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- Every regional political party in India, barring one or two notable exceptions like the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Tamil Nadu, are a family enterprise. Succession battles put father against son, brother against brother.
- Call him the diplomat who knows how to flex his political muscle, or call him the politician who can take a diplomatic stand not in line with his own party, Congress's four-time Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor has been an uncomfortable reality.
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has responded to a social media post that claimed fraudulent activities in the GST registration process.
- The key difference between the BJP today and the opposition is leadership, said veteran politician and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu.
- India switched tactics after suffering losses in the air on the first day of conflict with Pakistan earlier this month and established a decisive advantage before the neighbours announced a ceasefire three days later.
- India's Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is set to travel to space aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon as part of a crew that will include Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski from Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary for the June 8 Axiom Mission 4.
- The Centre has formed many delegations as a part of its diplomatic outreach program after Operation Sindoor – a targeted military strike on terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
- Colombia will issue a statement of strong support for India's position after the country withdrew their statement condoling the deaths in Pakistan following Operation Sindoor.
- Despite the central government having allocated over Rs 400 crore in recent years for the construction of bunkers to safeguard border residents, many villagers say the promised shelters remain either incomplete or missing.
- In an exclusive NDTV interview, N Chandrababu Naidu discussed how he established his friendship with Bill Gates after a meeting in Delhi.
- Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has finally reacted to reports of his son Nara Lokesh's possible promotion as the working president of the Telugu Desam Party.
- Five people, including a child, lost their lives and six others were seriously injured when a car carrying wedding guests overturned and fell into a ditch in the Majhila police station area of Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district.
- Operation Sindoor was a non-contact, multi-domain mission which included aspects like distributed force application, cyber and disinformation campaign, intelligence capabilities, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated three significant transportation projects; including the Indore Metro Rail, along with the Satna and Datia airport projects, during his visit to Bhopal.
- Five persons have been killed in landslides in Assam in the last 24 hours as incessant rain has led to floods in six districts, affecting over 10,000 people, an official bulletin said on Saturday.
- The CCBI and the Enforcement Directorate are investigating Lalu Prasad Yadav, his family, and several others in connection with the land-for-jobs case.
- The Indo-Pacific is "America's priority theatre", the US defence chief said, pledging to ensure "China cannot dominate us – or our allies and partners".
- India's military confirmed for the first time that it lost an unspecified number of fighter jets in clashes with Pakistan in May, while saying the four-day conflict never came close to the point of nuclear war.
- Rekha Gupta dubbed as successful her government's Vaya Vandana scheme, which offers citizens aged 70 and above health insurance coverage of up to Rs 10 lakh.
- Per the cable, dated May 30th, if an individual seeks to work at, attend or otherwise visit to Harvard, in the prescreening or interviewing process, consular offices have been instructed to refuse the visa "pending review of their online presence".
- A federal judge prevented the Trump administration from invalidating work permits and other documents granting lawful status to about 5,000 Venezuelans, a subset of the nearly 350,000 whose temporary legal protections the U.S. Supreme Court last week allowed to be terminated.
- VIENNA – Iran carried out secret nuclear activities with material not declared to the U.N. nuclear watchdog at three locations that have long been under investigation, the watchdog said in a wide-ranging, confidential report to member states seen by Reuters.
- Such storms typically occur in winter, not spring.
- The report comes as Tehran pursues delicate negotiations with the US on its nuclear programme.
- Flooding in Nigeria's Niger State this week has killed 151 people and forced several thousand from their homes, an emergency official told Reuters on Saturday.
- The court has been called to intervene in seven legal fights over his crackdown on immigration.
- The official said the ministers had intended to take part in “a provocative meeting”.
- BERLIN – Germany's interior minister is hoping the European Union can reach a bloc-wide agreement on sending failed asylum seekers who cannot go home to safe countries near their original homelands.
- The softer tone comes after a block on his bid to prevent Harvard from enrolling international students.
- Negotiations to end nearly 20 months of war in Gaza have so far failed to achieve a breakthrough.
- He was attacked when he stepped out of his tent to use the toilet.
- Israel’s Foreign Ministry shot back, saying its govt was facilitating the entry of humanitarian aid.
- He ordered more scrutiny of the social media profiles of any foreigners seeking to visit Harvard.
- Five of the baby mammals were found inside an Airbus factory near Montreal, Canada.
- He said a Nippon Steel-US Steel deal, like the tariff hike, will help keep jobs for steel workers in the US.
- GUATEMALA CITY – A top Guatemalan court on Friday sentenced three former paramilitaries each to 40 years in prison after they were found guilty of raping six Indigenous women between 1981 and 1983, the bloodiest period of the Central American nation's civil war.
- UN officials have also criticised Israeli limitations on what kind of aid they can provide.
- A selection of news stories that happened overnight, May 31, 2025.
- Some of the grants paid for military-specific medical research.
- It was spotted as it travels on a highly elongated orbital path around the Sun.
- The payouts of the retirees must meet the $15,000 annual income threshold set by MAS.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average edges up 0.1 per cent to 42,270.07.
- High CPF Life monthly payouts of up to $3,300 should help retirees pay for most of their expenses without having to dip into their savings.
- Singapore’s first zero-energy hotel is scheduled to be ready and fully operational by 2028.
- Across the broader market, decliners beat gainers 248 to 209.
- This exceeds the target set by the council for such companies, and a year ahead of schedule.
- These jobs span across functions such as ops, control quality, engineering and R&D.
- Chinese chip design customers rely heavily on top-of-the-line US software.
- A potential transaction involving its stapled securities is on the table but not guaranteed.
- The number of people collecting unemployment checks in mid-May was the largest in 3½ years.
- Buoyant demand for gold in Singapore mirrors the global view.
- Tax measure could further drive away foreign investors amid weakening confidence in US assets.
- The SEC under Trump has withdrawn or put on hold many cryptocurrency enforcement cases.
- Carmaker considering 1% increase to price of every model in its line-up starting as soon as next week.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average finishes up 0.3 per cent at 42,215.73.
- Older couples are more likely to have retirement accounts, real estate and other assets that could be tricky to mingle.
- Some production houses can make full episodes 80 per cent faster and 90 per cent cheaper than industry norms.
- Those advising CEOs in this fraught moment say they are telling leaders to describe the financial impacts of tariffs in the gentlest way possible.
- That brings her total profit on the sale of Tesla stock to more than US$530 million (S$680 million) since becoming the board’s leader in late 2018
- Uncertainty over tariffs is causing businesses to have a “pencils down” moment as they wait for clarity on trade policy, he said.