1.   Budging to the nationwide outrage over alleged irregularities in the NEET-UG, 2024, the Centre Thursday told the Supreme Court that it has cancelled the grace marks awarded to 1,563 candidates who took the undergraduate medical entrance test this year. These students will be given an option to either take a retest June 23 or forgo the compensatory marks given for loss of time.

2. Eighttime MLA Ranendra Pratap Swain was Thursday appointed as the pro-tem Speaker of Assembly ahead of the regular Speaker election June 20, official sources said.

3.  Spymaster Ajit Doval and seasoned bureaucrat PK Mishra were Thursday re-appointed to the post of National Security Adviser (NSA) and Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, respectively, for a fresh five-year term.

4. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has started operating from the State Guest House on a temporary basis from Thursday.  

5. All the four gates of Srimandir in Puri were reopened for devotees in the presence of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and his council of ministers Thursday morning.

6. KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, has been placed among the top six most impactful universities globally and ranked first in India in terms of the Sustainable Development Goal of ‘Reduced Inequalities’ in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2024.

7. The School Education Department of Jammu and Kashmir has directed all schools in the Union Territory to start the morning assembly with the national anthem.

8.  A court here Thursday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against former Chief Minister and senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa in a POCSO case.

9.  Activist Manoj Jarange Thursday suspended his indefinite fast over the Maratha quota six days after launching it and set a deadline of one month before the Maharashtra government to accept the community’s demands.

10.  Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang’s wife Krishna Kumari Rai Thursday quit as an MLA, a day after taking oath.

11. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra Thursday filed nomination papers as the NCP candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, days after she lost the Lok Sabha polls from Baramati.

12. Billionaire Gautam Adani-led Adani Group Thursday said it will acquire Hyderabad-based Penna Cement at an enterprise value of `10,422 crore, which will add 14 million tonne of annual capacity to the country’s second largest cement manufacturer.

13. During his day-long visit, PM Modi will be participating in a summit session entitled Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Africa-Mediterranean to be hosted by Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and joined by Pope Francis.

14.Three independent MLAs who resigned from the Vidhan Sabha and joined the BJP after voting in its favour in the Rajya Sabha elections earlier this year have been fielded from their respective assembly constituencies in the bypoll for these seats.

15. India skipper Rohit Sharma admitted Wednesday it wasn’t easy playing on a two-paced newly-laid drop-in pitch at Nassau County ground here. He said the team had to stick through till the end to notch up wins in each of their three matches in the ongoing T20 World Cup. India recorded.