Banking and Financial
- RBI withdrawal 2000 notes from circulation, to remain legal tender
- Paytm launches Paytm SBI Card on RuPay Network with NPCI
- RBI approved Rs 87,416 crore dividend payout to Centre for FY23
- Paytm Money launches bond investing
- Google Pay launches RuPay credit cards support on UPI in India
- India’s GDP crossed $3.5 trillion in 2022: Moody’s report
- Kotak Mutual Fund launches Nifty 200 Momentum30 Index Fund
- YES Bank collaborates with IIT Kanpur to offer support to Incubated Startups
Appointment and Resignation
- Arjun Ram Meghwal appointed as the new Law and Justice Minister
- Siddaramaiah took oath as Karnataka Chief Minister
- Jayakumar S. Pillai appoints as Deputy MD of IDBI Bank
- Jayaprakash re-elected as President of Swimming Federation
- Vijay Shekhar appointed as part-time chairman of Paytm
- Mukundan appoints as MD & CEO of Tata Chemical Board
- Sourav Ganguly appointed brand ambassador of Tripura tourism
National News
- Third G20 tourism meet to be held in Srinagar
- Jal Jeevan Mission achieves milestone of 12 crore Tap Water Connections
- Lucknow to get new Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation Institute
- Online education program ‘Pahal’ for rural children inaugurated
- HPCL to set up Rs 500 cr ethanol plant in Una, HP
- Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurates National Mission Conclave in Delhi
- India launches ‘Operation Karuna’ to assist cyclone-hit Myanmar
- Madhya Pradesh cabinet approves ‘Mukhya Mantri Sikho Kamao Yojana’ for unemployed youth
- 2nd Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group meet to be held in Mumbai
- PM Modi launches Railway Projects in Odisha and Flags off Vande Bharat Express
- TN CM Stalin inaugurates India’s longest Skywalk Bridge
- MP’s Bhopal becomes first city in India to measure Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) progress
- NTPC Green ties up with HPCL Mittal Energy for green hydrogen
- Amit Shah lays foundation stone of campus of National Academy of Coastal Policing at Okha in Gujarat
- Mahatma Gandhi bust unveiled by PM Modi in Hiroshima
- 1st Inter-Ministerial Committee Meeting held on World Food India 2023
- Govt to set up 1,100 farmer producer organizations in cooperative sector
- Israel ties up with IIT-M to set up water technology centre
- India to host Quad summit in 2024
- MP becomes 1st state in country to provide free air travel to pilgrims
- PM Modi addresses 76th Session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva
- India to host 44th ISO COPOLCO Plenary
- PM Modi conferred with highest civilian honours by Fiji, Papua New Guinea
- Smriti Irani inaugurates women labourers convention in Kerala
- Maharashtra becomes the first state in the country to approve Good Governance Regulations
- 2nd Trade and Investment Working Group meeting begins in Bengaluru
- 2nd G-20 Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group meeting begins in Mumbai
- Maharashtra govt launches new portal ‘Shasan Aplya Dari’
- Andhra Pradesh CM launches Machilipatnam port project for economic growth
- Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) launched ‘GAINS’ (GRSE Accelerated Innovation Nurturing Scheme) Startup Challenge in Kolkata
- HP government to formulate Green Hydrogen policy
- Indian Railways hands over 20 Broad Gauge Locomotives to Bangladesh
- India and Australia sign Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement
- Kerala to be the first fully e-governed state
- PM Modi flagged off Uttarakhand’s first Vande Bharat Express
International News
- UNEP suggests measures to reduce 80% of world’s plastic pollution by 2040
- Chile’s 5000-year-old ‘Great Grandfather’ tree declared world’s oldest
- 2025 to be observed as ‘special tourism year’ in Nepal
- India to open new consulate in Brisbane
- Ireland become first country to introduce health warnings on alcohol
Awards
- Tata Chairman N Chandrasekaran honored with France’s highest civilian award “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur”
- Chandigarh bags first rank in National Water Award 2022
- Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov wins International Booker Prize for ‘Time Shelter’
Defence
- Indo-Indonesia bilateral Exercise Samudra Shakti-23 concluded in the South China Sea
- India & Saudi Arabia to conduct Naval Exercise AL MOHED AL HINDI 2023
Sports
- Annu Rani clinched gold medal in Federation Cup 2023
- India bags 16 gold medals at the South Asian Youth Table Tennis Championship 2023
- Jyothi Yarraji clinches gold in women’s 100 m hurdles
- Elena Rybakina clinches Italian open women’s Singles title
- Shaili Singh clinched bronze medal at the Golden Grand Prix 2023
- Rohit Sharma becomes 2nd Indian player to complete 11000 runs in T20
- Daniil Medvedev wins maiden clay court title at Italian Open 2023
- China claims record 13th Sudirman Cup title
- BCCI announces Adidas as Team India’s kit sponsor
- Neeraj Chopra becomes World No 1 in men’s javelin throw
- Khelo India University Games begins in Gautam Budh Nagar
Book and Author
- Ruskin Bond wrote a new book titled ‘The Golden Years’
Important day
- 18 May – International Museum Day (Theme 2023 – Museums, Sustainability, and Well-being)
- 18 May – World AIDS Vaccine Day
- 18 May 2023 (third Thursday of May) – Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- 19 May 2023 (third Friday in May) – National Endangered Species Day (Theme 2023 – Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the endangered species act)
- 20 May – World Bee Day (Theme 2023 – Bee engaged in pollinator-friendly agricultural production)
- 20 May – World Metrology Day (Theme 2023 – Measurements supporting the global food system.)
- 21 May – World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
- 21 May – International Tea Day
- 21 May – National Anti-Terrorism Day
- 22 May – International Day for Biological Diversity (Theme 2023 – From Agreement to Action: Building Back Biodiversity)
- 23 May – World Turtle Day
- 23 May – International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
- 24 May – Commonwealth Day (Theme 2023 – Forging a Sustainable and Peaceful Common Future.)
- 25 May – International Missing Children’s Day
- 25 May – World Thyroid Day
Obituary
- Actor Sarath Babu passes away
