Morning Digest: Union Home Secretary may visit Manipur next week; Operation Sindoor showed the world India’s indigenous defence capabilities, says Modi, and more

Union Home Secretary may visit Manipur next week; Operation Sindoor showed to world India’s indigenous defence capabilities, says Modi, and more in Morning Digest of May 31, 2025

Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan is likely to visit Manipur next week, on June 2 and June 3, in the wake of fresh protests and a “civil disobedience” call by Meitei groups in the northeastern State over the May 20, 2025 incident in Gwaltabi. On that day, security forces allegedly tried to cover the word ‘Manipur’ on a State transport bus that was ferrying journalists to the hill district of Ukhrul for the Shirui Lily festival.

Paying tribute to Shubham Dwivedi, a Kanpur native who was killed in the recent terror attack in Pahalgam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “All of us deeply felt the pain, suffering, anger and collective anguish over the barbaric terror attack. This collective unity led to Operation Sindoor, where terrorist hideouts in Pakistan were destroyed, and the Pakistani military was forced to plead for an end to the conflict.”

President Donald Trump bid farewell to Elon Musk in the Oval Office on Friday (May 31, 2025), providing a cordial conclusion to a tumultuous tenure for the billionaire entrepreneur. Mr. Musk is leaving his position spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency, and he’ll be rededicating himself to running his businesses, including electric automaker Tesla, rocket company SpaceX and social media platform X.

In a high-scoring Eliminator at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium that had all the ingredients of an IPL classic, Mumbai Indians just about held its composure and eked out a 20-run win over Gujarat Titans on Friday (May 30, 2025). The tense victory helped the five-time champion set up a clash with Punjab Kings in Qualifier 2 on Sunday (June 1, 2025).

The U.S. State Department ordered all its consular missions overseas to begin additional vetting of visa applicants looking to travel to Harvard University for any purpose, according to an internal cable seen by Reuters on Friday (May 30, 2025), in a move that significantly expands President Donald Trump’s crackdown against the academic institution.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday (May 30, 2025) said he planned to increase tariffs on foreign imports of steel from 25% to 50%, ratcheting up pressure on global steel producers and vowing to deepen his trade war. “We are going to be imposing a 25% increase. We’re going to bring it from 25% to 50% the tariffs on steel into the United States of America, which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States,” he said at a rally in Pennsylvania.

The Supreme Court on Friday (May 30, 2025) again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, pushing the total number of people who could be newly exposed to deportation to nearly 1 million.