Breaking News, June 8 | HIGHLIGHTS

 The NHRC on Thursday said it has issued a notice to the Bihar government over reports that about 150 students of a school in West Champaran district fell ill after consuming the mid-day meal.
Apparently, there was a supervisory lapse on the part of the school authorities due to which food prepared in an unhygienic way was served to the students, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said in a statement.

A five-year-old girl abducted by an unidentified person from suburban Mankhurd area was reunited with her mother within 36 hours of the incident, city police said on Thursday.
The girl's uncle had approached police with a complaint that she had been abducted from her mother's custody, said an official.

 YSR Congress MP Y S Avinash Reddy was arrested by the CBI in connection with the murder of his uncle and former minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy, but he was immediately released as per a Telangana High Court order that had earlier granted him anticipatory bail.

Avinash Reddy, who appeared before the central agency on June 3, was arrested by the CBI and released on bail the same day after fulfilling certain formalities, sources said.

 Asian Games gold medallist and one of the prominent faces of the wrestlers' protest against WFI chief, Vinesh Phogat on Thursday wondered if the country's daughters would get justice in this "atmosphere of fear and intimation".
Phogat's tweet came days after the 'minor', whose complaint had formed basis of FIR against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh under the POCSO Act withdrew her sexual harassment allegations against the outgoing WFI president.
"Will the daughters get justice in the atmosphere of fear and intimidation???" Vinesh wrote on her Twitter handle.

Three BJP MPs on Thursday hit back at Rahul Gandhi over his "mohabbat ki dukan" pitch to target the ruling party, as they accused him of spreading "hate" against India from foreign soil in the name of love and cited riots and alleged mistreatment of leading national leaders by the party since 1947.
Lok Sabha MPs Poonam Mahajan (from Mumbai), Parvesh Sahib Singh (Delhi) and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (Rajasthan) penned a nine-page letter, wondering if he was running "mohabbat ki dukan ya nafrat ka mega mall" (shop of love or mega mall of hate).

 Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday said he would be attending the meeting of anti-Bharatiya Janata Party meeting being organised by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna on June 23.
Speaking to reporters here, Pawar said he had received a call on Wednesday from Kumar about the meeting.
"He has invited key opposition leaders in the country for the meeting, and I will also go. He has given an invitation for this meeting as there is a need to work on national issues together and it is our responsibility to support this cause," Pawar said.

Delhi is likely to witness light rain and generally cloudy skies on June 9, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a bulletin on Thursday.
The maximum temperature in the city settled at 39.9 degrees Celsius and the minimum at 23.9 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season's average, the IMD said in a bulletin.

In a major development, an 11-year-old boy, who was trapped between a pillar and a slab of a bridge, built over the Son River, in Atimi village in Bihar's Rohtas district, was rescued successfully on Thursday.  

The five persons detained in Maharashtra's Kolhapur for allegedly keeping offensive social media account status and an image of 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan were college-going minors and a probe was underway to find what or who prompted them to indulge in such an act, a senior police official said on Thursday.
Kolhapur city in western Maharashtra saw violent protests from right-wing outfits on Wednesday over some persons keeping an image of Tipu Sultan and an offensive audio message as their social media status.

Efforts are on to rescue an 11-year-old boy trapped between a pillar and a slab of a bridge, built over the Son River, in Atimi village in Bihar's Rohtas district.
The boy, Ranjan Kumar, 11, is being given oxygen while attempts are being made by disaster relief workers to free him.

 Pope Francis' was in “good general condition” Thursday, alert and breathing on his own following a three-hour operation to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, the Vatican said.
The 86-year-old Francis rested “extensively” during a peaceful night and was spending his first day after the surgery observing the “necessary post-operative rest,” the Vatican said in a statement.

The BJP in Maharashtra on Thursday announced `election chiefs' for 48 Lok Sabha and 288 Legislative Assembly seats in the state.
The election chiefs will work for poll preparation and management, state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule said at a press conference here.

"In alliance with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, we will contest Lok Sabha and Assembly elections under the leadership of Shinde and deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. We will win more than 45 Lok Sabha and more than 200 Assembly seats," he said.

 Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that the US would provide nearly USD 150 million in aid for areas in Syria and Iraq that were liberated from the Islamic State extremist group.
He spoke at a ministerial conference hosted by Saudi Arabia on combatting the group, which no longer controls any territory — but whose affiliates still carry out attacks across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Rohtas, Bihar: A 12-year-old child got trapped in the foot of the bridge built on a river located in Nasriganj. Rescue operation underway.

Pro-Modi slogans raised in presence of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal at the inauguration event of the new campus of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) in Delhi earlier today.

“They (Opposition) are uniting because they have failed to stand alone,” said Union Minister Smriti Irani on the mega opposition meeting, scheduled to be held in Patna on June 23.

“Pakistan could be behind it (the violence) and the government should investigate that angle,” said MP Ramdas Athawale, a day after violence during a demonstration in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur against the alleged use of Tipu Sultan’s image along with an objectionable audio message as social media “status” by a few locals.

Monsoon reaches Indian mainland, IMD declares onset over Kerala.

New Generation Ballistic Missile Agni Prime was successfully flight tested by DRDO on 7th June at around 7:30 pm from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha. During the flight test, all objectives were successfully demonstrated.

TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee's wife Rujira appears before ED in Kolkata for questioning in coal pilferage case, said officials.

Due to operational reasons, flights until 12th June 2023 are cancelled, said Go First.

EAM Dr S Jaishankar says, "Rahul Gandhi is habitual of criticising the country and making comments on our politics whenever he goes out of the country. The world is looking at us and what are they seeing? Elections are held, sometimes one party wins and some other times the other party wins. If there is no democracy in the country, such a change should not come. Results for all elections should be the same. 2024 ka result toh wahi hoga, hamein pata hai...I have no objection to whatever he does inside the country but I don't think taking national politics out of the country is in the national interest."

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar takes stock of the drainage system of several places in Bengaluru.

We have de-legitimised cross-border terrorism, said EAM S Jaishankar.

FIR registered against MNS leader Sandeep Deshpande and 8 others under Maharashtra police act 37, 135, for burning an effigy of Aurangzeb in the aftermath of Kolhapur protests, said Mumbai Police.

RBI allows banks to issue Rupay prepaid forex cards.

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath meets the child in the hospital, who was injured in yesterday's shootout where gangster Sanjeev alias Jeeva was killed.

 J&K L-G Manoj Sinha inaugurates the Tirupati Balaji temple in Jammu's Sidhra. The temple has been built on 62 acres of land with approx cost of Rs 25 crores and construction work was completed in a span of two years.

GDP growth in Q1 this fiscal year expected at 8 PC, said RBI Guv.

RBI retains growth projection at 6.5 pc for FY'24, expects 8 pc growth in Q1, 6.5 pc in Q2, 6 pc in Q3 and 5.7 pc in Q4.

RBI lowers retial inflation projection to 5.1 pc during FY'24 from earlier estimate of 5.2 pc.

Madhya Pradesh: Rescue operation continues to rescue the 2.5-year-old girl who fell into a borewell while playing, in Mungaoli village of Sehore district on June 6. A team of experts has arrived at the spot with a robot. Efforts are being made to rescue the child, with the help of the robot.

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu chaired the 26th e-Pragati meeting with all Deputy Commissioners of all districts and reviewed the status of several projects, programs and pending issues in Itanagar on Wednesday, as per Arunachal Pradesh CMO.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu: As today is World Ocean Day, Union Earth Science Minister Kiren Rijiju participates in beach cleaning programme at Besant Nagar Beach.

CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after a brief, tumultuous tenure, reports AP.