Breaking Highlights, Top Alerts of May 21

11:51 am: 

11:45 am: All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha writes to HD Kumaraswamy, demanding Shamanuru Shivashankarappa (Congress), a Veerashaiva leader be made the Home Minister in the new govt and five other leaders from the community be made ministers in the cabinet (ANI)

11:32 am: Ryanair Airline annual net profits up 10 percent despite flight cancellations crisis (AFP)

11:23 am: Karnataka: Congress leader DK Shivakumar says, 'Time will answer. I don't want to answer it now. We have various issues, options before us, I can't tell right now', when asked if Congress-JD(S) government will complete full term (ANI)

11:20 am: Karnataka: Congress leader DK Shivakumar says, 'Rahul Gandhi has taken decision that there should be secular govt here. That's what the entire country needs and that's why we have taken this stand (alliance with JDS). I had to swallow all this bitterness, this is my duty'

11:14 am: Malaysia prime minister's office has set up a special investigative taskforce to look into state fund 1MDB (Reuters)

11:08 am: Criminal Investigation Department (CID) files FIR against Russell Aziz, son of CPI-M MP Mohammad Selim, for circulating fake news on social media about death of a Presiding officer inside a polling station, to create panic on the day of West Bengal Panchayat elections (14 May) (ANI)

11:03 am: Any comment on wanting peace will definitely be taken seriously: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on if India will take Pakistan Army chief general Qamar Javed Bajwa 'peace' comment seriously (ANI)

10:53 am: Jammu and Kashmir: One policeman injured in ceasefire violation by Pakistan in RS Pura sector of Jammu, the policeman got injured after mortar shells hit a police station (ANI)

10:50 am: Street vendor filed complaint against BJP MP Kirit Somaiya in Mumbai, said, 'he (Kirit Somaiya) came at 8 pm and asked us to vacate the place. He came again, we told him we are vacating but he pushed us.A lady was buying vegetables, he threw her bag, also made us pay fine of Rs 1250' (ANI)

10:45 am: Nagaland: Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC)'s campaign of a 'Cleaner, Greener and a Healthy Dimapur with Community Participation' continues,

the latest initiative includes the transformation of areas around garbage dumping grounds into clean and environmentally friendly spaces (ANI)

10:42 am: West Bengal panchayat elections: Counting of votes underway at Rajganj BDO office in Jalpaiguri's Rajganj (ANI)

10:31 am:  I have invited Rajinikanth to come here and look at the condition of our reservoirs, water is not sufficient. I am sure he will understand: HD Kumaraswamy, CM-designate on Rajinikanth asking new Karnataka Govt to release Tamil Nadu's share of Cauvery river water (ANI)

10:27 am: Naxalism is a challenge but I want to say that this menace is now shrinking and is losing ground. The casualties in Security Forces has declined: Home Minister Rajnath Singh at Passing Out Parade of 261 Bastariya Battalion in Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh

10:07 am: Bombay Lawyers association has filed a review plea in Judge BH Loya Case in Supreme Court. The court had rejected their petition for reinvestigation in the case last month (ANI)

09:45 am: Karnataka Chief Minister-designate HD Kumaraswamy offered prayers at Lakshmi Narasimha Temple in Hassan

09:33 am: Woman allegedly gangraped by four people in a moving car near Hazara Canal in Etah's Pilua. All four accused on the run. Case registered. Police begin investigation (ANI)

09:26 am: CBI has booked Unnao BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is in custody on charges of rape, in a case of criminal conspiracy for allegedly falsely implicating rape victim's father in a case (ANI)

09:18 am: Sensex opens 52.17 points higher at 34,900.47; Nifty jumps to 10,616.70