TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. Meteorological Department forecasts fresh spell of heat wave over Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh till Friday.
2. President Droupadi Murmu will present the Padma Awards at the second Civil Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi. Last month, the President had presented three Padma Vibhushan, eight Padma Bhushan and 55 Padma Shri Awards on 22nd April.
3. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is exploring new technologies aimed at creating pothole-free highways. This includes innovative development towards self-healing roads, encapsulating technologies that allow the roads to repair themselves automatically under specific conditions.
4. In response to ethnic strife and natural disasters, Manipur launches the “School on Wheels” program, delivering education to students in relief camps. The initiative, inaugurated by Governor Anusuiya Uikey.
5. Air India Express cancels over 80 flights due to cabine crew shortage.
6. Election Commission of India (ECI) has established special polling booths for Kashmiri Migrants residing in Delhi to cast their votes in person for the Lok Sabha elections.
7. Total 695 Candidates Contesting in 5th Phase of Lok Sabha Elections for 49 Parliamentary Constituencies of six States and two Union Territories on 20 May 2024.
8. PM Modi holds multiple rallies in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
9. Leaders of the opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc will meet the Election Commission on Thursday over their demand to promptly release the absolute voter turnout figures in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls after each phase
10. Congress leader Sam Pitroda on Wednesday resigned as the chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress after his controversial remarks spurred the Bharatiya Janata Party to label the party “racist”. Sam Pitroda has sparked off a row again after he claimed that the Indians in the East look like Chinese while South Indians look like Africans.
11. Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai has slammed Congress’ senior leader Sam Pitroda over his racist comments and started a trend on X using the hashtag – #ProudBharatiya.
12. In Haryana, three independent MLAs have withdrawn their support from the BJP government and extended it to the opposition Congress party. The independent MLAs Randhir Golan from Pundri, Dharampal Gonder from Nilokheri, and Sombir Singh Sangwan from Dadri had sent a letter to Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya.
13. The Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) is launching a major reforestation initiative to compensate for trees removed during the Phase 2 of Namma Metro expansion. This project aims to plant 15,000 saplings at a total cost of Rs 76.9 crore.
14. In remote villages of Jammu and Kashmir, a silent revolution is underway as these regions are witnessing women coming out of their houses to explore the avenues of self-employment through the ‘Umeed Scheme’ – Jammu and Kashmir State Rural Livelihood Mission (JKRLM).
15. Subodh Kumar (IAS), a 2010-batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, has been appointed as Director in the Ministry of Ayush.
16. Shaikh Abdussalam Abdurrazzaq, the renowned Urdu litterateur and academician, popularly known by his pseudonym Salam Bin Razzaq, passed away on Tuesday at his residence in Navi Mumbai after a prolonged illness.
LEGAL REPORT
#Chief Justice of India:
Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal
#International Court Of Justice Prz. : Nawaf Salam
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1. Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday allowed a second post-mortem examination of Anuj Kumar, who died in police custody following his arrest in a case related to the firing outside Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s residence in Mumbai.
2. A complaint has been filed with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Karnataka Lokayukta against Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishna Doddamani and five others on Monday in connection with an alleged Rs 800 crore scam.
3. CBI arrests four accused in case related to trafficking of Indian nationals for combat roles in Russian Army.
4. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) attached six immovable properties of a top militant named Asif Ahmed Malik of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist outfit in Kashmir terrorist infiltration case.
The Agency in a statement said that the properties belonging to terrorist are located in Mirpora, Pulwama which have been attached on the orders of NIA Special Court, Jammu. He was arrested in January 2020.
5. Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Judicial Custody Extended in Excise Policy Case till 21 May by the Enforcement Directorate.
6. The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it may pass an interim order on bail plea in the money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday.
7. Karnataka JD(S) MLA and former Minister H D Revanna, who is facing kidnapping charges, was remanded to judicial custody till 14 May by a Magisterial court.
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FINANCE
#Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman.
#Commerce & Industry : Piyush Goyal
#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das
#President of the World Bank : Ajay Banga
#IMF MD: Kristalina Georgieva
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💰USD ₹ 84 (Approx)
💷 GBP ₹ 105(Approx)
€ Euro : ₹ 90(Approx)
🇨🇳 Yuan ¥ : ₹ 12
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GDP(PPP ) :
purchasing power parity (PPP)
$13.119 trillion
GDP (nominal)
: $3.73 trillion
(Nominal means total market value of all goods and services produced in a country’s economy) .
