1.US President Donald Trump threatens a 50% tariff on all imports from EU from June 1.

2.President Donald Trump Friday threatened to put a 25 per cent tariff on Apple products unless iPhones are manufactured in the United States

3.Researchers at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela have developed a novel semiconductor device-based biosensor that can identify breast cancer cells without the need for complicated or expensive laboratory procedures, according to officials.

4.The state government’s new Excise policy will be announced by June 20, Excise Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan said Friday.

5.The state government Friday said it was contemplating installing an anti-drone system to bolster the security at the Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri.

6.Thirty students from across Odisha, selected as winners of the prestigious Tata Steel Young Astronomer Talent Search (YATS) 2025, began their educational tour to ISRO’s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network and UR Rao Satellite Centre at Bengaluru Friday.

7.The Supreme Court Friday grilled the Rajasthan government over the surge in student suicides in the city of Kota calling the situation "serious".

8.As many as 33 Naxalites, among them 24 carrying a cumulative bounty of `91 lakh, surrendered before security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region Friday, police said.

9.The Delhi government Friday issued an advisory on Covid-19, asking hospitals to prepare for the availability of beds, oxygen, medicines and vaccine.

10. Justice Abhay S Oka Friday called the Supreme Court a “chief justice centric court” while advocating for a change in light of its composition of 34 judges coming from different regions of the country.

11.A US judge Friday blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students, a move that ratcheted up White House efforts to conform practices in academia to President Donald Trump’s policies.

12.Russia and Ukraine each released 390 prisoners Friday and said they would free more in the coming days, in what is expected to be the biggest prisoner swap of the war so far.

13.India has urged member nations of BRICS group to dismantle export controls within the bloc to boost trade, an official statement said Friday. Representing India at the 15th BRICS trade ministers' meeting in Brazil, Economic Adviser in Department of Commerce Yashvir Singh emphasised the need to eliminate restrictive trade measures that disrupt critical supply chains.

14.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Friday announced a record Rs2.69 lakh crore dividend to the government for FY25, 27.4 per cent higher than 2023-24, helping the exchequer to tide over challenges posed by US tariffs and increased spending on defence due to the conflict with Pakistan

15.The domestic air passenger traffi c reached 16.54 crore in FY25, yearly growth of 7.6 per cent and 16.8 per cent higher than the pre-Covid level of around 14.15 crore (FY20), a report showed Friday.