News in Short

• The namesake son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos appeared to have been elected Philippine president by a landslide.
• Marcos Jr has amassed a massive lead in the elections, ahead of rivals Vice President LeniRobredoand boxing great Manny Pacquiao.
• The next president will also likely face demands to prosecute outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte for thousands of killings during his anti-drug crackdown.

• Slain photojournalist Danish Siddiqui is among four Indians honoured with the prestigious Pulitzer Prize 2022 in the feature photography category.
• Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, SannaIrshadMattoo and Amit Dave from the Reuters news agency won the award.
• Siddiqui was on assignment in Afghanistan last year when he died.This is for the second time that Siddiqui has won the Pulitzer Prize.

• Sri Lanka has granted its military and police emergency powers to arrest people without warrants after a day of violence that killed seven people.
• As the Indian Ocean nation battles its worst economic crisis in history, thousands of protesters defied an nationwide curfew to continue protesting.
• Shortages of fuel, food and medicine brought thousands onto the streets in more than a month of protests that had been mostly peaceful until this week.

• Cotton textile exports, including raw cotton, in 2021-22 were $15.29 billion, according to provisional data available.
• All cotton textile and clothing products – yarn, fabrics, and madeups – had seen growth. Exports to countries such as Bangladesh, U.S., Portugal and Sri Lanka had seen a significant jump.
• Yarn exports to China had increased and cotton textile exports to countries such as Egypt and Portugal had also increased. It indicated that Indian exporters were finding new markets.

• PanditShivkumar Sharma, Indian music composer and santoor player, passed away in Mumbai. He was 84.
• Sharma gave santoor, once a little known instrument from Jammu and Kashmir, a classical status and used it along with other, more traditional and famous instruments such as sitar and sarod.
• Shivkumar Sharma composed music for many Hindi films along with flute legend Pt Hari Prasad Chaurasia.