# Class 12 assessment plan

• The supreme court on thursday directed state boards to notify their respective schemes for internal assessment of the final marks of class 12 students within the next 10 days and ordered them to declare the results by july 31.

• The supreme court bench of two judges refused to entertain a plea for a “uniform scheme” of assessment to be made applicable across boards in the country.

• By directing the state boards to declare their results before july 31, the court ensured that students across the country get a level playing field in college admissions.

# PM’s J&K meet

• Prime minister Narendra Modi reiterated his government’s commitment to fostering grassroots democracy in J&K during his meeting with 14 leaders of eight mainstream political parties.

• PM Modi also sought their cooperation in first completing the delimitation exercise for assembly seats in the union territory, which would eventually lead to election.

• Both PM Modi and Home minister Amit shah reiterated their previous public commitments to restoring statehood, government sources said.

# Monsoon update

• The monsoon rainfall is recorded 40% above normal from june 1 to 18.

• The Indian meteorological department computes the monthly rainfall untill june 24 to be just 26% of the normal and there is unlikely to be a significant boost until the first week of July.

# Congress’s demand on J&K

• Former J&K CM and congress leader Ghulam nabi azad said the congress party has placed five demands before PM Modi.

• These demands include restoration of full statehood, holding early elections and the return of Kashmiri pandits.

• Congress did not demand the restoration of Article 370.

# Reliance annual general meeting

• Reliance Industries limited (RIL) on thursday announced plans to invest 75000 crore rupees in its ‘new energy’ business.

• RIL aims to set up four large manufacturing units involving an investment of 60000 crore in three years at Jamnagar, Gujarat.

• Mr. Ambani also announced that the Google and Jio teams has developed an “ultra-affordable”, fully 4G smartphone named Jiophone next.