# Monsoon

• The South West monsoon finally hit the Kerala coast on Thursday, marking the beginning of the raining season in India.
• The onset is delayed by seven days against the normal date of June 1.
• It is similar to years 2016 and 2019 in the past decade when monsoon arrived as late as on June 8.
• A delayed monsoon has however no correlation with the quantity and distribution of the rainfall in the June to September season as well as the pace of its progress over remaining parts of the country.
• The arrival of cyclone Brinjoy, delayed monsoon’s onset over Kerala as it took moisture away from the region.

# MBBS seats

• The number of MBBS seats in the country is all set to cross the 1 lakh mark with the centre approving 50 new medical colleges this year besides adding nearly 2000 seats in existing medical colleges.
• The newly approved medical colleges are spread across states, with 13 colleges for Telangana, followed by 5 each in Rajasthan.
• Four new medical colleges have been approved for Maharashtra and three each for Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
• Senior officials in the ministry said these colleges will add 6200 MBBS seats in the country while some colleges also got approval to add seats.

# Cuba

• China has reached a secret deal with Cuba to place an electronic eavesdropping facility on the Island roughly 100 miles from Florida.
• Such a facility would allow Beijing to gather electronic communications from the South Eastern US.
• The countries have reached an agreement in Principle.

# Diabetic

• India has more than 101 million people living with diabetes compared to 70 million in 2019.
• This report has been published in the UK based medical journal Lancet.