School assembly news headlines for June 3, 2026: Top national and global updates
Good morning everyone. Moving on to today's top national updates, India and Japan have forged a major milestone by signing a new defence and economic pact. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education is evaluating a landmark reform to give 50% weightage to school board exams for NEET and JEE admissions, aiming to ease competitive pressure on students. In space tech, Skyroot Aerospace has announced the launch window for Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital rocket.
Top national headlines
- India, Japan unveil transformative initiatives to boost ties
New Delhi: India and Japan on Thursday unveiled a raft of landmark initiatives including an economic partnership framework and defence pact to co-develop military hardware following summit talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi.
- TMC feud: Rebel faction meets EC; Mamata camp questions poll body's decision to grant audience
New Delhi: The Ritabrata Banerjee-led rebel faction of the Trinamool Congress on Thursday said the full bench of the Election Commission gave it a "patient hearing" on its claim over the party, and expressed hope that the poll panel would respond shortly.
- Eight labourers mostly from Bihar killed as rock collapses at stone quarry in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: Eight workers mostly from Bihar were killed after a massive granite rock collapsed at a stone quarry in Bengaluru South Taluk on Thursday, police said.
- BJP accuses Priyanka Gandhi, husband of attempt to grab land in Uttarakhand
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday claimed that Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her husband Robert Vadra were involved in an alleged attempt to grab a four-acre land parcel in Uttarakhand, where a 90-year-old woman was being threatened to vacate the property.
- Board exams may get 50 pc weightage in admissions based on NEET, JEE
New Delhi: Board exams may have 50 per cent weightage in crucial admissions presently based on scores of entrance exams like NEET and JEE, according to sources.
- Skyroot announces launch window for Vikram-1, India's first privately developed orbital-class rocket
New Delhi: Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace on Thursday announced a launch window between July 12 and August 4 for the maiden test flight of its Vikram-1 launch vehicle -- the nation's first privately developed orbital-class rocket.
- Lawyers seek FIR against Ram Mandir Trust functionaries, hold protests
Ayodhya (UP): Lawyers of the Faizabad Bar Association on Thursday took out a protest march here and submitted a police complaint seeking an FIR against Ram Mandir Trust general secretary Champat Rai, trust member Anil Mishra and temple official Gopal Rao over alleged embezzlement of donation funds.
- CJP protest day 13: Wangchuk's sugar drops to 60; Dipke launches 'chai pe charcha with cockroaches'
New Delhi: Activist Sonam Wangchuk's blood sugar level dropped to 60, and his blood pressure remained low on the fifth day of his hunger strike at Delhi Jantar Mantar on Thursday, while Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke announced a "Chai Pe Charcha with Cockroaches" initiative to gather feedback from protesters on expanding the ongoing agitation, which entered its thirteenth day.
- 'Result of Modi govt's divisive ideology': Rahul slams Centre after houses torched in Manipur
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at the Centre over the incidents of torching of several houses in two tribal villages in Manipur, saying it is the result of the Modi government's "divisive ideology".
- 'Show restraint': Delhi HC tells journalist Anjana Om Kashyap, Khan Sir
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday told TV Today Network Ltd and its managing editor Anjana Om Kashyap to refrain from making statements against Faisal Khan, popularly known as 'Khan Sir', and also asked the educator to remove his post on the journalist's child.
- 'Methyl Isocyanate of Law': SC quashes verdict based on AI-generated precedents
New Delhi: Red flagging the use of "non-existent, fake and hallucinated" judgements generated by artificial intelligence (AI), the Supreme Court on Thursday set aside a verdict of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), saying that courts must adopt zero tolerance against citing or using AI-generated precedents.
- Not true: WhatsApp says claims of people reserving popular, well-known usernames false
New Delhi: WhatsApp has asserted that username reservation relating to well-known public figure names is restricted only to their legitimate account owners, and termed as "false" any claims that people are reserving popular or well-known usernames.
Top foreign headlines
- A terrorist, is a terrorist: India calls for collective action to root out murderous ideology
United Nations: Asserting that a "terrorist is a terrorist", India has called on the international community to work collectively to root out the "murderous ideology" without finding any grievance to justify terrorism.
- Pakistan PM Sharif to visit Iran on Friday to attend Khamenei's funeral
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his top ministers will visit Iran on Friday to participate in the funeral of late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in US-Israeli strikes in February, the Foreign Office announced on Thursday.
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