8:39 Shehbaz Sharif, Nawaz's brother, to be next PM of Pakistan: Nawaz Sharif's brother Shehbaz Sharif will be the next prime minister of Pakistan after the Supreme Court disqualified the former from holding public office in a landmark decision on the Panama Papers case.
Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, who had headed the apex court's implementation bench following its April 20 order on the Panama Papers case, announced that the larger bench had unanimously deemed PM Sharif unfit for holding office and would also order an accountability court to open references against him and his family, and other respondents.
Earlier there were reports that Sharif's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif was the frontrunner for the post of interim prime minister of the country in place of Nawaz Sharif.
The cover of the India Today magazine has created a social storm in China.
The cover of the July 31 issue of the India Today magazine has gone viral on Chinese social media platform Wiebo, the country's substitute for Twitter, and the Chinese are not pleased with the cover.
The latest issue of the India Today magazine has the map of China, in red, in the shape of a big chicken and a smaller chick -- Pakistan, in green -- by its side, along with captions that read "China's new chick" and "How China is buying out Pakistan with massive new investments and why India needs to worry", below it.
The Chinese are fuming seeing the cover. Their main contention is that the map on the cover doesn't show Tibet and Taiwan as its part. In retaliation, there are op-eds, sharply criticising the magazine and India as a whole, being written on Chinese newspapers, and Chinese social media users Photoshopping their answers on to India Today magazine covers.
All this while there is a tense standoff between the Indian and Chinese troops at Doklam.
17:39 Amazon Q2 net profit down 77%; remains committed to India: E-tailing giant Amazon's net profits tanked 77 per cent to USD 197 million (Rs 1,264 crore) in the June quarter hurt by wider losses in international operations, but said it remains committed to investing in India. Amazon's operating losses in its international business widened to USD 724 million (Rs 4,646 crore) in June 2017 quarter against a loss of USD 135 million in the year-ago period. Its revenues, on the other hand, jumped close to 25 per cent to USD 37.5 billion. Operating income of Amazon's North America business fell 38 per cent, while that from Amazon Web Services rose 27 per cent. Despite widening losses, Amazon remains committed to making further investments in India.
Congress top brass Ahmed Patel, Ashok Gehlot and Randeep Singh Surjewala held a key meeting with Gujarat Congress MLAs amidst the resignations of six MLAs since yesterday.
Meanwhile, Ramsinh Parmar has become the sixth Congress MLA to submit his resignation.
Earlier in the day two Congress MLAs, Maan Singh Chouhan and Sana Bhai Choudhari offered their resignations.
This came a day after three Congress MLAs, P. I. Patel, Balwantsinh Rajput and Tejashree Patel quit the party and joined the BJP.
Speaking on the issue, Gujarat Assembly Speaker Ramanbhai Vora said that nine MLAs have given resignation since yesterday, but he received only five resignations in paper.
"I got the resignation of the three MLAs of Gujarat yesterday. Sana Bhai Choudhari gave me his resignation. Maan Singh Chauhan gave me his resignation today. No one has asked for the time, whoever will come to my office, I will talk to them," he added.
This comes when the Rajya Sabha election is around the corner in Gujarat.
BJP chief Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani will contest for Rajya Sabha elections from Gujarat.
Currently, Shah is an MLA from Gujarat's Naranpura constituency.
"I was alone in office at that time, Indrani Madam told me on Skype I am a very trustworthy person and she wanted to tell me something which I cannot tell anyone. She told me that she will take responsibility of my child's education and all medical expenses of my family. She assured that my job as a driver will stay forever. She said that Sheena and Mikhail are defaming her by calling their 'mother' everywhere and this has started quarrels. Peter Mukerjea's son Rahul is in love with Sheena Bora and therefore she would have to kill Sheena and Mikhail," Rai told the court.
He added that Indrani told him to not worry and that a man will come from Kolkata to kill Sheena and Mikhail.
Rai, a resident of Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara, further said that he was offered a job of driver at Indrani's place with a salary of Rs. 10,000 per month.
The driver also admitted that Indrani had paid him money for helping with the murder. "I along with Indrani and her husband Sanjeev Khanna, left to dispose of Sheena's body and burnt it in a forest in Gagode village of Raigad district on April 24, 2012," he said.
