A look at the headlines right now:
- Police face questions over conduct in Alwar lynching case, probe moved outside town: Reports claimed that police had taken nearly three hours to take Akbar Khan to hospital after they found him injured. He was declared brought dead.
- Donald Trump warns Iran President Hassan Rouhani against threatening the US: The threat came a day after Rouhani warned Trump against inciting Tehran with hostile policies. He had said ‘war with Iran is mother of all wars’.
- 14 people shot at outside a restaurant in Toronto, shooter and one woman dead: The Toronto Police said the condition of a young girl is critical.
- Government cannot impose blanket ban on demonstrations in Central Delhi, rules Supreme Court: Justices AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said the government can, however, issue guidelines governing these protests.
- Fire at residential building in Himachal Pradesh kills five, rescue operations under way: Three fire tenders are at the spot to douse the flames.
- Congress will raise matter of cow vigilantism, says Mallikarjun Kharge: The Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till noon.
- University in Gujarat cancels show by comedian Kunal Kamra on being told he is ‘anti-national’: Some alumni wrote to the university’s vice chancellor, suggesting the show was an ‘ideological conspiracy’ to pollute the minds of youth ahead of 2019 polls.
- Five members of a family drown in Cauvery river near Tamil Nadu’s Mettur dam in flash flood: Authorities have sounded a flood alert in 12 districts of the state.
- Two more arrested in connection with rape of NGO workers in Jharkhand’s Khunti on June 19: John Jonas Tidu and Balram Samad were reportedly the masterminds behind the abduction of four policemen from a BJP legislator’s house on June 26.
- Kerala is the best governed state in the country, Bihar is worst, says study: Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka and Gujarat are the other states delivering good governance according to the Public Affairs Index 2018.
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