A report by corruption watchdog, Transparency International, says that India has improved a point and risen three positions up on the global corruption index last year. The report titled ‘Corruption Perceptions Index 2018’ notes that. India marginally improved its score from 40 to 41 in 2017 and its position from 81 to 78 among 180 countries. In 2017, India was on the 81st position after sliding from 79 a year before.  

The Supreme Court on Thursday has sought finance ministry's reply by June 12, on waiver of interest on loans during the moratorium period.&nbsp;The top court said there were two aspects under consideration in this matter &mdash; no interest payment on loans during the moratorium period and no interest to be charged on interest. On May 26, the top court had asked the Centre and the RBI to respond to the plea challenging the levy of interest on loans during the moratorium period. To which,&nbsp;RBI replied saying it would not be prudent as it will risk the financial viability of the banks.
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As many as 2,550 foreigners who attended the Tablighi Jamaat event in New Delhi have been banned from entering India for 10 years for flouting visa norms. Last month the Delhi police told the High Court that as many as 960 members of the Jamaat, who came to India on tourist and e-visas, are liable to face jail term of up to five years. The police pointed out that the foreigners violated the conditions of their visas by joining the religious congregation in Delhi's Nizamuddin, and are hence culpable for prosecution under Section 14 of the Indian Foreigners Act, 1946.

Amid nationwide outrage following the brutal killing of a pregnant elephant late last month, Kerala chief minister&nbsp;Pinarayi&nbsp;Vijayan Thursday said that the culprits would be brought to book. Announcing on twitter that the police and forest department will jointly probe the killing, the chief minister said&nbsp;the focus is&nbsp;on three suspects.&nbsp;Vijayan also said it was unfortunate that some people were using this tragedy to unleash a hate campaign.&nbsp;The elephant was fatally injured after it ate a pineapple stuffed with crackers which exploded in her mouth and broke her jaw.&nbsp;Reportedly two suspects have been arrested.&nbsp;

Amazon.com is in early-stage talks to buy a stake worth at least $2 billion in telecom operator Bharti Airtel, according to a report in Reuters, underlining the growing attraction of India's digital economy for US tech giants. The planned investment, if completed, would mean Amazon acquiring a roughly 5% stake based on the current market value of Bharti, which is India's third-largest telecom company with more than 300 million subscribers. The discussions between Amazon and Bharti come at a time when global players are placing major bets on the digital arm of Reliance Industries, which owns Bharti's rival Jio. Reliance's digital unit has raised $10 billion in recent weeks from Facebook, KKR and others. An Amazon spokeswoman said the company does "not offer comments on speculation of what it may or may not do in future."

Ken&nbsp;Juster, the&nbsp;US Ambassador to India, has&nbsp;apologised&nbsp;for desecration of Mahatma Gandhi&rsquo;s statue in the United States. The statue was&nbsp;vandalised&nbsp;with graffiti and spray paint outside the Indian embassy in Washington.&nbsp;Juster&nbsp;on twitter said he was sorry&nbsp;to see the desecration of the Gandhi statue.&nbsp;The incident is reported to have taken place on the intervening night of June 2 and 3. The officials of the Indian embassy informed the State Department and registered a complaint with the local law enforcement agencies.&nbsp;

The UK&thinsp;govt said on Thursday that fugitive businessman Vijay&nbsp;Mallya&nbsp;will not be extradited anytime soon as there are legal issues involved.&nbsp;Mallya&nbsp;is currently in the United Kingdom trying to evade extradition to India. The UK&nbsp;high commission spokesperson said confidential legal issue needs to be resolved before&nbsp;Mallya&rsquo;s&nbsp;extradition can be arranged.&nbsp;Mallya&nbsp;who founded the now-defunct Kingfisher airlines, fled to Britain in March 2016 after facing accusations of financial irregularities amounting to over&nbsp;₹9,000 crore.&nbsp;Mallya&nbsp;has consistently claimed that the charges he faces are baseless and the Centre refused to take him up on his offer to clear his loans.&nbsp;

In a major blow to the&nbsp;opposition Congress ahead of the June 19 Rajya Sabha polls for&nbsp;four seats from the state, two party MLAs have resigned as&nbsp;members of the Legislative Assembly.&nbsp;Gujarat Assembly Speaker Rajendra Trivedi said&nbsp;Congress MLAs Akshay Patel and Jitu Chaudhary met him on&nbsp;Wednesday evening and handed over their resignations, which he accepted.&nbsp;The Congress has accused the BJP of trying to break&nbsp;the opposition party to win the Rajya Sabha polls. However,&nbsp;the ruling BJP dismissed the charge, saying MLAs were leaving&nbsp;the Congress as they were &lsquo;unhappy&rsquo; with the party leadership.&nbsp;In the 182-member state Assembly, the ruling BJP has&nbsp;103 MLAs and the opposition Congress now has 66 legislators.&nbsp;Of the four Rajya Sabha seats from the state set to go&nbsp;for polls on June 19, three are currently held by the BJP and&nbsp;one by the Congress.&nbsp;

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday described the comprehensive strategic partnership with India as a 'new level' of bilateral cooperation based on trust. He&nbsp;complemented Prime Minister Narendra Modi for playing an &ldquo;important part&rdquo; in &ldquo;stabilising&rdquo; the Indo-Pacific region during the difficult times.&nbsp;The two leaders during their first virtual bilateral summit discussed a range of issues including trade,&nbsp;defence, education as well as the Covid-19 crisis.&nbsp;The summit was held after Morrison had to cancel his trip to India in&nbsp;January,&nbsp;2020 due to the devastating bushfires season in Australia.&nbsp;

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside the Indian Embassy in Washington DC has been vandalized amid the ongoing protests against the custodial death of George Floyd. An investigation has been launched by the United States Park Police, news agency ANI reported. US Ambassador to India Ken Juster in a tweet apologised for the incident. Floyd&rsquo;s death, a case of police brutality, has led to civic unrest across America.

