Sushma calls on Italian PM
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday called on Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and discussed ways to enhance cooperation across sectors and steps to revitalise the bilateral relationship.
Ms. Swaraj, who is in Rome on the first leg of her seven-day tour of four European countries, also met her Italian counterpart Enzo Moavero Milanesi.
AASU protest
All Assam Students Union (AASU) supporters take out a protest rally against the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2018, in Guwahati on June 18, 2018.
Activists of the All Assam Students Union (AASU) on Monday took out a protest rally against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 in Guwahati. The Bill seeks to amend the Citizenship Act of 1955 to make ‘persecuted’ Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, eligible for citizenship.
Organisations such as the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) have said they will not allow the BJP to implement its plan to “dump Hindu Bangladeshis” in the State by tweaking the Citizenship Act. They have also asked the Mahasabha heads to quit.
The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), the BJP’s ruling ally, too has joined the anti-Citizenship Bill chorus. The regional party has been threatening to sever ties with the BJP on the issue for more than a year now.
Brinda Karat visits Thoothukudi
CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat interacts with people in Madathoor, Thoothukudi district, on June 18, 2018. U. Vasuki, State secretariat member of the party, is also seen.
Quake in Japan
A crack is filled with water on a road after water pipes broke following an earthquake in Takatsuki city, Osaka, western Japan, on June 18, 2018.
An earthquake knocked over walls and set off scattered fires around metropolitan Osaka, Japan on Monday morning. The Osaka prefectural government’s disaster management department said two people were found dead, while the Ibaraki city official confirmed a third victim. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said more than 40 were injured in Osaka and nearby prefectures of Hyogo and Kyoto.
Satyendar Jain hospitalised
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain being monitored at LNJP hospital on June 18, 2018.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who has been on an indefinite fast since June 12, has been put on drips at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) Hospital after his condition deteriorated. However, doctors on Monday said his conditions was stable. “After hospitalisation, his condition is stable,” Medical Suprientendent of the hospital J. C. Passey said.
Sit-in at Delhi LG's office continues
Doctors checking Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia at Raj Niwas on June 18, 2018.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s sit-in at Lt. Governor Anil Baijal’s office-cum-residence, Raj Niwas, entered the eighth day. Mr. Kejriwal, along with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Cabinet colleagues Satyendar Jain and Gopal Rai, have been camping at Raj Niwas since June 11, demanding a direction to the IAS officers working in the Delhi administration to end what he terms as an “undeclared strike”.
Brazil held by Swiss
Brazil goalkeeper Alisson, right, kicks a balloon during the group E match between Brazil and Switzerland at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Rostov Arena in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 17, 2018.
Five-time champions Brazil were held to a 1-1 draw by Switzerland on Sunday, a few hours after four-time champion Germany was beaten by Mexico 1-0.
Philippe Coutinho gave Brazil the lead in the 20th minute with a volley that bounced in off the right post. Steven Zuber then headed in the equalizer in the 50th.
Protest against new anti-immigration law
Protesters outside an immigration detention facility in New Jersey. They are staging a demonstration against the Trump administration's practice of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Democratic lawmakers joined hundreds of protesters outside an immigration detention facility in New Jersey for a demonstration against the Trump administration's practice of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The event in the city of Elizabeth came as news stories highlighting the family separations intensified political pressure on the White House, even from some of President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans.
U.S. officials said on Friday that nearly 2,000 children were separated from adults at the border between mid-April and the end of May.
