Morning Digest | Chinese Premier Li Qiang greets PM Modi for third term, despite frictions; two Indian nationals killed in Russia-Ukraine conflict, and more
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The Hindu’s Morning Digest on June 11, 2024, gives a select list of stories to start the day , 2024
A suspected Pakistani terrorist was killed by security forces after the ultras attacked a village near the International Border (IB) in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday evening and injured a civilian, police said.
Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on June 11 said the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) was part of the Narendra Modi government’s agenda.
As Rajnath Singh takes charge as Defence Minister for a second consecutive term, top issues on the agenda are the Agnipath scheme, pending military modernisation, with a focus on indigenisation in addition to the situation on the borders, especially with China, where the stand-off in eastern Ladakh still continues.
Sarod maestro Pandit Rajeev Taranath, who was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Mysuru, passed away on June 11 evening.
Hunter Biden was convicted on June 11 of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the President’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
The formation of the government and distribution of portfolios may have had the imprint of the BJP’s national leadership, but RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks on Monday — on the “undignified” nature of the Lok Sabha campaign, of humility being the ideal characteristic of a sevak or public servant, and his demand that peace be restored in Manipur soon — hint that the election of the next BJP president will be within the close embrace of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has shot off a letter to 24 States that a sufficient number of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers have not been nominated by the State governments for central deputation leading to many vacant posts in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs).
NDA government in A.P. neglecting students and education sector badly hit, alleges Jagan Mohan Reddy
YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has criticised the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in Andhra Pradesh, accusing it of neglecting all sectors and not paying the fee reimbursement benefits to the students.