Jiah Khan: 25-year-old actress committed suicide on Monday night by hanging herself at her Juhu residence
ParisJackson: The daughter of late pop legend Michael Jackson, who is hospitalised after attempting suicide, is reported to be fine
Raj Kundra: Actress Shilpa Shetty’s husband and co-owner of Rajasthan Royals, interrogated in the spot fixing scandal, has been asked not to leave the country
Nawaz Sharif: Nawaz Sharif was sworn in Pakistan’s Prime Minister on June 5 and pledged to halt US drone strikes and tackle the entrenched energy shortage.
China: More than 120 people died when a fire broke out in a poultry slaughterhouse in north-east China
Arunachal Pradesh: The first all-woman police station in Arunachal Pradesh started functioning to specifically deal with crime against women
Rajasthan: Rajasthan became the first State in the country to launch a campaign to save the Great Indian Bustard, which is on the brink of extinction.
Cardiocondyla pirata: Scientists have discovered a new ant species with a bizarre pigmentation pattern in laguna province in the Philippines. Cardiocondyla pirata or the pirate ant got its name because of a black ribbon across its eyes that is similar to a pirate's blindfold, according to Universität Regensburg PhD student and ant researcher Sabine Frohschammer.
Frohschammer, in a study published in the open access scientific journal Zookeys, said the ant's bizarre pigmentation pattern has no equivalent worldwide. The ant species was found living under large rocks at a streambed at the University of the Philippines-los Baños' Hortorium in laguna.
AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED (must read): by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead.) A multi-generational family saga centers on a brother and sister born in Afghanistan; from the author of The Kite Runner
Mirrors (MUST lISTEN): by Justin Timberlake. Ranked at No 2 in Billboard’s The Hot 100, Mirrors is of the the song from his third studio album 20/20 Experience
Mercedes-Benz A-Class (MUST BUY): The A 180 CDI Style will be available at Rs21,93,500 and the A 180 Sport will be available at Rs22,73,500.