A look at the headlines right now:

  1. Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav says the grand alliance will not split, claims CBI’s FIR is political vendetta: The deputy chief minister claimed there were no corruption cases against the three departments he was in charge of.      
  2. 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.
  3. US State Department joins international chorus against Amarnath Yatra attack: “These were civilians, they were killed as they were exercising their right to worship and that is, in large part, what makes this so reprehensible’.
  4. Hyderabad High Court asks Tech Mahindra to explain why it fired four employees: The petitioners said they had approached the labour commissioner after getting sacked, but he did not take their case seriously.
  5. Reliance Industries’ shares hit 9-year high after Jio announces new tariff plans: The stocks were trading 2% higher at Rs 1,525 per share.
  6. US President Donald Trump lauds his son for transparency, calls him a ‘high quality person’: Donald Trump Jr had released emails revealing details of his meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
  7. BJP, RSS offices in Kerala set on fire after bomb attack on CPI(M) gathering in Payannur: The police said houses belonging to members of both parties had been attacked. 
  8. West Bengal BJP IT cell secretary arrested in Asansol for sharing fake image on social media: Tarun Sengupta’s post contained communally insensitive material, the CID said.
  9. Amartya Sen cannot say ‘cow’, ‘Gujarat’, or ‘Hindu India’ in documentary, says censor board: ‘The Argumentative Indian’, directed by Suman Ghosh, features a conversation between Amartya Sen and Kaushik Basu.
  10. Three Hizbul militants killed in Budgam district of Kashmir: Security forces targeted the house they were in.