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Newscapsule for the Month of May 2023

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Kerala 

  • Five people were slapped Rs 1000 fine each for sticking posters on Vande Bharat Express. 
  • Thrissur Pooram fireworks light up the sky; Messi featured in 'Kudamattam'.
  • CBI ready to take up Bar Bribery Case.
  • Stone was thrown at Vande Bharat in Kerala within a week of the inaugural run; cracks on a window.
  • Pinarayi hands over keys to 20,073 houses; contracts with 41,439 signed.
  • Gangster Anil Dujana killed in UP police encounter, cops said he 'fired at team'.
  • Congress party has been using the Kerala story to protest the screening of the film. 
  • Kerala governor Arif Mohammed Khan visits Guruvayur temple and offers bananas as ‘thulabharam’.
  • Doctor Vandana was stabbed to death by a man in custody creating uproar for the safety of doctors. 
  • Kerala passes ordinance to safeguard doctors. 
  • Drug use among school students: Attendance to be counted in evenings too.
  • Kerala SSLC and +2 results released.
  • Bison attacks: Kerala govt announces compensation to kin of deceased; 'Shoot order' in Erumeli.
  • Anganawadi Praveshnolosavam was held. 
  • Multiple warehouses of Kerala Medical Corporation across the state catch fire. 
  • Milma’s Malabar regional union produces the best quality milk in the country.
  • Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar arrives in Kerala for a two-day visit.
  • CPI(M) MLA Jenish faces flak for visiting Guruvayur temple and following rituals; the legislator justifies by saying he was there only to attend a friend’s wedding. 
  • Bypoll election results out. 
  • Kerala govt bans saffron decorations at Vellayani Bhadrakali temple citing 'law and order' reasons.
  • Elephant Arikomban crosses over to Tamil Nadu. 

India 


  • India tries to solve its trade imbalance with Russia. 
  • Delhi becomes the world's second-largest city. 
  • Mumbai is the 9th largest city in the world. 
  • Karnataka Elections manifestos between parties were extremely competitive. 
  • Kerala Story movie released amidst all the controversy in the country. 
  • Adv. Sukkur offers Rs 11 lakhs for proof of 32 women who converted and joined IS. 
  • Gujarat HC refuses to stay in Rahul Gandhi's Surat Court case.
  • Meithis vs Kukis violence is overblown in Manipur killing multiple people and displacement of population. People demand Presidential rule. 
  • Sharad Pawar decides to step down as NCP president; NCP chief Pawar agreed to rethink his resignation amid protest.
  • ABVP screens Kerala Story in JNU. Three states- UP, MP and Uttarakhand declare it tax-free. West Bengal banned the film. 
  • PM's security helicopter is stuck in the helipad in Raichur, and a lifting operation is underway.
  • Delhi Court issues summons to BBC in Modi Documentary case. 
  • Sale of meat banned in Bengaluru on Buddha Purnima.
  • Congress party takes control of Shimla Municipal Corporation after a very long time. 
  • PM Modi's Mega Roadshow in Bengaluru was a Two-Day Event. 
  • PM Cites 'The Kerala Story', Accuses Congress Of Backing Terror Mindset.
  • Manipur violence: State government not doing enough, claims BJP MLA.
  • Ex-Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal passed away. 
  • The school asks Rs 100 from students who missed Mann ki Baat.
  • Rajnikanth praises Ex Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu.
  • BJP functionary shot dead while waiting for wife in SUV in Gujarat. 
  • Amit Shah gets notice for his comments in Karnataka. 
  • Sachin Pilot vs Gehlot war intensifies in Rajasthan. 
  • A female Cheetah Dalksha dies in the forest that was newly brought from Zambia followed by three cubs. 
  • The dairy minister dropped, and TRB Rajaa was inducted into the Stalin-led council of ministers.
  • BJP wins 8 seats, Congress 4, independents 2 in urban body bypolls in Rajasthan.
  • Violent incidents were reported in at least 3 places during the Karnataka Assembly elections. 
  • CM Yogi Adityanath meets with The Kerala Story team in Lucknow.
  • Congress wins the Karnataka Elections 2023 with 135 out of 224 seats. 
  • Who will be the CM becomes a new big row in the state? 
  • DGCA fines Air India Rs 30 lakh, pilot's license suspended for 3 months. From now on It will be
  • Congress loses its stronghold of Jalandhar after 30 years to AAP. 
  • Shivakumar maintains a 'winning streak' by securing the Kanakapura seat for the eighth straight time.
  • BJP sweeps UP municipal elections, CM Yogi Adityanath celebrates victory.
  • Parineeti Chopra and Raghav Chadha are now officially engaged.
  • CBSE announces Class 10 and 12 board exam results.
  • Siddaramiah is the new CM of Karnataka with D K Sivakumar as his Deputy. 
  • Kiren Rijiju Shifted Out Of Law Ministry, Arjun Ram Meghwal Replaces Him. 
  • IAS Tina Dabi Orders Eviction of Pak Hindu Migrants From Govt Land in Jaisalmer.
  • 10 Kuki MLAs including 7 from BJP demand 'separate administration' under Indian Constitution. 
  • Supreme Court Upholds Tamil Nadu Law Allowing Bull-Taming Sport `Jallikattu`.
  • BJP moves to disqualify Padmaja for backing UDF. 
  • PM Modi inaugurated the new Parliament building on May 28 and used Senghol as a symbol of power. 
  • India will do whatever is possible to find a solution to the Ukraine conflict: PM Modi to Zelenskyy.
  • Karanataka ends the zero-Traffic rule.
  • Andhra Pradesh begins freeing 2 lakh acres of ‘dotted lands’.
  • 'Soul of democracy sucked out': 19 Oppn parties unite, to skip Parliament launch.
  • Wrestlers Detained Trying To March To New Parliament, Protest Site Cleared. 
  • Erdogan wins the Presidential Elections
  • ‘Modi is the boss’: Australian leader gives India’s prime minister a rock star welcome.
  • Congress wiped out of West Bengal assembly again as lone MLA joins Trinamool.
  • Wrestlers postpone a plan to immerse medals in river Ganga as Tikait intervenes, giving a five-day ultimatum. 
  • 'PM Modi would start explaining to God how the universe works': Rahul Gandhi in US.
World/International


