1. President Droupadi Murmu Friday appointed NDA Parliamentary Party leader Narendra Modi as Prime Minister-designate and the new government will take oath Sunday evening.

2.  The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha is likely to begin around June 15, sources said Friday.

3. Seventythree per cent of the newly elected MLAs in Odisha are ‘crorepatis’ with BJD’s Sanatan Mahakud the richest legislator, a report said.

4. BJD leader VK Pandian’s wife and Odisha IAS officer Sujata R Karthikeyan has proceeded on a six months’ ‘child care leave’ from May 31, official sources said.

5. The Nepali Army has removed the remains of five climbers and 11 tonnes of waste from the high-altitude Everest region.

6. The Congress Friday demanded a high-level investigation under the Supreme Court’s supervision into ‘irregularities’ in NEET and accused the BJP of cheating youngsters and playing with their futures.

7. A local court Friday granted interim bail to Khurda MLA-elect Prasanta Jagadev, has been granted bail for three days – June 9, 10 and 11 – and asked to surrender before the court June 12.

8. As many as 85 candidates elected to the Odisha  state Assembly in 2024 elections, have declared criminal cases pending against them, according to the Odisha Election Watch report.

9. Members of women self-help groups (SHGs) in Mayurbhanj district have become self-reliant and financially independent by undertaking various livelihood programmes under the Mission Shakti scheme, a report said.

10. The Supreme Court is trying to solve the water problem. The Supreme Court is continuously hearing this matter and has ordered a meeting of the Upper Yamuna River Board. It will hear the matter again Monday.

11. Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki, his younger brother and three others were sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment Friday in connection with setting fire to a woman’s house in a bid to grab her land.

12. The CBI Friday filed a supplementary charge sheet in a Delhi court against BRS leader K Kavitha in the corruption case linked to the alleged excise scam, claiming there was sufficient evidence to prosecute her in the matter.

13. The CBI Friday filed its final charge sheet against former railway minister Lalu Prasad in connection with the land for jobs scam in which his family allegedly received land parcels from ineligible candidates appointed in various Railways zones as ‘substitutes’, the officials said.

14. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday was granted bail by a special court here in connection with a case filed by the BJP’s Karnataka unit for issuing defamatory advertisements in mainstream newspaper.

15.  Israeli strikes hammered a Gaza refugee camp Friday after a deadly strike on a UN-run school, as the war sparked by Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel entered its ninth month.