The death of a pregnant elephant in Kerala after it ate a pineapple stuffed with explosives will be investigated by the central government, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday. The minister tweeted that the government had taken "very serious note" of the killing of the elephant and that no stone will left unturned to investigate it properly and nab the culprits. "This is not an Indian culture to feed fire crackers and kill," the minister added.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that India and Australia share deep and extensive ties based on the shared interest and values between the two nations. The prime minister held his first virtual summit with the Australian PM Scott Morrison on Thursday. The Ministry of External Affairs said that the virtual summit was held as PM Morrison&rsquo;s visit to India could not take place amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The prime minister said that the time is ripe and perfect to further strengthen relations between India and Australia.

With more than 1,500 fresh coroanvirus cases on Wednesday, Delhi's Covid-19 count has breached 23,000. This is the highest number of new cases to emerge in a single day in the national capital. The total number of coronavirus cases in the national capital reached 23,645. The death toll also increased to 606 after nine more fatalities. Spike in Delhi comes at a time when Mumbai, which has been worst hit by the pandemic, has started to see a downward turn in the infections rate.

India has recorded a spike of over 9,000 coronavirus cases and 260 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry data released on Thursday morning. The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country have gone up to 2,16,919. The total number of fatalities from the virus have now crossed 6000. India has been witnessing a sharp spike in cases in the last one week as over 8000 new infections have been reported daily. Silver lining is that recovery rate has improved to over 48% and more than a lakh patients have recovered so far.

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the central government to convene a meeting between the officials from Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to end the chaos over Delhi&rsquo;s borders. The apex court has ordered the government to arrive at a consensus with regard to allowing inter-state transport between the Delhi and the neighbouring states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The court suggested that a common pass should be recognised all across the NCR.

At least 3 people are reportedly dead in cyclone-related incidents in Maharashtra. Hours after making landfall,&nbsp;with windspeed&nbsp;to 120kmph, in Alibaug, the severe cyclonic storm has now weakened into a deep depression and moved towards Nashik&nbsp;with a&nbsp;reduced windspeed&nbsp;of&nbsp;65-75 kmph. Several houses have been destroyed and power supply disrupted as trees and electric poles were uprooted due to the winds. In Mumbai, traffic was stopped on the Worli sea link as the city braced for the cyclone and flights, trains services were also suspended for hours. Limited damage has been reported from Gujarat as the cyclone changed its path.&nbsp;

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday revoked the controversial Public Safety Act against former IAS officer-turned-politician Shah&nbsp;Faesal&nbsp;and two PDP members, including the maternal uncle of former chief minister&nbsp;Mehbooba&nbsp;Mufti.&nbsp;According to separate orders issued by the Home Department, the PSA against&nbsp;Faesal, who was a 2010-batch IAS topper, Sartaj Madani, uncle of Mufti, and Peer Mansoor, her political advisor during her tenure as chief minister, was revoked "with immediate effect".&nbsp;Faesal, who was under detention after scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir's special status, was booked under the PSA in February this year, with his detention being extended barely hours before it was to come to an end.&nbsp;

61 people have been arrested after migrant workers, who were returning on board a Shramik special train from Mumbai, pulled the emergency chain to jump off the train to avoid the quarantine period. NDTV reported that the train was travelling from Mumbai to Dibrugarh when the migrant workers decided to pull the chain of the Lokmanya Tilak Shramik train near Hojai railway station in Lower Assam on Tuesday midnight.56 of the passengers who got down were arrested by the RPF, rest were arrested by Assam Police.

Maharashtra reported the highest single-day spike in coronavirus deaths on Wednesday with 122 fatalities, taking the total number of deaths in the state to 2,587. The total number of positive cases in the state now stands at 74,860. The state has been the worst hit in the country and accounts for over a third of India's total coronavirus cases. Mumbai alone reported 1,276 cases on Wednesday and accounted for 49 of the 122 deaths. The total number of deaths in the financial capital is now 1,417.

The govt on Wednesday eased travel restrictions for a limited section of foreign nationals. As per the new guidelines, foreign nationals in selective categories will be allowed to enter the country. Foreign healthcare professionals, researchers, engineers, and technicians whose services are required in laboratories, factories and other facilities part of the Indian healthcare sector will be allowed to enter the country. To avail of this relaxation, the individual will have to secure a letter of invitation from a recognized and registered healthcare facility, registered pharmaceutical company, or accredited university based in India. Foreign nationals with expertise in engineering, managerial, or design who wish to travel to India on behalf of foreign business entities located in the country will also be permitted to travel to India. Registered business entities in India can also invite foreign technical specialists and engineers for installation, repair and maintenance of foreign-origin machinery and equipment facilities.

Fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya is not flying back to India anytime soon. After feverish speculation in the media on Wednesday night that Mallya, who owes Indian banks thousands of crores and lives the high life in London, was to be put on a plane to India, The Times of India reported on Thursday that nothing of that sort was happening. Quoting an officer at the Indian high commission in London, the report said that there is no extradition as of now and media got it all wrong.

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