He added that his Skype account was created, but he could not recollect the password, however, the ID was "Shyawarrai".
Bora was allegedly killed in 2012, but the case came to light in 2015, after Rai's arrest. Rai is the crucial link in the case which led to the arrest of Indrani Mukerjea, her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna for the murder of Sheena.
Meanwhile, Indrani will be interrogated in connection with the murder of Manjula Shetye, a Byculla jail prisoner, said Maharashtra minister Ranjit Patil. Patil announced the development in the monsoon session of the Legislature. Action will also be taken against the doctor of the JJ Hospital's Casualty Department, who gave false reports on Shetye's death.
Nalini, lodged in a special prison for women in Vellore, said she had sent representations to the Tamil Nadu chief minister and inspector general of prisons seeking parole, but there was no response from them. As a life convict she was entitled to be granted ordinary leave for one month once in two years, Nalini, who has been in prison for 26 years, contended, adding she had not availed any such leave so far.
"Since I have to make certain arrangements for the marriage of my daughter Harithra, who is currently living with her grandparents in London, I made a representation to the chief minister seeking six months parole on November 12, 2016," she said in her petition.
As there was no response, she sent another representation to the IG Prisons on January 23, but this too failed to get any response. Hence, she was compelled to move the court, Nalini said. The petition is likely to be taken up for hearing on Monday. Nalini was initially awarded death sentence which was later commuted to life imprisonment by the state government.
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Addressing reporters after winning the trust vote, Modi said "Happy that the government led by chief minister Nitish Kumar has won vote of confidence, we will sit down soon to discuss about the cabinet.
"Lashing out at the Congress party, Modi said if they (Congress) had majority they would have proved it today in the House."It has become clear that the new alliance has received the mandate now and the un-natural alliance died naturally today. And that is why we kept saying that this alliance will not run for long," he added.
Attacking the RJD fraction, Modi said the people of Bihar want to know from Lalu Prasad Yadav and his son Tejashwi as to how, at the mere age of 28, did he amass so much wealth.
"Nitish Kumar took the right step at the right time and fought against corruption and did not bow down before Lalu," he added.
Earlier, former deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav on said that the mandate which was handed over by the people of Bihar in 2015 elections was for the grand alliance, adding that Nitish Kumar and the BJP had insulted that mandate.
"It is a murder of democracy. People of Bihar had given mandate in 2015 not for the BJP but for the grand alliance. He (Nitish) along with the saffron party has insulted the mandate," Tejashwi told the media here.
Tejashwi added the entire disturbing series of events had been planned in advance by the saffron party."Nitish ji is sitting in the lap of BJP and RSS which has disappointed the people of Bihar. The public feels betrayal. If he had to ultimately go to the BJP then did he change four parties in four years," he asserted.
The latest standoff between two nuclear armed countries started when China started building a motorable road in Doklam area near Sikkim on June 16. India as well as Bhutan have raised strong objection to the Chinese aggression on the border.
China on June 26 alleged that Indian troops crossed the boundary line in the Sikkim sector of the China-India boundary.
Since then there is a tension between two countries.
India on June 30 told China that its attempt to construct a road in the Doklam area in Bhutan will cause a "significant change of status quo", is a "violation of a 2012 understanding", and will lead to "serious security implications."
However, given the Chinese stand on Doval's visit, it is not likely that the Indian NSA would be holding parleys with Chinese officials to cool-off the simmering tensions on India-China border.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was on Friday disqualified from office by the Supreme Court which sent his case to an anti-corruption court for trial in the Panamagate graft scandal.
In a unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court ordered that a case be registered against Sharif and ruled that a reference be sent against him and his family to an accountability court.
The court also ordered the National Accountability Bureau to wrap up the case within six weeks.
"Asked several questions in assembly today, but BJP and Nitish Kumar had no answers to them. When they couldn't answer my questions in the Assembly, then how will they answer the people?"
Image: Tejashwi Yadav with his brother Tej Pratap after the RJD lost the trust vote.
