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Enumerators working on the Census are facing several challenges in the field, including heat, connectivity issues, and safety concerns. Though the exercise is being conducted through a digital system designed for real-time monitoring, field workers say conditions on the ground and supervisory instructions are affecting data collection. Vijaita Singh reports on the challenges

Currently serving as Secretary in Culture Ministry, Aggarwal’s selection is a significant development for India’s role in global financial governance and efforts to strengthen international cooperation on anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and illicit financial flows

Mr. Thackeray calls for starting ‘Operation Lotus’ in response to ‘Operation Tiger’ allegedly carried out by the Shiv Sena to lure six of its nine Lok Sabha MPs into its fold and refuted allegations his party was likely to merge with the Congress

The top court observed that the lack of a steady client base and limited remuneration in the early years of practice often result in acute financial hardship

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari asked people not to go to the houses of people accused of corruption and electoral violence and urged them to keep faith in the police and the administration to take stringent action in accordance with the law

Governor Ravi in his 20-page address, commended the State government’s decision to strengthen border infrastructure and provide land to the BSF for erecting barbed-wire fencing along the W.B.- Bangladesh border

The Chief Secretary has written to Lok Bhavan expressing the government’s dissatisfaction with the holding of such a meeting, says Chief Minister's Office

Officials to take up expansion of the existing sump and allied infrastructure works designed to improve drainage and prevent water accumulation in the subway, particularly during the monsoon

Maharashtra’s Transport Minister has made it mandatory for the State’s taxi and auto drivers to learn Marathi by August 15 or lose their licences. Chinmay R. Gaikwad reports on how RTOs are doubling as classrooms for migrant drivers who are struggling to learn the basics of a new language in just four days of classroom learning. He finds that some drivers are hopeful, while some others feel humiliated

J.J. Jenifer, who has been preparing for the civil services examination with the goal of becoming an IAS officer, cleared the TNPSC Group I examination this year

Modi addressed the Indian diaspora earlier in the day and said India is emerging as a "trusted partner" to the world

Relying upon an I4C assessment, the government says the app’s architecture and privacy features have made it a preferred tool for cybercriminals, fraud networks, extremist and terror groups, and operators involved in examination paper leaks

PM Modi posted on social media saying the two sides had reviewed U.S.-India cooperation in trade, energy, defence, technology and people-to-people ties

Kolkata Police Commissioner says she surrendered with one gun and 40 rounds of bullets

NREGA Sangarsh Morcha says the new scheme will provide only 42 days of work and not 125 days as government promises; workers’ groups say the protest will continue till the law is repealed

CJI Surya Kant says claim that records in an urgent matter went missing is a ‘very serious matter’ that warrants scrutiny

While the re-test is scheduled for June 21, Justice Narasimha’s Bench, before which the matter is to be listed, is scheduled to sit only after July 13, effectively rendering the plea infructuous.

Telegram founder had promised to make the ‘edited’ label more visible, but it was not done, says NTA Director-General Abhishek Singh, adding that the messaging app has to “adhere to norms”

Top court refuses to entertain a plea by an accused facing multiple cyberfraud cases seeking the clubbing of multiple criminal cases and the grant of bail; society’s interest is there only when you are inside jail and not outside, it says

Justices S.M. Subramaniam and N. Senthilkumar say artificial intelligence cannot teach integrity and morality to students

Top court notes that the January 5 judgment denying bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, which the HC had relied on to reject the accused’s bail pleas, has since been referred to a larger Bench

There is speculation that nine Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs are planning to join the Shinde-led Sena

The police said the arrested person was identified as a native of Melpatti village and aunt of the victim

The Modi-Starmer meeting came at a time when the U.K. Prime Minister’s political future is in question – a byelection could put a potential contender for his post, Andy Burnham, back in the U.K. Parliament.

CRUISESHIP-HANTAVIRUS/:Kennedy orders American exposed to hantavirus to stay quarantined against her will, WSJ reports

Modi also held a bilateral meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and discussed steps being taken to implement Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement

The US and Iran are expected to formally sign a memorandum of understanding on June 19 in Switzerland, paving the way for 60 days of talks aimed at ending their war for good and putting strict new limits on Iran’s nuclear program.

The top court takes suo motu cognisance of newspaper reports highlighting the dire conditions in which they are living

The White House sought to make the case that its interim deal with Iran will end a global energy crisis and achieve the administration’s wartime goals, even as the two adversaries diverged on what the agreement will look like.

Tamil movies and Tamil Nadu politics are an inseparable jodi that has largely been of benefit to the State socially and economically

Passengers celebrate the district-level launch aboard an Ordinary KSRTC bus with sweets, selfies and zero-fare tickets

the KSEB has given October 2026 as the Commercial Operation Date for all five projects

Rejection of Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination has exposed Congress faultlines

CRPF and CISF personnel with a clean service record have been deployed to provide security to the exam papers as they are taken to examination centres.

20 rebel MPs of Trinamool Congress have announced their decision to merge with NCPI after they met the Speaker of Lok Sabha Om Birla in Delhi on Sunday and submitted a letter to that effect

A position of Chief Minister is respectable; but Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh (Mann) lied at the Akal Takht (about the video), says Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargajj

Iran circulated competing versions of a proposed interim agreement with the US, even as President Donald Trump stuck to his Sunday timeline to sign a deal.

From pulling down statues erected by the previous Trinamool Congress government and removing symbols of the past that were dear to Mamata Banerjee, the month-old BJP government in West Bengal is changing the city’s colour-scape from white-and-blue to saffron

He is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Slovakia since its independence in 1993

At bilateral meeting in French city of Nice, Prime Minister Modi and French President Macron call for fast adoption of the India-EU FTA, agree to create Joint India-France AI Working Group to expand cooperation

The Bengaluru–Chennai Expressway has been identified as a priority corridor under the Chennai–Bengaluru Industrial Corridor. The project originates at Hoskote near the junction of NH-4 and NH-207 in Karnataka.

On Saturday, the monsoon moved toward Hyderabad, coastal Odisha, parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar