Here are the biggest headlines right now:
Here are the biggest headlines right now:
1. RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan keeps key rates unchanged, indicates a wait-and-watch policy: In the fiscal's second monetary policy review, the Central bank announced that the repo rate will remain 6.5%, while the reverse repo rate is still 6%.
2. Hillary Clinton has enough delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination, says AP: With the support of 2,383 delegates, she could become the first woman candidate for any major political party in the United States.
3. Udta Punjab: Anurag Kashyap compares censor board's crackdown with dictatorship in North Korea: The film's co-producer said anyone opposing the film was actually promoting drugs.
4. Explosion in bus injures 15 in Haryana’s Fatehabad district, police suggest it was an accident: The blast took place after a bottle containing potash, which a passenger was carrying, fell.
5. US returns 200 artefacts worth $100 million to India: The pieces returned included religious statues, bronzes and terracotta pieces, some dating back more than 2,000 years.
6. Supreme Court rejects plea for CBI investigation into Mathura violence: The court said the petitioner did not show evidence indicating inaction from the Akhilesh Yadav-led government.
7. Hindu priest murdered in Bangladesh: Ananta Gopal Ganguly's body was found with his throat slit, however, no outfit has claimed responsibility yet.
8. Serena Williams overtakes Maria Sharapova to become world's highest paid female athlete: The American tennis star made $28.9 million in prize money and off-field earnings over the past 12 months.
9. Islamic State burns 19 Yazidi women alive for refusing to have sex with fighters in Iraq: The women were set on fire in iron cages in front of hundreds of people, an eyewitness said.
10. Google’s AlphaGo will take on the Go world champion in a match later this year: Chinese teen Ke Jie has reportedly agreed to play against the artificially intelligent computer programme, which beat Korean grandmaster Lee Seedol in March.
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