Morning Digest: Praggnanandhaa beats Keymer to win Norway Chess title; U.S. attacks Iranian coastal sites after Iran launches drones in latest flare-up, 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. India’s Praggnanandhaa became champion at Norway Chess 2026 after finishing the tournament in Oslo with four consecutive classical wins. | Photo Credit: Sportstar Indian Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa on Friday (June 5, 2026) defeated German Vincent Keymer in the 10th and final round at Deichman Bjorvika to win the Norway Chess 2026. He topped the leaderboard with 18 points, one ahead of American Wesley So, with his convincing win in the final round. He is the first Indian to emerge as a champion in the prestigious tournament. The 20-year-old player won four classical games on the trot to take the top spot after So’s chances of claiming the trophy ended after his game against Alireza Firouzja ended in a draw. The U.S. military said it shot down four Iranian drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz and then struck some of the Islamic Republic's coastal surveillance radar sites in response. “The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic,” U.S. Central Command said on social media on Friday (June 5, 2026). The military is enforcing a blockade on Iranian ports in response to Tehran's chokehold on the crucial corridor for global oil and natural gas shipments, which has sent energy prices spiking. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Congress has spent the past 12 years trying to create “chaos and uncertainty” in an attempt to regain political space, but asserted that people across the country have given the party a “strong response”. Addressing a public function in Surat, where he inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for development projects worth ₹18,777 crore, Mr. Modi said that Gujarat had already sidelined the Congress politically and claimed that people in States governed by the party were dissatisfied with its performance. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) invited ethical hacker Nisarga Adhikary, 19, this week for meetings with an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) expert team to flag security gaps in its IT ecosystem. Mr. Adhikary had last month reported “critical vulnerabilities” in the portal that stores sensitive student data. The CBSE had earlier denied any breach in its data security. The centrally administered Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands is planning to introduce elections, as they are conducted in the rest of India, to the Nicobarese tribal community in the archipelago. This includes measures such as delimitation of constituencies, preparation of electoral rolls, and reserving seats and positions of leadership for women. Patna-based educator and YouTuber Faisal Khan, popularly known as “Khan Sir”, was booked by the police on Friday (June 5, 2026) and questioned over a firing episode in the Bihar capital earlier this week. On the night of June 2, around 20 people vandalised his coaching institute, Khan Global Studies (KGS), and brutally attacked a security guard. Following the incident, Mr. Khan’s two bodyguards fired in the air, allegedly on the instructions of “Khan sir”. The bodyguards were arrested and Mr. Khan was named in an FIR registered in this connection. The National Investigation Agency on Friday (June 5, 2026) night arrested former Trinamool Congress MLA Saokat Molla, the prime suspect in the Bhangar blast case, from West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, hours after declaring him as ‘absconding’. One person was killed, and three others were critically injured in the crude bomb explosion at Dakshin Bamunia village in South 24 Parganas district on March 19, while bombs were allegedly being made there. Chennai is likely to become hotter and wetter over the next 14 years, with summer maximum temperatures projected to rise by 1°C and southwest monsoon intensity expected to increase by 12%, according to a new climate projections report released by Azim Premji University on Thursday. The report, Indian Coastal Region: Climate Projections 2021–2040, warns that climate change is no longer a distant threat and India’s coastal regions are already entering a period of significant environmental transition. Using high-resolution 25x25-km climate data, the

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