Nitish had claimed the support of 131 members, including the BJP, two independents and legislators of BJP allies Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular and Rashtriya Lok Samata party. Opposition RJD has 80 MLAs, the Congress 27 and the CPI-ML 3.
Nitish led JD (U)-NDA government has a support of 132 MLAs, which helped it to prove a comfortable majority in the 243 member state assembly where 122 MLAs are required to prove majority.
Trust vote underway in Bihar Assembly. RJD opposes voice vote, asks for secret vote.
And as expected Nitish Kumar has won the floor test in the Bihar Assembly.
12:53 Pakistan court disqualifies Nawaz Sharif from being PM: Dawn: Cases would be opened against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family Captain Muhammad Safdar, Maryam, Hassan and Hussain Nawaz as well as Sharif himself. The Pakistan prime minister was additionally disqualified from holding his office. The judges ruled that the prime minister had been dishonest to parliament and the courts and could not be deemed fit for his office.
The judgement was an unanimous, 5:0.
The bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa announced the historic and unanimous verdict today. Khosa in the April 20 judgement declared Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif 'disqualified' for not being honest to the nation.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, consisting of Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed and Justice Ijazul Ahsan had last week concluded the entire hearings and reserved its judgment in the Panamagate case in which Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family are accused of amassing offshore assets, reports Dawn.
However, the majority judgement by the three-member bench gave an opportunity to the Prime Minister and his children to explain their position before a specially constituted six-man Joint Invesatigating Team (JIT).
Later, a three-judge bench consisting of the judges, who passed on the majority verdict, became the implementation bench overseeing the working of the JIT.
The bench closed proceedings on July 21, after going through the JIT report.
12:32 Nitish Kumar speaking in the Bihar Assembly now.
Goud, who suffered two bullet injuries in his hands, was admitted to Jubilee Hills Apollo Hospital and is undergoing treatment.
Goud's wife Shipali lodged a police complaint alleging that someone tried to kill her husband.
The incident took place at around 2.30 am today when Goud and his wife were going to Haqi Baba Dargah to offer food to the poor.
Goud's wife, in her complaint, said the assailant attacked her husband with the intention to kill him.
12:26 Bollywood actor Inder Kumar passes away at the age of 44, suffered a heart attack at his Andheri residence.
12:21 Two more Gujarat Cong MLAs quit : In a massive setback to the Congress in Gujarat, two Congress MLAs offered their resignations today.
This came a day after three Congress MLAs quit the party and joined the BJP taking the total to five.
Maan Singh Chouhan and Sana Bhai Choudhari are the two MLAs who resigned from the grand old party. Speaking on the issue, Gujarat Assembly Speaker Ramanbhai Vora said that nine MLAs have given resignation since yesterday, but he received only 5 resignations in paper.
Yesterday, three Congress MLAs P. I. Patel, Balwantsinh Rajput and Tejashree Patel resigned from the party. Rajput is a relative of Shankersinh Vaghela, who quit the Congress last week, while P.I. Patel was the Congress legislator from Vijapur.
This comes when the Rajya Sabha election is around the corner in Gujarat.BJP chief Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani will contest for Rajya Sabha elections from Gujarat.Currently, Shah is an MLA from Gujarat's Naranpura constituency. -- ANI
This came a day after three Congress MLAs quit the party and joined the BJP taking the total to five.
Maan Singh Chouhan and Sana Bhai Choudhari are the two MLAs who resigned from the grand old party. Speaking on the issue, Gujarat Assembly Speaker Ramanbhai Vora said that nine MLAs have given resignation since yesterday, but he received only 5 resignations in paper.
Yesterday, three Congress MLAs P. I. Patel, Balwantsinh Rajput and Tejashree Patel resigned from the party. Rajput is a relative of Shankersinh Vaghela, who quit the Congress last week, while P.I. Patel was the Congress legislator from Vijapur.
This comes when the Rajya Sabha election is around the corner in Gujarat.BJP chief Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani will contest for Rajya Sabha elections from Gujarat.Currently, Shah is an MLA from Gujarat's Naranpura constituency. -- ANI
He says CM Nitish Kumar never discussed my resignation with him. "If he had, I would have thought about it. I was taking legal opinion and I told him that. I am 22-years-old but I am never afraid. Nitish Kumar is still my uncle, but he betrayed me. If Nitish had asked me to resign, I would have thought of it: ," Tejashwi said.
