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11:32 PM

Contaminated cider kills 16 in Russia

At least 16 people died and dozens fell ill from drinking contaminated cider in the western Russian region of Ulyanovsk, its governor said on Monday.

"Sixteen people died" from drinking adulterated cider, governor Alexei Russkikh said. Another 35 became ill, he said, and 19 of them were hospitalised in clinics across the region.

11:32 PM

Ukraine claims advances as Russia says offensive repelled, reports AFP

Ukraine said Monday that its troops were advancing around Bakhmut while playing down the importance of its "offensive actions", after Russia said it had repelled a large-scale attack. The contrasting claims came as Pope Francis's peace envoy, Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, arrived in Kyiv for two days of talks.

8:49 PM

Election Commission officials to visit poll-bound Rajasthan on June 15, reports PTI

The Election Commission has started preparing for a fresh set of assembly polls before the end of this year with its senior officials visiting poll-bound states to take stock of election preparedness. According to sources, officials of the level of deputy election commissioner will visit Rajasthan on June 15 and 16. Officials from the poll panel have already visited Mizoram, they said.

 

7:25 PM

Odisha train tragedy: King Charles III sends message of condolence

Britain's King Charles III on Monday sent a condolence message to President Droupadi Murmu, expressing his profound shock and sadness over the deadly train accident in Balasore, recalling his fond memories of a visit to Odisha 43 years ago. The accident, involving three trains, is one of the worst in the country and took place in Odisha's Balasore district on Friday night which has claimed an estimated 275 lives and left over 1,200 people injured.

6:13 PM

NSA Doval, Lloyd Austin hold talks in Delhi, discuss Indo-Pacific

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval met each other in New Delhi on Monday and discussed Indo-Pacific, and cooperation in specific niche technologies in maritime, military and aerospace domains. According to government officials, the two leaders also spoke on the greater transfer of technology, co-production and building indigenous capacities in line with India's Make in India and Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiatives.

5:08 PM

Centre aims at covering refractories in PLI 2.0 to support steel industry

The Centre is looking to include refractories in the upcoming Production Linked Incentive Scheme 2.0 for steel as it aims at doubling the country's production capacity for the metal to 300 million tonne by 2030, an official said. Refractories are a critical input for steel production, and India depends on the import of the raw material.

 

4:21 PM

Cabinet expansion soon, timeline to be decided by CM Shinde: Fadnavis

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said the state cabinet will be expanded soon and the timeline will be decided by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. He also said Shiv Sena, led by Shinde, and BJP will fight all elections together, which was discussed during their meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi.

3:34 PM

Odisha train accident: NDRF ends rescue operation, withdraws all 9 teams

The National Disaster Response Force on Monday ended its rescue operation with the withdrawal of all its nine teams from the triple train accident site in Odisha's Balasore district that has claimed at least 275 lives, officials said. The force rescued 44 victims and retrieved 121 bodies from the spot since the teams were deployed after the accident on June 2, they said.

2:58 PM

Sakshi Malik denies reports of backing out of Wrestlers' protest, says won't back down

Wrestler Sakshi Malik took to Twitter to deny media reports of withdrawing from protest.

2:32 PM

Delhi HC denies bail to Manish Sisodia, allows him to meet wife

Delhi High Court on Monday denied interim interim bail to Manish Sisodia but allowed him to meet his wife between 10am and 5pm. The court said that Sisodia cannot interact with media and Delhi Police must ensure there is no media gathering, the Bar & Bench reported.

2:07 PM

India-US partnership cornerstone of free, open Indo-Pacific says US Secretary of Defence Lloyd J Austin III

1:48 PM

India can reduce pollution by 40% by not using fossil fuels: Gadkari

India can reduce its pollution by over 40 per cent by not using fossil fuels like petrol and diesel, while the country imports crude oil worth Rs 16 lakh crore every year, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said. "We can reduce 40 per cent pollution by not using fossil fuels like petrol and diesel," Gadkari said addressing Green Urja Conclave organised by Confederation of Renewable Energy Service Professionals and Industries (CRESPAI) in association with IIT-Delhi, IIT-Ropar and University of Delhi.

 

1:20 PM

151 bodies have been identified in Odisha train tragedy so far

1:06 PM

INS Satpura arrives at Makassar, Indonesia to participate in 4th Edition of Multilateral Naval Exercise

12:22 PM

Poor, developing countries paying price for 'wrong policies' of some developed nations: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the poor and developing countries are paying the price for the "wrong policies" of some developed nations and stressed that India has been strongly raising the issue of climate justice with all such advanced and big countries. In his video message at a World Environment Day event here, Modi said that for the protection of the world climate it is important that all countries think, rising above selfish interests.

