The Biggest Stories Of July 7, 2018

Union minister Jayant Sinha felicitates eight men who were convicted for killing a meat trader last year, resulting in massive outrage leading to a response from Mr Sinha condemning mob lynchings; PM Narendra Modi sounds the poll bugle in Rajasthan saying Congress has been reduced to a 'Bail Gaadi' referring to its leaders who are out on bail; A 16-year-old teenage girl is among three civilians killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam after stones were thrown at an army patrol there which left 10 injured; Supreme Court on Monday will decide on a petition by the Nirbhaya rapists' asking the court to their death sentence to life; A 24-year-old Telangana student studying in the US has been shot dead in a shooting inside a restaurant; As heavy rain paralyses life in Gujarat and Maharashtra, a dramatic rescue effort was launched to save the lives of several people stranded on a rock in the middle of a waterfall in Maharashtra's Vasai, after the river swelled into a raging torrent.