GDP growth : 8.4% (Q3 2023-24)
India is the fifth largest economy in the world.
Inflation rate : Retail Inflation 5.69% in Dec 2023
Population : 143.86 cr
(17.7% of the total world population).
Unemployment : 10.09% (Oct2023)
Per capita: This income is also known as average income as it is calculated by dividing the total income of the country by the total population of the country.
GDP per capita
$2,845 (Nominal; 2024)
$9,983 (PPP; 2024)
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1. ICICI Bank has unveiled a groundbreaking feature allowing non-resident Indian (NRI) customers to utilize Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in India through their international mobile numbers. This innovation aims to simplify daily payments for NRIs by eliminating the need to register an Indian mobile number with their NRE/NRO accounts, thereby enhancing convenience.
2. Visa, the global digital payments platform, announced on Tuesday that it has appointed Sujai Raina as the new Country Manager for India.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
#Information and Broadcasting Minister: Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
#Chairman of The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) :
R Madhavan
#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi
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1. KBC 16 Registration : Kaun Banega Crorepati 16 is all set to knock our television screens soon. Viewers can apply for KBC 2024 online registration using WhatsApp, SMS, SonyLIV.
2. Actor Huma Qureshi is set to reprise her role of Pushpa Pandey in the third installment of the courtroom comedy franchise “Jolly LLB”. Actors Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi recently started filming for the project, titled “Jolly LLB 3”.
3. Actor Abhishek Bachchan is set to star in the upcoming comedy “Housefull 5”, Production house Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment shared the news.
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DEFENCE
#Supreme Commander of Armed Forces: The President
#Def Minister: Rajnath Singh
#Def Minister of State :
Ajay Bhatt
#Union Home : Amit Shah
#National Security Advisor : Ajit Doval
#Chief of Defence Staff:
Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM
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1. The Indian Navy delegation led by Rear Admiral Rajesh Dhankar visited Information Fusion Singapore on 07 May. The visit aims to enhance maritime security cooperation and strengthen bridges of friendship between India and Singapore.
2. The Indian Army’s Kharga Corps, part of the Army’s Western Command, recently concluded a three-day joint military EXERCISE GAGAN STRIKE-II with the Indian Air Force (IAF) in Punjab.
The primary goal of Gagan Strike-II was to refine the processes involving the Indian Army’s mechanised units and to validate the employment of attack helicopters in developed terrain. The exercise focused on integrating Apache and ALH-WSI helicopters, Unarmed Aerial Vehicles, and the Army’s special forces.
3. Kadet Defence Systems, a leading aerospace company, announced May 8 a ground breaking achievement in India’s defence sector with the successful development of Loitering Aerial Munitions (LAM) under a unique Development cum Production Partner (DCPP) model with the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO).
4. A fresh exchange of fire between a terrorist and security forces took place on Wednesday near the site in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district where two ultras were killed in an encounter the previous day.
5. In a joint effort to support armed forces personnel and civilians with disabilities, the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Santosh Jha, and Sri Lanka’s State Minister of Defence, Premitha Bandara Thennakoon, launched a 55-day-long artificial limb camp at Ragama near Colombo. It targets providing limbs to 375 Army, 75 Air Force, Navy, and police personnel, along with 200 civilians.
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In Bharat there are 28 states and 8 Union territories.
Population of Bharat:
142 cr (2023)
President of Bharat ,
Smt Droupadi Murmu
Vice President
Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar
Prime Minister : Shri Narendra Modi
Speaker Lok Sabha :
Shri Om Birla (BJP)
Rajyasabha Seats : 245 (233 Elected + 12 Nominated)
Loksabha : 550 members (530 States 20 Union Territories)
Chief Election Commissioner:
Shri Rajiv Kumar
09 May (Thursday)
Vedic Ritu/ Vasant Ritu
Drik Ritu : Grishma (Summer)
पक्ष :: Shuklapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2081
Shaka Samvat – 1946
Month : Vaisakha 01 (Amanta)
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Tithi : Pratipada (up to 6:21 am)Dwitiya
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