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Tunisia has arrested a “significant number” of suspects in the terrorist attack on foreign tourists at the beach resort of Sousse that killed at least 38 and injured dozens, Interior Minister Mohamed Najem Gharsalli said on Monday.

Gharsalli said “the first part of the network” responsible for the gun attack at the beachfront Imperial Marhaba Hotel had been detained, local Radio Shems Fm reported.

“We have begun with the arrests of a first group, a significant number of people belonging to the network behind this criminal terrorist,” Gharsalli said.

Most of the victims of last week’s killer heatwave in Pakistan’s Sindh Province were homeless, beggers or drug addicts living on the streets here, a minister said today as the death toll reached nearly 1300.

“The inquiry into the deaths of nearly 1300 people from the heatwave had found that two-thirds of the victims were homeless,” health minister Jam Mehtab Dahar told PTI.

Iraqi premier Haider al-Abadi has “retired” the army’s chief of staff, the most senior officer removed since jihadists overran large parts of the country last year, his spokesman said today.

General Babaker Zebari “has been retired” on Abadi’s orders, Saad al-Hadithi told AFP, without providing further details.

Abadi has sacked dozens of army and police officers in an effort to restructure and improve security forces that performed disastrously when the Islamic State jihadist group launched an offensive last June, overrunning major areas north and west of Baghdad.

Superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan will be clashing at the box office next year with ‘Raees’ and ‘Sultan’, respectively, but King Khan says that they are friends and do not consider it a clash.

Both films are going to release next year on Eid.

“We have now become friends, so everything we will do together. For you all it is clash, but not for us. We both are going to do well then. There might be a business clash but there will be equal profit for us,” Shah Rukh told reporters here at an event.

Directed by Rahul Dholakia, ‘Raees’, an action-thriller,

Union Minister for Steel and Mines Narendra Singh Tomar today had to face questions from BJP youth wing workers on the party’s traditional Hindutva agenda and the black money issue.

Speaking at an interaction organised by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), Tomar said to a question about “Hindu state” that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made it clear that “all the 125 crore Indians were equal and there was no room for discrimination.”

A prominent Islamic State leader was killed in airstrikes launched by the US-led international coalition west of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

General Najim al-Jabouri, commander of security operations in the Nineveh province, said on Monday that coalition aircraft targeted the car belonging to Abdullah Mohamed al-Huran, the military commander of Mosul’s eastern front.

The electricity bill of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Civil Lines residence was about Rs 91,000 for the months of April and May, according to an RTI reply.

The General Administration Department of Delhi Government has furnished the copies of electricity bill of Kejriwal’s Civil Lines residence running into Rs 91,000. The RTI query was filed by Vivek Garg, an advocate and RTI activist.

Delhi BJP, however, claimed that the bill was over Rs 1 lakh and said that it would also seek power bill details of all AAP ministers.

YSR Congress Party leader YS Sharmila, on her latest phase of “Paramarsha Yatra”, landed at Shamshabad airport to a warm and rousing welcome. Party workers and leaders turned up in big numbers to welcome her.

Loksatta founder-president Dr Jayaprakash Narayana today administered shock to TDP by uttering that there was no problem for Andhra people living in Hyderabad for the last 13 months.

Probably stepping into his father and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s shoes to lend a helping hand to the poor and deprived, IT Minister KT Rama Rao today offered Rs 1 lakh to Nagaiah who acted in Vedam film and begging at Film Nagar. Moved at the penury of Nagaiah, who is begging in Film Nagar to make both ends meet, KTR invited him to his residence and offered Rs 1 lakh cheque.

President Pranab Mukherji is scheduled to stay in Hyderabad, the joint capital of two Telugu States, until July 8.
During his 10-day sojourn, the President is expected to pay a visit to Tirumala, the abode of Lord Venkateshwara in Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh on July 1. And on his return to Hyderabad, the President will attend a program to receive first copy of a book “Uniki” authored by Maharashtra Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao at HICC on July 3.

The Hyderabad High Court of Telangana Government here on Monday issued orders transferring six district judges.

According to the order, M. Venkataramana has been appointed as special judge for CBI Court. Similarly, Vijaya Sarathi Acharyulu was posted as chief judge of Warangal district; Aravainda Reddy as chief judge of Nizamahad district; Balayogi as chief judge of City Civil Court; Sambasiva Rao Naidu as fourth additional metropolitan judge, Nampally; Tirumala Rao as second additional metropolitan judge, Nampally. (NSS)

Popular Tollywood actor and Janasena president Pawan Kalyan today announced that he would disclose his opinion on the latest political developments in the two Telugu States i.e. cash-for-vote, phone-tapping and other issues by the end of this week or in early next week.

Ahead of the launch of the flagship program of Harithaharam on July 3, Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari today directed vice chancellors of various universities and officials of education department to conduct massive plantation of saplings program in their campuses and premises. During a high level review meeting with them at Secretariat here, the deputy chief minister asked them to take up on war-footing the project to expand green cover in the state.

The Santoshnagar sleuths have busted a notorious interstate snatching gang of three persons and seized stolen property 13 tolas of gold and two motor bikes from their possession.

The criminals were arrested on Sunday evening during vehicle checking at Rakshapuram ‘T’ Junction. M. Appalanaidu, DI, Santoshnagar PS, arrested the trio under the guidance of. V. Satyanarayana, IPS.

Governor ESL Narasimhan today extended invitations to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu to attend a dinner party being accorded in honour of President Pranab Mukherjee on his arrival at Raj Bhavan on June 30 at 7 pm. The Governor asked the two Telugu Chief Ministers to turn up to the important program along with their spouses.

As part of his regular annual sojourn in Hyderabad, President Pranab Mukherjee today landed on the campus of Hakimpet Air Force Station here in a special IAF flight.

The country’s first citizen was given a rousing reception by Governor ESL Narsimhan, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, ministers, leaders and officials at Hakimpet Airport near Secunderabad on Monday afternoon.