1.India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3 per cent over a decade from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to USD 3 per day

2.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Saturday inaugurated a 100-seat government medical college and a 650-bed hospital at Phulbani, the district headquarters of Kandhamal.

3.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for 10 development projects worth Rs 750 crore in Kandhamal.

4.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Odisha June 20 and attend a mega celebration for the fi rst anniversary of the BJP's maiden government in the state.

5.The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has conferred the prestigious Sasakawa Award on Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, the Director General (DG) of the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

6.The Odisha government Saturday announced that the beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) would be provided up to two tractor-loads of sand for free of cost for construction of house under the scheme.

7.TP Central Odisha Distribution Limited (TPCODL), a joint venture of Tata Power and Government of Odisha, has stepped up its campaign to accelerate solar rooftop installations across Central Odisha under the PM Surya Ghar - Muft Bijli Yojana (PMSGMBY).

8.Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others are set to embark on the Axiom Space’s fourth human spacefl ight from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida June 10 and are likely to dock at the International Space Station June 11 at about 10 PM IST, after a nearly 28-hour journey.

9. Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was Saturday taken to Indira Gandhi Medical College Hospital in Shimla after she complained of high blood pressure, a party offcial said.

10.Nearly 86.5 lakh deaths were reported in the country during 2022, a significant decline of more than 15 per cent from Covid-affected 2021 which had recorded over 1.02 crore deaths, according to a new data from the Civil Registration System (CRS).

11.Russian attacks targeting the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv killed at least four people and wounded more than two dozen others Saturday, offi cials said, as hopes for peace dimmed further

12.US President Donald Trump said Friday that he has no plans to speak with Elon Musk, signaling the president and his former ally might not resolve their feud over a sweeping taxcut bill any time soon.

13.China Saturday approved some export license applications for rare earth-related metals -- critical components used in manufacturing of automobiles, semiconductors, mobile phones and a host of other industries.

14.China Saturday came to a standstill as millions of anxious parents crowded around exam centres all over the country as 13.35 million students wrote a highly competitive national entrance exam for admission to Chinese universities.

15.Tesla is the worst-performing largecap stock this year, thanks to declining electric vehicle demand, Chief Executive Elon Musk's political controversies over his ties to far-right groups, and now, his public feud with President Donald Trump.