India's population is estimated to reach 1.46 billion in 2025, continuing to be the highest in the world, according to a new UN demographic report, which also revealed the country's total fertility rate has fallen below the replacement rate.

UNFPA's 2025 State of World Population (SOWP) Report, The Real Fertility Crisis, calls for a shift from panic over falling fertility to addressing unmet reproductive goals.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday told the state Assembly that backwardness is the only benchmark to decide the OBC status of people.

Maintaining that a disinformation campaign is continuing on social media by some quarters, she asserted that there is no connection with religion in deciding the inclusion of any person in the OBC category.

Shares of Reliance Power continued their upward movement, with the stock hitting over a 10-year high of ₹71.35, as they rallied 11 per cent on the BSE in Tuesday’s intra-day trade amid heavy volumes.

The stock price of the power generation company is trading at its highest level since November 2014.

Former Delhi Chief Minister Atishi was detained by police on Tuesday while participating in a protest against an impending demolition drive at Kalkaji’s Bhoomiheen Camp, where eviction notices were recently served by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA).

The eviction notice labelled the locals as "encroachers" and directed them to vacate the area within three days or face action.

The US State Department has ordered all United States diplomatic missions and consular offices worldwide to resume processing student and exchange visitor visas for Harvard University, following a federal judge’s decision last week to temporarily block President Donald Trump’s ban on international students at the Ivy League institution.

The directive, issued via diplomatic cable on June 6 and signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, comes in response to a temporary restraining order granted by US District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston.

India’s extreme poverty rate dropped to 5.3 per cent in 2022-23 from 27.1 per cent in 2011-12, according to the latest estimates released by the World Bank. The decline amounts to 269 million people moving above the international poverty threshold over an 11-year period.

The number of individuals classified as living in extreme poverty fell from 344.47 million in 2011-12 to 75.24 million in 2022-23. The assessment is based on the $3.00 per day poverty line (in 2021 purchasing power parity terms).

India’s active Covid-19 case tally rose to 5,755 with 391 fresh cases reported in the past 24 hours, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released on Saturday morning. At least four deaths were reported in the same period.

Of the four deaths reported in the past 24 hours, one each was recorded in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. The deceased included a 45-year-old woman with a nine-month pregnancy.

FMCG giant Procter & Gamble plans to cut 7,000 jobs from its global office workforce — roughly 15 per cent of its non-manufacturing employees — over the next two years, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

The maker of Tide detergent, Pampers diapers, and Bounty paper towels employed around 108,000 people as of June last year.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari praised US President Donald Trump at separate events on Wednesday, i.e., June 4, for his role in what the duo described as "de-escalating the tension" during recent conflicts with India, reported PTI.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) on Thursday pledged ₹10 lakh each to the families of the 11 people who died during a stampede outside Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium during a victory parade celebrating the team's IPL title win.

"The unfortunate incident in Bengaluru yesterday has caused a lot of anguish and pain to the RCB family. As a mark of respect and a gesture of solidarity, RCB has announced a financial support of ₹10 lakh to each of the eleven families of the deceased," the franchise said in a post on X.

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