The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) announced on 15 May that the monsoon for this year has been delayed by seven days. In a release on 15 May, the IMD said: "Forecast suggests that monsoon onset over Kerala this year is likely to be slightly delayed. The Southwest monsoon is likely to set over Kerala on June 7 with a model error of plus or minus four days".

On 14 May, the IMD said the south-west monsoon will hit the Odisha coast by 8 June, while Rajasthan is likely to welcome the monsoon by 20 June. IMD Director General Laxman Singh Rathore said the delay in the monsoon onset was not an "unusual" phenomenon.

The Election Commission of India has decided to defer the polls in the Tamil Nadu's Aravakurichi Assembly constituency, in Karur district, following widespread seizure of cash and complaints of voters being bribed.

Voting in Aravakurichi has now been moved to 23 May. The assembly constituency was set to vote for the Assembly elections with the rest of Tamil Nadu - Kerala and Puducherry - on 16 May.

In a tragic accident, 15 people were killed and three injured after a tipper truck rammed into an auto-rickshaw in Adilabad district of Telangana late on 15 May. The accident occurred at Bagam village in Bhainsa Mandal in which 13 people were killed on the spot and two passed away on the way to the hospital. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao expressed his sympathies and condolences over the death of human lives in the road accident and he instructed the officials to make arrangements for better treatment to the injured.

Voting for civil by-polls in thirteen wards across three Municipal Corporations of Delhi (MCD) areas kicked off on 15 May. While nine wards have remained unrepresented since December 2013, the rest are lying vacant since February 2015. Nine of these 13 former councilors are now AAP legislators and the other four became legislators on BJP tickets in 2013, but lost in 2015. Seven wards in South Delhi Municipal Corporation, four in North Delhi Municipal Corporation and two in East Delhi Municipal Corporation will go to polls on 15 May. The polls would witness a three way contest between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. The results of the by-polls would be declared on 17 May.

Bharat Togadia, the cousin brother of VHP leader Praveen Togadia and three others were stabbed to death on 14 May by unidentified men, in Surat's Varachha area. According to reports, four people were attacked, of which three succumbed to their injuries and the condition of the fourth person is said to be critical.

The Wrestling Federation of India on 14 May sought intervention of the Sports Ministry in sorting out the row over India's representation in the 74-kg men's wrestling at the Rio Olympics. The WFI has found itself in an unwanted territory after picking Narsingh over Sushil, who clinched bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and silver winner at London Games four year later, in the list of probables sent to the Indian Olympic Association. With the issue now threatening to snowball into a massive furore, the WFI is likely to meet next week to break the deadlock.

Former chief of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), RK Pachauri, has been summoned as accused by a Delhi court in a sexual harassment case. The court took cognisance of a chargesheet filed against him for allegedly sexually harassing and outraging the modesty of an ex-colleague. The court said there were sufficient materials to proceed against Pachauri under section 354 A, 354 B, 354 D, 509 and 341 and so it dropped section 506 of the Indian Penal Code. The court fixed July 11 as the date to supply copy of chargesheet to the accused.

The Islamic State believes that it may soon come under siege in its self declared capital in Raqqa, Syria and the US military officials are closely monitoring the developments.

"We have seen this declaration of emergency in Raqqa, whatever that means. We know this enemy feels threatened, as they should," US-led anti-Islamic State coalition spokesperson Col Steve Warren said. While the US has not officially said that it believes IS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi still remains in or around Raqqa, several officials say that has continued to be a working assumption, however, they are monitoring any potential intelligence that he could be in other locations as well.