In a stinging attack on the Centre, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said no government in history with such an overwhelming mandate had been "harassed" the way AAP dispensation is being "targeted" and accused the BJP of reneging on its poll promises.

Investigators probing the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar may move a local court seeking lie detector test on her husband and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.

Tattoos cover their faces and bodies -- marks of permanence to contrast their transient lifestyle. Some wear their hair in dreadlocks; others wear worn bandanas around their necks.They are travelers -- hopping freight trains, hitching rides, always in motion.

The Dholpur Palace row escalated today with the Congress raising the pitch for the sacking of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, saying there was a "criminal nexus" between her family and former IPL boss Lalit Modi, a charge rubbished by the BJP.

The ruling Left Front in Tripura has swept the assembly by-polls while the ruling Congress won the lone seat in Meghalaya.

JUST IN: Petrol prices cut by 31 paise a litre, diesel by 71 paisa. More details are awaited.

Pending for nearly 29 years, a petition seeking declaring Indira Gandhi's assassination a "suicide through arranged murder" to facilitate Rajiv Gandhi's elevation as prime minister was dismissed at its first hearing by the Gujarat High Court after nobody pressed the case.

In a boost to police jawans engaged in anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh, the state government has made a handsome hike in their salary and allowance.

Jain community members living in the BJP-ruled Gujarat are set to get the minority status by end of next month, Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Ramanlal Vora said here today.

Law Minister D V Sadanana Gowda today said the issue of reversing a Supreme Court ruling which had upheld same-sex marriages in India as illegal is not pending before his ministry, remarks which come after the US' apex court legalised gay marital unions in that country.

The Delhi high court today granted two weeks' parole to Sukhdev Yadav alias Pehelwan, serving a 25-year jail term without remission for the murder of Nitish Katara, and asked him to surrender "immediately" on expiry of the period.

Reports are coming in that Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis delayed a flight by 50 minutes after his aide forgot his passport. The aide brought his old passport to the airport before they were boarding a flight to New York. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis left today for a week-long official trip to USA where a series of meetings with trade, commerce and industry houses are lined up.

Delhi court restrains release of Hindi film 'Mohalla Assi' starring Sunny Deol for allegedly hurting religious sentiments. Directed by Chandra Prakash Dwivedi  is loosely based on Dr. Kashinath Singh's popular Hindi novel Kashi Ka Assi, a satire on the commercialisation of the pilgrimage city, and fake gurus who lure the foreign tourists. The movie allegedly shows the Hindu deity Lord Shiva in an incredulous manner.

Accusing the Centre of not being serious in pursuing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases, the Aam Aadmi Party government has formed a Special Investigation Team to look into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said that the government would provide lawyers to the victims. 

Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis confirms Greece will not pay IMF debt due on Tuesday.


Greece will not pay a Euro 1.6 billion debt installment to the International Monetary Fund due today, but Athens still holds out hope of a last-minute deal with creditors on an aid package, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said.


Asked by a reporter if Greece would make the payment, Varoufakis replied: "No". On the possibility of an eleventh hour aid deal with international creditors,  Varoufakis said: "We hope so".


Here's what you need to know on the Greek crisis. Read

"Biggest load of bull**** I have been hearing", Indian cricket team's director Ravi Shastri said today, dismissing reports of a rift between Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virat Kohli. Shastri said the two players have utmost respect for each other and the Indian team was "one honest bunch" who believed in playing for each other.


"It's (rift between Dhoni and Kohli) the biggest load of bull**** I have been hearing. It's one honest bunch who believes in playing for each other. That's why the results you have had over the last year, 70 percent of matches won," Shastri told PTI in an interview.


"You ought to see the respect they have for each other. Kohli is young, flamboyant, in-your-face character. He will learn with the exposure he gets. He is only 26, let him settle into captaincy for a year or two," he said.


Shastri spoke highly of current ODI captain Dhoni, calling him an all-time legend, who played on his own terms.


"Dhoni is an all-time legend. He is the kind of bloke who plays on his own terms. It's best exemplified in the manner he quit Test cricket. I would have known many who would have loved to go for a 100-Test milestone," he said. Asked whether young players like Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan have settled in the team, Shastri said their best is yet to come.

