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Published – July 02, 2026 06:26 pm IST
Posters of the film ‘Jana Nayagan’. Photo: Special Arrangement.
India and Japan on Thursday (July 2, 2026) unveiled a raft of initiatives, including an economic partnership framework and a defence pact to co-develop military hardware following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi.
The film Jana Nayagan, starring Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay has been examined by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), and a certificate for the film is likely to be issued within two or three days, a senior official told The Hindu. The film, Mr. Vijay’s last as an actor, was held up at the CBFC since January in the run up to the Tamil Nadu Assembly election earlier this year.
Observing that the use of non-existent or AI-generated hallucinated judicial precedents is “catastrophic” to the judicial process, the Supreme Court on Thursday (July 2, 2026) set aside an order of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) after finding that it had relied on fictitious AI-generated case laws.
Days before social activist Anna Hazare’s indefinite hunger strike, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis ordered an immediate stay on the controversial amendments to the Right To Information (RTI) Rules in the State. The Maharashtra Right to Information Rules, 2026, proposed several changes, including a higher RTI application fee, mandatory identity proof and a restriction that each application should deal with only one subject.
Punjabi superstar Diljit Dosanjh has distanced himself from the ongoing protest by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, saying he is an artiste, not a politician. The “Main Vaapas Aaunga” actor on Wednesday (July 1, 2026) evening held a Instagram live session where he answered the many queries of his fans.
An 11-year-old boy crashed a pickup truck into a group of monks on a pilgrimage walk in northeastern Thailand on Thursday (July 2, 2026), killing nine, officials said. A total of 35 monks from Mukdahan province, about 600 km northeast of the capital Bangkok, were on the pilgrimage. Five monks were killed at the site, while four others died at a hospital.
Former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Thursday (July 2, 2026) shifted to her own house, giving up the government bungalow that had been her residence as well as the camp office of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), headed by her husband Lalu Prasad, for nearly two decades.
A few days after a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) worker fell into the manhole, another man fell into the manhole on Khairani Road near the Sanman Hotel in Mumbai’s Chandivali area, where maintenance work is in progress. The man, identified as 55-year-old Aslam Esaf Shaikh, was taken to the Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar, where the doctors declared him brought dead.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will attend the funeral of the late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei this week, the South Asian nation’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday (July 2, 2026). “The Prime Minister, Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, will go to Iran and Turkey from July 3-5. He will go to Iran first for [the] supreme leader’s funeral,” Ministry spokesman Tahir Andrabi told reporters.
The Kerala High Court on Thursday (July 2, 2026) refused to extend the transit bail granted to Farmaan Khan, an actor and husband of the actor woman who went viral during the Kumbh Mela, in a kidnapping case filed by her father.
The Bombay High Court has held that the exemption granted to Sikh community members from wearing helmets constitutes a “reasonable classification” under Article 14 of the Constitution and does not violate fundamental rights. A Division Bench of Justices Urmila Joshi-Phalke and Nivedita Mehta dismissed the petition filed by law student Kirtesh Vikas Chaudhari
Published – July 02, 2026 06:26 pm IST
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