Current Affairs 2021: Today’s News Headlines: May 3, 2021

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for May 3, 2021:

Assembly elections

• West Bengal: Ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) wins two-thirds majority; CM Mamata Banerjee loses to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram
• Tamil Nadu: Opposition DMK secures convincing victory over ruling AIADMK
• Assam: Ruling BJP-led “Mitrajot” defeats Congress-led “Mahajot” by a huge margin
• Kerala: Ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) wins comfortably
• Puducherry: N.R. Congress-BJP alliance wins simple majority

Lok sabha byelections

• Karnataka: BJP’s Mangala Angadi wins from Belgaum
• Andhra Pradesh: Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party’s M. Gurumoorthy wins from Tirupati
• Kerala: Indian Union Muslim League’s (IUML) M.P. Abdussamad Samadani wins from Malappuram
• Tamil Nadu: Vijayakumar of Congress wins from Kanniyakumari

India

• Covid-19: India receives assistance from Taiwan, including oxygen concentrators and cylinders
• Renowned sitar player Debu Chaudhuri dies in New Delhi

Economy & corporate

• Vehicle ownership transfer: owner can put the name of the nominee at the time of registration of the vehicles

World

• External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to embark on 4-day visit UK from May 4 to attend meeting of foreign ministers of G7 countries
• World Tuna Day observed on May 2
• SpaceX safely returns four astronauts from the International Space Station in its Dragon capsule spacecraft
• Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis dies at 89 in US

Sports

• Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins Formula One Portuguese Grand Prix at Algarve circuit
• Football: Ajax Amsterdam wins 35th Eredivisie crown in Netherlands
• Football: Inter Milan clinches Serie A title in Italy
• 1982 Asian Games Equestrian gold medallist Colonel Gulam Mohammad Khan (retired) dies at 74
• Veteran football administrator and Hindustan FC owner Dilip Kumar Bose dies
• Kishan Rungta, former BCCI chief selector, dies of Covid-19 in Jaipur at 88

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021