Highlights: ‘Appeal leaders who left party to rejoin, apologise’: SAD President

Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday urged scientists to expedite research on cannabis and explore its medicinal capabilities in curing neuropathies, cancer and epilepsy.

Singh was chairing a meeting to review the ‘Cannabis Research Project’ undertaken by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM) in Jammu.

The minister said the project is “first of its kind in India” and has the potential to “produce export quality medicine for neuropathies, cancer and epilepsy”.

This project will give an impetus for huge investment opportunities in Jammu and Kashmir, he added.

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“I appeal to all those leaders who left Akali Dal in the past few years to rejoin the party. I apologise to them if I have committed a mistake,” said Shriromani Akali Dal President, Sukhbir Singh Badal on Thursday.

Air India Express (AIXL) operated India’s first all-women Haj flight. The first all-women Haj flight, IX 3025, carrying 145 women pilgrims, departed from Kozhikode to Jeddah at 6:45 PM, arriving in Jeddah at 10:45 local time: Air India

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ED summons TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee in connection with Bengal recruitment scam on June 13

India successfully carries out night launch of new generation nuclear capable ballistic missile ‘Agni Prime’ from Abdul Kalam Island off coast of Odisha. 

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The three-tier panchayat polls in West Bengal will be held on July 8, State Election Commissioner Rajiva Sinha said on Thursday.

“The panchayat polls will be held on July 8. The last date for filing nominations is June 15. The last date of withdrawal of nominations is June 20,” Sinha told a press conference here.

Sinha, however, evaded a direct reply on whether the elections would be held under the supervision of central forces as demanded by opposition parties.

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Union home minister Amit Shah to address BJP rally in Gurdaspur on June 18 whereas national BJP president JP Nadda will address rally in Gurdaspur on June 14.

India is set to host the Miss World 2023 competition, as the coveted international beauty pageant makes its return to the country after nearly three decades.

The much anticipated 71st edition of Miss World is expected to take place in November this year, the final dates of which are yet to be ascertained.

India had last hosted the international pageant in 1996.

Manoj Sane, a 56-year-old man from Mumbai, allegedly killed his live-in partner 32-year-old Saraswati Vaidya and then chopped her body and boiled it in a pressure cooker to dissolve them before disposal. 

While Mumbai Police recovered several plastic bags containing the remains of Vaidya’s body, accused Manoj Sane denied killing Saraswati and claimed she consumed poison on June 4. Then why did Manoj chop her body parts? 

Manoj Sane told the police he was scared after he found Saraswati dead and wanted to get rid of the body. Manoj Sane was arrested on Wednesday night and was produced in a court on Thursday where he was remanded to eight-day police custody.

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Air India will be refunding the full amount to all the passengers who have been affected by the diversion of the Delhi-San Francisco flight, which was carrying 216 passengers and had landed in San Francisco (SFO) at 12:07am (12:37pm IST) on Thursday two days after they had been left stranded in Magadan, a remote Russian town following an emergency landing due to a technical fault.

Air India Chief Customer Experience and Ground Handling Officer Rajesh Dogra on Thursday said, “We will fully refund the fare for the journey and, in addition, provide a voucher for future travel to the passengers on Air India.”

Police brought 56-year-old Manoj Sahni, who has been accused of killing his 32-year-old live-in partner in Maharashtra’s Thane, out of the Police Station to produce him before the Court. He has been produced before Mira-Bhayandar Court.

The southwest monsoon made progress into the remaining areas of the south Arabian Sea and certain parts of the central Arabian Sea, IMD said on Thursday. It also covered the entire Lakshadweep region, most parts of Kerala, most parts of south Tamil Nadu, remaining portions of the Comorin area, Gulf of Mannar, and additional areas of the southwest, central, and northeast Bay of Bengal.

The onset of the southwest monsoon has occurred in Kerala Thursday against the normal date of June 1.

