Portal:Current events/2014 May 3

• Indian police arrest 29 people after National Democratic Front of Bodoland separatists kill 29 Muslims and burn down homes. (AP via ABC News America)
• The Armed Forces of Ukraine resume an offensive near Kramatorsk, as military observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe are released after having been held hostage for a week. (Fox News)
• Twin explosions are reported in the city of Mombasa, Kenya, with at least three people killed and several injured. (BBC News)

• The 61st National Film Awards are presented by the President of India to honour the best films of 2013 in Indian cinema.
  • Gulzar receives Dadasaheb Phalke Award while Ship of Theseus wins the Best Feature Film award. (Variety)

• The death toll from the mudslides in Afghanistan rises to 2,100, with 4,000 people displaced. (ABC)

• The first U.S. case of MERS is reported in Munster, Indiana, in a person who travelled to Saudi Arabia. (CNN)

• A gunman shoots and kills three people and wounds four others in Jonesboro, Arkansas, U.S., and then dies. (ABC News)
• Murder of Jean McConville and Arrest of Gerry Adams:
  • A mural of Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams is painted on a wall on the Falls Road, Belfast, as police are granted a further 48 hours to question him about the murder of Jean McConville. (BBC News)

• In American horse racing, California Chrome ridden by Victor Espinoza wins the 2014 Kentucky Derby. (Sports Illustrated Fan Sided)