All India Muslim Personal Law Board is about to begin a campaign against Yoga Day, scheduled for June 21. AIMPB will take to social media to attack the government for making lessons on the Gita, Surya Namaskar and yoga compulsory in government schools. The body has called Surya Namaskar un-Islamic and doesn't want Muslim children to be forced to do yoga and bow before the sun.

Countries known for being safe tax havens are now sharing information with India about black money stored with their banks. According to a report, some of this information has already been verified.

This comes right after a national gazette in Switzerland revealed names of six Indians, including Yash Birla, who had accounts with Swiss banks.

IIT-Madras's management's decision on Sunday to revoke the ban on Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle was described by the group's members as a win for democracy. Student groups and youth wings of several parties, including the Congress, had protested the ban.

The student group, most of whose members are Dalit students, had been derecognized on May 28 for criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policies and raising caste issues. Meanwhile RSS mouthpiece Organiser came out with an editorial supporting the ban on the student group for propagating 'anti-Hindu' and 'anti-Bharat' ideology.

Telangana's Anti-Corruption Bureau officials have released an audio recording in which Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu can be heard assuring his support to Elvis Stephenson, who was later nominated as a Member of Legislative Council in neighbouring state Telangana by the Anglo-Indian community. ACB had arrested a TDP MLA in Telangana Revanth Reddy a week ago for allegedly trying to bribe Stephenson to vote in favour of a TDP nominee in the council elections.

Co-CEOs of Deutsche Bank Anshu Jain and Jurgen Fitschen have resigned following a series of financial troubles and regulatory penalties at the bank. The pressure had intensified recently, with shareholders and employees said to be losing confidence in the lender's performance and turnaround plans.

Jain plans to step down by the end of June and Fitschen intends to step down after the bank's annual shareholder meeting next May. John Cryan, a former UBS AG finance chief, has been named as the new sole CEO.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that former Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani was involved in rigging the 2013 general election that Nawaz Sharif won. Hussain, who is president of the PML-Q, said Kayani was hand in gloves with Nawaz Sharif and used his position as the Army Chief to manipulate the civilian setup for the purpose.

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Both Russia and Qatar were awarded rights to host football world cups in 2018 and 2022 amid strong protests. Anti-corruption officers probing the multimillion-dollar fraud in the football's governing body FIFA now suspect that its senior officials accepted bribes in awarding hosting rights to these countries.

Senior FIFA officials have said that the bribery charges are being looked into and the two countries will be stripped of hosting rights if the charges are established. England has already proposed its name as an alternative venue.

Led by US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angeal Merkel, the G7 group of nations said they will push to maintain economic sanctions on Russia until a peace plan for Ukraine is fully implemented. G7, which till last year was G8 with the inclusion of Russia, held its first summit last year to discuss Russian annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region. The G7 group of nations has decided to put more pressure on Russia as tensions over Ukraine have further intensified over the last few days.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lauded the efforts made by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to fight terrorism, "despite being a woman". The occasion was a speech at the University of Dhaka during the PM's two-day visit to the neighbouring country.

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The Prime Minister argued that the one problem the world hasn't been able to solve is terrorism. In that vein, he claimed that it was commendable that despite being a woman, Hasina had taken a strong 'zero-tolerance' stance towards terrorism in her country.

The comment has sparked controversy on social media; people are outraged at the blatant double-standard vis-a-vis women in politics. #despitebeingawoman is already one of the top trending topics of the day on Twitter.

In a major breakthrough for the Janata Parivar parties in Bihar, Lalu Yadav has decided to accept the leadership of Nitish Kumar in the campaign for elections to the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Lalu himself announced Nitish's name as the Janata Parivar's chief ministerial candidate this morning at a press conference in New Delhi.

This single development changes the game as it was being played in Bihar so far. It solves one of the two critical questions that were scuttling the real shaping up of the alliance between JD(U) and RJD - leadership and seat-sharing. It also indicates that the second question of seat-sharing may not take too hard a tug-of-war before it is resolved.

Significantly, it comes after Nitish's meeting with Rahul Gandhi yesterday, followed by Lalu seeking an appointment from Sonia Gandhi. Speculation that a push from Congress's high command may have finally led to this consensus is hard to deny, which further suggests that a triangular alliance between JD(U),RJD and Congress might be around the corner.

Ironing-out of the differences between JD(U) and RJD in Bihar is a big threat for the prospects of BJP and its allies, a point that Lalu may have tried to drive home by making his announcement in Delhi.