1. The Gujarat High court Monday, while hearing the game zone case in which 27 people, including children, have lost their lives, expressed ire both at the state government and the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) for their joint failure to prevent the mishap. The high court also stated that it does not have ‘faith on the state machinery’ which only gets into action after lives are lost.

2. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has sought extension of his interim bail by seven days from the Supreme Court to undergo a host of medical tests.

3. Mobile phones are a potential source of distraction while driving, with Odisha witnessing 433 road accidents and loss of 163 human lives last year due to such dangerous tendencies during driving, said State Transport Authority (STA) officials.

4.  Doctors reported a significant rise in urinary tract infections and kidney stones in adults due to sweltering heat conditions.

5. India’s core monsoon zone covering most of the rain-fed agriculture areas, including Odisha, is likely to receive above-normal rainfall this season, the IMD said Monday

6.The Supreme Court has said that commitments made by political parties in their election manifestos will not amount to ‘corrupt practice’ under the election laws.

7. All the nine visually impaired students of a school for the blind in Ganjan district cleared the annual high school certificate or Class X examination.

8. Election authorities and other enforcement agencies seized around `95 crore worth of cash, liquor, and other freebies, meant to be used to influence the voters during the five-phase Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

9. As many as 412 crorepati candidates are contesting the Assembly elections in Odisha that are being held from May 13 to June 1. The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Odisha Election Watch have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 1,283 out of 1,285 candidates, who are contesting for the 147 MLA seats in Odisha.

10. Nearly 29,500 houses in 24 blocks and 79 municipal wards, mostly in the south coastal areas of West Bengal, were partially or entirely damaged by Cyclone Remal, a state government official said Monday.

11. Exactly a month after he left the country, Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexually abusing several women, has said he will appear before the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the cases against him, May 31.

12. Food regulator FSSAI has warned food business operators against the sale of mother’s milk and directed licensing authorities not to issue approvals for the processing and selling of human milk.

13. Nearly 1,400 girl students had a lucky escape Monday when they were safely evacuated from a school building that was engulfed by a massive fire in a remote mountainous region of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to a media report.

14.  North Korea condemned China, Japan and South Korea Monday for committing to denuclearise the Korean peninsula, describing their joint declaration after a rare summit in Seoul as a “grave political provocation” that violates its sovereignty.

15. Indian exporters, however, expressed confidence that in 2024-25, marine exports would register a healthy growth as they are getting good orders.

16. Leading global financial firm Goldman Sachs has revised its forecast for India’s GDP growth by 10 basis points to 6.7 per cent as it expects the government’s heavy investments in big-ticket infrastructure projects to continue with the huge dividend coming in from the RBI.

17.  Insurance behemoth LIC Monday posted a marginal 2 per cent increase in net profit at `13,763 crore in the fourth quarter ended March 2024. The insurer had earned a profit of `13,428 crore in the corresponding quarter a year earlier.

18. India will buy back 400 billion rupees ($4.81 billion) worth of government bonds, the country's central bank said Monday.

19. Captain Harmanpreet Singh led from the front with a sensational hattrick as the Indian men’s hockey team recorded a thrilling 5-4 win over Argentina in the FIH Hockey Pro League here.

20. Xavi Hernández ended his stint as Barcelona coach with a 2-1 win at Sevilla in the final round of the Spanish league.