# Covid situation

• PM Modi said in a meeting on saturday that 162 PSA oxygen plants in 32 states and UTs has been installed with the PM-cares fund.

• He also informed that 1 lakh cylinders were being procured and would be supplied to the states soon.

• Health ministry has said that there are 2463 laboratories in the country with a combined daily testing capacity of 15 lakh samples.

# Investment tracker

• Fresh investments into Tamil nadu more than doubled to 1,00,000 crore during the pandemic hit 2020-21 financial year.

• Tamil nadu stood second after Maharashtra in overall investment this financial year.

• Tamil Nadu has jumped from 12th position in 2019-20 to 2nd position in 2020-21.

# Madvi Hidma

• The NIA has declared a reward of 7 lakh rupees for the arrest of Madvi Hidma.

• Madvi Hidma is the Naxal who heads the 1st batallion of the people’s liberation gureilla army (PLGA).

• PLGA is a banned group of naxals which is most active in southern chattisgarh.

• 10 lakh rupees reward has also been announced for information leading to the arrest of CPI (maoist) general secretary Basavarajo.

# Nagaland NRC

• The nagaland government has decided to form a Joint consultative committee (JCC) involving all traditional tribal bodies and civil society organisations.

• This committee will do an exercise to register the state’s indigenous inhabitants.

• The cut-off date to become an indigenous inhabitant of nagaland has been kept as December 1, 1963 – the day Nagaland attained statehood.

# Bustard poaching

• A recent photograph has emerged from the Pakistan’s cholistan desert where poachers can be seen with carcasses of birds in their hands and guns on their shoulders.

• The bird which was poached is the Great Indian Bastard (GIB), which is also the state bird of Rajasthan.

• GIB is also an critically endangered species in IUCN list.

• The group of poachers include a retired pakistani army major.

# ASEAN summit

• Myanmar junta leader Min aung Hlaing will join a special ASEAN summit last week.

• This will be the first foreign visit of military leader since masterminding a coup against the deposed civilian leader Aung san suu kyi.