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1. Three Saved From Being Lynched by Assam Mob Over Child-Lifting Rumours
Army and police personnel have rescued three ‘sadhus’ from getting lynched by a mob, which suspected them to be child-lifters, at Mahur Railway Station in Dima Hasao district of Assam, officials said on Friday, 6 July.
District officials said Army men posted at an adjacent camp and police officers came to the rescue of three persons on Thursday after hundreds of people had gathered to attack them in the wake of rumours of child-lifting.
The belongings of the ‘sadhus’ were thrown open by the mob, video graphed and shared on social media, further fuelling the hear say, the officials said.
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2. Bittoo Sharma to Khilji: Is There Anything Ranveer Singh Can’t Do?
It was 2010 when Ranveer Singh, as the boorish yet charming Bittoo Sharma, sashayed into our collective consciousness. It has been a good eight years since the film came out. Yet, Band Baaja Baaraat remains one of the most remarkable entrants in Hindi cinema’s overdone genre of romantic comedies.
For one, it was one of the first few films to articulate with precision the growing aspirations of youth from small towns. Second, it takes the viewer on a roller-coaster of emotions, throwing in every shade of romance there is. And most importantly, for giving Bollywood and the world at large, the phenomenon that Ranveer Singh is.
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3. FIFA WC: Riveting Clashes Await as Contest Enters Business End
The second round of the World Cup in Russia is over and the tournament has stayed true to its theme of ‘upsets and heart breaks’.
If the group stage saw defending champions Germany take a leave, things became more intense in the next round, with Argentina, Portugal and Spain going out too.
Underdogs continued to grab headlines – host Russia, the lowest ranked team in the World Cup, knocked out Spain on penalties. And later, Denmark and Japan did enough to give Croatia and Belgium the much-needed wake up call.
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4. Review: The Digital Game Just Got Bigger With Netflix’s ‘Sacred Games’
At 900 pages, Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games for many seemed like a baggy monster that was hard to pick up and then harder to put down - just like the city at the heart of the sweeping labyrinthine narrative - a tough beast to handle. Bombay and the underworld have largely dovetailed in popular culture. Little wonder that Netflix opted for this grandiose source material for its first Indian original series.
The eight-episode thriller traces the trajectory of Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan), a low-performing but upright and anxiety-ridden police officer, and Anjali Mathur (Radhika Apte), an intelligence officer, to the heart of a cryptic web woven by the criminal overlord, Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui).
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5. Nawaz Sharif Gets 10 Yrs, Maryam Sentenced to 7 in Corruption Case
An accountability court in Pakistan on Friday, 6 July sentenced ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison in one of the three corruption cases against him in the high-profile Panama Papers scandal.
The court delivered the verdict after postponing it for four times in the Avenfield corruption case – pertaining to the ownership of four flats in the posh Avenfield House in London.
Sharif, 68, is in London attending to his wife Kulsoom Nawaz who was diagnosed with throat cancer last year.
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6. CJI is Master of Roster, Has Sole Authority to Allocate Cases: SC
Hearing a plea filed by former law minister Shanti Bhushan challenging the existing roster practice of allocation of cases in the apex court by the Chief Justice of India, the Supreme Court on Friday, 6 July, said that the CJI “occupies role of first among equals and has exclusive duty of allocating cases”.
Refusing to interfere with the PIL, the apex court held that there was no dispute that the CJI was master of the roster.
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7. Body of Abducted J&K Policeman Javid Dar Found in Kulgam
Body of abducted police constable Javid Ahmad Dar has been found by locals at Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam's Pariwan, reported ANI on Friday, 6 July. He was abducted by militants from a local medical shop in Shopian on 5 July.
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8. Two Men Held For Sexually Assaulting Woman in Unnao & Posting Video
A video has surfaced from UP’s Unnao which shows three men sexually assaulting a woman as she asks them to stop, while threatening to make the video “viral”.
The video was shared on social media and has been made viral since it was initially posted on Friday, 6 July, ANI reported.
In the video, the woman can be heard pleading “Bhaiyya aise mat karo (please don’t do this)” while the men can be seen assaulting her and hurling obscenities.
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9. Thailand Football Team Rescue: Navy SEAL Dies from Lack of Oxygen
A former navy SEAL working to rescue boys trapped in cave in Thailand has died from lack of oxygen, Thai authorities said on Friday, 6 July.
SEAL commander Arpakorn Yookongkaew told a news conference Friday morning that the rescuer, Samarn Poonan, was working as a volunteer and died during an overnight mission in which he was placing oxygen canisters.
Thai authorities are racing to pump out water from a flooded cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped since 23 June.
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