Breaking Highlights, Top Alerts of May 31
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Twitter is buzzing with breaking news and news alerts from India and rest of the world. Here is the coverage of all breaking alerts and latest updates from the micro-blogging site on one page:
Breaking News of May 31:
11:53 pm: Canada hits US with Can$16.6 billion in retaliatory tariffs in steel row (AFP)
11:40 pm: U.S. withdrawal may halt nuclear nonproliferation work in Iran: diplomats (Reuters)
11:34 pm: Italy prime minister-designate Cottarelli gives up mandate to form technocrat government, paving way for 5-Star/ League coalition (Reuters)
11:23 pm: French President Macron says US tariffs decision is a mistake and illegal (Reuters)
11:10 pm: Maharashtra: A fire broke out inside a residential building in Thane's Tembhi Naka. 4 fire tenders present at the spot (ANI)
10:49 pm: Mahindra and Mahindra signed two Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with the Government of Maharashtra to further promote electric vehicles for shared mobility space in the state. CM Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan were also present on the occasion (ANI)
10:35 pm: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says, 'talks with North Korea envoy in New York were substantive', reports AFP
10:16 pm: Assam Police gets Special Jury Award for its initiative Smart Protection Unit at FICCI Smart Policing Awards in Delhi. The award was received by ADGP Harmeet Singh (ANI)
09:56 pm: Delhi: Metro services on Blue Line have been put on hold temporarily between Dwarka Sec-21 to Janakpuri West since 9:10 pm today, due to agitating staff assembling in Dwarka. However, services from Janakpuri West to Noida/Vaishali are running normally (ANI)
09:47 pm: Delhi: A 16-year-old girl from Jharkhand, who was being forced to work as a domestic help, got rescued today by Delhi Commission for Women, Delhi Police and ADM in Kingsway Camp. A case has been registered against the owner of the house (ANI)
09:30 pm: Goa Police Traffic Sentinel Scheme gets Special Jury Award of FICCI Smart Policing Awards in Delhi. The award was given by Union Minister Vijay Goel (ANI)
09:21 pm: Andhra Pradesh govt has announced to implement the Unemployment scheme for the unemployment youth. It is first of its kind. I feel this will be successful here. It is going to be a flagship scheme. It will cover close to 10 lakh unemployed youth: Nara Lokesh, AP IT minister (ANI)
09:03 pm: Bihar: Sitamarhi district welfare officer Shubh Narayan Dutt shot dead in Dumra's Kailash Puri (ANI)
08:43 pm: ED files money laundering case against Air Asia, its executives and others
08:39 pm: BJP MLA from Badaun's Bisauli, Kushagra Sagar, accused of rape matter: Victim appeared before Circle Officer and said she be granted 5 days before recording her statement as 'she doesn't want to do that under stress', also said there is no threat to her life. Investigation underway (ANI)
08:32 pm: Shares of Canadian steel producer Stelco Holdings hit four-week low, down 2 percent after U.S. imposes metals tariffs on EU, Canada and Mexico (Reuters)
08:29 pm: Tamil Nadu: Unidentified miscreants pelted stones at windows of St Stephen's Church in Coimbatore, breaking its window panes. Complaint registered, investigation underway. Member of Church says 'Such incidents had been occurring since last few months, we had also complained it' (ANI)
08:16 pm: We did fight an election against them. We (BJP and Shiv Sena) are two parties but we have the same ideology. We have an alliance with them and you can have some differences with your partners but that doesn’t mean we are quitting the alliance: Hansraj Ahir, MoS Home Affairs (ANI)
08:10 pm: Instead of all the time criticizing the decisions of the government Shiv Sena should simply break the alliance if they are really so unhappy. Why are they still supporting BJP if they’re so unhappy with their decisions?: Ashok Chavan, Congress (ANI)
08:05 pm: If Uddhav Thackeray has even a little self respect left in him, he should get out of the alliance. You want to stay in power also, and you want to show support to opposition also. What exactly is their intention?: Ashok Chavan, Congress (ANI)
08:02 pm: ED adjudication order in IPL related cases: The penalty imposed is- BCCI Rs 82.66 Crore, N. Srinivasan Rs 11.53 Crore, Lalit Modi Rs 10.65 Crore, M.P. Pandove Rs 9.72 Crore, State Bank of Travancore-7 Crore (ANI)
08:00 pm: We didn't expect to lose Palghar seat. If the united opposition had fought together, BJP could have been defeated. If Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi and CPI(M) come with us in the future, we can win Palghar also: Ashok Chavan, Congress (ANI)
07:53 pm: EU chief Juncker says US tariffs on the bloc's steel and aluminum are "protectionism, pure and simple." (AP)
07:51 pm: EU chief Juncker says US tariffs decision leaves the bloc with "no choice" but to impose counter-measures (AP)
07:49 pm: Mexico answers US tariffs with its own on products including pork bellies, grapes, apples and flat steel (AP)
07:47 pm: A misleading news item has appeared alleging kickbacks to Indian govt officials through Global Marketing SP Ltd in contract for spares for AN-32 Aircraft. It's informed that MoD or IAF has neither interacted or signed any agreement with them nor any such agreements witnessed: MoD (ANI)