The Biggest Stories of July 05, 2016

In a big cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, Smriti Irani has been moved out of the HRD ministry and Prakash Javadekar, promoted to cabinet rank this morning, will hold the portfolio now. Smriti Irani will now handle the Textile Ministry; Piyush Goel will hold Independent charge of four key ministries - Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, Venkaiah Naidu is the new Information and Broadcasting Minister and Vijay Goel is the Sports Minister; The Madras High Court dismissed a criminal case against Tamil writer Perumal Murugan over his novel Madhorubhagan; A Hyderabad stockbroker, who allegedly strangled his wife and chopped up her body, tried to burn the body in the presence of his 7-year-old daughter; all this and more in our news wrap of the day.