The Cyclothon was flagged off by Hon’ble Secretary, MNRE, Shri Bhupinder Singh Bhalla, IAS (1990 Batch) from India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion, Shri Bhalla complemented IREDA for spearheading the development of Clean and Renewable Energy (RE) in India since last 36 years. He further mentioned that IREDA is the largest RE financing agency amongst all the domestic funding arms. Shri Bhalla congratulated IREDA for organizing the Cyclothon Event, not only from the health perspective, but also promoting the significance of a green energy for a clean environment.

Gracing the occasion, Shri Dinesh Dayanand Jagdale, Joint Secretary, MNRE applauded IREDA over conducting such events from time to time and praised IREDA’s major contribution towards advancing RE development in India.

CMD, IREDA, Shri Pradip Kumar Das stressed upon the fact thatIREDA being the largest RE funding agency in the country, stands fully committed towards achieving the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s ‘Panchamrita’ targets and to be an integral part in achievingthe 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based capacity by 2030.IREDA has cumulatively sanctioned RE loans amounting to more than Rs. 1.45 Lakh Crores and financed RE loans exceeding Rs. 92,000 Crores as on datewith a loan book size exceeding Rs. 40,000 crores, ensuring Best Corporate Governance practices, which have become benchmark to others. This has led to IREDA being upgraded to AAA (Outlook: Stable) Rating from the earlier AA (Outlook: Positive) Rating by ICRA due to the complete turnaround in IREDA’s performance in the last three years through best quality governance.

Shri Das added that while this event is an effort towards propagating the importance of clean energy in the society at large, it also shows IREDA’s commitment towards health and fitness of human assets.

The Cyclothon event was attended by Shri M Nagaraj, Director (Corporate Planning), HUDCO and Shri Lokesh Kumar Aggarwal, Director Finance & CFO, ITDC along with officials from the MNRE, DPE, C&AG, PFC, REC, BHEL, MMTC, AIIMS, and also private firms like HCL, AMAZON etc. The event was also graced by participants from Germany who shared their experiences of cycling in India and expressed their delight to be participating in this event.

Mr. Vijay Sharma, International Badminton player, also joined and graced the occasion.

Shri Awanish Kumar Bharati, General Manager, REC anchored the event and performances.

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Patil said all cases were “breakthrough infections”, meaning the patients had received both doses of a vaccine. At the same time, 33 students below the age of 18 and a staffer have tested positive at a private boarding school in Dommasandra in Whitefield.

Karnataka logged 402 fresh Covid-19 cases and six deaths on Friday, taking the total number of infections to 29,94,963 and the toll to 38,193. Bengaluru Urban continued to top the list of cases (224), as the city saw 129 discharges and one death. Total number of active cases in the state is now 6,611.

result of 66 fully vaccinated students and staff of the college had turned out to be positive following testing of over 300 students. More people from the college are being tested today.

The samples of the infected people will be sent for genome sequencing. “The students were fully vaccinated… We will be sending a few samples for genome sequencing to check if there’s a new variant,” state health commissioner D Randeep said.

The health commissioner said a freshers’ party at the college on November 17 is responsible for the outbreak.

Chairman of Manipal Hospital and member of Covid task force team in Karnataka Dr Sudarshan Ballal said the Covid cluster is a cause of concern.

“There was a large cluster that has turned to be positive and all of them were at an event. This means the variant of this virus is infectious. Second concern, all the students were fully vaccinated which means there is a immune escape phenomena,” he said.

However, he said, the disease is not severe. “But happening at this juncture is certainly concerning to us… We should go back to stringent Covid behavior,” he added.

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Kogilu Cross, Nagavara, Vidyaranyapura and Yelahanka in Bengaluru are among the areas most affected by incessant rains.

Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) have been deployed in rain-affected areas to carry out rescue and relief operations.

Addressing the media on Monday, Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai announced a compensation of Rs 1 lakh each for those who lose their homes to rain-related incidents. He added that the state government has released Rs 500 crore for roads and bridges in addition to forming emergency rescue teams around the city of Bengaluru.

The institute – Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research – got flooded on Monday morning due to incessant rain in parts of Karnataka.

Water also entered the institute’s research room. Several research materials and reports seem to have been damaged due to this flooding. The assessment process will start once the water is completely drained out

Several areas in the Karnataka’s capital city were battered by heavy rain since last evening leading to several homes getting flooded leaving the residents marooned. Several cars parked in the basement of apartments were also submerged in flood water

The rain caused water logging in many areas in the city late last night and its impact was visible this morning as well

Boats were also deployed in several localities in north Bengaluru to rescue people. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDRF) and the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) were also pressed to discharge the water. Most of the waterlogging happened in and around apartments built on lake bed where there is not much of an alternative to divert the accumulated water.

