A look at the headlines right now:
- Security forces launch search for the LeT militant who allegedly planned the Amarnath attack: Protests were held across the country to condemn the strike in Anantnag that killed seven pilgrims.
- Consumer price inflation in June at record low of 1.54%: Retail food prices also fell to 2.12%.
- India captain Mithali Raj is now the highest run-scorer in women’s ODI cricket: She surpassed the 5,992-run record held by England’s Charlotte Edwards.
- Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav’s bodyguards rough up journalists outside state secretariat: He had earlier said that the corruption charges against him was a ‘political vendetta’.
- SC relaxes 500-metre highway liquor ban for Arunachal Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar: The court permitted the sale of alcohol in the state and Union Territory if the shops were 220 metres or further away from the stretches.
- Kremlin denies arranging a meeting between Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr: Natalia Veselnitskaya has also claimed that she never worked for the Vladimir Putin government.
- Reliance Jio admits there was a data breach in its police complaint, says Reuters report: An officer said that the telecom firm had filed the complaint on Monday, though the company has denied any leak so far.
- Aadhaar petitions will be heard by a five-judge Constitution bench on July 18 and 19: They will decide whether the matter should be referred to another set of nine judges.
- Para-athlete claims she was not given money to participate in a Berlin championship: Kanchanmala Pande said she had been forced to borrow from a fellow swimmer to pay a fine for ticket-less travel.
- Pakistani newspaper ‘Dawn’ asks Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign: In an editorial titled ‘Mr Prime Minister, step aside’, it said he must fight the allegations against him in the Panama Papers case outside office.
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