Delhi Assembly passes VAT Amendment Bill, which increases the upper limit of VAT from 20 per cent to 30 per cent. The items that could be impacted by a higher rate are mostly petroleum and tobacco related. They are naptha, aviation turbine fuel, spirit, gasoline, furnace oil, wax (except candle wax), any mixture and combination of above products, foreign liquor and Indian-made foreign liquor, country liquor, narcotics, molasses, rectified spirit, lottery tickets, brake fluid, tobacco gutkha, unprocessed tobacco, bidis and tobacco used in making bidis and hooka tobacco, aerated drinks and watches costing above Rs 5,000.


Opposition leader, BJP's Vijender Gupta (pictured) said the bill amounted to "cheating" the people and stages a walkout from the Assembly after tearing the VAT amendment papers.

Close on the heels of India leading worldwide International Yoga Day celebrations, Yoga classes have been banned in a central Russian city by the authorities to check spread of 'religious occultism'.


At the centre of the crackdown are two studios holding classes for Hatha Yoga -- a set of asanas or postures involving deep breathing and tough physical exercises, which as per Hindu mythology was first practised by Lord Shiva.


Incidentally, Hatha Yoga is the most popular form of Yoga globally, including in the US, and a Russian Bollywood actress named Indra Devi (born Eugenia Vassilievna) is widely credited to have popularised it in the West more than 100 years ago.


Yoga is known as an ancient Indian spiritual and exercise discipline to balance mind, body and spirit, while millions across the globe joined in spectacular celebrations to mark the first International Yoga Day on June 21.

India is preparing for the first-ever meeting between its Prime Minister and Iranian President Hassan Rohani after two failed attempts, in the Russian city of Ufa, for talks aimed at reviving a critical strategic relationship New Delhi has ignored, particularly since 2012. Read more

4000 resident doctors in Maharashtra to go on indefinite strike from July 1 as their demands have not been met by the government.  According to Dr Sagar Mundada, MARD president, a meeting with Medical Education Minister Vinod Tawde was held on June 12 to discuss the issues, following which they were given a verbal assurance that all their demands would be met.

Gujarat government is likely to introduce a chapter on Reliance Group founder Dhirubhai Ambani in school textbooks, officials said on Monday.


"Minister of Education (Bhupendrasinh Chudasma) put forth the idea in a recently held meeting attended by the office-bearers of the state textbook board that our children should be taught about lives and struggles of famous personalities, like Dhirubhai Ambani and others," Gujarat State School Textbook Board (GSSTB) chief Nitin Pethani said.


Later, he said, chapters will be included on the lives of other famous as well as the lesser known personalities who made contribution to society with their work.


"Apart from Dhirubhai Ambani, there are many unknown personalities who had given their best to the society in terms of industrial entrepreneurship, for example Devkaran Nanji, the founder of Dena Bank.

The Delhi Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) is expected to conduct a polygraph test on Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in connection with the death case of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.


Earlier this month, a polygraph test of six persons was conducted in connection with the high-profile murder case.


Police sources said the test was conducted on Tharoor's domestic help Narayan Singh, his driver Bajrangi and his friend Sanjay Dewan.


Three other people - SK Sharma, Vikas Ahlawat and Sunil Takru - have also undergone the lie detector test in connection with the case.


During the polygraph test, over 100 questions related to some crucial facts, including injuries on Pushkar's body, were asked.


All the suspects were asked about Tharoor's relationship with Pushkar and Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar.


Sunanda, who married Tharoor in 2010, had checked into The Leela Hotel in Chanakyapuri a day before her death on January 17, 2014.


Tharoor has been questioned thrice over the alleged murder of his wife, who was found dead in their hotel suite on January 17 last year, days after she publicly accused her husband of having an affair with Pakistani journalist, Mehr Tarar. 

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un toured Pyongyang Airport's new terminal ahead of its opening, but reports claim Kim ordered the architect to be executed after he was unhappy with its design.State-run Korean Central News Agency published photos of Kim and his wife touring the sleek new terminal, but the building's head designer, Ma Won-chun was not leading the walk-through. Read more

Just in: Former union minister Shashi Tharoor may have to undergo polygraph test in the murder of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. 

