BJP protests party worker's killing
The BJP's S.C. Morcha took out a protest march towards Banga Bhawan in New Delhi to protest against the killing of the party's worker in West Bengal.
BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari, party's West Bengal leader Mukul Roy were among those who participated in the rally.
The victim, Trilochan Mahato, a Dalit, was found hanging by a tree on May 30 in Purulia district. A poster was found stuck on his body, which read "being involved with BJP claimed your life."
Farmers' Satyagraha
Punjab Tourism and Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu purchases vegetables from an agri-farm in Patton village.
"Need farm produce? Then, come to my village." This is the latest protest started by farmers across the country. Farmers are keeping away from the market citing meagre renumeration that not even meets the input cost. However, people can visit them in the villages and buy farm produce directly.
Punjab minister and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu visited a village shandy in Fatehgarh Saheb to display his solidarity with the agitating farmers.
Schools reopen in Tamil Nadu
A Corporation High School teacher gives sweets to a students on the first day of school at Senthanneerpuram in Tiruchi.
While information had been doing the rounds that schools might have an extended summer break due to rising temperature, State board schools will open as scheduled on Friday, June 1.
Students attend special prayer on the first day of academic, at Government Girls Higher Secondary School Thotapalayam, in Vellore.
The new syllabus will be implemented for Classes I, VI, IX and XI and the School Education Department has already announced that arrangements had been made for the new textbooks to be distributed for students.
Residents stand around the casket of Claudia Gomez, a 19-year-old Guatemalan immigrant who was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer, to pay their respects, at the building of the municipality of San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala.
The body of a young Guatemalan woman who was shot dead last week by a U.S. border agent near Laredo, Texas, arrived onn Thursday in her home country and was turned over to her grieving parents.
Lidia and Gilberto Gomez received the white coffin carrying their daughter Claudia Patricia Gomez in the Guatemalan capital.
Gomez, 19, who studied forensic accounting, had sought admission to a state university but failed to pass three admission exams. Living in poverty and unable to find work, she left for the United States about a month ago. On May 23 she died of a gunshot to the head in an incident that is still under investigation.
Nicaragua protests
Demonstrators fire a homemade mortar during a protest against Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua, Nicaragua.
Fifteen people were killed and more than 200 injured on Wednesday in one of the worst days of violence since protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega began more than a month ago, police said on Thursday.
Kashmir on high alert
CRPF personnel keep vigil as forces put on high alert in Srinagar on Friday.
Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir have been put on a high alert following reports of large scale infiltration of militants in the Valley from across the Line of Control, officials said here on Friday.
There are reports of infiltration of over 20 militants into Kashmir from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) recently, the officials said.
Narendra Modi meets Singapore's President Halimah Yacob
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with Singapore's President Halimah Yacob at the Istana in Singapore June 1, 2018.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong and discussed bilateral ties. “Prime Minister Modi was accorded a ceremonial welcome on his arrival at Istana - Presidential Palace of Singapore. Millennia old ties now powered by partnership in innovation and technology,” said Raveesh Kumar, Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs.
Rival Koreas resume peace talk
South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, right, and the head of North Korean delegation Ri Son Gwon arrive to hold their meeting inside the Peace House at the southern side of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Friday.
North and South Korea on Friday resumed senior-level peace talks Seoul sees as an important step in building trust with Pyongyang amid a U.S.-led diplomatic push to persuade the North to give up its nuclear weapons.
(With inputs from Agencies)
