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According to a media report on Thursday, Pakistan‘s recently-elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has given the green light for privatising Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the country’s third-largest public sector loss-making entity, before June 15.

On Thursday, Sardar Ramesh Singh Arora, a veteran legislator with three terms under his belt, took the oath as a provincial minister, marking a historic moment as the first Sikh to hold such a position in post-partition Punjab. According to a report on Dawn.com, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s cabinet has appointed Arora to oversee the portfolio of minorities in the Punjab province.

The Premium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the Erasmus Prize 2024 to the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. He receives the prize for his passionate contribution to the theme ‘imagining the unthinkable’, in which an unprecedented global crisis – climate change – takes shape through the written word.

Three band members on their way to a wedding in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra district died due to electrocution on Wednesday.

A massive fire broke out in a government residential girls porta cabin school in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, a police official said.

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday raided the premises of Samajwadi Party’s jailed MLA Irfan Solanki in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur. According to the officials, the premises of Solanki’s brother, Arshad, was also raided. (READ MORE)

The Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, inaugurated the country’s largest Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana in the Naharkatia area of Dibrugarh.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday where he will unveil development projects worth more than Rs 6,400 crore and address a public meeting.

Delhi’s Karkardooma Court has discharged 11 men accused of rioting, and burning shops and vehicles in the Dayal Pur area of northeast Delhi during riots in February 2020. The accused, also charged with criminal conspiracy, were discharged due to lack of evidence.