A look at the headlines right now:
- Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigns following pressure from investors: The 40-year-old agreed to step down from the post after investors maintained that the company was in need of new leadership.
- US will be replaced if it disengages from global matters, warns UN chief Antonio Guterres: He noted that the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to funding for the body would create an ‘unsolvable problem’.
- Two militants killed in Baramulla encounter in J&K, combing operations under way to trace others: An Army official said they had received information about the duo holed up in a house in Pazalpora village.
- Supreme Court refuses to stay CS Karnan’s six-month sentence or give him bail: The retired Calcutta High Court judge will be taken to the city’s Presidency Jail today.
- US warns ally Saudi Arabia about the Qatar conflict: Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has appointed his son Mohammed bin Salman the heir to the throne.
- Anil Kumble steps down as India’s head coach: The BCCI confirmed this in a statement and said Kumble had made the decision though the advisory committee had endorsed his extension.
- BJP’s presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind resigns as Bihar governor: The Shiv Sena and Mulayam Singh Yadav both expressed their support for the ruling party’s presidential candidate on Tuesday.
- GJM to quit Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, shutdown in Darjeeling will continue: Members of the all-party meeting decided to boycott the talks that will be held by the Mamata Banerjee government on June 22 in Siliguri.
- Income Tax Department attaches 12 plots of land belonging to Lalu Prasad Yadav’s family: They have charged his relatives under the Benami Transactions Act in connection with a probe into land deals worth Rs 1,000 crore and tax evasion.
- Centre will not waive any farm loans, must meet fiscal targets, saysArun Jaitley: On June 12, the finance minister had said that the Centre would not fund any loan waivers by states, which would have to find their own funds for doing so.
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