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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that public service is the ultimate measure of good governance, stressing that humility, dedication and a strong sense of duty are essential to earning the trust of the people.
Left-armer Manav Suthar’s emergence as the flag-bearer of India’s spin attack in the foreseeable future was the biggest gain for the hosts in their expectedly dominant innings and 300 runs victory over Afghanistan in the one-off Test here on Monday.
Congress president MallikarjunKharge is among the seven Rajya Sabha candidates across five States that the party announced on Thursday (June 4, 2026) for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections on June 18.
A major political controversy erupted in Madhya Pradesh after the nomination of senior Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan for the Rajya Sabha elections was rejected during the scrutiny process. The development has sparked a heated confrontation between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with the opposition party alleging political interference and an attack on democratic processes.
Indian equity benchmarks staged a resilient, late-afternoon recovery on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, successfully reclaiming territory surrendered during Monday’s brutal liquidation. The BSE Sensex surged 456.74 points to finish at 73,981.00, while the NSE Nifty 50 rose 119.10 points to settle at 23,242.10, bouncing back from an anxious intraday low of 23,104.45. Market architecture was heavily fortified by two structural catalysts: a temporary, U.S.-brokered halt in direct Israel-Iran hostilities that cooled Brent crude to $93.3 per barrel, and an emergency liquidity intervention by the Reserve Bank of India. To counter a ballooning oil-and-gas import bill, the central bank opened a special FCNR(B) foreign currency swap window at 1.5% per annum, driving an aggressive 1% rally across banking heavyweights like Bank of Baroda and Bank of India. Corporate sentiment received further structural insulation after the Bombay High Court struck down the Centre’s retrospective spectrum charges on Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, while a U.S. federal court simultaneously quashed President Donald Trump’s proposed $100,000 H-1B visa fee, providing a major administrative reprieve for frontline Indian IT export houses.
PahlajNihalani, film producer and former chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), died on Thursday. He was 76.
