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Delhi reeled under hot weather conditions on Monday with the maximum temperature settling at 41.2 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season's average, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The city recorded a minimum temperature of 28.8 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal, the IMD said.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said India's G20 presidency succeeded in getting the focus of the grouping back on the issues faced by the global south without diminishing the seriousness of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and its consequences.
Addressing a press conference after the G20 Development Ministers' Meeting here, Jaishankar said the 'G20 Action Plan on Accelerating Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)' and 'G20 High Level Principles on Lifestyles for Sustainable Development' were unanimously approved at the meeting.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday sought the help of the general public in identifying individuals who held violent protests and attempted to vandalise the Indian High Commission in London in March this year, officials said on Tuesday.

 Three persons were injured in a gunfight between village volunteers and a group of militants at Khamenlok area situated on the border of Imphal East and Kangpokpi districts of ethnic violence hit Manipur on Monday, police said.
The three were admitted to a hospital in Imphal where the condition of one is stated to be critical.

Karnataka Women and Child Development Minister and Udupi district-in-charge Laxmi Hebbalkar on Monday said strict action will be taken against those who cause delay in implementation of government schemes.
Addressing a district-level meeting of officials in Udupi, she also cautioned them against indiscipline at work.
With a new government in office, it is the responsibility of officials to ensure that pro-people programmes of the government reached the people without delay, she said.

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the High Court order by which it had essentially allowed bike-taxi aggregators Rapido and Uber to operate in the national capital by asking the Delhi government not to take any coercive action against them till a new policy was formulated.

Silvio Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died Monday, according to Italian media. He was 86.
Berlusconi’s Mediaset television network announced his death with a smiling photo of the man on its homepage and the headline: “Berlusconi is dead.”
Berlusconi was hospitalised on Friday for the second time in months for treatment of chronic leukemia. He also suffered over the years from heart ailments, prostate cancer and was hospitalised for COVID-19 in 2020. 

Senior BJP leader and former Union Cabinet Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said that while Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a democratically elected leader, Rahul Gandhi was a leader in the Congress "by dynastic chant". Naqvi while speaking at a press conference in Wayanad, the Lok Sabha constituency represented by Rahul Gandhi before his disqualification, said there was a huge difference between a "leader by choice" and a "leader by chance". "While Modi ji is a leader by democratic choice, Rahul Gandhi is a leader by dynastic chant," he said.

A Pakistani drone was recovered by the Border Security Force (BSF) on the outskirts of a village in Punjab's Amritsar district on Monday, an official said. The BSF, acting on specific information, carried out a search operation around 7:20 am and found the broken unmanned aerial vehicle near a gurdwara in Shaidpur Kalan village, the official said. It was a quadcopter of the DJI Matrice 300 RTK series.

A woman Naxalite was killed in a gun battle with security personnel in the forests of Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Monday, a police official said. The gunfight took place at around 7 am in the forest near Binagunda village under Chhotebethiya police station limits when security personnel were out on an anti-Naxalite operation, Inspector General of Police (Bastar range) Sundarraj P said. "The operation was launched on Sunday based on inputs about the presence of Naxalite leaders belonging to Rajnandgaon-Kanker border division (RKB) and 20 to 25 armed cadres. Personnel from District Reserve Guard (DRG) and 132nd battalion of Border Security Force (BSF) were involved in the operation," the IG said.

The wife of a local BJP functionary has been arrested in connection with his death at his house in Govindpuri Meerut, a senior police official said on Monday. Nishant Garg's body, which had a gunshot wound, was found on Saturday and his wife Sonia was detained that night, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rohit Singh Sajwan said. On Sunday, the 35-year-old's brother Gaurav had lodged a complaint against Sonia, based on which a case of culpable homicide was registered and she was arrested. She was produced before a court that sent her to judicial custody, police said. The SSP said during interrogation, Sonia stated that Garg wanted to kill her using a country-made pistol but in a scuffle, a shot was fired, and the bullet hit her husband and he died. On Saturday, Garg's body was found at his house in Govindpuri under suspicious circumstances with a bullet wound to his chest, police had said then. Sonia had claimed that Garg had committed suicide early Saturday.

