LIVE news updates: ‘Beef leadership’ shows up on Delhi BJP’s hacked website

Bharataiya Janata Party’s Delhi wing website has been hacked. The hackers replaced many pages of the website with recipes of Beef dishes, A message appears on screen Hacked by 'Shadow_V1P3R'.

The homepage, the navigation bar has been edited to replace BJP by beef. Many changes can be seen on the website. For instance, BJP History has been changed beef History. Other contents of the homepage haven't been changed.

The hacking attack took place while PM Modi and the new cabinet was is taking oath to office in Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.

However the website has been re-directed to party’s main website.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee gets off her car and confronts people chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans, Banerjee says'These are all outsiders and BJP people, they are criminals and were abusing me. They are not from Bengal.'

A 33-year-old man, identified as an Indian, died after setting himself on fire near the White House, the US Park Police said on Thursday.

Arnav Gupta of Bethesda, Maryland, set himself on fire on Wednesday afternoon at the Ellipse Park, not far from the Washington Monument, in full view of passersby, CNBC reported.

He was taken to a hospital in a critical condition and he later died of his injuries, the police said.

Narendra Modi and various ministers of the new cabinet take oath

Nirmala Sitharaman takes oath as a Union Minister

Karnataka's Sadananda Gowda takes oath as a Union Minister

Nitin Gadkari takes oath as a Union Minister

BJP President Amit Shah takes oath as a Union Minister

Rajnath Singh takes oath as a Union Minister for a second term

Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi, who led the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a spectacular victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, on Thursday took oath as the Prime Minister.

President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office and secrecy in Hindi to Modi at a ceremony attended by thousands of people at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan.

C. Phunsog, a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of 1972 batch, has been appointed the first Vice Chancellor of Ladakh University.

Governor Satya Pal Malik, who is also the Chancellor of the varsity, approved the appointment of Phunsog on Thursday.

JDU will not be part of PM Modi’s new cabinet, announces Nitish kumar. No JDU leaders reached the PM’s residence, confirms JDU Secretary General KC Tyagi

2 Pakistani nationals were apprehended by the BSF along with their fishing boat in the Harami Nallah area in Rann of Kutch, Gujarat. They are now being interrogated.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says “I hate a party like BJP that practices communal and divisive politics. They will not get a single seat in the 2021 state assembly polls,”.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, 47, is too ill to appear by video link for the latest hearing in relation to his possible extradition to the US, his lawyers told a court, here on Thursday.

The hearing was the first since May 2, when lawyers for the US government began pressing its case to extradite Assange to face trial for conspiring to commit computer intrusion with Chelsea Manning, a US soldier-turned-whistleblower, to access classified government documents.

Assange's solicitor Gareth Peirce told a judge at Westminster magistrates court that he was too ill to appear by video link from prison. The next hearing is set for June 12, the Guardian reported.

The Delhi High Court directed the AAP government Thursday to comply with its previous order to place before the Cabinet the need for 18 more fast track and 22 commercial courts, failing which coercive action would be taken against the department concerned.

A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice Brijesh Sethi directed the Delhi government to complete the process before the next date of hearing, on July 4, and file a report.

PM Modi's new cabinet has will have several first-time ministers. BJP president Amit Shah, who is also included in the list has made calls to leaders who will be ministers in the new government. The Ministers have been invited to the PM's residence at 5 pm, before the oath-taking ceremony. Here is the list of Ministers who will be part of the cabinet:

1. Amit Shah

2. S Jaishankar, Former Foreign Secretary

3. Ravi Shankar Prasad

4. Prakash Javadekar

5. Piyush Goyal

6. Dharminder Pradhan

7. SAD MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal

8. BJP MP from Asansol, Babul Supriyo

9. DV Sadananda Gowda, BJP leader from Karnataka

10. Nitin Gadkari

11. Giriraj Singh

12. Kiren Rijiju

13. Gajendra Shekhawat

14. Purushottam Rupala

15. OP Ravindranath Kumar of AIADMK

16. Yadav Nityanand Rai

17. Mansukh Mandaviya

18. Assam MP Rameswar Teli

19. Shripad Naik

20. Sanjay Dhotre, Akola MP, BJP

21. Santosh Gangwar

22. Ramesh Pokhriyal

23. Niranjan Jyoti, BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh

24. Jitendra Singh

25. Sanjeev Balyan

26. Arjun Ram Meghwal

27. Thawar Chand Gehlot

28. Shripad Yesso Naik, BJP

29. General (Retd) VK Singh

30. Anurah Thakur

31. Ashwini Choubey

“Met Amit Shah ji and congratulated him for becoming a part of PM Narendra Modi's Cabinet,” Jitu Vaghani, Gujarat BJP President tweeted

The following are most likely to be part of Prime Minister Narendra Modis new cabinet and could be sworn in this evening.

