Highlights: SC junks review petitions against its verdict on law on 10% EWS quota

Delhi on Tuesday logged 29 fresh Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 1.62 per cent, according to data shared by the city government's health department.

The BJP in Jharkhand on Tuesday decided to organise a month-long mega public outreach campaign from May 30 on the occasion of completion of nine years of the NDA's rule at the Centre, reports PTI.

The decision to launch 'Mahasampark Abhiyan' was taken at a working committee meeting of the state BJP here in Ranchi.

Britain's King Charles III will visit Romania in June, the eastern European country's prime minister said Tuesday, reports AFP.

Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca said the newly crowned king would meet government officials, including President Klaus Iohannis, who attended Charles' coronation in London this month.

A humanitarian aid worker who used an anonymous Twitter account to mock Saudi Arabia about its economy has filed a federal racketeering lawsuit against the social media platform, the kingdom and a number of individuals alleging an attempt to silence critics overseas, reports AP.

Supreme Court rejects a clutch of review petitions against its November verdict that upheld the central law on 10% EWS quota.

A group representing the 57 victims of the head-on collision of two trains in Greece last February said Tuesday that it had filed a criminal lawsuit against Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and other ministers and officials ahead of Sunday's national election, reports AFP.

A meeting of Indian Army and Chinese Army officials at the Major General level was held at the Daulat Beg Oldie sector along the LAC in Ladakh today. The two sides discussed ways of resolving the ongoing stand-off between two sides and was routine in nature, reports ANI citing defence sources. 

Executions worldwide increased by 53 per cent in 2022 from a year earlier, with a significant rise in Iran and Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International said in an annual report Tuesday that also criticised Indonesia as having one of the highest numbers of new death sentences in Asia, reports AP.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Hiroshima, Japan on 19-21 May 2023 at the invitation of Kishida Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan, for the G-7 Summit under the Japanese Presidency.

PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate the International Museum Expo 2023 on May 18 at Pragati Maidan in Delhi, ANI reports. 

The tragedy that struck Ekkiyarkuppam and Perunkaranai villages of Tamil Nadu was due to the consumption of methanol, a deadly concoction made by illicit brewers, and not due to spurious liquor, the police claimed on Tuesday, reports PTI.

Hooch tragedy | Death toll rises to 20 in the spurious liquor tragedy - 13 in Villupuram and 7 in Chengalpattu.

Nine people were killed after an auto-rickshaw they were travelling collided with a milk tanker in Jehanabad area here on Tuesday, police said, PTI reported.

Rashtrapati Bhavan will be open for public viewing for six days a week from June 1, 2023. The tour of Rashtrapati Bhavan will be available from Tuesday to Sunday (except on Gazetted Holidays) in seven-time slots between 9:30 am and 4:30 pm. Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum Complex is also open for visitors from Tuesday to Sunday (except on Gazetted Holidays), reports ANI.

The Assam Police on Tuesday said it will start offering voluntary retirement to all obese personnel if they fail to reduce their weights by November this year, reports PTI.

Director-General of Police (DGP) Gyanendra Pratap Singh said the decision was taken on the direction by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Speaker Satish Mahana on Tuesday administered the oath to newly elected Apna Dal (Sonelal) MLAs Shafeek Ahmad Ansari and Rinki Kol, reports PTI.

Collegium clears two names for the appointment as judges in the Supreme Court- Andhra Pradesh HC chief justice PK Mishra & senior advocate KV Viswanathan.

The number of people in the U.K. not working because of long-term sickness has risen to a record high partly because of ongoing health problems related to the coronavirus pandemic, official figures showed Tuesday, reported AP. 

Ukraine supreme court chief detained in $2.7 million graft probe, reports AFP.

The Tamil Nadu government has told the Supreme Court it has not issued any order imposing a "shadow or implicit ban" on 'The Kerala Story', a multilingual film that has triggered a massive controversy over religious conversion, reports PTI.

Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday hinted at the possibility of replacement of the BJP Karnataka President Nalin Kumar Kateel, who has already completed his three year term, following the party's loss in the Assembly elections, PTI reports.

CBI registers a case against a freelance journalist under Official Secrets Act for the illegal collection of sensitive information including the minute details of DRDO defence projects and their progress, says a CBI official, reports ANI.

Madhya Pradesh Congress leader and former MLA Satya Prakash Sakhwar joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday in the presence of state BJP president Vishnu Dutt Sharma, reports PTI.

China and Japan's defence ministers held their first phone call via a direct telephone line under the maritime-air liaison mechanism on Tuesday, China's defence ministry said, reports Reuters.

Britain needs to be more competitive on pay to attract and keep top talent as it delivers on reforming its post-Brexit financial sector, UK financial services minister Andrew Griffith said on Tuesday, reports Reuters.