"Sushil Modi is also facing cases. So why did he take oath (as deputy chief minister). Why was the timing of the oath-taking ceremony changed? How did Narendra Modi tweet so quickly on Nitish Kumars resignation?"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had welcomed the Bihar Chief Minister's decision to resign from the post, congratulating Nitish on joining the battle against corruption. "125 crore people are welcoming and supporting your decision," the Prime Minister said on Wednesday moments after Nitish announced his resignation.
In another tweet, PM Modi wrote: "For the bright future of India, and particularly Bihar, it is imperative that one goes beyond political differences and fights corruption."
Tejashwi has been speaking for the last 15 minutes and is expected to speak for at least 40 minutes more.
Highlights of his speech...
There have been four governments in four years. Who is responsible for this? People want an answer.
Nitish Kumar has betrayed the 2015 mandate of the people.
You (Nitish Kumar) are using me as a pawn to go over to the BJP. You have gone from saying 'He Ram' when you saw the BJP to saying 'Jai Shri Ram'. He Ram se Jai Shri Ram mein chale gaye.
The mandate was for five years and it was against the BJP.
Nitish Kumar could not dare to sack me The BJP is greedy. Nitish fought alone in 1995 and got seven seats. In 2014, he was reduced to two seats. Where was his image then?
He said Nitish had planned to go with the BJP well in advance. Nitish's move is well planned. This whole farce was to save Nitish.
Both sides are shouting at each other in the Bihar Assembly after Tejashwi Yadav tells BJPs Sushil Modi to be ashamed of what he has done.
The Patna High Court responds to the petition filed by the RJD challenging the formation of a new government by Nitish Kumar's JDU with the BJP. The court says that a hearing is not possible before July 31st, Monday.
JD (U) leader Neeraj Kumar said that Nitish Kumar will get a full majority today. "Politics is about serving people, it's not a medium to collect money or property. According to the wishes of the state, the Chief Minister will win with complete majority and prove his ethical politics. We hope that he will strongly present his case in the assembly and also win the majority."
The BJP and Janata Dal (United) have issued whip to their legislators to vote in favour of the trust vote.
The RJD and the Congress have also issued a similar whip to their legislators.
Nitish led JD (U)-NDA government has a support of 132 MLAs, which will help it to prove a comfortable majority in the 243 member state assembly where 122 MLAs are required to prove majority.
According to the communique issued from the Raj Bhawan, Nitish has claimed the support of 131 members, including the BJP, two independents and legislators of BJP allies Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM)-Secular and Rashtriya Lok Samata party (RLSP).Opposition RJD has 80 MLAs, the Congress 27 and the CPI-ML 3.
Meanwhile, the RJD has filed a writ petition in the Patna High Court.
Yesterday, in a flurry of tweets, Tejashwi hit out at the JDU and Nitish Kumar saying, "Vicious greed for power of opportunism will spell it's own doom. People are not fools that they digest their penchant for wicked power grab. Past baggage, though unjustified, didn't perturb me when I was entrusted to carry the expectations of people's mandate, in the role of DyCM! I delivered manifolds than what was expected of me. My performance perturbed our ally & BJP. Vendetta against me exposes their viciousness."
Nitish arrived with a big smile, but did not speak to the media converging outside the Assembly.
Nitish will move the confidence motion in the special session at 11 am.
The Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal-United have issued whips to their legislators to vote in favour of the government.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress have also issued a whip to their MLAs. The RJD has sought legal action and has threatened to hold protests in the Assembly.
Here's what will happen when Assembly convenes at 11 am.
1. Nitish will move the confidence motion in the special session at 11 am.
2. Deputy CM and former RJD ally Tejashwani Yadav will speak first.
3. The leaders of all political parties to speak thereater.
4. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar will be the last to speak.
5. A voice vote followed by voting by slips or button will take place.
The Nitish-led National Democratic Alliance government has the support of 132 MLAs, which will help it to prove a comfortable majority in the 243-member state assembly where 122 MLAs are required to prove majority.
