Headlines- On Monday at 14:00 GMT, the US military says it would start blockading Iranian ports, preventing ships from entering or leaving Iran from passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
- In the southern town of Biyyada, Hezbollah claims that its men have attacked Israeli soldiers with "a swarm of attack drones."
- US President Donald Trump's threat to block the Strait of Hormuz was deemed "ridiculous" by Iran's navy chief, Shahram Irani.
- Any military ships approaching the Strait of Hormuz "will be considered a violation of the ceasefire and will be met with severe force," according to a statement released on Sunday by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
- The speaker of Iran's parliament Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf is leading the delegation that has arrived to Pakistan for talks with the United States.
- Nawaf Salam, the prime minister of Lebanon, stated that he was working to ensure the withdrawal of Israeli forces and to put an end to the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
- Viktor Orban, the longtime prime minister of Hungary, has conceded defeat to Peter Magyar in the country's legislative election.
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June 9, 2021
Focus India: Kolkata
Kolkata, the capital of the state of West Bengal, was founded as a commerce hub by an agent of the East India Company Job Charnok. Local landlords sold him Sutanati, Gobindapur, and Kalikata, three villages on the east bank of the Ganges. Dalhousie Square, originally the headquarters of the British Government’s administration, is still Bengal’s power hub, with Laldighi (a historic pond) in its midst. It has been renamed BBD Bag (after the freedom fighters Binay, Badol, and Dinesh who killed a high-profile police officer inside the Writers Building), and it is flanked by some land mark buildings