  • Violence in South Sudan proliferates.
  • Thai opposition takes on the kingdom’s conservative cliques in a challenge to the military’s power
  • Sweden’s Loreen wins the historic second Eurovision, after the emotional show in Britain that celebrated Ukraine. 
  • Bank of England hikes interest rates for 12th time in battle with inflation
  • A scorpion bites a woman on board an Air India flight.
  • As Ukraine prepares a counteroffensive, Russia appears in disarray
  • France thanks India for evacuating embassy staffers from Sudan
  • Russian Forces under the Wagner Group claim control over Bakhmut. 
  • Building attacked using a drone in Moscow.
  • Russia holds its biggest ever air-raid on Kyiv.
  • Russia Accuses Ukraine of attempted drone attack on Kremlin
  • One in 5 young people in Chinese cities are out of work. Beijing wants them to work in the fields
  • Title 24 ended in the USA. More migrants are expected. 
  • Officer Tou Thao who held back the crowd during George Floyd’s murder convicted of aiding and abetting manslaughter
  • Over 130 were arrested in anti-mafia raids across multiple European countries.
  • Syria is back in the Arab League.
  • Teen kills 9 people at school in Serbia's first mass shooting in 10 years. 
  • The boy opened fire at a school in Serbia's capital Wednesday, killing nine people. Police said the shooter opened fire with his father's gun.
  • Shooting rocks the city of Atlanta. 
  • Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meet held in Goa. 
  • India's Operation Kaveri ends.
  • EU in Israel cancels Europe Day event over Ben-Gvir
  • Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested. Pakistan sees widespread violence, especially on military targets. 
  • Imran Khan supporters storm Pakistan Army HQ, Mianwali air base, ISI HQ,  Lahore corps commander's house, Quetta, Karachi, Faisalabad. Army vows to take back the country after protests.
  • George Santos faces trial amidst Federal charges. 
  • Germany goes into recession. 
  • Israeli Defence Forces apologise for the death of Al Jazeera journalist. 
  • Pak Supreme Court Pulls Up NAB, Asks It to Produce Former PM.
  • G7 Meet held in Japan. India and Ukraine attend as invitees. 
  • India holds G20 meet in Kashmir which was boycotted by China, Saudi, Egypt, Turkey and Oman.
  • Turkish elections:- Erdogan's alliance captures Parliament and also pushes the Presidential election to run off. 
  • Kerala Story film faces set back in the UK. 
  • FDA relaxes blood donation rules for gay and bisexual men.
  • Ukraine imposes sanctions on Iran.
  • Rare protests were seen in China during the demolition of a mosque. 
  • SCOTUS declines to intervene in Contraceptives. 
  • Kiren Rijiju Shifted Out Of Law Ministry, Arjun Ram Meghwal Replaces Him 
  • Over 800 Civilians Killed as Fighting Between Army and RSF Enters 2nd Month
  • US Dept of State speaks on PM Modi's upcoming visit, says 'Partnership with India one of the most consequential relations.
  • Disney scraps plans for new Florida campus, mass employee relocation amid DeSantis feud.
  • 1-year-old boy accidentally shot by 4-year-old brother in Texas, police say
  • Australian parliament screen PM Modi's BBC Documentary.    
  • US court clears Tahawwur Rana’s extradition to India: Looking at other key culprits in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and where they are right now
  • SC lifts West Bengal govt's ban, asks Tamil Nadu to provide security to moviegoers.
  • A Moscow court has ordered the arrest of prominent film producer Alexander Rodnyansky and theatre director Ivan Vyrypaev for “spreading false information” about the Russian army.
  • US and Taiwan draw closer with a new trade pact opposed by China.
  • Putin's minister dies on Plane. 
  • The President of Belarus was hospitalised after his meeting with Lukashenko.
  • Biden pulls out of Quad summit due to meeting with Kevin McCarthy.
  • Adani stock investors richer by Rs 1.8 lakh crore in 3 days.
  • Russian forces held an attack on the Belgorod border city. 
  • Jan-6 rioter put in 45-year prison sentance. 
  • Ron DeSantis decides to run for the 2024 elections followed by Chris Christie and Mike Pence. 
  • Mexican president urges Hispanics in the US not to vote for Ron DeSantis.
  • Lula turns down Putin's invitation to attend an economic forum in Russia. 
  • Pakistan Army has put the lid on Imran’s revolt & now wants a million acres of land in Cholistan.
  • Iowa governor signs bill rolling back child labour protections into law.
  • Oleksiy Danilov interview: Ukraine counter-offensive 'ready to begin'.
  • Erdogan wins Turkey's election in a runoff. 
  • NATO launches operation in the Artic Sea to protect Finland. 
  • The US House of Representatives passed the bill to raise the debt ceiling. 
  • Kosovo's prime minister says he will not surrender the country to Serbian ‘fascist militia’ after clashes in the north.

