Digest year-ender
for domestic stories for month of May, 2018
May
1: New Delhi: Armies of India and China today held a Border Personnel Meeting
during which both sides resolved to maintain peace and tranquillity along the Line
of Actual Control, besides agreeing to work on additional confidence building
measures.
May
2: New Delhi: Delhi, Kanpur and Varanasi are among the 14 most-polluted cities
in the world, a new WHO report released today said even as environment and
health experts sounded an alarm about the severity of the problem, saying it is
a grim reminder that air pollution is a national health crisis and India needs
to do more to tackle it.
May
3: Lucknow/Jaipur: A storm barrelled through a swathe of Rajasthan and Uttar
Pradesh, killing at least 106 people in a trail of destruction that brought
down mud houses, uprooted trees and flattened crops, officials said today.
May
4: New Delhi: The Supreme Court today reserved its order on the plea of two of
the four condemned convicts seeking a review of its 2017 verdict upholding the
death penalty awarded to them in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case.
May
5: New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi today demanded answers from Prime Minister Narendra
Modi over the BJP giving tickets to those allegedly involved in corruption,
including its chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa.
May
6: Srinagar: Five Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists, including a top commander and a
university professor, were killed in an encounter in Shopian district of Jammu
and Kashmir today, even as five civilians died during clashes between
protesters and law enforcing agencies near the encounter site, police said.
May
7: New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today reviewed the progress of
preparations for the launch of the ambitious health assurance scheme under the
Ayushman Bharat programme.
May
8: New Delhi: The Centre's representative for Kashmir, Dineshwar Sharma, today
briefed Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba about the prevailing volatile
situation in the state, officials said.
May
9: New Delhi: Aligarh Muslim University Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor today met
Home Minister Rajnath Singh to discuss issues concerning the premier academic
institution, engulfed in controversy over a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah on
its premises, an official said.
May
10: Bengaluru: The vitriol-filled campaign for the Karnataka Assembly elections
ended today with top leaders of the BJP and Congress, including Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi, making a last-gasp effort to
sway the voters in a likely cliffhanger.
May
11: Chennai: The Income Tax department today filed four charge sheets against
former Union finance minister P Chidambaram's wife Nalini, son Karti,
daughter-in-law Srinidhi and a firm under the Black Money Act for allegedly not
disclosing their foreign assets.
May
12: New Delhi: A 70 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the high-stakes
Karnataka Assembly polls today, the Election Commission (EC) said.
May
13: New Delhi: Dust storms and thunderstorms wreaked havoc in Uttar Pradesh,
West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and the national capital, killing at least 41
people and leaving behind a trail of destruction.
May
14: New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi tonight removed Smriti Irani as the
Information and Broadcasting Minister and gave the portfolio to Rajyavardhan
Singh Rathore in a minor but significant reshuffle of his cabinet, in which
Rail Minister Piyush Goyal was given the additional charge of the Finance
Ministry.
May
15: Bengaluru: The BJP emerged as the single largest party today but fell 9
seats short of a majority in Karnataka where the Congress dramatically backed
third-placed rival JD(S) for chief ministership in a post-poll alliance to keep
the saffron party out of power.
May
16: Bengaluru/New Delhi: Amid intense jockeying for power and allegations of
horse-trading, Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala today invited the BJP's B S
Yeddyurappa to form the government in the state, prompting the Congress to move
the Supreme Court accusing the governor of acting as a "stooge" of
the saffron party.
May
17: Bengaluru: With his political future hanging by a slender thread, B S
Yeddyrappa was today sworn in as the chief minister of Karnataka for the third
time amid protests by the JD(S)-Congress combine whose MLAs hunkered down in
resorts and hotels following alleged attempts at poaching by the BJP.
May
18: New Delhi/Bengaluru: The new Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa was
today ordered by the Supreme Court to face a floor test in the state Assembly
tomorrow itself after it drastically reduced the 15-day deadline set by the
governor for him to prove his majority.
May
19: Bengaluru: The three-day-old BJP government in Karnataka collapsed today as
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa quit minutes before he was to face a floor test
to prove his contested majority in the hung assembly after which the
JD(S)-Congress combine led by the regional party's chief H D Kumaraswamy was
invited to take the reins of power.
May
20: Bengaluru: JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy, who is all set to take over as
Karnataka Chief Minister, today dismissed reports about his party working out a
power sharing formula of heading the government for 30 months each, with its
coalition partner the Congress.
May
21: Balasore (Odisha): India today successfully test-fired the Indo-Russian
joint venture BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a test range along the
Odisha coast to validate some new features.
May
22: Tuticorin/Chennai: Nine people were killed in police firing after protests
for the closure of Vedanta groups Sterlite Copper plant over pollution concerns
turned violent in Tamil Nadus Tuticorin, with the police action drawing
opposition criticism.
May
23: Bengaluru: JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy was today sworn-in as Karnataka
chief minister at a grand ceremony attended by a galaxy of top leaders and
regional satraps in a rare public show of unity perceived as a possible
harbinger of a broad-based anti-BJP alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha polls next year.
May
24: Chennai/Tuticorin: The death toll from police firing at Tuticorin today
went up to 13, even as cases were registered against opposition leaders,
including DMKs M K Stalin and actor-politician Kamal Haasan for defying
prohibitory orders, officials said.
May
25: Kozhikode: With the help of Indian Council of Medical Research and World
Health Organisation, the Kerala government has procured about 50 doses of a
monoclonal antibody from Australia to combat Nipah virus, state Health minister
K K Shylaja said today. May 26: New Delhi: Girls outshone boys in the CBSE
Class 12 results announced today with Noida girl Meghna Srivastava, topping the
examination this year.
May
27: Baghpat (UP): Asserting that infrastructure is a key priority for his
government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that Rs 3 lakh crore has
been spent on laying a network of 28,000 km of highways.By Namita Tewari May
28: New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said there was no
change in status quo at the face off site in Doklam and asserted that a major
outcome of last month's informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and Chinese President Xi Jinping was enhancing of mutual trust between the two
countries.
May
29: New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) today announced re-poll in 73 polling
stations in Uttar Pradesh's Kairana, 49 polling stations in Maharashtra's
Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland, after VVPAT machines
developed snags during yesterday's Lok Sabha bypolls.
May
30: New Delhi: Banking operations in the country were hit today as 10 lakh
employees, primarily from PSU banks, went on 2-day strike to protest against a
"meagre" 2 per cent salary hike offered by Indian Banks Association
(IBA) -- the management body.
May
31: New Delhi/Lucknow/Mumbai/Patna: Dealing a blow to the ruling BJP,
opposition parties today emerged victorious in 11 out of 14 Lok Sabha and
Assembly bypolls while limiting the saffron party and its allies to just three,
and snatching the high-profile Kairana Parliamentary seat in Uttar Pradesh with
a united force.
(Source PTI)
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