INDIA
– Navies of India and Bangladesh conducting CORPAT (Coordinated Patrol) in Bay of Bengal
– Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates & lays foundation stones of various infrastructure projects worth Rs 1180 crore in Arunachal Pradesh
Year-long celebrations of 250th Birth Anniversary of Raja Ram Mohan Roy begin
– National Recruitment Agency to conduct computer-based online CET for recruitment to non-gazetted posts by year end
– IIT-JEE (IIT-Joint Entrance Exam) to go global and be open to students from 25 nations, from US to Vietnam
– Centre forms 3-member panel to investigate Ramban tunnel collapse on Jammu-Srinagar highway on May 19
– West Bengal: Arjun Singh, BJP MP from Barrackpore, joins Trinamool Congress
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– Govt giving additional fertiliser subsidy of Rs 1.10 lakh crore this fiscal: FM Nirmala Sitharaman
– India Ideas Conclave ‘India 2.0: Rebooting to Meta Era’ organised by the India Foundation in Bengaluru
– Salil Parekh reappointed as Infosys CEO & MD for another five years
WORLD
– Annual meeting of World Economic Forum begins in Davos, Switzerland with its theme as “Working Together, Restoring Trust”; Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal leads Indian delegation
– International Day for Biological Diversity celebrated on May 22; theme: “Building a shared future for all life”
– World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development celebrated on May 21
– International Tea Day celebrated on May 21
SPORTS
– Australian swimmer Ariarne Titmus sets women’s 400-meter freestyle world record
