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The Indian Navy’s first destroyer INS Rajput was decommissioned at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh after serving the nation for 41 glorious years on Friday.

While the death toll in the mishap in which a barge P305 and a tugboat Varaprada were sunk, following the intensification of cyclone tauktae on Monday off Mumbai Coast reached 60, the Indian Navy decided to carry out under water search to locate wracks of the barge and the tug on Friday.

A major cybersecurity attack targeting Air India’s passenger service system has exposed the personal information of over 45 lakh of passengers across the globe, including their credit card and passport details, the company said on Friday.

While 49 bodies of the personnel aboard the barge Papaa-305, that sank with intensification of Cycle Tauktae on Monday evening off Mumbai coast, have been retrieved by the Indian Navy (IN) and Indian Coast Guard(ICG), a blame game has started involving multiple agencies over the sinking of the ill-fated barge.

While the country has been facing a shortage of medical oxygen, amidst the second wave of COVID-19, the Diving School of the Southern Naval Command of the Indian Navy located at Kochi in Kerala, has conceptualized and designed an 'Oxygen Recycling System' (ORS) to alleviate the existing Oxygen (O2) shortages.

The bodies of 26 crew members of Accommodation Barge P-305, which sank, about 35 miles off Mumbai on May 17, were retrieved by the Indian Navy’s Search and Rescue (SAR) operations team, even as 49 crew members remained missing as of Wednesday evening.

The Congress leader Rajeev Shankarrao Satav from Maharashtra passed away following the post-COVID-19 complications at a private hospital in Pune on Sunday, May 16, 2021, creating a void in the Congress.

At least eight people died, over 500 houses were damaged, hundreds of trees were uprooted and roads were blocked as gale-force winds, heavy rainfall, and high tidal waves swept the coastal belt of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, and Maharashtra, as Cyclone Tauktae hurtled northwards towards Gujarat, forcing evacuation in low-lying areas on Sunday.

As anticipated the torrential rains and fierce winds, influenced by Cyclone Tauktae in the Arabian Sea, leaving a trail of destruction in coastal areas of Kerala, when hundreds of families living close to the sea had to abandon their homes and rush to relief camps set up by the state government in the face of massive sea-incursions on Saturday evening.

The cyclone “tauktae” forming over the Arabian sea is likely to affect many Indian states including Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Lakshadweep island and heavy to very heavy rainfall with gusty winds for the next two to three days, has been forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The first batch of Russian COVID-19 vaccine- “Sputnik V”, developed by Russia’s Gamaleya National Center Covid, has arrived and more batches will be arriving and the vaccine is likely to be available in the market by next week, Dr. VK Paul, Member-Health of Niti Aayog said on Thursday.