Seven people are believed to have been killed in the explosion at Kabul.  A huge explosion shook the Afghan capital, sending a plume of black smoke over the city's western suburbs, reports AP.


It is believed to be a suicide attack. The deputy chief of Kabul police, Sayed Gulagha has confirmed it was an explosion and says it appears to have occurred near a busy shopping district.


The explosion comes as government employees are leaving their offices at the end of the working day, which is shorter during the Ramadan month of fasting.


It comes a week after an audacious attack on the nation's parliament, which highlighted the ability of insurgents, who have been fighting to overthrow the Kabul government for almost 14 years, to enter the highly fortified capital to stage deadly attacks.

Kabul explosion: A NATO military convoy is believed to be the target. The explosion was 200 metres away from the Supreme Court.

A huge explosion has shaken the Afghan capital, Kabul, sending a plume of black smoke over the city's western suburbs, reports AP.


The cause was not immediately known. The deputy chief of Kabul police, Sayed Gulagha has confirmed it was an explosion and says it appears to have occurred near a busy shopping district.


The explosion comes as government employees are leaving their offices at the end of the working day, which is shorter during the Ramadan month of fasting.


It comes a week after an audacious attack on the nation's parliament, which highlighted the ability of insurgents, who have been fighting to overthrow the Kabul government for almost 14 years, to enter the highly fortified capital to stage deadly attacks.

Just in: Huge explosion shakes Afghan capital near busy shopping district.

At least 30 people have been killed in a military transport plane crash in a residential area of the Indonesian city of Medan, officials say.


Local TV reported that the Hercules crashed into two houses and a car and burst into flames.Military spokesman Fuad Basya told the BBC that the plane came down soon after take-off and that there were at least 12 crew members on board. Officials say that bodies were recovered from the plane wreckage.

Fighters loyal to the Islamic State have seized substantial territory in Afghanistan for the first time, witnesses and officials said, wresting areas in the east from rival Taliban insurgents in a new threat to stability, reports Reuters.


Witnesses who fled fighting in Nangarhar province said that hundreds of insurgents pledging allegiance to Islamic State pushed out the Taliban, scorching opium poppy fields that help to fund the Taliban's campaign to overthrow the Afghan government.


They also distributed directives purportedly from Islamic State's Middle East-based chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, although it was not clear whether he issued them for the Afghan theatre or if previous edicts may have been translated.

The head of the European Commission made a last-minute offer to try to persuade Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to accept a bailout deal he has rejected before a referendum on Sunday which EU partners say will be a choice of whether to stay in the euro.


But Greek government sources said the leftist premier stood by his rejection of the creditors' conditions and Greece would default on a crucial repayment due to the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, plunging it deeper into financial crisis.


EU and Greek government sources said Jean-Claude Juncker had offered to convene an emergency meeting of euro zone finance ministers on Tuesday to approve an aid payment to prevent Athens defaulting, if Tsipras sent a written acceptance of the terms.


He also dangled the prospect of a negotiation on debt rescheduling later this year if Athens said "yes'.


The last-ditch bid from Brussels came after tens of thousands of Greeks, mobilised by Tsipras' Syriza party, demonstrated in Athens against further austerity.


Tsipras broke off negotiations with the Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank and announced early on Saturday a referendum on the bailout terms next Sunday, giving voters just one week to debate the fundamental issues at stake. Under Juncker's offer, Tsipras would have to send a written acceptance by Tuesday of the terms published by the EU executive on Sunday and agree to campaign in favour of the bailout in the planned July 5 referendum.

After months out in the cold, the Congress, finally has something to do. This is what @INCIndia tweeted.

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The Bihar polls is most likely to take place between September 24 and October 8. The term of the Bihar assembly ends onf November 25, 2015.

RK Nagar bypoll: Jaya wins by a margin of over 1.50 lakh votes.