"For a long time, the model of development in big and advanced countries was contradictory. In this developmental model, the thinking was that we first develop our country then we can think about the environment," the prime minister said.

11:51 AM

2 CRPF personnel injured in pressure IED blast planted by Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur

11:49 AM

NIRF rankings 2023: NIPER, Hyderabad scores top spot in Pharmacy category

NIPER, Hyderabad scores top spot in Pharmacy category, followed by Jamia Hamdard and BITS Pilani in NIRF rankings of 2023. 

11:44 AM

IISC, JNU, Jamia Millia Islamia are top 3 institution in universities category of NIRF Rankings 2023

IISC, JNU, Jamia Millia Islamia are the top 3 institution in the universities category of the NIRF Rankings 2023.

 

11:06 AM

Bridge that collapsed yesterday had collapsed last year also: Nitish Kumar promises strict action

10:56 AM

Over 30 held as security guards, students clash inside university in Greater Noida

More than 30 private security guards and students were taken into police custody after a clash broke out between them at the state-run Gautam Buddha University in Greater Noida, officials said on Monday. The clash was triggered after security guards allegedly objected to some students smoking cigarettes at the Munshi Premchand Hostel inside the university campus, a police spokesperson told PTI.

10:54 AM

US releases video showing close-call in Taiwan Strait with Chinese destroyer

The United States military released video Monday of what it called an unsafe Chinese maneuver in the Taiwan Strait on the weekend, in which a Chinese navy ship cut sharply across the path of an American destroyer, forcing the US ship to slow to avoid a collision. The incident occurred Saturday as the American destroyer USS Chung-Hoon and Canadian frigate HMCS Montreal were conducting a so-called freedom of navigation transit of the strait between Taiwan and mainland China.

10:21 AM

Lloyd Austin inspects Tri-Service Guard of Honour in the presence of Defence Minister

10:11 AM

India logs 174 new Covid-19 cases, active infections decrease to 3,193

India logged 174 new coronavirus cases, pushing the tally to 4.49 crore, while the active cases decreased to 3,193, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday.

The death toll rose to 5,31,882 with two more fatalities, which includes one reconciled by Kerala, data updated at 8 am by the ministry stated.

The active cases comprise 0.01 per cent of the total infections.

9:47 AM

World Environment Day: Tripura CM Manik Saha attends tree plantation event, 'Safai Abhiyan'

9:06 AM

Protesting wrestlers meet Amit Shah late on Saturday, demand early chargesheet

Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat who have been leading the protest against against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, met Union home minister Amit Shah on late Saturday night, according to media reports. The meeting at Amit Shah's residence went on till midnight where the protesters pressed for an early chargesheet against Brij Bhushan. 

9:02 AM

19 killed in southwest China landslide covering mine worker dormitory

A landslide tore through a mining company's worker dormitory early Sunday morning in southwestern China, killing 19 people, authorities said.

8:41 AM

No survivors found after plane that led to fighter jet scramble crashes in Virginia

A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation's capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia, officials said. The fighter jet caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the capital region. Hours later, police said rescuers had reached the site of the plane crash in a rural part of the Shenandoah Valley and that no survivors were found.

The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethtown, Tennessee, on Sunday and was headed for Long Island's MacArthur Airport. Inexplicably, the plane turned around over New York's Long Island and flew a straight path down over D.C. before it crashed over mountainous terrain near Montebello, Virginia, around 3:30 p.m.

8:36 AM

BSF personnel shoot down Pakistani drone carrying narcotics across Wagah-Attari border

Border Security Force (BSF) personnel shot down a Pakistani drone carrying narcotics across the Attari-Wagah border, officials said on Monday. According to officials, the Pakistani drone, which violated Indian airspace, was intercepted and shot down by alert BSF personnel in Amritsar.
"The gross weight of the recovered consignment of suspected narcotics is approximately 3.2 kg," the officials said in a statement.

 

8:35 AM

80 Afghan girls hospitalised after being poisoned at schools: Report

An education official in Afghanistan said almost 80 girls were hospitalised after being poisoned at schools. According to reports, the incidents happened over Saturday and Sunday in the province of Sar-e-Pul in the north. Mohammad Rahmani, the director of the provincial department of education, said the poisoning had occurred in the Sangcharak district among female pupils in grades 1 through 6. He said that 60 children at Naswan-e-Kabod Aab School and 17 more at Naswan-e-Faizabad School had been poisoned, Fox News reported.

"Both primary schools are near to each other and were targeted one after the other," he said, adding, "We shifted the students to the hospital and now they are all fine."