- 1.India has recorded a trade deficit, the difference between imports and exports, with nine of its top 10 trading partners in 2023-24.
- 2.A voter turnout of 74.45 per cent was recorded in six LS seats and 42 Assembly constituencies where polling was held simultaneously in the state’s third round, an official said Sunday. Of the 94,48,553 voters, 74.45 per cent exercised their franchise Saturday across 10,581 booths.
- 3.Army Chief General Manoj Pande will continue to serve in the post till June 30 with the government Sunday extending his tenure by one month, in a rare and unusual move that came amid the Lok Sabha polls. General Pande was to retire from service May 31.
- 4. More than 670 people are assumed to have died in Papua New Guinea’s massive landslide, the international Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimated Sunday as rescue efforts continued.
- 5.A massive fire broke out at a private children’s hospital in east Delhi’s Vivek Vihar, leaving seven newborns dead, officials said Sunday.
- 6.The Met department has issued heavy rainfall warning for four districts of the state in the wake of Cyclone Remal approaching the coast. Under its impact, heavy rainfall of 7 to 11 cm has been predicted for Bhadrak, Balasore, Kendrapara and Mayurbhanj districts.
- 7.As many as 10,46,163 motor accident claims worth `80,455 crore are pending across the country, and their numbers have increased constantly between 2018-19 and 2022- 23, according to an information received through RTI Act.
- 8.The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Monday a plea filed by the BJP challenging a Calcutta High Court order that had refused to interfere with a single-judge verdict restraining the party from issuing advertisements that are allegedly ‘violative’ of the Model Code of Conduct during the Lok Sabha polls.
- 9.Parents of a 21-month-old male infant who was declared brain dead at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital (IMS & SUM) here showed magnanimity by donating the child’s organs to save two other live
- 10.Former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha Sunday expressed hope that upon return to power, the BJP-led NDA will make a fresh attempt at scrapping the “undemocratic” collegium system of appointment of judges in the higher judiciary.
- 11.Severe cyclonic storm ‘Remal’ has intensified and is expected to make landfall between the coasts of Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal around Sunday midnight, prompting the evacuation of over 1 lakh people from vulnerable areas of the state to safety.
- 12.Twenty per cent of cancer patients who called an NGO-run helpline to seek a second opinion were below 40 years of age, indicating a rise of cancer incidences amongst younger people, data from the organisation stated
- 13.Police in Pakistan’s Punjab province Sunday booked over 450 people and arrested 25 of them under terrorism and other charges for attacking members of the minority Christian community and police personnel on the issue of the alleged desecration of a religious book.
- 14.Severe cyclonic storm ‘Remal’ made landfall in Bangladesh Sunday night as authorities evacuated over 800,000 people from vulnerable areas of the country’s low-lying southwestern coastlines to shelter.
- 15.India’s GDP in the fourth quarter of financial year 2023-24 is expected to have grown within the range of 6.1-6.7 per cent, lower than over 8 per cent rate recorded in the previous three quarters, according to projections by various economists.
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