India-Pakistan diplomatic tensions and other top stories

INDIA-PAKISTAN DIPLOMATIC TENSIONS RISE
AS TENSION CONTINUES TO MAR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN OVER RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE KASHMIR VALLEY…. INDIA HAS ASKED ITS DIPLOMATS AND OTHER OFFICIALS TO TAKE THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF LOCAL SCHOOLS IN ISLAMABAD… AROUND 50 INDIAN KIDS OF INDIAN OFFICIALS CURRENTLY STUDY IN ISLAMABAD’S AMERICAN SCHOOL.

9 TERRORISTS KILLED IN BANGLADESH RAID
IN BANGLADESH… POLICE RAIDED A SUSPECTED TERRORIST DEN IN KALLYANPUR EARLY THIS MORNING.. NINE SUSPECTED TERRORISTS WERE KILLED IN THE OPERATION… THE RAID IS PART OF BANGLADESH’S CRACKDOWN ON TERROR FOLLOWING TWIN ATTACKS ON DHAKA EARLIER THIS MONTH.

POLICE INTERROGATES SUSPECT BEHIND JAPAN KNIFE ATTACK
POLICE IN JAPAN ARE INTERROGATING THE MAN SUSPECTED OF THIS MORNING’S KNIFE ATTACK IN WHICH NINETEEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED… THE ATTACK TOOK PLACE AT A CARE CENTRE FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES WEST OF TOKYO… 26 PEOPLE HAVE ALSO BEEN INJURED… THIS IS THE WORST MASS KILLING IN THE COUNTRY SINCE THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO.

DEBACLE CONTINUES AT DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
DAY ONE OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION WAS MARRED BY FREQUENT CHAOS… AS BERNIE SANDERS SUPPORTERS REPEATEDLY CHANTED HIS NAME AND BOOED ALL MENTIONS OF HILLARY CLINTON… EARLIER IN THE DAY SANDERS RECEIVED BOOS FROM HIS OWN SUPPORTERS WHEN HE URGED HIS DELEGATES TO BACK CLINTON’S BID FOR THE WHITE HOUSE.

INDIAN ATHLETE FAILS DOPING TEST
INDIAN SHOT PUTTER INDERJEET SINGH HAS FAILED A DOPING TEST… PLACING HIS PARTICIPATION AT THE RIO GAMES IN THE BALANCE… 28-YEAR-OLD SINGH’S A-SAMPLE TESTED POSITIVE FOR A BANNED SUBSTANCE IN AN OUT-OF-COMPETITION TEST DONE ON JUNE 22… WRESTLER NARSINGH YADAV WAS ALSO CAUGHT FOR DOPING JUST A FEW DAYS EARLIER.

INDIA LOSES ARBITRATION CASE, DAMAGES UPTO $1 BILLION
AND… THE HAGUE HAS PASSED A VERDICT AGAINST THE INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION FOR CANCELLING A DEAL TO BUILD 2 SATELLITES WITH DEVAS MULTIMEDIA… ISRO’S COMMERCIAL WING ANTRIX CORPORATION LIMITED CANCELLED THE DEAL IN 2005… THE VERDICT IS A HUGE LOSS TO INDIA AND MIGHT REQUIRE ISRO TO PAY UPTO A BILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGES.

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