1. Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar
has been appointed Chief Election Commissioner after a meeting of a
three-member committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
2. The Kerala government is planning
to grant "industry status" to its tourism sector, a long-pending
demand of the State's tourism and hospitality sector.
3. A DDoS attack is a malicious
attempt to disrupt the normal functioning of a targeted server, service, or
network by overwhelming it with a flood of internet traffic.
4. High levels of faecal coliform
(microbes from human and animal excreta) were found in river water in which
people took holy dip during Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj, according to a report
submitted to the National Green Tribunal (NGT)