CommentsThe heavy rain in Karnataka followed massive flooding in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh due to a depression from the Bay of Bengal crossing the coasts of these southern states bringing in heavy downpour.

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(Sunday 30 May 2021, MORNING; Time of Issue: 0900 hours IST ALL INDIA WEATHER SUMMARY AND FORECAST BULLETIN

Significant Weather Features

• The northern limit of Southwest Monsoon continues to pass through 5°N/72°E, 6°N/75°E, 8°N/80°E, 12°N/85°E, 14°N/90°E and 17°N/94°E. Conditions are likely to become favourable for onset of Southwest Monsoon over Kerala around 31st May 2021.

• Due to strengthening of southerly winds, fairly widespread to widespread rainfall activity with isolated heavy falls very likely over North-eastern states and adjoining East India from 30th May, 2021.

• A Western Disturbance as a cyclonic circulation lies over north Pakistan & neighbourhood in lower tropospheric levels with a trough aloft in mid & upper tropospheric westerlies with its axis at 5.8 km above mean sea level roughly along longitude 66°E to the north of latitude 28°N; a cyclonic circulation lies over Punjab & neighbourhood and a trough runs from this cyclonic circulation to northeast Rajasthan in lower tropospheric levels. Under their influence; isolated to scattered rainfall/thunderstorm activity likely over Western Himalayan Region & adjoining plains of Northwest India during next 4-5 days.

• A trough runs from southeast Madhya Pradesh & neighbourhood to south Tamil Nadu across Vidarbha, Telangana and Rayalaseema and a cyclonic circulation lies over Eastcentral Arabian Sea off Karnataka coast in lower tropospheric levels. Under their influence and other favourable meteorological conditions; scattered to fairly widespread rainfall/thunderstorm likely over Karnataka and Kerala & Mahe and isolated to scattered rainfall/thunderstorm over remaining parts of south Peninsular India during next 4-5 days. Isolated heavy rainfall likely over Kerala & Mahe during next 5 days; Coastal Karnataka on 02nd June; South Interior Karnataka on 02nd June; Coastal Andhra Pradesh on 30th & 31st May.

• Scattered Heat Wave conditions very likely over West Rajasthan on 30th. Isolated heat wave conditions also likely over East Rajasthan, south Punjab, south Haryana and Vidarbha on 30th.

Main Weather Observations

• Rain/Thundershowers observed (from 0830 hours IST to 1730 hours IST of yesterday): at most places over Kerala & Mahe; at many places over Coastal Karnataka; at a few places over Jharkhand, East Uttar Pradesh, Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan & Muzaffarabad and Madhya Maharashtra and at isolated places over Andaman & Nicobar Island, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya, Bihar, East Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Konkan & Goa and Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam.

• Rainfall recorded (from 0830 hours IST to 1730 hours IST of yesterday)(1 cm or more): Kozhikode-3; Mangalore (Panambur) and Batote-2 each; Bahraich, Ranchi and Cannur-1each.

• Thunderstorm observed (from 0830 hours IST of yesterday to 0530 hrs IST today): many parts of Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit- Baltistan & Muzaffarabad and Himachal Pradesh; at a few places over West Madhya Pradesh, Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam and Madhya Maharashtra and at isolated places over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, East Rajasthan, East Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Telangana and Marathawada.

• Yesterday, Heat Wave observed over many parts of northwest Rajasthan.

• Maximum Temperature Departures as on 29-05-2021: Maximum temperatures were appreciably above normal (3.1°C to 5.0°C) at many places over Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan & Muzaffarabad; at a few places over Assam & Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and West Rajasthan and above normal (1.6°C to 3.0°C) at most places over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura; at a few places over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Punjab, Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam and Tamilnadu, Puducherry & Karaikal and at isolated places over Gangetic West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh and Vidarbha. They were markedly below normal (-5.1°C or less) at most places over East Uttar Pradesh; at many places over Bihar; at a few places over Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and East Madhya Pradesh; appreciably below normal (-3.1°C to -5.0°C) at most places over West Uttar Pradesh; at many places over Andaman & Nicobar Islands; at a few places over Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat Region; at isolated places over West Madhya Pradesh; below normal (-1.6°C to

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