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Earlier today, Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court extended the judicial custody of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal till July 12 in the money laundering case related to the now scrapped Delhi liquor excise policy 2021-22.

Cloud cover enveloped Delhi as parts of the city received rain on Wednesday, bringing respite from the intense humidity that had gripped the city over the past few days. The weather department, in its notification at 3 pm, said that moderate to heavy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, with wind speeds of 40 to 60 kmph, is likely to occur across Delhi and the NCR.

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday informed the Madras High Court that none of the well-settled circumstances, under which transfer of investigation to CBI was ordered, apply to the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy case that has left over 60 dead. Chief Secretary Shiv Das Meena stated this in his status report filed before a division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice R Mahadevan and Justice Mohamed Shafiq, in response to the petition filed by AIADMK legal wing secretary I S Inbadurai and K Balu, president of Advocates Forum for Social Justice. 

The Delhi High Court today rejected a plea seeking disqualification of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from contesting elections and said that person who filed the plea appeared to be suffering from mental health issues. A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela asked the local Station House Officer (SHO) and the District Judge to keep a watch on the petitioner, Captain Deepak Kumar and exercise their powers under the Mental Healthcare Act, if necessary.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to meet Men’s Indian Cricket Team tomorrow at 11:00 am. The Indian cricket team will arrive from Barbados tomorrow, July 4, early morning.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday strongly raised the issue of Indian nationals fighting for the Russian Army in the war zone and pressed for their safe return during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.

The organisers of a ‘satsang’ held by godman Bhole Baba in Hathras – which ended in a stampede leaving 121 people dead – “tried to cover up the incident”, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today after visiting the site.

In a troubling trend for Bihar, a portion of a bridge over Gandaki river in Siwan district collapsed on Wednesday morning, marking the seventh such incident in the state within the past 15 days. The small bridge, situated in the district’s Deoria block, connects several villages with Mahrajganj.

A crucial meeting of INDIA bloc legislators started today, amid speculations of a change of guard in the state, MLAs of the alliance said. The meeting has been convened by former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, who is also the executive president of the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).

Seven more children suffering from suspected food poisoning at a shelter home in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city have been admitted to a government hospital, an official said on Wednesday.With this, the number of such children admitted to the hospital has risen to 38, he said