News updates: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury denies quitting as Bengal Congress president

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Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday rubbished reports that he has resigned as the president of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee. He claimed that following the Congress' constitution, presidents of all state units have become temporary chiefs after the election of the party's national president Mallikarjun Kharge. "I am the provisional president of the state Congress. Since the day Mallikarjun Kharge became the All India president, no other state in India has had a president," Chowdhury said. He said it is surprising that the media were cooking up stories that he had resigned.

"NTA postponed the Joint CSIR-UGC-NET Examination June 2024 which was scheduled to be held between June 25 to 27. It is being postponed due to unavoidable circumstances as well as logistic issues. The revised schedule for the conduct of this examination will be announced later through the official website," says NTA.

Around 1,500 Tata Steel workers in Britain will begin an indefinite strike from July 8 over the company's plans to close two blast furnaces and cut up to 2,800 jobs, the trade union Unite said on Friday. The strike action, described by Unite as the first strikes by British steel workers in 40 years, will take place at Tata's Port Talbot and Llanwern sites in Wales.

Bail granted to minor's father in Pune Porche case by the session court, according to media reports.

Billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Resources is likely to sell a 2.5 per cent stake in Vedanta Ltd in the next couple of weeks through block deals, said two persons aware of the development, reports ET. Promoter group is likely to sell about 9 crore shares to raise around Rs 4,000 crore through block deals, said one of the persons quoted above.

India's forex reserves dropped by $2.922 billion to $652.895 billion for the week ended June 14, the Reserve Bank said on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the kitty had jumped by $4.307 billion to $655.817 billion, a new all-time high after consecutive weeks of increase in the reserves. For the week ended June 14, foreign currency assets, a major component of the reserves, decreased by $ 2.097 billion to $574.24 billion, the data released on Friday showed.

The Delhi High Court on June 21 extended the stay on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's bail. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for June 25. Earlier today, the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) had moved the Delhi High Court against the order of the trial court granting bail to Kejriwal in the money laundering case related to the Delhi liquor policy.

The United States stated on Thursday that it supports India and Pakistan having direct talks with each other, but it believes the two countries should decide the pace and scope of the discussions. Talking to reporters at a daily news conference, State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller asserted that the US values its essential relationships with both — India and Pakistan. “As we have said, we support direct discussions between India and Pakistan, but the pace, scope and character should be determined by those two countries, not by us,” he said.

The Enforcement Directorate is likely to move the Delhi High Court on Friday against  bail granted to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the city's Rouse Avenue court in the liquor policy case. Vacation judge Nyay Bindu granted bail to the Aam Aadmi Party convener Kejriwal– who has been in judicial custody since March. Kejriwal was taken in custody by the probe agency on March 21 in connection with a money laundering investigation linked to the now-scrapped excise policy. he Supreme Court had granted a 21-day interim bail to Kejriwal in view of the Lok Sabha elections on May 10. 

Rainfall on Friday morning disrupted International Yoga Day events in Kashmir, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to lead the celebrations on the banks of the Dal Lake, officials here said. The main yoga event at Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) was scheduled to start at 6:30 am.