United States President Donald Trump said that Washington’s ceasefire with Iran was “over”. This came after American and Iranian forces exchanged fire following attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.

“I do not want to deal with them any more,” said Trump. “They are scum.” Earlier in the day, America launched strikes on Iran in response to Tehran’s alleged attacks on three liquefied natural gas and crude oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The interim ceasefire agreement signed between Washington and Tehran was intended to provide a 60-day window ​for negotiations on a permanent agreement, but indirect ⁠talks in Qatar have ended with no sign of ​headway. Read on.

Four persons from West Bengal’s Birbhum district who were forced into Bangladesh in June 2025 were brought back to India. They had been taken into custody in Delhi along with Sunali Khatun and her son.

Khatun, who was pregnant at the time, and her son Sabir were brought back to India in December on humanitarian grounds. Her husband, Danish Sheikh, as well as Sweety Bibi and her two sons, entered West Bengal through the Mahadipur border crossing in Malda district on Wednesday.

On May 22, the Union government told the Supreme Court that it would bring back the persons who had been forced into the neighbouring country to verify their citizenship. Read on.

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One of the persons accused in the alleged rape and murder of a minor in West Bengal’s Baruipur was killed in an alleged gunfight with the police. Prabhas Mondal attempted to snatch a weapon from the police and open fire at them when the crime scene was being reconstructed, claimed the district superintendent of police.

The police fired at Mondal “in retaliation”, the officer said, adding that he was declared dead at the hospital. Mondal was among the three persons arrested in the case. The body of the girl was recovered from a sack in a pond in the Surjyapur area. Read on.

An Indian police officer, Gurinderjit Singh, has been charged by the United States authorities for allegedly extorting $400,000 from a family in Los Angeles by threatening to file false murder cases against their relatives in India. First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli said that Singh was not in custody, “but he will be shortly”.

The US will seek the extradition of the officer from India, he added. Singh is reportedly a station house officer in Punjab.

US federal indictments alleged that he colluded with members of an organised crime group led by Jaggu Bhagwanpuria to target perceived rivals with threats of false cases and demands for money. Read on.

A commander of the terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba was killed by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district. He was identified as Zakir Ahmad Ganie, a resident of the neighbouring Kulgam district.

The joint security operation began on Saturday after surveillance cameras detected the movement of two suspected militants in an orchard in the Meemandar area of Shopian. Search is underway for the second suspected militant, who has been identified as Latif Bhat. Read on.

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