News in Short

• Gujarat Titans beat Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets to clinch title in debut season at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
• Gujarat captain Hardik Pandya produced a brilliant all-round performance as he picked up three wickets and scored 34 runs to win Man of the Match award.
• Jos Butler won the Orange cap for most runs scored while YuzvendraChahal won purple cap for highest wickets. Umran Malik won the emerging player award.

• Vinicius Junior scored the only goal of the game as Real Madrid beat Liverpool 1-0 in Champions League final in Paris.
• Liverpool were looking to complete a cup treble after missing out on the Premier League title to Manchester City.
• Real have a fifth Champions League in nine seasons to go with their Spanish title, as Carlo Ancelotti becomes the first coach to win European club football’s greatest prize for a fourth time.

• Legendary flat race jockey Lester Piggott who rode a record nine Epsom Derby winners has died aged 86.
• Piggott is widely regarded as one of the greatest jockeys in the sport’s history, and had been previously admitted to intensive care in 2007 due to a heart problem.
• The 11-time British champion jockey rode 16 Irish classic winners at the track largely due to his partnership with trainer Vincent O’Brien.

• Congress leader and popular Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu Moosewala was shot dead near Mansa. He was 29.
• The Punjab Police had ordered the withdrawal or pruning of security for 424 persons, including MLAs, religious leaders, dera heads and retired police officers.
• Moosewala was the voice of many superhit songs over the last few years. He had contested the Assembly polls on a Congress ticket from Mansa, losing to AAP’s Dr Vijay Singla.

• Shreya Lenka has become the first-ever Indian to become a professional K-pop artiste. The 18-year-old from Odisha is now a part of popular South Korean girl group Blackswan.
• Lenka was selected for the band after participating in the six-month-long global auditions, that were announced by DR Music last year.
• Apart from Lenka, Brazil’s 19-year-old Gabriela Dalcin was named as the sixth member of the group.