Banking and Financial
- RBI imposes Rs 3.10-lakh penalty on Hero Fincorp for rule violations
- TCS gets core banking transformation deal from Kuwait’s Burgan Bank
- Goldman Sachs raises India’s GDP growth forecast to 6.7 percent for FY24
- RBI imposes ₹1-crore penalty on ICICI Bank, ₹91 lakh on YES Bank
- Govt to get Rs 3,662 crore from LIC as dividend
- RBI unveils Pravaah portal, Retail Direct Mobile App and FinTech Repository
- Poonawalla Fincorp launches Co-Branded Credit Card with IndusInd Bank
- HDFC Bank to stop SMS alerts for small UPI payments
- RBI imposes Rs 36.38 lakh penalty on HSBC for violating Fema regulations
- ADB approves $2.6 billion in Sovereign lending to India in 2023
- Capital Small Finance Bank, ICICI Lombard enter into bancassurance tie-up
- RBI projects 7% Real GDP growth in current financial year
National News
- DD Kisan launched AI Anchors, Krish and Bhoomi
- Sikkim celebrates Saga Dawa festival
- World’s first 100% biodegradable pen launches in India
- WB govt plans new AI and ML-focused data centre
- Cyclone Remal bring heavy rains in part of WB and Bangladesh
- Jyoti Ratre becomes India’s oldest woman to Conquer Mount Everest
- Cyber Security Conclave organized in New Delhi
- First Hydrogen plant of GAIL inaugurated in Vijaipur, MP
- Ghana ties up with Reliance Jio arm, others for building 4G, 5G telecom infra
- Telangana government enforces Statewide ban on gutka and pan masala
- Fischer Medical Ventures makes India’s first indigenous MRI system
- Sterlite Technologies partners with Connexin for gigabit broadband
- Wipro to develop AI driven tech to reduce risks of cardiovascular disease
- Reliance Industries to begin construction on India’s first multimodal logistics park near Chennai
- Indian mountaineer Satyadeep Gupta becomes first person to scale Everest and Mt. Lhotse twice in one season
- India offers $1 million aid to disaster-hit Papua New Guinea
- Sanjay Kumar inaugurates Summer Fiesta 2024
- FICCI organized India Cold Chain and Logistics Summit in New Delhi
- India assumes Chair of Colombo Process for 2024-26
- NHAI launches initiative to attract the UAE’s investments for India’s highway expansion
- Mines Ministry organizes Workshop on Granites and Marble Mining
- Sourav Ganguly became Chief Guest for Supply Chain Conference 2024
- Armed Forces Medical Services & IIT Hyderabad ink MoU for Collaborative Research and Training
- Government raises Retirement & Death Gratuity Limits to 25 Lakh
International News
- Delhi ranks 350 in Oxford Global Cities Index Report 2024; topped by New York
- WHO launches first-ever investment round for sustainable funding
- WHO Organizes ‘Walk The Talk’ Yoga Session Event
- Purnima Shrestha conquers Mount Everest thrice in a single season
- Nepal celebrated Its 17th Republic Day
Appointment and Resignation
- ICC names Shahid Afridi as Men’s T20 WC 2024 Brand Ambassador
- MS Dhoni appointed as Citroen’s brand ambassador in India
- RBI approves appointment of Pradeep Kumar Sinha as Part–time Chairman of ICICI Bank
- Jetha Ahir appointed as chairman of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED)
- Justice Najmi Waziri appointed as Chairperson of Equestrian Federation Of India’s Ad-Hoc Administrative Committee
- Allamaye Halina named new PM of Chad
- Vice Admiral Gurcharan Singh takes Command of NDA
- Gitanas Nauseda elected as the president of Lithuania
- DRDO chairman Samir V. Kamat gets one year extension
- Apurva Chandra appointed as chairperson of Committee A Of 77TH WHA Event
- Gaurav Banerjee appoints as new CEO of Sony India
- Rakesh Ranjan appointed as Chairman of SSC
- Vijay Khanduja appointed as India’s next High Commissioner to Cameroon
- National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARCL) board recommends P Santhosh as MD & CEO
- Shah Rukh Khan appoints brand ambassador of Muthoot Pappachan Group
- IRDAI approves Sandeep Batra as ICICI Prudential Board chairman
Awards
- E -Rickshaw driver Arti conferred UK’s Women’s Empowerment Award
- Chidanand Naik’s film ‘Sunflowers Were the First to Know’ won the La Cinef Award for Best Short Film, and Anasuya Sengupta won the Best Actress award for her film Shameless
- Payal Kapadia won the country’s first ever Grand Prix Award at the 77th Cannes Film Festival
- NHPC honoured with ‘The Economic Times HR World Future Ready Organization Award 2024-25’
- Major Radhika Sen receives UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award
- Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC) receives CSR Champion Award 2024
Defence
- France successfully test fired ASMPA Missile
- DRDO Successfully Tests RudraM-II Missile
Science
- NASA Launches Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles
- Agnikul launches Agnibaan with India’s first 3D-printed rocket engine
- South Korea launches its First Space Agency
Sports
- Dinesh Karthik announced retirement from IPL
- India’s Simran Sharma wins Gold Medal at World Para Athletics Championship
- KKR wins their third IPL title beating SRH
- Dipa Karmakar clinches India’s first-ever Gold Medal in Asian Championships
- Charles Leclerc wins Monaco Grand Prix 2024
- Classic Football Academy bag AIFF U17 title
- Ravi Shastri joins Cricket Australia’s Multicultural Initative
- India bags seven medals at the Asian Armwrestling Championship 2024
- Muhammad Waseem and Hayley Matthews won the ICC Men’s and Women’s Player of the Month
Important day
- 25 May – World Football Day
- 25-31 May – International Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories
- 25 May – Africa Day (Theme 2024 – Education Fit for the 21st Century)
- 27 May 2024 (last Monday of the month of May) – National Memorial Day
- 28 May – World Hunger Day (Theme 2024 – Thriving Mothers, Thriving World)
- 29 May – International Day of the UN Peacekeepers (Theme 2024 – Fit for the future, building better together)
- 30 May – Hindi Journalism Day
- 30 May – International Day of Potato
- 31 May – World No-Tobacco Day (Theme 2024 – Protecting Children from Tobacco Industry Interference)
