- Prime Minister Narendra Modi says family based and dynastic parties damaged democracy in the country after independence.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a visit to Japan on the 23rd and 24th of May to participate in the Quad Leaders’ Summit in Tokyo at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
- Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had conceded defeat in a national election today, saying that while vote counting was incomplete the opposition Labor party looked likely to form a government.
- Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission order comes into force as the Central government issue notification.
- Supreme Court transfers Gyanvapi mosque case to Varanasi district judge.
- India gets highest ever FDI of 83.57 billion dollars in the last financial year.
- EPFO adds 15.32 lakh net subscribers in March, 20 percent more than February.
- Former Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu sent to Patiala Jail following his conviction in road rage case.
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that government is reducing the Central excise duty on Petrol by 8 rupees per litre and on Diesel by 6 rupees per litre. This will reduce the price of petrol by 9.5 rupees per litre and of Diesel by 7 rupees per litre she said in a series of tweets.
- DRI and Coast Guard seize 218 kg of high-grade heroin worth 1,526 crore rupees in international market from two boats off Lakshadweep coast.
- Nine new ministers inducted in Ranil Wickremesinghe Cabinet in Sri Lanka.
- Polling underway to elect a new Parliament in Australia.
- IMD predicts relief from heatwave conditions across India from today.
