# Vaccination drive

• India crossed a milestone of administering 10 crore doses as on saturday.

• The health ministry claimed that India had administered these doses within 85 days, faster than the united states 89 days and china’s 103 days.

• Covishield manufacturer SII has said that it can manufacture 6 crore vaccine doses a month while covaxin can produce 1 crore doses a month.

• A study has found that some people who had covid-19 lacked meaningful immunity to prevent reinfection months later.

# Dolphin in odisha

• The population of dolphins in chilika lake, India’s largest brackwish water lake, and along the odisha coast has doubled this year compared with last year.

• The wildlife wing of the state forest and environment department released the final data on the dolphin census conducted in january and february this year.

• The highest growth has been seen in the case of humpback dolphins. Only two humpbacks were sighted in last year. However, this population grew astronomically to 281.

# Refuelling aircraft

• The IAF is looking to lease mid air refuelling aircraft.

• IAF will adopt a new methodology for the process based on the number of hours of availability per years criteria.

• IAF has currently 6 IL-FS mid air refueller of russian origin.

# Mini NRC

• Assamese muslims have decided to prepare their own ‘mini NRC’ to distinguish the indigenous followers of islam from bengali origin migrant muslims residing in Assam.

• The janagosthiya samannay parishad (JSP) is the organisation of indigenous assamese muslims.

• This organisation claims that indigenous assamese muslims facing discrimination after being bracketed with migrant muslims.

# E-sports

• The electronics sports segment needs a governing framework for harnessing its full potential.

• This segment is seeing rapid growth in recent years with the sports headed to the asian games.

• According to a KPMG report, the revenue of e-sports may touch 11,880 crore in FY 23 with hundreds of firms.