LIVE: Russia has fully occupied Ukraine's Severodonetsk, reports AFP quoting city mayor

The Mumbai Police will soon send a summon to suspended Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma for 2nd time to appear at Pydhonie PS for enquiry as she failed to appear today for the same. Earlier, Mumbai police summoned Nupur Sharma but they didn't receive any reply from her, ANI reported.

Ukraine's Severodonetsk was "fully occupied" by the Russian army, its mayor said on Saturday, after weeks of fighting over the key eastern city.

Maharashtra reported 1,128  new Covid cases in the last 24 hours taking the total number of active cases in the state to 24,333.

Civil Aviation Regulator DGCA has stopped Flying operations at two Flying Training schools located in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra respectively because of serious safety concerns, ANI reported.

President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school, AP reported. 

A massive fire broke out in a children's hospital in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Saturday. Fortunately, no casualties were reported and 75 people, including 13 newborns, were rescued by firefighters from the facility located on the third floor of a four-storey building near the city's Parimal Garden crossroads. Read more

The Gujarat ATS on Saturday detained activist Teesta Setalvad's house in connection with a foreign fund case related to her NGO. Teesta Setalvad was a co-petitioner in the Supreme Court against the clean chit to then-CM Narendra Modi, 63 others in 2002 riots case.

With a rise in Covid cases, the city's containment zones have increased from 190 on June 17 to 322 on June 24, an increase of about 70 per cent, according to official data, PTI reported.

Sri Lankan government had given its approval to make the use of another USD 70 million from the USD 1 billion Line of Credit (LoC) extended by India during the ongoing crisis to import essential food items, ANI reported.

Fresh cases of Covid in Britain jumped by 23% in a week, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In the week ending June 18, around 1,740,000 new cases were detected nationwide, up from more than the 1.4 million the previous week, the ONS added. 

The suspect who has been arrested following the deadly shootings in Norway's capital Oslo is a Norwegian of Iranian descent, news agency AFP reported on Saturday citing the police. 

“The man was known to domestic intelligence services and had had brushes with the law for minor infractions like knife and drug possession,” the police said during a press conference. 

The Indian Air Force (IAF) said on Saturday that it is continuing flood relief operations in Assam and Meghalaya. “IAF has utilised C-130, An-32 , Mi 17V5, Mi 171V ,Mi17s & ALH extensively. This is the fourth day and IAF has flown more than 65 HADR missions and dropped 140 Ton of relief material till today," it said. 

The Thane district in Maharashtra has banned any kind of political procession, gathering and sloganeering till June 30 amid the ongoing political crisis in the state. 

Union home minister Shah said on Saturday that the basic reason for the 2002 Gujarat riots was the Godhra train burning incident. “Basic reason for the riots was Godhra train burning. Fifty-nine people, including a 16-day-old child, were set on fire...No parade was done, it is false. They were taken to Civil Hospital and bodies were taken by families to their homes in closed ambulances,” Shah told ANI. 

Amit Shah told ANI on Saturday that the Supreme Court's judgement on the Gujarat riots is very significant for the BJP. “My colleagues were victimised... accept judgement on behalf of every BJP worker, not just Modiji,” Shah said. 

“Court said in judgement today that riots after burning of train (Godhra) weren't pre-planned but self-motivated. It dismissed Tehelka's sting operation because when the footage before and after it came to light, it was found that the sting op was politically motivated,” Union home minister Shah told ANI on Saturday. 

Union home minister Amit Shah told news agency ANI on Saturday that Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) rivals, poltically motivated interests and some NGO's publicised the allegations. 

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Saturday announced support to NDA's candidate for presidential polls Droupadi Murmu. "We support a woman from tribal community," Mayawati told reporters in Lucknow. 

The minimum temperature in Delhi on Saturday settled at 24.3 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season's average, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The IMD added that relative humidity at 8:30 am was recorded at 58 per cent.

India on Saturday saw a decline in its daily Covid tally after 15,940 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, which pushed the caseload to 4,33,78,234, according to the Union health ministry's dashboard. Twenty more people died and the toll has climbed to 5,24,974. The active cases, on the other hand, stand at 91,779. 

On Friday, the country recorded 17,336 new cases and 13 more deaths. 

Mizoram reported 35 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, which pushed the caseload to 2,28,840, according to the health department's bulletin. The active cases in the state have now climbed to 142. 

United States Secretary Antony Blinken said that the Joe Biden administration is still committed to reproductive rights globally, hours after the Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion in the country. 

"Under this Administration, the State Department will remain fully committed to helping provide access to reproductive health services and advancing reproductive rights around the world," Blinken said in a statement.