Highlights: Fire breaks out inside Kolkata's Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose international airport

The Israeli military said Wednesday it closed an investigation into its shooting and killing of a Palestinian toddler in the occupied West Bank earlier this month. In a rare admission of wrongdoing, the military said the 2-year-old boy was killed unintentionally when a soldier mistook him and his father for militants on the run.

Parliament delivered a surprise blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition on Wednesday by electing an opposition member to sit on a committee that appoints judges, a panel at the heart of a political battle over Israel's justice system, reported AP. 

Karine Elharrar of the centrist Yesh Atid party secured one of the two committee seats but Tally Gotliv of Netanyahu's Likud party lost, paving the way for another vote on the second seat within 30 days, Knesset speaker Amir Ohana announced.

A man accused of shooting dead his wife and her two brothers at Krishna Nagar here was arrested from Gujarat's Rajkot on Wednesday, police said.

Earlier on June 11, triple murder accused Rakesh Pandit allegedly shot his wife Suman and her two brothers, Manjeet Singh and Mukesh Kumar, who had come from nearby Dhanana village to intervene in a fight between the couple.

Pandit was absconding since the crime and police had formed several teams to nab him.

A petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court challenging the recent ban on the "age-old practice" of animal sacrifice within the protected area of Vishalgad fort in Kolhapur, PTI reported.

The plea filed by the Hajrat Peer Malik Rehan Mira Saheb Dargah Trust challenged the directive issued by the Deputy Director of Archaeology and Museums, Mumbai on February 1 this year prohibiting illegal animal slaughter in the name of sacrifice to Gods.

Fire breaks out inside Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International (Kolkata) Airport, reports ANI.

The official resident of a cabinet minister in the N Biren Singh government in Manipur was burned down on Wednesday evening by unidentified miscreants. No one was stated to be injured in the incident.

Nemcha Kipgen, the BJP MLA from Kangpokpi, is the industry minister of the state and the only woman in the Manipur cabinet. The minister, who is among the 10 Kuki MLAs, seeking a separate administration for Kuki-Zomi-Chin-Hmar communities of the state, was not present in the house.

Africa occupies an important place in India's Foreign Policy and during the last nine years, this has been consciously stepped up under the direction of PM Modi, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday in Delhi.

"Our ties are not transactional but represent the solidarity of a shared struggle. Africa, therefore, occupies an important place in India's foreign policy. During the last 9 years, this has been consciously stepped up under the direction of PM Modi," EAM said while addressing the 18th CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on the India-Africa growth partnership.

A 50-year-old man was arrested for allegedly extorting money from people, especially senior citizens, by recording their nude video calls and threatening to put them on social media, police said on Wednesday.

Alamuddin, a resident of Abhaipur village in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district, would call his victim on WhatsApp, show them nude videos of woman and record the screens.

Ahead of all important Opposition parties meeting in Patna on June 23, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has expressed the possibility of early Lok Sabha elections.

Kumar expressed these views while speaking at a function organised to lay foundation stone and inaugurating 5,061 schemesof different rural development department works in Patna n Wednesday.

Two police personnel, including a woman constable were allegedly attacked by a group of locals in Assam's Hojai district on Tuesday evening. Seven locals including two women have been arrested for attacking police.

According to the police, they arrested a man who allegedly abetted his wife to commit suicide and the group of locals entered in the police station to attack him. The police tried to stop them and they thrashed a lady constable and another cop.

The Uttarakhand High Court will on Thursday hear a plea to prevent Hindu outfits from holding a 'mahapanchayat' against "love jihad" in Purola town, where the local administration has imposed prohibitory orders to prevent the gathering from taking place.

The Association for the Protection of Civil Rights moved the court Wednesday after the Supreme Court earlier in the day refused to entertain its plea against the mahapanchayat, but allowed the petitioner to approach the HC or any other authority.

The CBI has filed a charge sheet against a former additional commissioner of Income Tax in Ahmedabad who was arrested in an alleged bribery case of ₹30 lakh, officials said Wednesday, PTI reported.

The agency had taken over the investigation from Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau which was probing the case against Santosh Karnani, they said.

A four-year-old boy was allegedly killed at a village in Amethi after a man, who claimed to be an occultist, told the boy's stepmother that a child had to be sacrificed so that she could bear one of her own, police said on Wednesday.

British foreign minister James Cleverly may visit China next month, according to people with knowledge of the plans, as the two countries seek to stabilise a recent turbulent relationship that had sunk to the lowest point in decades.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two Superintendents and three Inspectors, all of Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST), Jabalpur in a bribery case involving seven lakh, reported ANI. 

The arrested accused were identified as Superintendent Kapil Kamble; Superintendent Somen Goswami, Inspector Veerendra Jain, Inspector Vikas Gupta, and Inspector Pradeep Hazari. All were at CGST in Jabalpur.

At least 78 people have died and dozens are feared missing off the coast of southern Greece after a fishing boat carrying migrants capsized and sank, authorities said Wednesday, reports AP.

A large search and rescue operation was launched in the area. Authorities said 104 people have been rescued so far following the nighttime incident some 75 kilometres southwest of Greece's southern Peloponnese region.

A special CBI court here on Wednesday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Sanville alias Sam D'Souza, an accused in a bribery case related to the 2021 drug bust on Cordelia cruise ship, observing his custodial interrogation is necessary considering the gravity of the offence against him, reports PTI. 

India will soon overtake China as the largest driver of global oil demand, International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol said on Wednesday, reported Reuters.

An unidentified person died allegedly after a cluster bus hit him near the Nawada Metro Station, police said on Wednesday, reports PTI.

Police had received information on Tuesday at 10.37 pm about the fatal accident. The cluster bus had hit the pedestrian, following which a crowd gathered there, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) M Harsha Vardhan said.

Nearly a month after a woman police officer from Assam died in an alleged road accident, the union government on Wednesday handed over investigation of the case to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Junmoni Rabha, a woman police sub-inspector posted as in-charge of Morikolong outpost in Nagaon district, died on the wee hours of May 16 when her car, which she was allegedly driving, had a head-on-collision with a truck on NH 37 near Sorubhogia in the same district.

Owing to severe cyclonic conditions in the West Coast, especially in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan, the proposed Public Meeting of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Khammam on June 15 stands postponed: Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay, reported ANI. 

Congress attacks Centre over situation in Manipur, says Home Minister Amit Shah's 'belated' visit and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma's 'outsourced interventions' haven't had significant impact as agony of people of state continues unabated.

Tamil Nadu Minister Senthil Balaji sent to judicial custody till June 28 by Sessions Court, in connection with money laundering case, reports ANI. 

Five Vande Bharat trains to be inaugurated on June 26 on these routes: Bhopal- Indore, Patna- Ranchi, Bhopal - Jabalpur, Bangalore - Hubli and Goa- Mumbai

Cyclone Biparjoy: Dwarkadhish Temple in Dwarka will be closed tomorrow, June 15: SDM Dwarka, Parth Talsania