The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress leader D K Suresh, younger brother of Karnataka deputy CM D K Shivakumar, for questioning in an alleged cheating case linked to a money laundering probe against a local woman, official sources said on Tuesday.

Suresh, a former MP, has been asked to depose on June 19 and get his statement recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the sources said.

An Air India flight scheduled to depart from Ahmedabad to London on Tuesday was cancelled following a technical malfunction. According to data from Flightradar24, the aircraft assigned to operate the route was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner — the same model that was involved in the recent Air India crash in Ahmedabad in which 265 people were killed.

India’s active Covid-19 caseload saw a significant decline, falling to 6,836 on Tuesday, down from 7,264 the previous day. One death was reported in the past 24 hours, according to latest data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

The single fatality was a 44-year old female from Maharashtra who had a chronic liver problem.

Congress is in the middle of a month-long organisation-building campaign across all 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh (UP) to strengthen its grassroots presence and the party is hopeful of striking a respectful and suitable alliance to take on the BJP in the 2027 assembly polls.

In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance delivered a strong performancethe Congress winning six of the 17 seats it contested and the SP bagging 37 seats reducing the BJP's tally from 62 to 33 in UP, the most populous state in the country.

US President Donald Trump, at the Group of Seven (G7) summit on Monday, called for Russia’s return to the group and even floated the idea of including China.

Speaking beside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Trump criticised Russia’s 2014 expulsion from the then-G8 following its annexation of Crimea, describing it as a “very big mistake” that made international diplomacy “more complicated”.

The mortal remains of former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, who died in an Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad last week, were handed over to his family members by the civil hospital authorities here on Monday.

The last rites of Rupani will be held in his hometown Rajkot after a funeral procession on Monday evening.

Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who is undergoing treatment for a stomach-related issue at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, is currently stable, an official statement said on Monday.

The 78-year-old Congress leader was admitted to the hospital on Sunday evening.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III, Cyprus’ highest civilian honour, by President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday.

“Humbled to receive the 'Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III' of Cyprus. I dedicate it to the friendship between our nations,” PM Modi posted on X after the ceremony in Nicosia’s Presidential Palace.

Bike-taxi aggregator, Rapido on Monday, unveiled a new service of ‘bike parcel’ in Karnataka, after the Karnataka High Court refused to stay an earlier order halting all bike taxi services in the state.

The order came after the Karnataka government confirmed it had taken a policy decision not to permit such operations.

The Gujarat government is accelerating the development of residential infrastructure in Dholera to support the upcoming ₹91,000 crore semiconductor fabrication plant by the Tata Group. A total of 1,500 serviced apartments are being constructed to accommodate expatriates, Tata employees, and workers from the company’s supplier network and partner ecosystem, according to a report by The Economic Times.

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