# S. jaishankar

• Criminal activities are responsible for the killings along the India-Bangladesh border external affairs minister s. jaishankar said on thursday.

• S. jaishankar is in Bangladesh before an important visit of prime minister Narendra modi to Bangladesh.

• S. jaishankar also said in an separate event that chabahar port should be included in the 13 nation international north south transport corridor that extends from India to Russia.

# OTT platforms

• The ministry of I&B has clarified that the over the top (OTT) platforms will not have to register with the government.

• Ministry also cleared that there will be no government nominee present in the self regulating body.

• The ministry statement followed an interaction between prakash javdekar and representatives of OTT platforms.

• Supreme court also said in a case hearing on Tandav, the web series contents need to be screened as some of the contents even show pornography.

# EPFO

• The employees provident fund organisation on thursday decided to retain 8.5% annual rate of interest on provident fund deposits for 2020-21 for its more than five crore subscribers.

• At a meeting in Srinagar, the central board of trustees of the EPFO recommended 8.5% annual rate of interest.

• The meeting was chaired by labour and employment minister santosh kumar gangwar.

# QS world university rankings

• The Indian institute of science broke into the top 100 in the natural science category of of the QS world university rankings by subject 2021.

• With regard to subject rankings, there are two new entrants in the top 100 list : JNU’s anthropology programme and OP jindal’s global university’s law programme.

• In the broad engineering and technology category, only three institutions mase it to the top 100 – IIT Delhi, IIT bombay, IIT Madras.

# Ministry of housing and urban affairs

• Bengaluru and shimla were on thursday ranked as the most liveable in the categories of cities with more than and less than 1 million population respectively.

• The ease of living index, is an initiative of ministry of housing and urban affairs.