Breaking News, May 22 | HIGHLIGHTS

Government sets up a special food stall "Jammu Kashmir Rural Livelihood Mission (JKRLM) Millet Hub" for guests in Sher-I-Kashmir International Centre during the third G20 Tourism Working Group Meeting.

"This year is being celebrated as the International Year of Millets. G20 is giving us a big stage to promote millet as a source of nutrition and livelihood. Women of the Self-Help Group are managing everything, and we are promoting this as an opportunity to earn livelihood," said Naresh Mathur, Block Program Manager JKRLM on government setup of Special Food Stall.

"Millets-based recipes are developed based on community knowledge. We are trying to empower SHGs from Baramulla, Nagaland and Sikkim by giving them livelihood based on millets. We are trying to take our products from the grassroots to the global level, and G20 is the best platform for it," said Syed Nadeem, General Manager of Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN), in J&K's Srinagar.

It's a matter of great pleasure that India has given 20 modern diesel locomotives to Bangladesh. Earlier, out of 9 old connections b/w India & Bangladesh, five have been revived, work on two is underway & preparations are on for the remaining two, said Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

Protesting wrestlers take out march from Jantar Mantar to India Gate, demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) Chief Brij Bhushan Singh. READ MORE

TMC to boycott the inauguration of new Parliament building on May 28, said TMC's Lok Sabha leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay. READ MORE

G20 delegates arrive at Gateway of India to attend the light-and-sound show in Mumbai.

Wrestlers' candlelight protest in Delhi demanding arrest of BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations against him. 

The way in which Arvind Kejriwal has been running government in Delhi is absolutely atrocious and thoroughly dishonest & corrupt. Congress can only stand with him if we betray both our tenets & our understanding of the Constitution. For the benefit of the people of Delhi, I request my party not to consider in any way supporting AAP, says Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit

G20 presidency is a matter of pride for us. The presence of UN representatives here indicates that the world wants India to host such events, J&K LG Manoj Sinha responds to a question from a foreign journalist on Pakistan saying India "abusing" G20 presidency with Kashmir meet.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh congratulates Ishita Kishore, Garima Lohia and Uma Hariti N, the first 3 toppers in UPSC Civil Services Examination 2022 Final. 

"A day of celebration also for all the others who have made it," tweets Jitendra Singh.

Four persons were injured in a clash between two groups over a dispute at a pre-wedding function in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Tuesday. Offences have been registered against seven people from the two sides following the incident which took place at Anjur Phata in Bhiwandi area on Saturday night, an official from Narpoli police station said.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that withdrawal of Rs 2000 notes is not demonetisation but a statutory exercise, and the decision to enable their exchange was taken for operational convenience.

J&K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha, Union Ministers G Kishan Reddy and Dr Jitendra Singh and G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant participate in the third G20 Tourism Working Group meeting underway in Srinagar. This is the second day of the 3-day meeting.

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi will appear before an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad ahead of his appearance before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the £190 million settlement case, reported Pakistan's Geo news.  

India has logged 405 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases have decreased to 7,104 from 7,623, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll has increased to 5,31,843 with four deaths which includes one reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.

Six persons were killed while ten others were injured in bus-truck collision in Maharashtra's Buldhana district, police said on Tuesday.

The UN envoy for Sudan urged the country's warring generals to honour a seven-day ceasefire that began Monday night, warning the growing ethnic dimension to the fighting risks engulfing Sudan in a prolonged conflict. Volker Perthes told the UN Security Council that the conflict, which began April 15, has shown no signs of slowing down despite six previous declarations of cease-fires by both sides. All the previous truces have been violated.

President Joe Biden's decision to allow allies to train Ukrainian forces on how to operate F-16 fighter jets — and eventually to provide the aircraft themselves — seemed like an abrupt change in position but was in fact one that came after months of internal debate and quiet talks with allies.

Five youths allegedly thrashed two men riding a two-wheeler in the Manesar area here, police said on Monday. Sachin, who lives in the Pachgaon village, said in his complaint that he was travelling with two friends on a two-wheeler on Sunday when the alleged incident occurred.

US health regulators on Monday approved a new easy-to-use version of a medication to reverse overdoses caused by fentanyl and other opioids driving the nation's drug crisis. Opvee is similar to naloxone, the life-saving drug that has been used for decades to quickly counter overdoses of heroin, fentanyl and prescription painkillers. Both work by blocking the effects of opioids in the brain, which can restore normal breathing and blood pressure in people who have recently overdosed.