India
1.   Bill Gates lauds PM Narendra Modi for 'success' of Swachh Bharat initiative :     Last year, the world's richest man traveled to Switzerland "to take a giant whiff" of the stench of pit toilets. "The stench was foul and made me wince," wrote that man Bill Gates.
2.  Sonia Gandhi back in action to fight Modi juggernaut :  
   Delhi is witnessing something strikingly similar to what happened in 2004: Congress president Sonia Gandhi is leading her party’s efforts to work for unity with frontline leaders of other Opposition parties, despite not being in the pink of health.
3.  Chhota Rajan, 3 officials get 7 years' jail in fake passport case :  A special court awarded on Tuesday seven year prison terms to underworld don Chhota Rajanand three retired passport officials, including two women, in a fake passport case. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on each of them.
4.  Maoists kept track as CRPF men took same road for days :   The CRPF's 74th battalion had split into three groups before the first, made up of 36 personnel, was ambushed by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Sukma on Monday, a preliminary probe revealed on Tuesday.
5.  Kashmiri woman who pelted stones dreams of playing football for India :  Yes, I pelted stones yesterday. But that's not what I want to do. I want to play at the national level for India," Kashmir's first female football coach Afshan Ashique, 21, said, holding a brown football under her foot.
6.  US major market for illegal online drug sales from India :  Last week's raid on a Bengaluru call centre that led to a massive seizure of medicines that were to be sold online have pointed to the US as a major market for illegal online drug sales.
7.  Stent Abbott wants to pull out is 'identical' to others :  While Abbott has threatened to withdraw its `high-end' Xience Alpine stent saying the new price cap on stents makes it commercially unviable, the company's filing with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval states that "Xience Xpedition and Xience Alpine stents are identical to the Xience Prime stent".
8.  PM Narendra Modi to open longest bridge :  Prime minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Dhola-Sadiya bridge on river Brahmaputra, which will be the country's longest bridge, in Tinsukia district in Assam on May 24 to mark BJP's first year in office in the state.
9.  Yogi Adityanath government to roll out a new family planning scheme in Uttar Pradesh :  Free condom boxes at strategic locations in cities and villages, a kit for newly-wed couples with packs of condoms, emergency contraceptive pills and a pregnancy testing kit, and saas-bahu sammelans are Uttar Pradesh government’s latest tools to drive home the message of family planning in its post populous districts.
10.  Chetan Bhagat accused of plagiarism, court stalls sale of his new novel :   A civil court here granted temporary injunction holding back author Chetan Bhagat from selling his book `One Indian Girl' on Tuesday following a city-based writer's suit claiming that the work was a copy of one of her short stories, `Drawing Parallels' from her book, `Life, Odds & Ends'.


World
1.  Japan disaster minister resigns over quake gaffe :  Japan's gaffe-prone disaster reconstruction minister resigned Wednesday after remarking it was lucky the catastrophic 2011 earthquake-tsunami had hit a largely rural region rather than Tokyo.
2.  Pro-independence activists arrested in Hong Kong :  Two Hong Kong independence activists who were barred from taking up their seats as lawmakers last year were arrested Wednesday and charged over chaos at the city's parliament, their office said.
3.  China launches first domestically-built aircraft carrier :  China has launched its first aircraft carrier built entirely on its own, in a demonstration of the growing technical sophistication of its defense industries and determination to safeguard its maritime territorial claims and crucial trade routes.
4.  US sets up missile defence in South Korea as North shows power :  In a defiant bit of timing, South Korea announced on Wednesday that key parts of a contentious US missile defence system had been installed a day after rival North Korea showed off its military power.
5.  US judge blocks Trump order to restrict funding for 'sanctuary cities' :  A US judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities, dealing another legal blow to the administration's efforts to toughen immigration enforcement.
6.  North Korea holds drill to mark military anniversary :  South Korea's military said Tuesday that North Koreaheld major live-fire drills in an area around its eastern coastal town of Wonsan as it marked the anniversary of the founding of its military.
7.  Ivanka Trump defends father, brushes aside groans in Berlin :  Ivanka Trumpbrushed aside groans on Tuesday over her father's track record and defended his attitudes toward women as she made her first international outing as a White House adviser.
8.  14 killed in Taliban attack in Pakistan's tribal belt :  Taliban militants on Tuesday targeted a mini bus with a remote-controlled bomb in Pakistan's restive northwest tribal region, killing at least 14 people including four women and two children, a local official said, raising an earlier reported death toll of 10 killed.
9.  Japan's Abe to visit Russia for Putin meet :  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Russia this week for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin and Tokyo said today, as the two sides look to make headway on a decades-old territorial dispute.
10.  China's rare milu deer return in victory for conservation :  The newborn fawn walks unsteadily among the trees that were once part of the Chinese emperor's hunting grounds, where more than a century before its forebears died out in their native China.


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