● 23rd May is World Turtle Day.
● India's Multi Commodity Exchange had launched the country's first copper options contracts. Three contracts with a lot size of 1 tonne were launched.
● Finance Ministry Ties Up With 40 Companies Under Mudra Scheme
● Minimum Compensation of Rs1 crore To Paramilitary Jawan Who Dies In Action
● Pravin Agrawal Appointed BHEL Director
● Star South African batsman AB de Villiers has announced his decision to retire from international cricket with immediate effect. In his 14-year career, he played 114 Tests, 228 One-Day Internationals (ODI) and 78 T20 Internationals.
● India ranked 145th among 195 countries in terms of Healthcare access and quality (HAQ) index.
● China's state-run Islamic Association has declared all mosques in the country should raise the national flagto "promote a spirit of patriotism" among Muslims.
● With a declared income of Rs 82.76 crore, the Samajwadi Party is the richest of the 32 regional parties in India, a report by Association for Democratic Reforms revealed today.
● Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is going to launch a multi-lingual mobile application titled Model Code of Conduct Violation Reporting App.
● For disease monitoring and strengthening tele-medicine services in the government hospitals, the Rajasthan Government has launched new software titled Nidaan.
● Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk has won this year's Man Booker International Prize 2018 for her novel 'Flights'.
● India's largest bank State Bank of India (SBI) is planning to list its general insurance business and cards business by 2019-20.
● China today announced that it will slash the import duty on passenger cars to 15% starting July 1 from the current 25% which has been in place for over a decade.
● The United States has tightened financial sanctions against Venezuela following President Nicolas Maduro's victory in election
● Elon Musk-led SpaceX launched GRACE-FO satellites, that would track the Earth's water movement and ice melt.
● Israel today claimed to be the first country to have used the US-made F-35 fighter jets in combat.
● JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy took oath as Chief minister of Karnataka on the steps of the Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat.
● Tata Steel has put in place a new management team at Bhushan Steel after its ₹35,200 crore takeover through India's new insolvency process.
● Coimbatore racer Bala Prasath has won the Formula Junior Racing Series 2018 Championship in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
● India's Multi Commodity Exchange had launched the country's first copper options contracts. Three contracts with a lot size of 1 tonne were launched.
● Finance Ministry Ties Up With 40 Companies Under Mudra Scheme
● Minimum Compensation of Rs1 crore To Paramilitary Jawan Who Dies In Action
● Pravin Agrawal Appointed BHEL Director
● Star South African batsman AB de Villiers has announced his decision to retire from international cricket with immediate effect. In his 14-year career, he played 114 Tests, 228 One-Day Internationals (ODI) and 78 T20 Internationals.
● India ranked 145th among 195 countries in terms of Healthcare access and quality (HAQ) index.
● China's state-run Islamic Association has declared all mosques in the country should raise the national flagto "promote a spirit of patriotism" among Muslims.
● With a declared income of Rs 82.76 crore, the Samajwadi Party is the richest of the 32 regional parties in India, a report by Association for Democratic Reforms revealed today.
● Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is going to launch a multi-lingual mobile application titled Model Code of Conduct Violation Reporting App.
● For disease monitoring and strengthening tele-medicine services in the government hospitals, the Rajasthan Government has launched new software titled Nidaan.
● Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk has won this year's Man Booker International Prize 2018 for her novel 'Flights'.
● India's largest bank State Bank of India (SBI) is planning to list its general insurance business and cards business by 2019-20.
● China today announced that it will slash the import duty on passenger cars to 15% starting July 1 from the current 25% which has been in place for over a decade.
● The United States has tightened financial sanctions against Venezuela following President Nicolas Maduro's victory in election
● Elon Musk-led SpaceX launched GRACE-FO satellites, that would track the Earth's water movement and ice melt.
● Israel today claimed to be the first country to have used the US-made F-35 fighter jets in combat.
● JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy took oath as Chief minister of Karnataka on the steps of the Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat.
● Tata Steel has put in place a new management team at Bhushan Steel after its ₹35,200 crore takeover through India's new insolvency process.
● Coimbatore racer Bala Prasath has won the Formula Junior Racing Series 2018 Championship in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
