Morning Digest: Centre meets Kuki-Zo groups, discusses opening of highways, surrender of weapons; Gaza-bound aid boat Madleen arrives in Israel after seizure, and more

The Hindu Morning Digest: June 10, 2025

Union Home Ministry (MHA) officials on Monday (June 9, 2025) discussed changes in the ground rules of the suspension of operations (SoO) agreement, the opening of national highways and surrender of weapons at a meeting with Kuki-Zo insurgent groups, which was held after two years.

A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists arrived at an Israeli port Monday (June 9, 2025) after Israeli forces stopped and detained them. The boat, accompanied by Israel’s navy, arrived in Ashdod in the evening, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry. It published a photo on social media of Ms Thunberg after disembarking.

The High Court of Karnataka will hear petitions by RCB and DNA Entertainment Networks Private Limited challenging criminal cases against them in the Bengaluru stadium stampede incident, on June 10. Earlier on June 9, Royal Challengers Bengaluru moved the High Court seeking to quash the criminal case against the team in the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium stampede that claimed 11 lives.

After four persons died and six others were injured when they fell from a local train in Mumbai due to overcrowding in peak hours, the Railway Board has said that new, non-AC trains would be designed and manufactured with automatic door closure facility to prevent accidents. The deadline for introducing the first prototype of such a non-AC train with door closure facility in the Mumbai Suburban Railway network has been fixed as January 2026.

A joint rescue operation launched by the Indian Coast Guard and the Indian Navy saved the lives of 18 persons from a cargo ship that caught fire nearly 88 nautical miles off the coast of Beypore in Kozhikode, Kerala, on Monday (June 9, 2025) morning.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday (June 9, 2025) lauded the Election Commission’s (EC) reported decision to share the electoral-roll data for Haryana and Maharashtra as “a good first step” and urged the poll body to announce the exact date by which the data will be handed over in a digital, machine-readable format.

A Delhi court on Monday (June 9, 2025) pulled up Tihar jail authorities for failing to find the files related to security of Christian Michel James, accused in AgustaWestland case. Special Judge Sanjay Jindal termed the lapse as “serious concern” and directed the DG Tihar jail to locate the same and file a report in the matter by July 7.