Italian actor-filmmaker Bud Spencer, known for his action-comedy roles, is dead. He was 86....

A Chinese daily on Tuesday urged India not to throw tantrum after failing to join the NSG and said Western adulation had made New Delhi "a bit smug in international affairs". ...

Researchers at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have captured stunning new images and prepared the highest-resolution maps to date of Jupiter, a week ahead of the arrival of NASA's Juno spacecraft at the giant planet on July 4....
The Ram janmabhoomi temple at Ayodhya was demolished during the reign of Auranagzeb and not by Babur's commander Mir Baqi, says former IPS officer Kishore Kunal in his book "Ayodhya Revisited"....

The religious right in the US is more positive about presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump than it was a few months ago, a Gallup poll has found. ...
The Congress in Goa on Tuesday condemned the government's decision to anchor an offshore casino vessel near Dr. Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary located on the outskirts of this city. ...
Isak Chisi Swu, Chairman of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), died at a hospital here on Tuesday, after months of battling a kidney ailment....

Key Indian equity indices showed considerable recovery from last week's Brexit hangover to trade in the green during the mid-afternoon session on Tuesday, following global cues and a rebounding rupee....
The Congress-led opposition on Tuesday staged its first walkout in the Kerala assembly to protest the alleged high-handedness of CPI-M workers towards two Dalit women in Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's hometown and also the "callous" attitude of the police....
Nearly one in two Indians have granted access to contacts and mobile data in exchange for free apps and close to 40 per cent have granted access to their camera, revealed global leader in cyber security Norton by Symantec on Tuesday. ...