Morning Digest: World suffers from shortage of trust, PM Modi tells G7 leaders; Mbappé scores brace in France’s 3-1 World Cup win over Senegal, and more

Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription The View From India Looking at World Affairs from the Indian perspective. First Day First Show News and reviews from the world of cinema and streaming. Today's Cache Your download of the top 5 technology stories of the day. Science For All The weekly newsletter from science writers takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Data Point Decoding the headlines with facts, figures, and numbers THEdge At the cutting edge of education and careers Health Matters Ramya Kannan writes to you on getting to good health, and staying there Gender Agenda Stories from beyond the binary. The Hindu On Books Books of the week, reviews, excerpts, new titles and features. Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the Outreach Session on “Forging new Partnerships and rebuilding international solidarity” at the G7 Summit, in Evian on Tuesday (June 16, 2026) | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a bilateral meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the fringes of the G7 Summit in Evian, on Tuesday (June 16, 2026). Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney on the fringes of the G7 Summit in Evian in France. Discussions covered trade, economy, energy, technology and people-to-people ties, as per Mr. Modi. With a message that trust was in short supply globally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in a session with the Group of Seven (G7) countries and others on “Forging New Partnerships and Rebuilding International Solidarity”. Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy on Tuesday threatened to move a privilege motion against Barasat MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar — who heads the dissident TMC faction that merged with the Nationalist Citizen Party of India this week — for breaking the Parliamentary norm of not divulging the proceedings of a Parliamentary standing committee. The Indian Air Force (IAF) has deployed aircraft and helicopters to airlift question papers for the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination across the country as part of enhanced security arrangements ahead of the test scheduled for June 21. Medicinal syrups, including those used to treat coughs, can no longer be bought without a doctor’s prescription, according to a government notification issued on Tuesday (June 16, 2026) This means that over-the-counter sales of these syrups will no longer be allowed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump exchanged pleasantries and held a brief conversation on Tuesday at a gathering of G7 leaders, marking their first in-person encounter in 16 months amid continuing strain in bilateral ties. The number of Trinamool Congress MLAs supporting Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly has increased to 65. Mr. Banerjee, who participated in a Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting called by Speaker Rathindra Bose on Tuesday, once again emphasised that he was the leader of the Trinamool Congress Legislature Party and dared his rivals to undergo a floor test in the House. Wearing cockroach masks, displaying placards and raising slogans for justice, hundreds of youths, students and people from different walks of life participated in a protest organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) in Nagpur. A Delhi court on Tuesday (June 16, 2026) permitted Yash Yadav, a medical student accused in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case, to appear for the re-examination scheduled on June 21. The Supreme Court has come to the aid of an octogenarian woman and her visually impaired son from Bagadia village in Odisha’s Subarnapur district, taking suo motu cognisance of newspaper reports highlighting the dire conditions in which they were living. Days ahead of the polling for the two Rajya Sabha seats in Jharkhand, MLAs of the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Tuesday (June 16, 2026) started shifting to a luxury hotel in Ranchi. Over a week past the monsoon’s normal arrival date, the rain clouds have yet to reach Mumbai, driving India’s nationwide monsoon deficit to 35% on June 16. The shortfall in rainfall is concentrated in the regions the monsoon has failed to cover — Maharashtra, the Konkan coast, and the adjoining regions of central India — where its northward progress has been stalled for several days. A district court in Mizoram has sentenced two Border Security Force (BSF) personnel to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment in a case involving rape, murder, and acid attack nine years ago. Oil prices are sinking again on Tuesday (June 16, 2026) and pulled back below $80 per barrel for the first time since early March, while the U.S. stock market drifts near its all-time high. Satyaki Savarkar, the grandnephew of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, told a special MP/MLA court in Pune that the right-wi

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