@sgurumurthy tweets: Dayanidhi called by CBI in illegal telephone exchange case. D moved HC for anticipatory bail. Before Justice Subbiah. Now or after lunch.

Former Minister of State for Coal Dasari Narayan Rao, an accused in Jharkhand's Amarkonda Murgadangal coal block allocation scam case, today said that decisions to allocate coal blocks were taken by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was also heading the Coal Ministry at that time.


"I was only the Minister of State. All powers for allocating coal blocks are of the Coal Minister and the then Coal Minister was Manmohan Singh. All the decisions were taken by the then Prime Minister Singh," Rao said.


Rao's reaction came after he appeared before a special court in connection with the coal scam case along with Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal and others.

Top BJP leaders from Delhi are sending congratulatory messages to Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalitha for winning the RK Nagar bypolls with a thundering one lakh votes.


So, are these greetings not merely SOP after a poll win? Political pundits tell us that the BJP is reaching out to the AIADMK as it begins alignments ahead of the Bihar polls.


BJP president Amit Shah has put in place a feedback system and created a brigade of 10 confidants to be stationed at varioius districts of Bihar till November.

President Pranab Mukherjee who is in Hyderabad for a 10-day southern sojourn was in for a nasty surprise when a four-foot cobra was found roaming the grounds of the Rashtrapati Nilayam in Secunderabad. The Rashtrapati Nilayam is one of the Presidential retreats in the country.


A snake charmer was summoned and the snake, which was coiled near a tree, was caught.

The Rashtrapati Nilayam is located in a forest and it is common practice to employ snake charmers when VVIPs are resident here. Security agencies are worried about how the president will spend the next 10 days here if reptilian visits are rampant.

Nestle can export its products to other countries before setting of a new date for hearing of their ban related petition, the Bombay HC has ruled.


The ruling comes as a relief to Nestle India which is battling a ban on sale of its 2-minute Maggi noodles in India. The curb on sales within the country would continue to operate.


The HC posted the next hearing of Nestle's challenge to July 14 now after a brief hearing on Tuesday where senior counsel Iqbal Chagla appeared for Nestle and Anil Singh appeared for the state.


The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had on Saturday justified its June 5 ban on Nestle India's 2-minute Maggi noodles in strongly worded 60-page affidavit that questioned the company's safety claims.

Showing utter disrespect towards the Indian cricket team, a Bangladeshi newspaper has produced a fake 'cutter' advertisement, in which seven Indian cricketers are seen standing with their heads half-shaven. India had lost the three-match series 1-2 to give Bangladesh a historic bilateral series victory, following which certain sections of the Bangladesh media went all out and celebrated the win.


But the photograph that emerged on June 29 in a national daily called Prothom Alo, holds the entire issue in a bad taste.Young Bangladeshi paceman Mustafizur Rahman, who tormented the Indian players in the ODI series, is shown endorsing a cutter - symbolising his 'offcutters' - and the Indian players are holding a banner which  reads, 'We have used it. You can use it too'.

JUST IN: Bombay High Court allows Nestle India to export Maggi noodles. 

Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa is surging ahead of her CPI rival in the RK Nagar constituency, bypoll for which was held on June 27. With trends pointing out a clear headway for Jayalalithaa, AIADMK cadres and supporters have gone into a celebratory mode.


Some workers were seen distributing sweets and dancing near her Poes garden residence in Chennai.Jayalalithaa and Mahendran are facing each other in the North Chennai constituency even as 26 other candidates including social activist, 'Traffic' Ramaswamy alias KR Ramaswamy are in the fray.


The by-election was necessitated following AIADMK's P Vetrivel vacating the seat in May, apparently to enable Jayalalithaa seek re-election.


She has to fulfil the constitutional requirement of getting elected as MLA within six months of becoming the chief minister.She returned to the top post on May 23 after being acquitted in a disproportionate assets case by the Karnataka high court. She had been convicted in the case in September last by a trial court in Bengaluru.

British comedian John Oliver took a swipe at the "idiocy" of CNN after the news channel mistook a black flag covered in silhouettes of sex toys for the flag used by the Isis terror group at Pride celebrations in London.


