- Ram Nath Kovind became the second president of India to visit Indian Army’s Siachen base camp.
- NITI Aayog will announce the top 30 innovations of Atal Tinkering Marathon in Delhi.
- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari stated that government has approved green licence plates bearing numbers in white fonts for private e-vehicles (electronic vehicles).
- Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu inaugurated the 6th USIndia Aviation Summit.
- Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has stated that India’s installed clean energy capacity has already touched 70 GW as per data compiled on March 31, 2018.
- Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu inaugurated Arunachal Pradesh’s biggest solar power plant at Energy Awareness Park in Itanagar.
- Pawan Kalyan, actor and Jana Sena Party founder, unfurled the flag, claimed to be the world’s largest Indian national flag at Hyderabad, Telangana.
- MoU was signed between Gujarat government and the Poland government regarding the centenary celebrations to mark independence of Poland in Delhi and other regions of the world.
- SCO Tourism Ministers’ conference was held in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
- Indian Government has sent 2nd relief consignment for Rohingyas (who fled Myanmar)
- residing in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
- Airports Authority of India (AAI) signed a Rs 945-crore deal with the Harris Corporation of the US for development of its futuristic telecommunications infrastructure (FTI) programme.
- The Indian tea industry reached the highest ever production of 1,325.05 million kg and export of 256.57 million kg during the financial year 2017- 18.
- 92-year-old Mahathir Mohamad will become world’s oldest elected leader after he will be sworn in as Malaysia’s Prime Minister following a fiercely contested 14 General election.
- Alibaba announced that, it has bought Pakistani e-commerce firm Daraz.
- Yahoo Squirrel Group Chat App Unveiled for Android and iOS
- Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad launched the website of Digital India Internship Scheme in New Delhi.
- Astronomers have discovered an unusual, first of its kind, carbon-rich asteroid in the Kuiper Belt. This object has been designated 2004 EW95.
- Former Madhya Pradesh minister and senior Congress leader Dr Nirmal Hirawat died of a heart attack on May 9, 2018 at his residence in Katangi town in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh.