1.Over 60 per cent voter turnout was recorded Monday in 49 constituencies in six states and two Union Territories (UTs) in the Phase V of Lok Sabha election.

2.Jaya Badiya, an Indian-origin woman, has been appointed as a Judge in the Sacramento County Superior Court, making her the first Judge in California from the Southern India States.

3.Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, 63, the country’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, 60, and several other officials were found dead Monday, hours after their helicopter crashed in a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest, the state media reported.

4.The heatwave which had hit Odisha from mid-April is set to return again Tuesday onwards for three days, the regional office of the IMD informed Monday here. However, it also added that there will be relief from May 25 as there will be rainfall in many districts. The rainfall will be accompanied by gusty winds.

5.The Supreme Court has directed that there shall be no attempt to reduce the area of open air prisons functioning in the country.

6.Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said the Maitri Setu in South Tripura and Agartala-Akhaura (Bangladesh) rail link will become operational very soon.

7.A special cabinet meeting here Monday chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan passed an ordinance to add one new ward in all the local bodies in the state.

8.The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested four Sri Lankans with links to the banned outfit Islamic State (IS) who were allegedly on a mission to carry out terror activities in India, police said Monday

9.Former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren is actively attempting to subvert the probe into the money laundering case against him by “misusing state machinery”, the Enforcement Directorate told the Supreme Court Monday and opposed his “special prayer” for interim bail to campaign in the Lok Sabha polls.

10.British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Monday apologised after Britain’s statefunded National Health Service (NHS) was accused of cover up in an infected blood scandal dating back to the 1970s in a public inquiry report submitted to the government.

11.India’s peak power demand is hovering near the projected 235 GW level in May, following excessive use of cooling appliances like air conditioners and desert coolers amid severe heat waves in the country

12.Ride hailing app Uber has received an aggregator licence by the Delhi Transport Department to operate buses in the national capital under the Delhi premium Bus Scheme, the company said in a statement.

13.Retirement fund body EPFO has recorded a net addition of 14.41 lakh members in March this year, according to the latest payroll data released Monday.

14.Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry expressed his country's keenness to join the BRICS grouping on Monday and conveyed that the group has become a 'good body' after India became part of it.

15.After Bijoy Mohapatra, the BJP on Monday expelled another senior leader and former MP Aira Kharabela Swain from the party. BJP state President Manmohan Samal has expelled him from the party on charges of anti-party activities and violation of party discipline for going against the party’s decision.