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 Legendary actor Dilip Kumar  has passed away at the age of 98 in a private hospital in Mumbai. Dilip Kumar acted in 60 films including landmark films like Mughal e Azam, Nayadaur, Madhumati, Sadgati, Aan, Ganga Jamuna , Devdas, Shakti, Vidhaata, Kranti , Saudagar and many others had won the Dadasaheb award in 1994 and padma vibushan in 2015 among many awards. In a major cabinet expansion, the first since Narendra Modi returned to power in 2019, 36 new ministers have been inducted and 12 ministers dropped in a jumbo team of 77. Prominent ministers dropped include Prakash Jawedkar, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Harsh Vardhan. The new ministers include Narayan Rane, Jyotiradtiya Scindia , Ashwini Vaishnaw , Bhupender Yadav and Sarbanand Sonowal. Justice Kaushik Chanda rescued from hearing the petition filed in the Kolkatta high court by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee challenging the Assembly poll result in Nandigram, but imposed a cost of Rs 5 lakh on her for calculated psychologic

 Pakistan has described the June 23 bomb blast outside the home of Jamaat ud dawa chief Hafiz Sayeed as Indian sponsored terrorism.Pakistan's National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf told reporters in Islamabad that mastermind of the attack that killed 3 people and injured 24 is an Indian citizen and he is associated with RAW (Research and Analysis Wing). Panama papers, the Pulitzer winning investigation that exposed how the rich and powerful parked and moved their money in and out of global tax havens, has led Indian Tax authorities to undeclared assets worth Rs 20,000 crore so far possibly among the biggest for a single batch of cases. Father Stain Swamy, the 84 year old Jesuis Priest and tribal rights activist arrested in the Elgar Parishad case,  has been put on ventilator after his health deteriorated early sunday, according to his lawyer. The two day Monsoon Session of the Maharashtra Legislative assembly, the Udhav Thackeray led government is planning to bring a raft of resolut

 Two term MLA from Khatima in Udham Singh Nagar district Pushkar Singh Dhami has been selected as the next Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, and will be the 11th Chief Minister and third in last 4 months. Authorities in France have initiated a judicial probe into allegations of corruption in the sale of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft to India , according to French website Mediapart. The Bombay High Court on Saturday said that providing free  shelter and food to the homeless, beggars and pavement dwellers will only increase their population if they are not asked to work for the country in return. It added that everything cannot be provided to them by the state. The Enforcement Directorate has once again issued notice to Former Maharashtra Home minister Anil Deshmukh asking him to appear before it on July 5 in connection with a money laundering case. Thane police have arrested 11 people for beating up an woman and her two male friends, at a behest of a autorickshaw driver , who tried to molest

 Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat resigned late on Friday , less than four months after taking over , citing the constitutional provision requiring him to get elected to the state assembly within six months, and the unlikelihood of that. India on Friday allowed vaccination for pregnant women, paving the way for the entire adult population of the country to get vaccinated. West Bengal police to register cases against all people involved in the post polls violence and ensure medical treatment to all victims of the violence, according to an order by the Kolkatta High Court. The Maha Vikas Agadi Government in Maharashtra is unlikely to hold an election to the speaker's post in a two day monsoon session of the state legislature that will begin on Monday, according to a decision by the state cabinet. BMC has sealed Shivam Hospital in Kandivili, whose name had cropped up in all the nine bogus vaccination camps held in Mumbai, and where saline water was administrated to around

 Chinese President Xi Jinping, speaking at a celebration of the centenary of the foundation of the ruling Communist Party that anyone who tries to bully China will face broken hearts and bloodshed . Zydus Cadilla, the Ahemedabad based pharmaceutical company, has approached India's top drug regulator for restricted emergency use approval for Zycov-d, its three dose Covid vaccine.If approved for use, it will be the first DNA vaccine against Covid 19. The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached land, machinery & buildings worth Rs 65.75 crore owned by a cooperative sugar mill in Satara  in a case of alleged fraud related to Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank in which the agency had earlier named NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. The Supreme Court has dismissed the Centre' s plea seeking the review of its May 5 ruling that the power to identify Socially and Educationally backward classes (SEBC) lies exclusively with the central government

 The Supreme Court has set a deadline of July 31 for states to implement the one nation one ration card system and for the centre to create a national database of unorganized workers. The National drug regulator granted emergency use authorisation to US biotechnology firm Moderna for its vaccine against Coranavirus, paving the way of its indian partner Cipla to import the  first mRNA covid 19 vaccine into the country for commercial use. The parliamentary standing committee on IT has sought an explanation from Twitter on the blocking of Twitter accounts of Union Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and committe chairman Shashi Tharoor. Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has expressed his inability to appear before the Enforcement Directorate, in connection with the money laundering case, citing the Covid 19 pandemic and has asked it to record his statement through a audio-visual mode of their choice. Tripura has one of the highest vaccination rates in Indi