A look at the headlines right now:
- PM Modi, Xi Jinping agree to improve trust and communication between their militaries: Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said the two leaders agreed on prioritising maintaining peace along their borders.
- CBI opposes discharge pleas of two Gujarat Police officers in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case: The agency said it had sufficient evidence to establish that DG Vanzara was the mastermind of the operation while NK Amin was present at the spot.
- IndiGo President Aditya Ghosh resigns, Rahul Bhatia to take charge as interim CEO: The airline may appoint Gregory Taylor as the president and the chief executive officer.
- Final results for 2017 UPSC civil services exam out, Anudeep Durishetty from Hyderabad is the topper: This time, 990 candidates were recommended for various government services.
- Knife-wielding man in China attacks children after school; seven dead, 12 injured: The police have detained the suspect.
- Delhi High Court reinstates five department heads who had opposed attendance rule: The court passed the order after they agreed to follow the attendance rule till the matter is finally decided.
- Six new petitions in Supreme Court seek quashing of law that criminalises homosexuality: The new pleas are likely to be tagged along with a batch of petitions that are now before a Constitution bench.
- United Kingdom court accepts most of the evidence CBI submitted in Vijay Mallya’s extradition case: The court will hear arguments in the case again on July 11.
- Supreme Court reserves judgement on plea questioning chief justice’s role as ‘Master of the Roster’: Attorney General KK Venugopal said that involving many people in the process of allocating cases would lead to chaos.
- Swedish pop group Abba announce comeback after 35 years: The band said they had recorded two new songs in which they perform as their computer-generated avatars.
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