# YAAS cyclone

• Cyclone “yaas” is heading towards north odisha – West Bengal coast.

• Several thousand people are set to be evacuated from the coastal districts of both states.

• Regional meteorological centre (RMC) in Kolkata said that the cyclone will cross on may 26 noon as a very severe cyclonic storm.

• It is likely to make landfall between the Paradip coast in Odisha and Sagar island in West Bengal close to Balasore in Odisha.

# ICU occupancy in Delhi

• The sharp dip in Covid-19 cases in the capital is reflected in the discharge of patients from general covid wards of hospitals in the past few days.

• The dip of cases is not steep in ICU admitted patients.

• On may 10, the number of patients on ICU beds was 5403, a figure that dropped to 4798 – over 11% on may 22.

# Next CBI director

• A high powered committee, headed by Prime minister Narendra Modi and comprising CJI Justice NV Ramana and leader of the congress in the Lok sabha Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary met on monday to finalise the choice of the next director of the CBI.

• Three Indian police service (IPS) officers – VS Kumudi (1986 batch), Kumar Rajesh Chandra (1985) and Subodh Jaiswal (1985 batch) have been shortlisted from a list of 109 officers.

# On site booking for 18+

• On site registration and appointment for Covid-19 vaccination is now being enabled for the 18-44 age group on Co-win.

• However, this feature was being enabled only for government Covid-19 vaccination centres (CVCs) now and would not be available for private CVCs.

• This feature would be used only upon the decision of respective state/union territory government to do so.

# FDI flows in India

• Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into India grew 10% in 2020-21 to touch a record $ 81.72 billion.

• FDI equity inflows rose 19% to almost $60 billion.

• Singapore emerged as the top investor with almost a third of all investments which followed by the the US, which accounted for 23% of FDI.