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1.Asha Bhosle, the legend Hindi playback singing, died in a Mumbai hospital Sunday. She was 92.
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2.US and Iran failed to reach an agreement to end their war despite marathon talks that concluded Sunday in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, jeopardising a fragile ceasefire.
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3.Around 800 schools will be developed as model educational institutes under the PM SHRI scheme, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said.
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4.A total of 159 candidates, appearing for the Jharkhand Excise Constable Competitive Examination (JECCE) 2023, and five others, were arrested Sunday over allegations of paper leak, a senior official said.
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5.Experts at a recent policy seminar here called for a focused aluminium-led industrial strategy to drive Odisha’s next phase of economic growth, highlighting the state’s vast bauxite reserves and strong potential for downstream value addition.
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6.A female elephant was found dead in the Hindol forest range of Dhenkanal district Sunday, officials said.
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7.Indian Army organised a cultural and musical event for residents of Tithwal town along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said Sunday.
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8.More than 4,100 manuscripts have been reported from eight districts in Chhattisgarh so far under the Centre’s Gyan Bharatam National Manuscript Survey, officials said Saturday.
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9.The annual pilgrimage to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir will commence July 3 and conclude after 57 days August 28, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said Sunday.
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10.Indian Army's Trishakti Corps has launched Sikkim's first border village community radio station to improve connectivity in remote areas, officials said. The Radio ‘Sikkim Sundari’ aims to boost communication and information access in remote high-altitude border areas.
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11.China and Iran have weaponised the global economy to corner the US by squeezing global supply chains, leveraging commercial links to make strategic gains, according to a report in The Washington Post.
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12.India's coal import dropped 8.5 per cent to 16.55 million tonnes in February on record stockpile of domestic coal and firmness in seaborne prices.
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13.Our patent fi lings soared to a historic 1.43 lakh+ in FY 2025-26, marking a 30.2 per cent increase over last year. With over 69 per cent of patents filed domestically, led by innovators from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Maharashtra, we are showing the world that Made in India is powered by Invented in India.
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14.India signed off their campaign with two silver and a bronze medal to take their overall tally to 17 medals, including two gold, in the 2026 Asian Wrestling Championships in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Sunday.
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15.Long-distance runner Sawan Barwal Sunday scripted history by breaking the 48-yearold marathon national record, the longest standing mark in Indian athletics, at the NN Marathon Rotterdam.