Technology



  • 100 episode of PM Modi’s Mann ki Baat completed.
  • Taller than the Eiffel Tower, India constructs the world’s highest railway bridge in Kashmir. 
  • Kochi to use CNG to manage its waste. 
  • Microsoft releases its own AI-powered Bing search engine. 
  • Pakistan cuts internet in the country after protests. 
  • The first baby with three DNAs was born in the UK through an IVF procedure. 
  • Elon Musk Says He Has a New C.E.O. for Twitter. 
  • DGCA fines Air India Rs 30 lakh, pilot's license suspended for 3 months.
  • Kerala Water Metro reaches new records. 
  • SCOTUS rules, Twitter is not liable for ISIS content. 
  • EU slapped a record €1.2B fine on Meta.
  • Reliance Jio adds 30.5 lakh mobile users in March; Vi loses 12 lakh users.
  • India will unveil 18 new petaFLOP supercomputers for weather forecasting in 2023. 
  • State-run ANERT launches ambitious project to make Trivandrum. largest solar city in India. 
  • Abu Dhabi Introduces First 100% Electric Waste Truck in the UAE.
Business and Finance


  • KSRTC-SWIFT to employ female drivers to run electric buses in Trivandrum.
  • Federal Bank marathon held in Kochi. 
  • 300 ‘Take A Break’ public toilet complexes inaugurated in Kerala. 
  • Kochi Water Metro crosses the 10,000 mark in the number of daily commuters. 
  • Fed Raises its exchange rate. 
  • Made in Kerala carpet weaves magic at Met Gala.
  • CNN holds Trump Town Hall; faces flak for the same. 
  • Rate hikes have contributed to a banking crisis and economic slowdown this year.
  • Only Shenoys Theatre in Kochi screened the Kerala Story film. Others pull out. 
  • The economy added 253,000 jobs in April amid high-interest rates, a credit crunch, a jobs report shows. Unemployment fell to 3.4%.
  • Big Boss 7th season is to be out soon claims Kamal Hassan. 
  • Kerala KSEB decided to hike the power tariff in the state. 
  • Kerala attends a business summit in UAE. 
  • Kerala Files film hits the theatres. 
  • 2018 becomes the most highly-grossed Malayalam movie ever with more than 150 Cr Box office. 
  • World Bank team meets Kerala CM; expresses interest in state's carbon neutral initiatives.
  • Russia reaches a record deficit amidst war. 
  • Ukraine grain deal to be extended for 2 months.
  • Kerala AI camera issue enters into multiple controversies. 
  • US and Taiwan draw closer with a new trade pact opposed by China. 
  • The-Kerala-Story-box-office-Second-Hindi-film-to-enter-Rs-200-crore-club-in-2023.
  • Pakistan and Iran inaugurate the border market.
  • Adani stock investors richer by Rs 1.8 lakh crore in 3 days. 

Sports 

  • Lionel Messi exits PSG club.
  • Chennai Super Kings won their 5th IPL trophy amidst rain delaying the final match.
  • Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the world's highest-paid athlete after Al Nassr's move.

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