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- Russian President Vladimir Putin on 2 May 2019 signed a law “sovereign internet” bill which will allow Russian authorities to isolate the country’s internet. The move expands Government Control of Internet, is being publicly denounced by all rights groups in country. The text of the law was published on 1 May 2019 but it will not come into effect until November. Russian lawmakers support the new law as deeming it necessary to ensure security of Russia’s online networks.
- The first part of 17th edition of bilateral exercise ‘Varuna’ 2019 is being conducted between Navies of India and France off the Goa coast from 1st to 10th May 2019. The joint naval exercise was first initiated in 1983 to develop interoperability between two navies and to foster mutual cooperation by learning from each other’s best practices. It was named as ‘Varuna’ in 2001.
- Pakistan will observe the Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) retaliatory action on 27th February 2019 against India as ‘Operation Swift Retort’. On February 26 Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out counter-terror operation (Balakot Air Strike), hitting what it claimed was a JeM training camp in Balakot, deep inside Pakistan on 26 February 2019. Then on 27 February the PAF retaliated.
- The 14th edition of the annual Sino-Indian border trade opened at Nathu La, the frontier post at Sino-Indian border in Sikkim. To mark the commencement of border trade, officials and traders of both countries (India and China) were present at the border. Every year bilateral border trade between two countries is organised four days a week for period of six months, between May 1 and November 30. The three open trading border posts between India and China are- Nathu La in Sikkim, Shipkila in Himachal Pradesh and Lipulekh (or Lipulech) in Uttarakhand.
- According to United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 2019 report, India saw an “overall deterioration of religious freedom conditions in 2018”. US Commission on International Religious Freedom is a bipartisan, independent federal government commission, created by International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. India continues to remain a Tier II country since 2009. Tier II countries are those in which during 2018 ‘violations engaged in or tolerated by government are serious and characterized by at least one of the elements of systematic, ongoing, and egregious (horrible)’.
- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that India’s second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 is scheduled to be launched between July 9 and 16, 2019. The Chandrayaan-2’s lander will touch down near Moon’s southpole on 6th September 2019. It would be launched using India’s most powerful rocket GSLV MK-III from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Kumar Sangakkara - Former Sri Lanka captain, Kumar Sangakkara was on May 1, 2019 appointed as the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), England. With this, Sangakkara became the first non-British to head the Club. Sangakkara will take up the post on October 1, 2019 and will serve the position for a period of 12 months. Founded in 1787, Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club based at the Lord’s Cricket Ground in St John’s Wood, London, England.
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