1. Malawi's vice president and nine others were killed in a plane crash, the country's president said Tuesday.
2. Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi will be the next Chief of the Army Staff succeeding incumbent Gen Manoj Pande, the government announced Tuesday.
3. Mohan Charan Majhi, as the 15th Chief Minister of Odisha.The Chief Minister's swearing-in ceremony will be held at the Janata Maidan here, Wednesday
4. BJP leader Pravati Parida, 57, who was chosen as one of the two deputy chief ministers, won the Assembly polls from Nimapara seat .
5. Deputy Chief Minister-designate Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, 67, who defeated BJD candidate Saroj Kumar Meher by a slender margin of 1,357 votes in the Assembly polls, comes from the erstwhile royal family of Patnagarh.
6. Two Indian nationals, who were recruited by the Russian Army, have recently been killed in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said, Tuesday.
7. Kewda flower plant, which is found in many coastal areas of the country, is considered a cash crop for farmers in Ganjam district.
8. Kolkatabased lawyer Santanu Sinha, who was served a legal notice for making false and defamatory allegations against BJP’s IT head Amit Malviya and the party’s West Bengal unit, Tuesday claimed that his statements were “misinterpreted”.
9. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to deploy 55 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel for the byeelections for four Assembly constituencies in West Bengal to be conducted July 10.
10. Women in Karnataka have availed themselves of 227 crore free rides in government non-luxury buses under the ‘Shakti’ guarantee in the last one year, costing the state exchequer `5,526.64 crore, Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy said Tuesday.
11. Extensive efforts to track down terrorists involved in the attack on pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district continued Tuesday, with 11 teams of security personnel working on the ground and a multi-directional cordon laid around the Ranso-Poni-Treyath belt, officials said.
12. Leaders of the Congress and other opposition parties Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should pay heed to the “advice” of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and visit Manipur which has seen violence for over a year now, a day after Bhagwat said the situation in the strife-torn state must be considered a priority.
13. Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M Appavu Tuesday advanced the Legislative Assembly session to June 20 from June 24 announced earlier.
14. Extending the Ayushman Bharat coverage to everyone aged above 70 years and the pan-India roll out of the U-WIN portal to digitise routine vaccinations are among the highlights of Narendra Modi’s new government’s 100-day agenda for the Union health ministry.
15. Indian universities and higher education institutions will now be allowed to offer admissions twice a year on lines of foreign universities with the University Grants Commission (UGC) giving a go ahead to the plan, UGC chief Jagadesh Kumar said.
16. The US has lifted a ban on providing American weapons and training to a controversial Ukrainian military unit that was key to the defense of the major port city of Mariupol, the State Department said Tuesday.
17. Hamas accepts a UN resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian militant group said Tuesday in what the US Secretary of State called “a hopeful sign”.
18. India will remain the fastest-growing major economy recording a steady growth of 6.7 per cent in the next three years including the current financial year, said a world bank report released Tuesday.
19. The micro loans portfolio of various lenders grew by 27 per cent year-on-year for the March 2024 quarter, a report said Tuesday.
20. India will host next year’s men's Junior Hockey World Cup (WC), marking the event’s return to the country after nine years, the executive board of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) announced here Tuesday. |
