HIGHLIGHTS AT 2030 HOURS

Following are the highlights at 2030 hours:

NATION

MDS19 KA-LD KARNATAKA

Karnataka drama ends as Kumaraswamy wins trust vote without contest

Bengaluru: The three-day-old Kumaraswamy government in Karnataka today won a vote of confidence without a contest, with the BJP MLAs walking out of the Assembly before the floor test, in an unexciting end to the 10-day high-voltage political drama after the polls yielded a hung House.

DEL29 BIZ-EPFO-INTEREST

Govt notifies 8.55% interest on PF for 2017-18, lowest in 5 years

New Delhi: Retirement fund body has asked its field offices to credit 8.55 per cent rate of interest for 2017-18, the lowest rate since 2012-13 fiscal, into the PF accounts of around 5 crore subscribers.

 

CAL16 LD INDO-BANGLA

Last few years a golden chapter in Indo-Bangla ties: Modi

Santiniketan: The last few years have been a golden chapter in India-Bangladesh relationship when complicated issues of land and coastal boundaries were resolved, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here today.

CAL20 HASINA-LD ROHINGYA

B'desh seeks 'cooperation of all' in sending back Rohingya refugees

Santiniketan (WB): Bangladesh today sought the "cooperation of all" to put pressure on Myanmar to take back the around 11 lakh Rohingya refugees given shelter in the country on "humanitarian ground".

DEL33 JK-ARMYCHIEF-2NDLD GOGOI

Court of Inquiry ordered against Major Gogoi; Army chief for strict punishment if found guilty

Srinagar: The Army today ordered a Court of Inquiry against Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi for alleged violation of rules and regulations after he was detained by the Jammu and Kashmir Police earlier this week following an altercation when he had attempted to enter a hotel with an 18-year-old woman.

DEL31 CBSE-RESULTS

CBSE class 12 results to be announced tomorrow

New Delhi: The results for CBSE Class 12 examinations would be announced tomorrow, a senior official said today.

DEL27 POL-ANNIVERSARY-BJP

Modi govt's schemes benefitted 22 crore poor families: Shah

New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah today said the Modi government's welfare schemes in its four years have benefitted 22 crore poor families and set an example of how a pro-people dispensation is run.

MDS26 KL-VIRUS-ANTIBODY

Ker procures 50 doses of monoclonal antibody to combat Nipah

Kozhikode: With the help of Indian Council of Medical Research and World Health Organisation, the Kerala government has procured about 50 doses of a monoclonal antibody from Australia to combat Nipah virus, state Health minister K K Shylaja said today.

MDS18 TN-VIOLENCE-LD-BANDH

Oppn sponsored bandh against Tuticorin violence peaceful

Chennai: The bandh called by DMK-led opposition parties to condemn police firing at Tuticorin in which 13 people lost their lives and press for Chief Minister K Palaniswami's resignation passed off peacefully today.

LEGAL

LGC4 BH-COURT-2NDLD BODHGAYA

NIA court convicts five IM militants in 2013 Bodh Gaya blasts

Patna: A special NIA court here today convicted five Indian Mujahideen militants in the 2013 Bodh Gaya serial blasts case in which several people including Buddhist monks were injured.

LGD22 DL-COURT-LD TERROR

10 LeT men charged for preparing to revive outfit's activities in India

New Delhi: The NIA today charged suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives Sheikh Abdul Naeem and others in a Delhi court for allegedly preparing to revive the terror outfit's activities in India on the directions of Pakistan-based handlers.

LGD8 SC-VIOLENCE PIL

Tuticorin violence: SC for urgent listing of matter on May 28

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked an advocate, who has filed a petition seeking a court-monitored CBI probe into the deaths of protesters during the anti-Sterlite rally in Tamil Nadu, to mention the matter for urgent listing on Monday 28.

LGD18 DL-HC-TN-LD VIOLENCE

Anti-Sterlite protest: HC leaves it to NHRC to decide lawyer's plea

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today left it to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to decide a lawyer's representation for an independent probe into the deaths in police firing during the protests against Vedanta's Sterlite Copper unit in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district.

FOREIGN

FGN40 CANADA-4THLD BLAST

15 injured in powerful explosion at Indian restaurant in Canada

Toronto: A powerful explosion at an Indian restaurant in Canada's Ontario province injured 15 people, three of them seriously, when two unidentified men detonated an improvised explosive device, police said today.

FGN39 TRUMP-KIM-LD SUMMIT

Summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un could still go ahead on June 12: Trump

Washington: US President Donald Trump today said his summit with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un could still happen on June 12 after officials on both sides started talking, a day after he cancelled it, citing Pyongyang's "open hostility". By Lalit K Jha

FGN41 US-4THLD WEINSTEIN

Harvey Weinstein arrested, arraigned on rape charges

New York: Harvey Weinstein was arrested and arraigned in a court here today on charges that he raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex on him, months after the disgraced movie mogul was accused by over 80 women of sexual misconduct which sparked the global #MeToo movement.