Agni Prime’, the new-generation ballistic missile, was successfully flight-tested from an island off the Odisha coast on Thursday, officials said.

Rujira Banerjee, wife of TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, arrives at Enforcement Directorate in Kolkata. She has been summoned for questioning in connection with a coal smuggling case.

Flight AI173D landed safely in San Francisco (SFO) at 0007 hours on 08 June 2023 (local time). All our passengers are being extended maximum on-ground assistance with clearance formalities and provided other necessary support.

Bombay High Court extends the interim relief from arrest granted to former Mumbai NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede for the next two weeks till 23rd June. Meanwhile, Wankhede’s counsel has requested the HC to allow him to amend the petition, reports ANI.

A general view of the Gemelli Hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalised for a surgery on his abdomen, in Rome, Italy, June 8, 2023.

Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira will appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday for questioning in the coal pilferage case, officials said.

Three ED officers are likely to question her at the agency’s office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake, they said.

Wife of jailed gangster Sanjeev Maheshwari Jeeva, an aide of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who was shot dead on June 7 in a Lucknow court, moves Supreme Court seeking interim relief for protection and permission to attend last rites rituals of her husband.

Go First has cancelled its flights until 12th June citing operational reasons.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has conducted searches at seven locations in Jharkhand and Bihar in connection with a brutal murder by cadres of the CPI (Maoist), a banned terrorist organisation, about five years ago, an official said Thursday.

BJP supporters engaged in sloganeering against CM Arvind Kejriwal outside the new campus of the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University on Wednesday.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said signs of the Portuguese regime should be wiped out, with the state having been liberated from its rule more than 60 years ago. “We need to start afresh,” Sawant said during an event on Tuesday and hailed Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj for stopping the destruction of temples in Goa during the Portuguese rule.

RBI has lowered the retail inflation projection to 5.1 pc from earlier estimate of 5.2%

The monetary policy committee (MPC), which has three members from the Reserve Bank of India and three external members, kept the repo rate steady at 6.5%. Follow LIVE updates here

The Karnataka government transferred four Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, a notification from the state government said on Wednesday.

India and the US must work on making bilateral ties stronger and focus on collaboration on education and cultural fronts, Indian-American Congressman Shri Thanedar has said.

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

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been instrumental in fulfilling the demands and wishes of the Sikh community from the US, an influential Sikh American leader has said.

India’s currency in circulation dropped for a second consecutive week after the central bank withdrew the country’s highest value currency note in May, advising people to deposit those with various banks and hoping to help lender deposits in the process.

A 10-year-old girl was killed after a speeding truck ran over her in the Shilphata area of Thane district on Wednesday night, police said. According to the police, the girl was crossing the road at around 8 pm when the truck knocked her down.

On the occasion of World Oceans Day, Union Earth Science Minister Kiren Rijiju participated in a beach cleaning programme at Chennai’s Besant Nagar Beach on Thursday.

China, Iran and Pakistan held their first trilateral counterterrorism and regional security consultations on Wednesday in Beijing but Islamabad accused Tehran of providing sanctuaries to insurgents for orchestrating cross-border attacks.

Japan’s Fukuoka District Court ruled on Thursday that not allowing same-sex marriage was ‘in a state of unconstitutionality,’ NHK public broadcaster said.

Australia plans to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols in legislation coming next week, reports AP.

In Maharashtra, a 10-year-old girl died after being run over by a truck near Shilphata Circle in Thane. The dead body has been sent for post-mortem.

In a joint search operation on Wednesday in, BSF troops in Amritsar and Punjab police recovered a Pakistani drone that violated Indian airspace near Bhaini Rajputana village in Amritsar.

In the previous Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meet, the central bank paused its rate hike cycle and stayed with the repo rate at 6.5%.

The police have arrested two persons who allegedly indulged in cannabis peddling and recovered contraband to the tune of around ₹1.25 crore in Chhattisgarh’s Mahasamund district.