Geetanjali Shree
News Digest

News Digest: May 23-29, 2022

Round-up
of Top 10 Important News Events

May 23

• Vinai Kumar Saxena appointed Delhi’s new Lieutenant Governor.

May 25

• Kashmiri TV artist Ambreen Bhat shot dead by terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir’s Budgam, a day after terrorists shot dead a police constable in Srinagar.

• Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik sentenced to life imprisonment in terror funding case.

May 26

• Supreme Court directs all police forces to treat sex workers with dignity and not to abuse them.

May 27

• Bollywood Star Shahrukh Khan’s son Aryan and five others given clean chit by NCB in drugs-on-cruise case.

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• Geetanjali Shree wins the International Booker Prize for her novel, Tomb of Sand, originally written in Hindi.

• Seven soldiers killed as vehicle carrying them falls into gorge near Shyok river in Ladakh.

May 28

• Filmmaker Shaunak Sen’s documentary ‘All That Breaths’ wins the L’Oeil d’or (The Golden Eye Award) at Cannes Film Festival.

• DGCA imposes Rs. Five lakh fine on IndiGo for denying boarding to specially abled child at Ranchi airport.

May 29

• Popular Punjabi singer-rapper and Congress leader Sidhu Moose Wala shot dead while travelling in Mansa district of the State.

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