A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Home Ministry says a probe was ordered into the Essar phone tappings complaint 10 days ago: People whose phones were allegedly tapped include Suresh Prabhu, former ministers Praful Patel and Ram Naik, Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani, among many others.
  2. Warmth in ties between Narendra Modi and Pakistan PM is unprecedented, says Sushma Swaraj: The External Affairs Minister says we won't get trapped in this warmth, and also that India would not oppose any nation's bid to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
  3. Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar visited China to build support for India's NSG bid: Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup said Jaishankar had visited the country on June 16 and 17 for 'bilateral consultations’.
  4. Education will be saffronised for the benefit of the country, says Junior HRD minister: 'Call it bhagwakaran or sanghwaad if you will, but it will be done.'
  5. Dera Sacha Sauda members refuse to cremate body of murdered follower, tension in Punjab's Kotkapura: They demanded that the person who shot 35-year-old Gurudev on Monday be arrested.
  6. 500 Tasmac liquor shops across Tamil Nadu will be shut from June 19: The government drew the curtain on 201 shops in Madurai, 133 in Tiruchi, 60 in Coimbatore, 58 in Chennai and 48 in Salem.
  7. US college football player convicted of egging on teammates to rape his unconscious date: Prosecutors said Brandon Vandenburg of Vanderbilt University had forced her to drink and circulated videos of the assault in his dorm room.
  8. Monsoon arrives at drought-hit Vidarbha, lashes parts of North India: The rains usually enter Maharashtra through the Konkan coast, but changed course this year, said weather officials.
  9. Two Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to death, Mohammed Morsi gets life for leaking state secrets: Political activists have called the verdict a sham, and said it was a deliberate move to threaten the press in Egypt.
  10. J&K is not France, says government, after schoolteacher told not to wear abaya to class: Students had boycotted classes in protest after the 29-year-old woman resigned saying she was asked to choose between her job and her religion.