News in Short

• InterGlobe Aviation, the parent company of low-cost carrier IndiGo, appointed Pieter Elbers as its new Chief Executivie Officer (CEO).
• Mr Elbers has served as the President and CEO of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. He is also a member of the executive committee of the Air France – KLM Group.
• He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Logistics Management and a Master’s Degree in Business Economics.

• Tech giant Microsoft and urban air mobility (UAM) firm Volocopter have teamed up to develop an aerospace cloud system in the former’s cloud computing service Azure.
• The system will be designed to address the nascent cloud computing requirements for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, UAM, and autonomous aviation.
• Microsoft’s cloud computing service will support Volocopter’s digital platform VoloIQ, which the firm plans to use as its standard UAM operating system for all electric passenger and drone flight operations.

• A group of state finance ministers has recommended levying 28% GST on online gaming, racecourses, and casinos.
• The group also finalised the mode of taxation for these services. The tax will be imposed on initial betting and the gaming amount.
• The online gaming industry that operates skills-based games like e-sports, rummy, poker, chess, and fantasy games had pitched for GST to be capped under 18%.

• Anil Baijal, who was appointed as the Delhi Lieutenant Governor in 2016, has sent his resignation to the President of India.
• The 1969-batch IAS officer’s tenure as L-G was 5 years and 5 months. He was earlier the vice-chairperson of the Delhi Development Authority.
• Mr. Baijal also served as Union Home Secretary in the 2004 NDA government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee over a 37-year career.

• The United States’s Massachusetts reported a confirmed rare case of monkeypox, the first case reported in the country this year.
• Portugal confirmed five cases of monkeypox and Britain announced two more new cases, marking an unusual outbreak in Europe.
• The monkeypox virus belongs to the orthopoxvirus family. Monkeypox has symptoms that are comparable to smallpox but are less severe.