New Headlines, General Studies Topics and Current Affairs Topics 3rd June 2018

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2. Senior Congress leader Sushil Kumar Shinde today said former President Pranab Mukherjee accepting an invite to attend an RSS event was "not wrong" as the latter was a secular person and a very good thinker.
3. As their agitation entered the third day today, farmers in Punjab and Haryana continued to dump their produce on roads as a mark of their protest, while vegetable prices soared in several cities of the two states.
4. Transfer probe into Tuticorin firing to CBI: CPI(M)
5. The CPI(M) today demanded that  the probe into the police firing which killed 13 people during  protests here last month to demand closure of the Sterlite  plant over pollution concerns, 'be handed over to the CBI,  monitored by the Madras High Court'.
6. Never knew my video will have so much impact, admits Chhetri.
7. India football captain Sunil Chhetri today admitted that he never thought his emotional video on social media seeking support for the national team would create so much impact and has thanked star cricketer Virat Kohli for his backing.
8. Indian Navy completes refit of 32-year-old Mauritian ship
9. Tax collection jumps 18% to Rs 7,100 cr in NE in FY18: Minister
10. Northeast region has witnessed over 18 per cent growth in direct tax collections at Rs 7,097 crore in 2017-18, Union Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla said today.
11. Corrupt people flocking together to corner Modi govt
12. Union minister Radha  Mohan Singh today said 'corrupt people' have gathered at one  platform to corner the Narendra Modi government.
13. EC orders probe into irregularities in MP electoral lists
14. Tunisia migrant death toll rises to at least 35: govt
15. - The bodies of 35 migrants have been recovered off Tunisia's southern coast, the country's defence ministry said Sunday, revising upwards an earlier government death toll.
16. Nepalese man sentenced to 12 years for slaughtering cows
17. A man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Nepal on charges of slaughtering cows, the Hindu majority nation's national animal.
18. Syria's Assad to meet Kim in North Korea: KCNA
19. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he plans to visit North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, Pyongyang's state media reported today, potentially becoming the first head of state to meet Kim inside the isolated country.
20. 8 injured in Algeria as military plane overshoots the runway
21. Algerian television channels say eight crew members have been injured after a military aircraft overshot the runway upon landing at Biskra Airport.
22. Sushma Swaraj arrives in South Africa for multiple summits
23. Xi Jinping's war on poverty: China lifted 68 mn out of penury in 5 yrs