1. India posts the biggest ever total in the history of women’s Test cricket by scoring a mammoth 603 for six against South Africa.

2.Virat Kohli, one of the greatest cricketers to play the game, quit T20 Internationals Saturday shortly after helping his team beat South Africa in the World Cup final.

3. Five soldiers, including a junior commissioned officer (JCO), were killed during an exercise early Saturday as their tank was swept away following flash floods in the Shyok river near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, officials said.

4.According to official sources, the government has decided to rename much-publicised Location Accessible Multi-modal Initiative (LAccMI). It will now be known ‘Mukhyamantri Bus Seva’, informed Transport, Mines and Steel Minister Bibhuti Bhusan Jena.

 5.Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram Saturday suggested for a detailed mapping of schools across the state for disadvantaged groups and communities.

6.The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) will resume grievance hearing from July 1. The grievance hearing exercise will be carried out every Monday between 11am and 1:30pm.

7.Primary school teachers were caught off guard after the Block Education Officer (BEO) of Mohana block in Gajapati district warned of stopping one month’s salary if they are caught riding their scooters and bikes to schools sans helmets.

8. Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde Saturday announced that the state government will soon launch a special pilgrimage scheme for senior citizens.

9.NCP(SP) President, Sharad Pawar, alleged Saturday that the Maharashtra Budget 2024-2025 – presented by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in the legislature June 28 – had leaked in advance, and the proposals were made with an eye on the forthcoming Assembly elections.

10.Congress leader Jairam Ramesh Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a news report that the Adani Group has “selected eight Chinese companies to help” its solar manufacturing project and called for a strategy “to wean India of its dependence on China”.

11.More than 13,000 pilgrims visited the holy cave shrine of Amarnath Saturday, the first day of the annual pilgrimage in the south Kashmir Himalayas that is being conducted amid tight security.

12.Ravi Agrawal, a 1988-batch IRS officer, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the administrative body for the Income Tax Department.

13. The CBI conducted a search operation Saturday covering 33 locations in Maharashtra after registering multiple FIRs against 14 officials of two Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) centres in Mumbai for large-scale “collusive corruption”, officials said.

14.The Biden administration has sent to Israel large numbers of munitions, including more than 10,000 highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs and thousands of Hellfire missiles, since the start of the war in Gaza, said two US officials briefed on an updated list of weapons shipments.

 15.Governmentowned power giant NTPC said Saturday that its board has cleared a proposal to raise up to `12,000 crore through the issuance of bonds and nonconvertible debentures (NCDs).