CNN editor Lucy Pawle said she was leaving work when she spotted the "unnerving' sight of a man standing in the middle of the Pride parade waving a black flag on Regent Street.

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Union law minister does a U-turn on scrapping section 377. Speaking to ANI, Gowda said he was misquoted. "I never said that. Topic was on USA legalizing same sex marriage. I just said such decisions would need wide discussions in India," he clarified.  

India could abolish Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalises gay liaisons and the legalisation of same-sex marriages could be considered, Union law minister DV Sadananda Gowda has said.


However, any such move will require wide-ranging consultations, he said. A recent legislation on the rights of transgender people could provide a model for India's gay community, he added.


"The mood appears to be in favour of it. But it can be done only after widespread consultations and taking all views into account,' Gowda was quoted as saying by The Economic Times.

In the first major step against former IPL chief Lalit Modi since the controversy involving External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje broke out, the government Monday sent Enforcement Directorate officials to Singapore to expedite the letter rogatory (LR) the agency sent to the country earlier in the day.
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Just in: The Congress-led United Democratic Front has won the Aruvikkara assembly by-poll in Kerala. 

K S Sabrinathan (Congress) of the UDF has won with a huge margin of 10,128 votes.   

In Aruvikkara the UDF and opposition CPI-M-headed LDF were locked in a stiff contest.

Though 16 candidates were in the fray, the main contest was between Sabrinathan, M Vijayakumar (CPI-M) of LDF Opposition and O Rajgopal of the BJP.

An estimated 77.35 per cent voters had exercised their votes out of the total electorate of 1,84,210 on Saturday last.

Days after Pankaja Munde was accused of corruption in awarding contracts worth Rs 206 crore, her colleague in the Maharashtra government, Education Minister Vinod Tawde, is facing allegations of irregularities in a contract awarded by him, The Indian Express reports. 

The finance department has sought a detailed probe into allegations of irregularities in a Rs 191 crore contract awarded by Tawde's school education department without e-tendering.

The contract, cleared by Tawde, was put on hold after the finance department objected to it. The case pertains to the supply of fire extinguishers to 62,105 zilla parishad schools in Maharashtra.

However, rubbishing the allegations Tawde told a news channel today, "We did not pay anyone any money. Where is the question of a scam?"

"I have done nothing wrong. I have always followed rules."  

Funnyman Jack Carter, who was a familiar presence on '50s and '60s variety shows like 'The Ed Sullivan Show' and 'Laugh-In', has died of respiratory failure. He was 93.

The 'Shameless' star passed away on June 28, at his home in Beverly Hills, said The Hollywood Reporter. He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Roxanne, sons Michael Carter and Chase Carter, daughter Wendy Carter and grandchildren Jake and Ava.

During a long career that began shortly after World War II and ranged from Broadway through the early days of television to, most recently, appearances on Showtime's 'Shameless', Carter served as a TV host, took on both comedic and dramatic roles, frequently showed up as a game show panelist and also directed.

He began flexing his comic muscles while still in his teens, appearing as a mimic on 'The Major Bowes Amateur Hour' radio show. He served in the army in World War II, then found himself on broadway in 'Call Me Mister'.

Counting for the June 27 Aruvikkara Assembly by-poll, where Kerala's ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front and opposition CPI-M-headed LDF are locked in a stiff contest, was underway today with initial trends showing that the Congress candidate is leading.

Though 16 candidates are in the fray, the main contest is between K S Sabrinathan (Congress) of ruling UDF, M Vijayakumar (CPI-M) of LDF Opposition and O Rajgopal of the BJP.

UDF candidate Sabarinathan is leading by over 6300 votes over his nearest rival Vijayakumar as per the latest trend. An estimated 77.35 per cent voters had exercised their votes out of the total electorate of 1,84,210 on Saturday last.

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped and violated with sticks by neighbours in Badaun, a part of Uttar Pradesh that has been in the spotlight since two cousins were found hanging from a tree last year.

Two of the alleged rapists, both minors, have been arrested. A third is missing, reports NDTV. 

A medical test has revealed that a match box, cloth, plastic and an inch-long piece of wood were inserted in her body.

