Hours after China claimed that India was not ready to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the United States said India was indeed ready to join the the exclusive club of nuclear trading nations.

While addressing a news conference, the spokesperson of the US state department, John Kirby said, "I'd point you back to what the President said during his visit to India in 2015, where he reaffirmed that the US view was that India meets missile technology control regime requirements and is ready for NSG membership."

Kirby's remarks were in response to a question on reports that China and Pakistan have joined hands to oppose India becoming a member of the NSG.

On 14 May, a Delhi Court summoned environmentalist and former The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) chief, RK Pachauri, and took notice of the chargesheet filed against him for allegedly sexual harassing an ex- colleague.

"The court is satisfied that there is sufficient material to proceed against accused R K Pachauri under sections 354-A, 354-B, 354-D, 509 and 341 of IPC. Cognisance taken accordingly. Let the accused be summoned for the next date i.e. 11 July," Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan said.

On 1 March, the Delhi Police filed an over 1,400-page chargesheet in the court against Pachauri under sections 354-A (sexual harassment), 354-B(assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe), 354-D (stalking), 509(word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and 341 (wrongful confinement) of the IPC.

Journalist Pushp Sharma, who wrote a report in March claiming that the AYUSH ministry in an RTI reply told that it denied jobs to muslim has been arrested by Delhi Police.

Sharma was arrested for allegedly "fabricating" the RTI reply in which the AYUSH Ministry is supposed to have said that it does not recruit Muslims for jobs, reported The Times of India.

Pushp Sharma sought reply from AYUSH Ministry on the number of Muslim yoga teachers and trainers hired for foreign assignments during the first World Yoga Day on June 21 2015.

The Forest Advisory Committee of the Union environment ministry has questioned the plan for Amravati, the greenfield capital city of Andhra Pradesh, and asked for details relating to the 19,000 hectares of forest land that will have to be diverted for the project.

Amravati is also facing a petition filed before the National Green Tribunal questioning the state authorities' environmental clearances, according to The Economic Times.

With related infrastructure, the 217 sq km capital city will consume as much as 50,000 hectares of forest land.

Bihar MLC Manorama Devi's son Rocky Yadav has confessed that he shot student Aditya Sachdeva for overtaking his car in Gaya last Saturday, according to the Gaya police.

Gaya Senior Superintendent of Police Garima Malik said: "In his statement, Rocky Yadav admitted committing the crime. I assure you that we will soon arrest others involved in the case. The investigation will reveal about his whereabouts and these things would be addressed later on."

However, Rocky said, "Just because someone says it does not make it true."

Forensics showed that the bullet that killed Aditya Sachdeva had been fired from Rocky's gun, according to ANI.

The Cabinet on Friday approved a National Intellectual Property Rights policy to put India's intellectual property rights on par with global standards and help improve the country's rank in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index.

Under the new policy, by 2018, applications for trademarks will be approved within a month rather than the 13 months they take now. The backlog of IPR applications should also be cleared within 18 months by March 2018, rather than the current five to seven years, according to the Hindustan Times.