Good morning, In today’s edition: Australian PM calls of Quad meeting; Siddaramaiah or Shivakumar – the Karnataka CM cliffhanger; New York Met returns artefacts to India; why late onset of monsoon isn’t a worry; and more 🚨 Big Story 🔴 As US President Joe Biden postponed his trip to Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Wednesday that the Quad meeting of the leaders of Australia, Japan, India and the United States would not go ahead in Sydney next week. Albanese added that an existing bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi may still go ahead. 🔴 Meanwhile, PM Modi is headed to Hiroshima for the G7 leaders’ summit this Friday — a first visit to the Japanese city by an Indian PM since India conducted nuclear tests in Pokhran in 1974. 🔴 In his weekly column, C Raja Mohan writes on Modi's engagements with India's allies at the G7 summit, the Quad summit (now called off), and bilateral visits to Washington and Paris in June and July. "There will be many disagreements on the details of the specific outcomes in rearranging the global economic order. Building on new opportunities and resolving new problems must be viewed as a historic opportunity for India’s economic statecraft,” he writes. ⚡ Only in the Express Express Impact: Facing widespread criticism and legal scrutiny over several of its catalogued antiquities, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York has said 16 of those works have been returned to India. Check out the investigation by The Indian Express which revealed that at least 77 Indian works at Met are linked to Subhash Kapoor, who is serving a 10-year prison term in Tamil Nadu for smuggling antiquities. Music teacher Prasanth Nambiar in 2020 strangled his friend Suchitra Pillai at his rented house, according to police records. What helped convict him? His Google search history - from how a spiritual guru killed his wife to ways to dispose of the body. 📰 From the Front Page 👉🏽 The suspense over the Karnataka Chief Minister continues, with the Congress leadership working to broker a mutually acceptable peace deal between Siddaramaiah and KPCC president D K Shivakumar who have been lobbying hard for the top post. 👉🏽 The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the appointment of Andhra Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and senior advocate K V Viswanathan as Judges of the Supreme Court. If appointed, Viswanathan would be in line to serve as Chief Justice of India from August 12, 2030, till May 25, 2031. 👉🏽 For the first time since India has been buying cheap Russian oil over the last year or so, European Union’s foreign and security policy chief Josep Borrell said the EU should crack down on India reselling Russian oil as refined fuels, including diesel, to Europe. 👩🏽💻 Must Read As Pradeep Kurulkar, a top scientist with the Defence Research and Development Organisation, was arrested by the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad on May 3 on charges of alleged espionage, his colleagues and friends talk of him as a “taskmaster who is good at resolving conflicts”, a “multifaceted scientist” and a “talkative boss who loves telling stories”. Instead of its normal date of June 1, the monsoon is expected to arrive in Kerala by June 4, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD). A further delay is also possible, taking into account an error margin of four days in the forecast. The IMD’s prediction is likely to fuel apprehensions of a bad monsoon, but the two events are not connected. Read our explainer to know what are the bigger worries this season With close to a billion users worldwide and over 100 million just in India, LinkedIn is emerging as the social network that matters for professionals. In an interaction with Nandagopal Rajan, Tomer Cohen, Chief Product Officer, LinkedIn, explains how the platform is changing and doing its bit for the global economy. ⏱️ And Finally… “That nuance is missing”: Sriram Veera writes on why Sachin Tendulkar’s rush down the track to pacers is superior to versions of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli 🤐 Delhi Confidential: I&B Minister Anurag Thakur wore a Chanderi bandhgala with buttons, engraved with ‘Bharat’ in several languages, at the Cannes film festival in France last year. This time, his junior — Minister of State for I&B, L Murugan — who led the Indian delegation was seen walking the red carpet in a traditional Tamil attire of veshti. 🎧 In today’s episode of the 3 Things podcast, we discuss about the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Sena vs Sena tussle in Maharashtra, the impact of climate change on Indian economy, and the case against Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who has been accused of making defamatory remarks against the Bajrang Dal. Until tomorrow, Sonal Gupta and Anamni Gupta
