Pashupati Kumar Paras, the younger brother of Lok Janshakti Party founder Ram Vilas Paswan, has staged a coup that has left his nephew Chirag Paswan alone and isolated in his own party; The wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation in May hit an all-time high of 12.94 per cent owing to rising crude oil prices and those of manufactured products; Novavax's COVID-19 jab is more than 90 percent effective, including against coronavirus variants, the vaccine maker said Monday; An elderly Muslim man was assaulted in Loni in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district on June 5 while on his way to a mosque to offer prayers; and other top news of the day.