6 Mb) genomic region, which had an unusually suppressed nucleotide diversity region across the centromere of chromosome 5. They named it a `”low diversity region” or LDR in short.

Classical musician Shyamala G. Bhave has passed away.

US President Donald Trump said on May 27, 2020 that he was willing to “mediate or arbitrate” the raging border dispute between India and China, amid the continuing standoff between the militaries of the two nation at the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

Arogya Setu, India’s COVID-19 contact tracing, syndromic mapping and self-assessment mobile app is now open source.
It is a unique thing as no other government product anywhere in the world has been open-sourced at this scale.

A song titled ‘JayatuJayatuBharatam – Vasudev Kutumbakkam’ was released.The song lyrics penned by Prasoon Joshi and composed by Shankar Mahadevan, as many as 211 singers involved like legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar to increase the nation’s will power and evoke the spirit of self-reliance in this difficult time(COVID-19 pandemic).