Sports
1. Lewis Hamilton won fifth consecutive Spanish Grand Prix
- Mercedes’s racer Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain) has won 2021 Spanish Grand Prix
- This victory is the fifth successive Spanish Grand Prix title of Lewis Hamilton and 3rd win of this season.
- This was also 98th victory of his career.
- Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing-Netherlands) came 2nd followed by Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes-Finland)
- The race was the fourth round of 2021 Formula One World Championship
- Next stop is the traditional Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo on May 23.
Books & Authors
2. Kalki Koechlin to release her Debut Book titled ‘Elephant In The Womb’
- Bollywood actress Kalki Koechlin is making her debut as an author, with her first book titled as ‘Elephant In The Womb’.
- The book is yet to be released.
- The book is an illustrated non-fiction book on motherhood and narrates about pregnancy and parenting for mothers, expectant mothers, and anyone even thinking about motherhood
- It is illustrated by Valeriya Polyanychko and published by Penguin Random House India (PRHI).
National Affairs
3. CBSE launches mobile app CBSE Dost for Life
- Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has rolled out mobile app titled as ‘CBSE Dost for Life’ for psycho social wellness of students and parents
- It has been designed for students of classes 9 to 12 and will be available from 10th May
- Live counselling sessions will be conducted free of cost on Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the trained counsellors
- It will also provide students information on academics, tips on mental health and well-being, corona and rap songs
Science & Technology
4. SpaceX accepts dogecoin as payment to launch lunar mission in 2022
- Space X will launch the ‘DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon’ in the first quarter of 2022 with Elon Musk's commercial rocket company accepting the meme-inspired cryptocurrency dogecoin as payment
- It will be the 1st meme and 1st crypto in space.
- The mission will demonstrate the application of cryptocurrency beyond Earth orbit and set the foundation for interplanetary commerce
- On crypto data tracker CoinGecko.com, dogecoin is now the fourth-largest digital currency.
Sports
5. Alexander Zverev won 2nd Madrid Open title.
- World number six tennis player Alexander Zverev (Germany) clinched his second Madrid Open title, after beating Matteo Berrettini.
- He also defeated Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals and Dominic Thiem in the semi-finals.
- He clinched his first Madrid Open title in 2018
- Madrird Open men’s doubles: Marcel Granollers of Spain and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina defeated Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic of Croatia by 1-6, 6-3, 10-8, claiming the doubles title
Science & Technology
6. China's biggest rocket Long March 5B lands in Indian Ocean
- Remnants of China's biggest rocket Long March 5B landed in Indian Ocean with the bulk of its components destroyed upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere
- Parts of rocket re-entered the atmosphere and landed at a location with the coordinates of longitude 72.47 degrees east and latitude 2.65 degrees north
- Coordinates put the point of impact in the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago.
- Most of the debris was burnt up in the atmosphere.
Sports
7. Aryna Sabalenka won women's singles title in Madrid Open
- Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) has clinched Madrid Open in women's singles final after defeating Ashleigh Barty (Ausralia) by 6-0, 3-6, 6-4
- She has been a top ten player in both singles and doubles, having been ranked as high as No. 4 in singles and No. 1 in doubles by Women's Tennis Association (WTA)
- Women’s doubles final: Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova, both from the Czech Republic, defeated Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and Demi Schuurs of France 6-4, 6-3.
Obituaries
8. Actor Abhilasha Patil passes away in Mumbai
- Actor Abhilasha Patil passed away due to Covid-19 complications in Mumbai in her early 40s
- She appeared in many Marathi and Hindi films
- She shared screen with Sanjay Kulkarni in Zee Yuva daily soap BaapManus
- Hindi Movies: Chhichhore, Badrinath Ki Dulhania, Good Newwz and Malaal, Abhilasha
- Marathi movies: Te Aath Diwas, Pipsi, Bayko Deta Ka Bayko, Prawaas and Tujha Majha Arrange Marriage.
Summits & Conferences
9. India participates in 3rd Arctic Science Ministerial
- India participated in the 3rd Arctic Science Ministerial (ASM3) that was held on 8th and 9th May 2021
- ASM3 is jointly organised by Iceland and Japan and is being hosted for the first time by Asia.
- The first two meetings (ASM1 and ASM2) were held in the USA in 2016 and Germany in 2018, respectively.
- ASM is global platform for discussing research and cooperation in the Arctic region.
- The theme for this year is ‘Knowledge for a Sustainable Arctic’.
Banking & Finance
10. Kotak Mahindra Bank to Extend Online Payments to Farmers & Traders
- Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMBL) has been selected as a digital payments partner by the National Agriculture Market (eNAM), a pan-India electronic trading portal for farm produce.
- Kotak Bank will enable and facilitate online transactions for all stakeholders on the eNAM platform, including farmers, traders and farmer producer organisations (FPOs)
- Under this, Kotak will provide payment, clearing and settlement services on the eNAM platform to facilitate trade of agri produce
Obituaries
11. Freedom Fighter Lalti Ram passes away
- Freedom fighter and veteran of the erstwhile Indian National Army (INA) Lalti Ram (100 years) passed away at Dubaldhan in Haryana's Jhajjar district
- Lalti Ram had presented a cap of the pre-Independence INA to PM Narendra Modi to mark the 75th anniversary of the proclamation of ‘Azad Hind Sarkar’ by freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose in 2019
- Azad Hind was an Indian Provisional government established in Japanese occupied Singapore during World War II in October 1943
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