QBullet: Palestine’s Hopes Ahead of PM’s Israel Tour & More
Here’s a look at the top news of the day making headlines in dailies across the country.
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1. Ahead of PM’s Tour, Palestine Hopes to Keep India Ties Firm
India’s relations with Israel should not come at the “expense of ties” with Palestine, but the Palestinian Authority (PA) understands the need for India to de-hyphenate ties with both, says the Palestinian President’s diplomatic adviser Dr Majdi Al Khalidi in an interview ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel.
Source: The Hindu
2. BJP Defends Leader in Jharkhand Lynching Case
After they put together the sequence of events leading to the lynching of meat trader Alimuddin Ansari in Ramgarh in Jharkhand on 29 June, police are zeroing in on the involvement of members of a cow-protection group, who may have been later joined by members of the public.
Among the three arrested so far, of the 12 named, are Nityanand Mahato, co-in-charge of the BJP’s district media cell of Ramgarh, Santosh Singh, with links to a local Gau Raksha Samiti, and a youth barely out of his teens, Chhotu Rana, who runs a chicken shop and is not believed to have any association with any right-wing organisation.
Source: The Indian Express
3. J&K: Protesters Clash With Security Men in Pulwama
Clashes broke out Sunday evening between protesters and security personnel when the latter cordoned off Malangpora village in Pulwama to launch a search operation.
A joint team of J&K Police and Army cordoned off the village after inputs about the presence of militants there. Soon, a large number of people took to the streets and threw stones at them to prevent the operation. Police fired teargas shells to disperse them.
Source: The Indian Express
4. Flood Situation Worsens in Assam, Nearly 2.75 lakh People Affected
The flood situation in Assam has deteriorated, as one person lost his life and nearly 2.75 lakh people were affected across seven districts of the state.
A report by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said the body of a person was recovered from Subansiri river in North Lakhimpur. It is suspected that he drowned due to strong currents of the river on 19 June.
The ASDMA said that around 2.75 lakh people of Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Golaghat, Cachar, Dhemaji, Biswanath and Karimganj districts were affected by the flood. Saturday’s report said 2.68 lakh people were hit in the latest wave of flood across eight districts.
Source: Hindustan Times
5. Dalit Group From Gujarat Stopped From Gifting 125 kg Soap to Yogi Adityanath
A group of Dalit protesters from Gujarat were stopped at the Jhansi railway station on Sunday evening, with police saying the preemptive step was taken as their presence in Lucknow could disturb peace.
The 45-member group was carrying a 125kg bar of soap with the image of Buddha carved on it, which they wanted to gift to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to allegedly “cleanse his mentality towards Dalits”.
The gift is viewed as a tit-for-tat response against reports of officials distributing shampoo and soap bars to 100-odd Musahar Dalit families at a village in Kushi Nagar, a day before their meeting with the chief minister this May.
Source: Hindustan Times
6. India Pushes Troops in Doka La in Longest Impasse Since 1962
India has pushed in more troops in a "non-combative mode" to strengthen its position in an area near Sikkim, where its soldiers have been locked in a standoff with Chinese troops for almost a month now in what has been the longest such impasse between the two armies since 1962.
India brought in more troops after the destruction of two of its bunkers and "aggressive tactics" adopted by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), sources said. In a "non-combative mode", the nozzle of a gun is placed downwards.
Source: PTI
7. Congress Alone to Blame for Opposition Mess: Nitish Kumar
In his sharpest attack in the recent past against his Bihar ally, JD(U) national president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Sunday that the Congress alone was “responsible for the current mess” in the Opposition.
Speaking at the state executive meeting of his party, Nitish said:
Targeting the Congress’ “recalcitrance”, Kumar said, “It is because of the Congress that we could not have an alliance in UP, it was because of the Congress that we could not have an alliance in Assam, and the Congress did not take us into confidence for the presidential polls as well.”
Source: The Indian Express
8. Beijing Using Doklam to Arm Twist Delhi on OBOR?
China's official news agency sent signals on Sunday that the ongoing border stand-off with India was caused, at least partly, by Beijing's desperate need to force an unwilling India to accept its One Belt One Road (OBOR) programme.
The border row was triggered after Chinese troops began building a road in Doklam, which falls in the Sikkim-Tibet-Bhutan trijunction, within weeks of the OBOR summit that India refused to attend.
Source: The Times of India
9. Pranab on Relationship with PM Modi: We Kept Divergences to Ourselves
Days before the end of his tenure, President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday spoke candidly about his relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During the launch of his book President Pranab Mukherjee – A Statesman at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Mukherjee said that divergences with Modi did not hamper the President-Prime Minister relationship.
Source: The Indian Express
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