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FIR registered by Government Railway Police (GRP) in Cuttack under sections 153, 154 and 175 of the Railway Act against unknown persons in the Balasore train accident. FIR was registered following a complaint by SI Papu Kumar Naik of Balasore GRPS.

Microsoft Corp's product suite that includes Word and Excel is down for more than 14,000 users on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the outage reports on Microsoft 365.

In an hour-long meeting with the Airlines Advisory Group, the Civil Aviation minister shared concerns regarding recent reports of abnormal surge pricing on certain air routes, and emphasised that airlines must self-monitor airfares on certain select routes that have seen considerable surge pricing of late, particularly those that were earlier being serviced by Go First - a mechanism for ensuring reasonable pricing within the high RBDs (Reservation Booking Designator) may be devised by airlines which will be monitored by the DGCA, said Ministry of Civil Aviation. 

During any calamity, airlines need to keep a tight check on the pricing of air tickets in view of the humanitarian situation and monitor and control any surge in ticket prices to/from that region, adds Ministry of Civil Aviation. In the case of the unfortunate Odisha tragedy, airlines have been advised to provide free carriage (cargo) services to the families of the deceased, adds the Ministry.

Ganster Mukhtar Ansari gets life sentence in 32-year-old murder case, this is his fifth conviction. Varanasi's MP MLA court convicted jailed mafia Mukhtar Ansari in Awadhesh Rai murder case on Monday. On August 3, 1991, Congress leader and brother of former MLA Ajay Rai, Awadhesh Rai, was shot dead outside Ajay Rai's house in Varanasi.

Delhi High Court on Monday denied interim interim bail to Manish Sisodia but allowed him to meet his wife between 10am and 5pm. The court said that Sisodia cannot interact with media and Delhi Police must ensure there is no media gathering, the Bar & Bench reported.

Minister of State for Education and External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh released NIRF 2023 on Monday. This year, IIT Madras secured the top spot in the overall rankings followed by IISc Bangalore. IIM Ahmedabad scored the first rank in NIRF management category. IIM Bangalore and IIM Kozhikode secured second and third ranks respectively.

A goods train derailed in Odisha's Bargarh district on Monday. No injuries have been reported yet. This comes just three days after the massive train accident in Balasore that killed at least 275 people and injured more than 1000 people. 

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh hosted a bilateral meeting with the United States Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin, in Delhi on Monday.

Irate villagers set ablaze an abandoned camp at Sugnu in Manipur's Kakching district, where militants from the United Kuki Liberation Front(UKLF) were staying after signing a peace accord with the government, police said on Monday. The villagers were venting their anger after militants burnt down at least 100 abandoned houses including the residence of Sugnu Congress MLA K Ranjit at Serou in Kakching district on Saturday midnight.

Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday waved at passengers and crew and prayed for their safe journey, as services resumed following repair of the damaged tracks on both the up and down lines, 51 hours after the horrific triple train accident in Balasore left 275 dead and more than 1,000 injured.

Speaking to ANI on Sunday, the Railways minister said work on reconstruction of the damaged tracks started soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent out instructions to that effect.

Russia says it thwarted a large Ukrainian attack in the eastern province of Donetsk, though it's unclear if this was the start of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. The Russian Defense Ministry, in a rare early morning video Monday, said its forces pushed back a large scale Ukrainian assault on Sunday at five points in Donetsk, one of four Ukrainian regions Russia illegally annexed last fall.

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Contaminated cider kills 16 in Russia

At least 16 people died and dozens fell ill from drinking contaminated cider in the western Russian region of Ulyanovsk, its governor said on Monday.

"Sixteen people died" from drinking adulterated cider, governor Alexei Russkikh said. Another 35 became ill, he said, and 19 of them were hospitalised in clinics across the region.

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Ukraine claims advances as Russia says offensive repelled, reports AFP

Ukraine said Monday that its troops were advancing around Bakhmut while playing down the importance of its "offensive actions", after Russia said it had repelled a large-scale attack. The contrasting claims came as Pope Francis's peace envoy, Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, arrived in Kyiv for two days of talks.

