A look at the headlines right now:
- Narendra Modi government wins no-trust vote in Lok Sabha after 12-hour debate: Meanwhile, France, referring to Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s statements about the Rafale deal in Lok Sabha, said India is bound to protect classified details.
- Delhi High Court sets aside JNU order penalising Kanhaiya Kumar: Justice Siddharth Mridul said the university’s order was ‘unsustainable on innumerable counts’.
- 40 men allegedly rape woman for four days in Haryana’s Panchkula, two arrested: The district and sessions court has sent the two arrested accused to 14-day judicial custody.
- US President Donald Trump says he is willing to hit all Chinese imports with extra tariffs: He said Beijing had been taking advantage of America for a long time.
- WhatsApp to limit forwarding of messages to 5 chats at a time in a bid to curb rumours in India: The messaging platform said it will remove the quick forward button next to media messages.
- Over 80 inmates of Byculla jail in Mumbai hospitalised after taking cholera medicines: The prisoners are suffering from diarrhoea, abdominal pain and dehydration, the medical superintendent at JJ Hospital said.
- Supreme Court collegium reiterates Justice KM Joseph’s name for elevation to top court: The law ministry had refused to clear Joseph’s name for the post in April and asked the collegium to reconsider its decision.
- Sacked police constable, an accused in the Kathua case, challenges dismissal order, HC issues notice to state: Tilak Raj’s lawyer said his dismissal, issued by Director General of Police SP Vaid, was an arbitrary order.
- At least 14 injured as knife-wielding man attacks passengers on a bus in Germany’s Lübeck city: Two people were seriously wounded in the attack.
- SC stays Madras High Court order granting grace marks to students who wrote NEET exam in Tamil: The top court said marks cannot be ‘doled out in this fashion’, after the Madurai bench asked CBSE to give 196 grace marks for mistranslation.
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