Highlights: Pawar declares Praful Patel, Supriya Sule as working presidents of NCP

Nigeria’s secret police took the nation’s suspended central bank governor into custody, hours after he was removed by the nation’s new president, as a power struggle in Africa’s biggest economy took a dramatic turn.

The State Security Service announced Godwin Emefiele’s detention on Saturday for “investigative reasons.” President Bola Tinubu revealed the governor’s dismissal in a brief statement that was issued after financial markets closed on Friday.

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West Bengal State Election Commission has called all-party meeting on June 13 to discuss the upcoming Panchayat elections. 

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‘I am happy with their appointment’, says NCP leader Ajit Pawar amid appointment of Supriya Sule and Praful Patel as party's working presidents. 

On not giving any new responsibility to nephew Ajit Pawar in the reshuffle inside the party ranks, Sharad Pawar on Saturday said Ajit Pawar already had the responsibility as the Leader of Opposition of the Maharashtra Assembly. Promoting daughter Supriya Sule and Rajya Sabha MP Praful Patel to the ranks of working presidents of the party -- a designation that the party never had -- was a well-thought-out decision by the seniors of the party, Sharad Pawar said.

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NCP chief Sharad Pawar speaks on Opposition unity and over no decision by Congress on supporting AAP against Centre's ordinance. 

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Fire breaks out at Kamla Market in Delhi, several fire tenders on the spot. Further details awaited

French judges on Saturday handed preliminary charges of attempted murder to a man suspected of stabbing four young children and two adults in a French Alps park.

The district administration has announced financial assistance of ₹4 lakh each to families of the women who died due to mudslide in the state capital on Saturday.

The incident occurred near a pond located in Balampur village under Sukhi Sewaniya police station limits in the state capital on Saturday afternoon in which two women died.

Earlier, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Santosh Shukla told ANI over phone, "Around five to six women had gone near a pond in Balampur village to dig mud for painting their house. During this, they made a hole to dig the soil but it was deep from inside. Meanwhile the top layer of the soil caved in and three women got buried inside it."

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What should you do when the air outside contains dangerous levels of pollution? Stay indoors if you can. Buy an air purifier. Wear a mask to travel. It’s a list of precautions familiar to people in cities like Delhi, Beijing and San Francisco, where air pollution or seasonal wildfire smoke are the norm. It’s a list newly familiar to millions more people across North America, whose skies filled this week with dangerous smoke drifting from fires in Canada. It’s a list that will become more familiar every year, as climate change drives up wildfire frequency and intensity.

But how should you feel when the air outside contains dangerous levels of pollution? Or your community is flooding? Or drought is ravaging crops? There’s a list for that, too. Grief. Terror. Rage. Guilt. Shame. Helplessness. Any and all of those reactions are understandable and worth sitting in, says Margaret Klein Salamon, a clinical psychologist by training and executive director of the Climate Emergency Fund, which funds disruptive climate activism. Salamon, author of Facing the Climate Emergency, is based in Brooklyn; she spoke to Bloomberg Green on Friday, as the skies over New York City started to clear.

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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, speaking about wrestlers' protest said on Saturday, “The BJP should rethink its slogan of 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao'. It is their responsibility that the women wrestlers get justice.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Kyiv on Saturday in a gesture of support as Ukraine braces for a major counter-offensive against Russian forces and grapples with regular air strikes.

Trudeau paid his respects at a memorial site in central Kyiv to Ukrainian soldiers who have been killed fighting pro-Russian forces since 2014.

NATO member Canada, which has one of the world's largest Ukrainian diasporas, has supplied military and financial assistance to Ukraine during the full-scale invasion launched by Russia in February 2022.

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Congress workers hold protest outside the office of the West Bengal State Election Commission in Kolkata over the alleged murder of a party worker in Khargram of Murshidabad. 

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Former British prime minister Boris Johnson's angry departure from parliament over Covid lockdown-breaking parties sparked fevered speculation Saturday over his and the current government's future, with allies and enemies trading barbs.

Johnson announced he was leaving as a member of parliament on Friday, claiming he had been forced out in a stitch-up by his political opponents.

The 58-year-old populist politician has been under investigation by a cross-party committee about whether he deliberately lied to parliament over parties when he was in office.

In evidence earlier this year, he insisted he had not.

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Union minister Giriraj Singh is facing flak from opposition leaders for dubbing Nathuram Godse, Mahatma Gandhi's assassin, as 'Sapoot' (worthy son) of India.

Centre Saturday set up a peace committee for dialogue between ethnic groups, the conflict between whom led to the Manipur violence.

Sharad Pawar Saturday declared Praful Patel and Supriya Sule as the new working presidents of NCP.

Veterans who were victims of homophobia in the British armed forces say Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government is taking too long to publish a damning report on the historic treatment of LGBTQ people in the military.

A fire broke out in a chemical company in the Wada area of Palghar district in Maharashtra on Saturday. Fire brigades were rushed on the spot. No injuries have been reported in the fire incident so far, Palghar Fire Brigade said.

Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde’s son Shrikant Shinde Friday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders from Dombivli area for engaging in “selfish politics” by creating trouble for the BJP-Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) alliance in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and offered to “resign” if that would bridge the growing rift between the two parties.

“My reaction is total rejection of what Giriraj Singh said. He has made a communal statement, he has praised a person who killed the father of the nation. 'Babar ki Aulad' is a term used by communal people...we reject it. He called Mughal emperors as the people against India…,” TMC MP Saugata Roy on Union Minister Giriraj Singh's statements.

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma met Manipur CM N Biren Singh on the backdrop of the ongoing situation in Manipur on Saturday.

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has approached Gujarat High Court seeking a review of its recent order setting aside the Central Information Commission's directive to the Gujarat University to provide information on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's degree to him.

Jagbir Singh has alleged that he has seen Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh behaving inappropriately with female wrestlers on several occasions in the past.

The Border Security Force (BSF) Tripura on Thursday apprehended one Indian national and seized 3,195 bottles of Eskuf syrup, worth ₹5,59,125 intended for smuggling into Bangladesh, the BSF said in an official statement.