Snapping its five-day falling spree, the rupee rose 8 paise to 63.76 against the US dollar in early trade today on fresh selling of the American currency by exporters and banks amid a higher opening in the domestic equity market.

Selling of the American currency by exporters and banks supported the rupee, but the dollar's firmness against euro and other currencies overseas capped the gains, dealers said.

Besides, a higher opening in domestic equity market helped the rupee, they added. The rupee depreciated 20 paise to close at 63.84 in yesterday's trade due to the looming debt default crisis in Greece amid month-end demand for the greenback from importers.

Meanwhile, the benchmark BSE Sensex rose 117.80 points, or 0.42 per cent, to trade at 27,762.95 in early trade.

The counting for the R K Nagar by-polls, which recorded a poll percentage of 74.4 percent, began this morning.

Through the by-poll, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa is eyeing a return to the state assembly after being convicted in the disproportionate assets case last year. And there were no surprises there as she is leading by a huge 30,000 votes.

Workers of the AIADMK gathered outside her residence, with her supporters anticipating her victory.The RK Nagar seat fell vacant following the resignation of P Vetrivel. The DMK, PMK and VCK have boycotted the by-election for various reasons.A total of 28 candidates are in the fray in this assembly segment.

The Enforcement Directorate has sought legal assistance from Singapore and Mauritius to take forward its probe in the alleged financial irregularities in the Indian Premier League tournament and its former chairman Lalit Modi.

Officials said the agency has initiated the "legal procedures" to obtain from a court two Letters Rogatories (overseas judicial requests) to be sent to the two countries as part of its probe in the alleged laundering of funds in awarding media rights of the money spinning cricket tournament in 2009.

An ED team from its Mumbai zonal office has also been sent to Singapore but officials indicated they are part of an investigating team probing another case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. However, it is understood, the team could gather some important leads in connection with this deal case where the ED has recently show caused, under foreign exchange violation laws, Modi and 13 other BCCI-Indian Premier League officials and other private entities.

At least 410 students of Delhi University colleges have failed in the sociology examination triggering protests by them alleging error in evaluation.

While 250 out of 260 students of Shivaji college have failed the examination, 102 out of 120 political (Hons) students at Laxmi Bai college, 38 out of 50 at Janki Devi Memorial college and 20 out of 25 at Keshav Mahavidyalya have also failed to clear the exam.

Sociology in contemporary India, is an interdisciplinary subject for honours' students in these colleges.

A group of students staged a protest yesterday at the dean of students' welfare's office alleging discrepancies in the result and seeking his intervention in the issue.

#SelfieWithDaughter was trending worldwide with parents tweeting pictures soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about it in his Mann ki Baat radio address on Sunday.

But it was not appreciated by all. Activist Kavita Krishnan in a tweet accused the PM of 'stalking daughters', and there was another post that brought back memories of the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Daughter of Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was brutally murdered by a violent Hindu mob on 28 February, 2002, shared a picture on Facebook. Nishrin Jafri Hussain shared a photo with her father.

In her post, she said, "SelfieWithDaughter: This one will haunt him for ever."

Ehsan Jafri's wife Zakia had Modi, who was the chief minister of Gujarat during the riots, for being complicit in the violence.  However, the SIT probe gave a clean chit to Modi.     

European Union leaders have warned Greeks that rejecting creditors' proposals in a snap referendum called for Sunday would mean leaving the euro, the BBC reports. 

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the vote would be "yes or no to the eurozone".

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has urged a no vote but insists he wants Greece to stay in the euro. Talks between Greece and its creditors broke down last week, leading to Greek banks having to shut this week, the report says.

A moderate intensity earthquake jolted Kashmir valley early today, reports Mukhtar Ahmad from Srinagar.

However,  no loss of life or property was reported from anywhere,  according to officials.

The earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale occurred at 3.29am, according to local meteorological office.The earthquake with epicenter in Pakistan region jolted the people as they rushed out of their homes in panic.

The earthquake came as people finished 'Sahri' the predawn meal during the holy month of Ramadan to begin their fast. 

Adelaide to host first day-night Test