Srinagar decked up, security tightened ahead of today’s G20 meet. Srinagar city has been spruced up for the three-day G20 working group meeting on tourism beginning Monday, while stringent security arrangements are in place across the Kashmir Valley to ensure that the high-profile event passes off peacefully, officials said on Sunday. The route from Srinagar airport to Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) — the venue of the meeting — has been given a massive facelift with the G20 logo painted on walls and hoardings installed to welcome the ..
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1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the newly-constructed Parliament building on May 28.
2. The new Mega Textile Park at Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh will strengthen Make in India and will create new job opportunities for the youth : PM said.
3. The maximum temperature in Delhi on Sunday settled at 42.9°C, 3° above the season’s average, the India Meteorological Department said.
4. The First batch of over 380 pilgrims to leave Delhi for this year’s Haj : Union Minister of Minority Affairs Smriti Irani along with Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi will see off the first batch of Haj pilgrims at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi.
5. Minister of State for Science and Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh announced on Saturday that 231 stolen antiques have been repatriated to India in the last nine years.
6. The city of Srinagar, the summer capital of J&K, is all set to host 3rd tourism working group meeting of G20 members from the 22nd to the 24th of May, the first such international event since J&K became a Union Territory in 2019.
7. In Jammu and Kashmir, one hundred e-buses will begin operations in Jammu in August this year under the Smart Urban e-Mobility Project.
8. AP CM Jagan Mohan Reddy would formally launch the works of Machilipatnam Port that would be erected by the state government at a cost of 5,156 crore, at Machilipatnam, on Monday.
9. Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal will meet the chiefs of the TMC Mamata Benerjee, Shiv Sena (UBT) Uddhav Tackery, and the NCP Sharad Pawar this week seeking their support.
10. Karnataka New CM, Siddaramaiah, sworn in for his second term as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, alongside Deputy CM D K Shivakumar and eight politicians as ministers. The ministers were inducted after the Congress party‘s sweeping Assembly poll victory in Karnataka. The ceremony took place at Bengaluru’s Kanteerava stadium and was attended by thousands of people.
11. After a stunning victory in Karnataka, the focus of Congress leadership has shifted to the next round of assembly elections where the party is locked in a direct contest with the Bharatiya Janata Party in some states.
12. Madhya Pradesh is becoming the first State in India to send elderly people on pilgrimage by air under the Mukhyamantri Teerthdarshan Yojana. The first batch of pilgrims have taken off from the Bhopal airport to visit Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh. The batch of 32 pilgrims have left for Prayagraj by an Indigo flight.
13. Manipur extends ban on mobile/broadband internet till May 26 after reports of arson. The NH-2 has still remained blocked. The ban was first clamped on May 3 when the ethnic violence broke out in Churachandpur district and spilled over to several other districts. At least 73 persons have died and over 35,0000 other displaced.
14. The Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group (ECSWG) meeting under India’s G20 Presidency is underway in Mumbai. The main focus of this meeting will be on steering the discussions around Communique with a more outcome driven approach.
15. The Yoga Mahotsav will be held at 6 AM on 27th of May at Parade Grounds in Secunderabad to mark the 25 days countdown to the International Yoga Day.
16. AK Jain appoints as new PNGRB Chairman by Government: The chairman position of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has finally been filled.
CRIME REPORT/MISHAPS
1. The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday raided the houses of five local terrorists who are currently operating from across the border and making desperate attempts to revive militancy in Doda district.
2. A Joint team of the National Investigation Agency, NIA and Jharkhand Police has arrested Dinesh Gope, the mastermind of the Naxalite organisation People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) from Nepal
3. Former Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) chief Sameer Wankhede was questioned for more than five hours on the second day in a row on Sunday by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the alleged Rs 25 crore bribe demand from actor Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan in the Cordelia cruise ‘drug bust’ case.
4. WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh, accused of sexually harassing women wrestlers, on Sunday said, “I’m ready to get my narco test, polygraph test or lie detector done.” Singh, however, added that he’ll undergo the test only if wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia also undergo these tests
5. In Karnataka Bengaluru witnessed heavy rain on Sunday resulting in the death of a 22-year-old woman after her car got stuck in the KR underpass.
The car in which she was traveling submerged in neck deep water. The victim was travelling from Vijayawada to the city along with her family members. Due to heavy downpour in the city the underpass was inundated with rain water. The family members were rescued by the fire and emergency department personnel.
6. Four persons were killed and many were injured as thunderstorms accompanied by gale winds lashed Andhra Pradesh since Saturday night.
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1. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has approved the transfer of Rs 87,416 crore surplus to the government for the financial year 2022-23. This amount is nearly three times higher than the previous year’s transfer of Rs 30,307 crore.
2. The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) is set to go public with an initial public offering (IPO) in the near future. To oversee this significant event, the government has appointed IDBI Capital, BOB Capital, and SBI Capital as the lead managers for the IPO. The IPO is expected to consist of a 10% stake sale by the government and a 15% fresh equity issuance by IREDA.
3. The Advance Authorization Scheme (AAS) or Advance License Scheme, introduced by the Government of India under the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020. This scheme aims to promote the competitiveness of Indian products in the global market by providing duty exemptions on imported raw materials required for the manufacture of export products.
4. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said on Sunday that people can exchange ten notes of two thousand rupees at a time from the bank without obtaining any requisition slip. RBI further clarified, the people will also not be required to submit their identity proof at the time of exchange for upto a limit of twenty thousand rupees.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
1. Actress Sara Ali Khan on Sunday visited Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Rajasthan ahead of the release of her film ‘Zara Hatke Zara Bachke’.
2. Drishyam’, a Malayalam crime thriller film directed by Jeethu Joseph, is set to get a remake in South Korea. This will be the second time that it will be remade in an international language, after ‘Sheep Without a Shepherd’ which was a Chinese remake of the film. ‘Drishyam’ has also been remade in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi.
3. Indian author Ruskin Bond wrote a book titled “The Golden Years: The Many Joys of Living a Good Long Life”. The Golden Years book is published by HarperCollins India and released on 19 May 2023, Bond’s 89th birthday. “The Golden Years” focuses on Bond’s experiences during the 60s, 70s and 80s.
DEFENCE
1. India and the U.S. are discussing possibilities of co-producing jet engines, long-range artillery and infantry vehicles under the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET).
Launch of INDUS-X to promote partnerships between two countries’ defence innovation Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel on Saturday said they shot down a Pakistani drone and seized a bag containing suspected narcotics from Punjab’s Amritsar.ecosystems is scheduled in Washington ahead of PM Modi visit.
2. INS Vikrant being berthed at the newly constructed Aircraft Carrier pier, in Karwar, Saturday, 20 May.
3. The Indian Navy’s sixth and final Kalvari class submarine, Vaghsheer, has begun its sea trials. Vaghsheer is scheduled for delivery to the Indian Navy in early 2024 after completion of these trial. The submarine was launched on 20th April 2022 from the Kanhoji Angre Wet Basin of Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL).
4. Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel on Saturday said they shot down a Pakistani drone and seized a bag containing suspected narcotics from Punjab’s Amritsar. It is 4th in 2 days.
5. Assam Rifles conducted a medical camp on May 20 at Hengbung for people displaced from Imphal Valley due to the recent ethnic turmoil in Manipur.
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