According to the communique issued from the Raj Bhawan, Nitish has claimed the support of 131 members, including the BJP, two Independents and two legislators of BJP allies Hindustani Awam Morcha and Rashtriya Lok Samata party.
Opposition RJD has 80 MLAs, the Congress 27 and the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist 3.
Security arrangements have been made in and around the assembly building ahead of the floor test.
He said the five-member bloc of emerging countries needs to "show leadership in countering terrorism". In his brief opening remarks at the meeting hosted by his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi, Doval said BRICS countries also should take leadership role on strategic issues of regional and global importance specially in the areas where they have "consensus".
There was no reference to the ongoing Doklam standoff in his speech. Yang and Doval are Special Representatives for the India-China boundary talks.
The two officials held a separate meeting yesterday to discuss bilateral issues. During that meeting, they were understood to have discussed the standoff between the troops of both the countries at Doklam area in the Sikkim section.
Earlier, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the 7th meeting of 'BRICS High Representatives for Security Issues' is a major platform for BRICS countries to discuss and carry out cooperation in the political security field.
The meeting aims to enhance strategic communication, political mutual trust and international influence of BRICS countries, it said. The meeting will focus on global governance, counter- terrorism, cyber security and energy security, international and regional hotspots, and national security and development, it said.
Former Hizb-ul Mujahideen commander Zakir Rashid Bhat, popularly known as Zakir Musa, has been appointed as the head of a newly created Al Qaeda cell in Kashmir.
'The appointment of Zakir Musa as head of the new group represents the first time terrorists linked to Al Qaeda have operated openly in Kashmir,' the report said.
'The new cell, named Ansar Ghawzat-Ul-Hind, is the deepest inroad Al Qaeda has yet made in Kashmir,' it said.
Recently, breaking from the secessionist movement's traditional leadership -- the Hurriyat Conference -- Musa had advocated Kashmiri allegiance to Islamic State.
In an audio slideshow released in May, Musa spoke about establishing an Islamic caliphate in Kashmir.
In the 5.40-minute-long clip, Musa also warned separatist leaders not to meddle in the move to set up a caliphate in Jammu and Kashmir 'along the lines of the rule established by the Islamic State in parts of Syria and Iraq'.
However, a Hizb-ul spokesman later claimed 'that the statement of Musa isnt acceptable and that the outfit has nothing to do with it'.
Musa, who succeeded Burhan Wani in the outfit, had dumped Hizb-ul after this fallout. -- Agencies
They demanded necessary action and an unbiased investigation into their charges by the administration.
The mother of Bhim Army's district unit president Kamal Walia said if 'the innocent people' of the Dalit outfit were attacked, they would not sit silent.
The office-bearers sought an early resolution to the issue and warned of launching a stir if their demands are not met.
Chandrashekhar, a lawyer by profession, was arrested onJune 8 by Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police from Himachal Pradesh's Dalhousie in connection with his alleged role in the violence in Saharanpur.
He had shot to limelight after holding a demonstration at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi against violence on Dalits in Saharanpur.
Earlier, two members of the Bhim Army were arrested in Saharanpur for their alleged involvement in the Ramnagar caste violence on May 9 after a person was killed and several others were injured in a clash between Dalits and Thakurs at Shabbirpur village on May 5. -- PTI
The National Democratic Alliance had submitted a list of 132 MLAs to the governor, which is well past the required number of 122 in the 243-member assembly.
These MLAs include 71 of the Janata Dal-United, Bharatiya Janata Partys 53, two of the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party, two of the Lok Janshakti Party, one of former CM Jitan Ram Manjhis Hindustani Awam Morcha and three independents.
On the other side, the Rashtriya Janata Dal has 80 MLAs, the Congress 27 and the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist has three.
Hillary Clinton's memoir about her failed attempt to win last year's US. presidential election will be called "What Happened," a declaration rather than a question, her publisher said in the run-up to its September 12 release.
Among the things the Democratic nominee will say happened are sexism against the first woman to be the presidential candidate for a major US party and "an unprecedented assault on our democracy by a foreign adversary," according to publicity material from the publisher, Simon and Schuster.
"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net," Clinton wrote in the book's introduction. "Now I'm letting my guard down."
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