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Election Commission officials to visit poll-bound Rajasthan on June 15, reports PTI

The Election Commission has started preparing for a fresh set of assembly polls before the end of this year with its senior officials visiting poll-bound states to take stock of election preparedness. According to sources, officials of the level of deputy election commissioner will visit Rajasthan on June 15 and 16. Officials from the poll panel have already visited Mizoram, they said.

 

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Odisha train tragedy: King Charles III sends message of condolence

Britain's King Charles III on Monday sent a condolence message to President Droupadi Murmu, expressing his profound shock and sadness over the deadly train accident in Balasore, recalling his fond memories of a visit to Odisha 43 years ago. The accident, involving three trains, is one of the worst in the country and took place in Odisha's Balasore district on Friday night which has claimed an estimated 275 lives and left over 1,200 people injured.

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NSA Doval, Lloyd Austin hold talks in Delhi, discuss Indo-Pacific

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval met each other in New Delhi on Monday and discussed Indo-Pacific, and cooperation in specific niche technologies in maritime, military and aerospace domains. According to government officials, the two leaders also spoke on the greater transfer of technology, co-production and building indigenous capacities in line with India's Make in India and Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiatives.

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Centre aims at covering refractories in PLI 2.0 to support steel industry

The Centre is looking to include refractories in the upcoming Production Linked Incentive Scheme 2.0 for steel as it aims at doubling the country's production capacity for the metal to 300 million tonne by 2030, an official said. Refractories are a critical input for steel production, and India depends on the import of the raw material.

 

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Cabinet expansion soon, timeline to be decided by CM Shinde: Fadnavis

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said the state cabinet will be expanded soon and the timeline will be decided by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. He also said Shiv Sena, led by Shinde, and BJP will fight all elections together, which was discussed during their meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi.

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Odisha train accident: NDRF ends rescue operation, withdraws all 9 teams

The National Disaster Response Force on Monday ended its rescue operation with the withdrawal of all its nine teams from the triple train accident site in Odisha's Balasore district that has claimed at least 275 lives, officials said. The force rescued 44 victims and retrieved 121 bodies from the spot since the teams were deployed after the accident on June 2, they said.

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Sakshi Malik denies reports of backing out of Wrestlers' protest, says won't back down

Wrestler Sakshi Malik took to Twitter to deny media reports of withdrawing from protest.

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Delhi HC denies bail to Manish Sisodia, allows him to meet wife

Delhi High Court on Monday denied interim interim bail to Manish Sisodia but allowed him to meet his wife between 10am and 5pm. The court said that Sisodia cannot interact with media and Delhi Police must ensure there is no media gathering, the Bar & Bench reported.

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India-US partnership cornerstone of free, open Indo-Pacific says US Secretary of Defence Lloyd J Austin III

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India can reduce pollution by 40% by not using fossil fuels: Gadkari

India can reduce its pollution by over 40 per cent by not using fossil fuels like petrol and diesel, while the country imports crude oil worth Rs 16 lakh crore every year, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said. "We can reduce 40 per cent pollution by not using fossil fuels like petrol and diesel," Gadkari said addressing Green Urja Conclave organised by Confederation of Renewable Energy Service Professionals and Industries (CRESPAI) in association with IIT-Delhi, IIT-Ropar and University of Delhi.

 

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151 bodies have been identified in Odisha train tragedy so far

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INS Satpura arrives at Makassar, Indonesia to participate in 4th Edition of Multilateral Naval Exercise

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Poor, developing countries paying price for 'wrong policies' of some developed nations: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the poor and developing countries are paying the price for the "wrong policies" of some developed nations and stressed that India has been strongly raising the issue of climate justice with all such advanced and big countries. In his video message at a World Environment Day event here, Modi said that for the protection of the world climate it is important that all countries think, rising above selfish interests.

"For a long time, the model of development in big and advanced countries was contradictory. In this developmental model, the thinking was that we first develop our country then we can think about the environment," the prime minister said.