The Bombay High Court on Monday sought the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) response on the bail plea of activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad Maoist links case. A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and S G Dige said it would hear Navlakha's plea on June 28. The bench also directed the activist's lawyers to ensure all dates in relation to the case are placed on record correctly, as his bail plea was heard twice by the special NIA court. In April this year, the special court had refused Navlakha bail noting that there was prima facie evidence to show that the activist was an active member of banned outfit CPI (Maoist). In his appeal filed in the high court, Navlakha said the special court had erred while refusing him bail.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday approved Rs 183. 81 crore for 42 urban local bodies (ULBs) spread across 10 districts of Southern Revenue Division under the state’s flagship scheme MUKTA for 2023-24 fiscal. The districts include Ganjam, Gajapati, Kalahandi, Nuapada, Koraput, Rayagada, Nabarangpur, Malkangiri, Kandhamal and Boudh. The objective of the Mukhyamantri Karma Tatpara Abhiyan Yojana (MUKTA) is to decrease unemployment rate. The scheme, which was launched by Patnaik in 2020, creates job opportunities for the urban poor and migrant labourers.

A government primary school teacher has been booked for allegedly producing a fake birth certificate when he joined the service in 1999, police said here on Monday. "An FIR has been registered against Brajnath Ram under IPC sections 419 (punishment for cheating by personation) and 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) on the basis of a complaint by block education officer Madhavendra Pandey," Circle officer, Rasra, Mohammad Faheemm said. In the complaint, Pandey alleged that Ram was posted as assistant teacher. He had got the job by stating that his date of birth is December 1, 1960. When the matter was probed by the department, it was revealed that he was born on December 1, 1953.

Security forces on Monday recovered an old mortar shell in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. A road opening party of the BSF recovered the explosive in general area of Bhatpura village near a culvert on the Handwara-Naogaon highway, they said. They said the recovered shell may have been lying at the site for some time.

Pakistani authorities have started evacuating people from the low-lying coastal areas in the southern Sindh province as they braced for the approaching Cyclone Biparjoy that continues to gain strength and is likely to cause heavy rainfall and thunderstorms in the country. All the authorities concerned have been put on high alert after Biparjoy, which located over the Arabian Sea, turned into an extremely severe cyclonic storm on Sunday. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said the cyclone is expected to impact southern and south-eastern parts of Sindh on June 13. The cyclonic system is located at a distance of 690 km south of Karachi, Pakistan Meteorological Department said on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the beginning of the session of G20 meeting in Varanasi via video which will be attended by around 200 delegates.

A man from Pune was arrested for alleged involvement in issuing a death threat to Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, a Mumbai police official said on Monday.

The Telangana government organised a run here on Monday as part of the decennial celebrations of the state's formation. State Home Minister Mohd Mahmood Ali, Sports Minister V Srinivas Goud and other dignitaries flagged off 2K and 5K Runs at the picturesque Hussain Sagar lake on Monday morning. World champion boxer Nikhat Zareen, shooter Esha Singh, Tollywood actress Sreeleela and others attended the event, named, 'Telangana Run', an official release said.

The rupee gained 7 paise to 82. 40 against the US dollar in early trade on Monday amid easing crude oil prices and a positive trend in domestic equities. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 82. 45 against the dollar, then rose to 82. 40, registering a gain of 7 paise over its previous close. On Friday, the rupee closed at 82. 47 against the US currency.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday attached properties of businessman Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district in connection with a terror funding case, officials said. They said a team of the NIA attached the immovable properties in the name of Watali at villages Baghatpora and Kachwari in Handwara area of the north Kashmir district. The properties include land in the name of Watali, an accused in the terror funding case, the officials said. They said the properties were attached following an order by the Special NIA Court in New Delhi in May.

Two women died after a massive fire broke out at a tent godown in Ghaziabad's Loni border area on Monday morning. Around 8 people, who were trapped in the fire, were rescued from the building. The fire was reported to the fire brigade at 6.52 am. On the ground floor of the four-storey building, there was a godown of tents that caught fire. 

A Maryland police chief said that at least one person was killed and several others wounded in a shooting Sunday at a house in the state's capital city. Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson told The Baltimore Sun that several people were shot and at least one of the victims had died.

Nitin Agarwal, a 1989-batch IPS officer of Kerala cadre, was on Sunday night appointed as the new director general of the Border Security Force (BSF), more than five months after the post fell vacant.

Ten people were killed in Australia when a bus carrying a group of more than 50 returning wedding guests rolled overnight in the heart of wine country, according to police and media reports Monday. Police said 25 people were injured in the accident and were taken to area hospitals by helicopter and by road. A further 18 passengers were uninjured in the accident in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales state north of Sydney. The driver of the bus, a 58-year-old man, has been arrested and will be charged, Police Assistant Commissioner Tracy Chapman said. She would not detail the allegations, but she told reporters "there is sufficient information.