1. Arvind Sawant, Shiv Sena , Mumbai South MP

2. Narendra Singh Tomar, Muraina MP, Madhya Pradesh.

3. Subrat Pathak, Kannauj MP

4. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Jodhpur MP

5. Sadananda Gowda, Bengaluru North MP

6. Rajnath Singh , Lucknow MP

7. Arjun Ram Meghwal, Bikaner MP

8. Prakash Javadekar, Rajya Sabha

9. Ramdas Athavle, Rajya Sabha

10. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Rajya Sabha

11. Babul Supriyo, Asansol Mp

12. Suresh Angadi, Belgam MP

13. Dr Jitendra Singh, Udhampur MP

14. Piyush Goyal , Rajya Sabha MP

15. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Patna MP

16. Kishan Reddy, Mp From Telangana

17. Prahlad Joshi, Dharwad,Karnataka

18. Nirmala Sitharaman, Rajya Sabha MP

19. Smriti Irani, Amethi MP

20. Prahlad Patel , Damoh MP

21. Raveendranath, Aiadmk, Theni MP( Tn)

22. Purshotam Rupala, Rajya Sabha MP

23. Mansukh Mandavia , Palitana MP

24. Rao Inderajit, Gurugram MP

25. Krishan Pal Gurjar, Faridabad MP

26. Anupriya Patel, Apna Dal

27. Kiran Rijiju, Arunachal West

28. Kailash Chaudhry, Barmer MP

29. Sanjeev Baliyan, Muzaffarnagar MP

30. RCP Singh , Jd(U) MP , Rajya Sabha

31. Nityanand Rai, Ujiyarpur Mp , Bihar

32. Thawar Chand Gehlot, Shahjahanpur MP

33. Debashree Chaudhuri, Raiganj MP

34. Ramesh Pokhiriyal Nishank, Haridwar MP

35. Mansukh Vasava , Bharuch, Gujarat

36. Rameshwar Teli, Dibrugarh MP

37. Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Sad, Bathinda MP

38. Sushma Swaraj

39. Som Prakash , Hoshiarpur MP ( Punjab)

40. Santosh Gangwar. Bareilly MP ( UP)

41. Ram Vilas Paswan, LJP Leader , Rajya Sabha

At least six people were killed and six more wounded in a suicide blast outside a military academy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, an official said.

The attack outside the Marshal Fahim National Defense University in western Kabul took place at the road entrance to the war college.

Kabul police spokesman Firdaws Faramarz said the suicide bomber had been on foot. He blew himself up when a soldier challenged him.

“I have received a phone call from the party president. I express my gratitude to the prime minister for including me in his team,” said BJP leader Niranjan Jyoti.

An exchange of fire is underway between terrorists and security forces in Danger Pora area of Sopore in Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir.

BJP leaders DV Sadananda Gowda and Giriraj Singh to meet PM Narendra Modi at 4:30 PM on Thursday at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg

“Congratulations to Jagan Reddy ji on being sworn in as the CM of Andhra Pradesh. My best wishes to him, his new team of ministers and to all the people of the state,” tweeted Congress President Rahul Gandhi.

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MP from Bathinda, Harsimrat Kaur Badal and BJP MP from Asansol, Babul Supriyo to take oath as ministers, on Thursday evening.

Seven private schools in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province have been sealed for inciting mass hysteria against the polio drive and discouraging parents from cooperating with vaccination teams.

Pakistan is one of the three countries, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where polio is still endemic.

Attempts to eradicate the crippling disease have been seriously hampered by deadly targeting of vaccination teams in recent years by militants, who oppose the drives, claiming the polio drops cause infertility.

SC says admission process for PG medical courses in Maharashtra started before 10% EWS quota came into force. SC says 10% EWS quota cannot be granted at the cost of others unless additional seats are created by MCI

“From Shiv Sena one leader will take oath as a minister. Uddhav ji has given Arvind Sawant's name, he will take oath as a minister, said Sanjay Raut of Shiv Sena.

Domestic equity benchmarks opened on a positive note on Thursday led by gains in index heavyweights TCS, RIL and ITC, ahead of the expiry of May derivatives contracts.

After rising over 100 points in opening session, the BSE Sensex was trading 94 points, or 0.24 per cent, higher at 39,596.05. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty rose 15 points, or 0.13 per cent, to 11,876.10.

In the previous session on Wednesday, the 30-share gauge ended 247.68 points, or 0.62 per cent, lower at 39,502.05. Likewise, the Nifty dropped 67.65 points, or 0.57 per cent, to 11,861.10.

A semi-truck and a bus carrying passengers back from a pilgrimage to a Catholic shrine crashed and burst into flames on Wednesday in eastern Mexico, killing at least 21 people, officials said. Thirty others were injured.

Most of the victims were pilgrims from the southern state of Chiapas who were on their way back from a trip to Mexico City to pray at the basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, the country's patron saint, said the head of the Civil Protection service for the state of Veracruz, Guadalupe Osorno.

Ahead of being sworn in as the prime minister for the second consecutive term, Narendra Modi on Thursday morning paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and BJP veteran late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

He also placed a wreath at the National War Memorial in New Delhi.

The prime minister visited Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, at around 7.00 am. Later Modi went to Sadaiv Atal, the lotus-shaped memorial of late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Modi and his council of ministers will take oath at 7.00 pm Thursday evening at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

“Congress has decided to not send spokespersons on television debates for a month. All media channels/editors are requested to not place Congress representatives on their shows,” tweeted Randeep Singh Surjewala