In the latest development in the Orlando massacre, it has come to light that the gunman, Omar Mateen's wife, knew about his plans to attack the gay nightclub.

According to media reports, a law enforcement source on 14 June said that Noor Salman could soon be charged in connection with the incident. "It appears she had some knowledge of what was going on," Reuters reported a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, US Senator Angus King, as saying.

"She definitely is, I guess you would say, a person of interest right now and appears to be cooperating and can provide us with some important information," King told CNN. According to Reuters, a federal grand jury was convened, which could charge Noor Salman as early as Wednesday in connection with modern US history's deadliest mass shooting.

On 15 June, police arrested the prime accused in the Mathura violence, Chandan Bose and his wife.

Chandan Bose, stated to be the second in command of Ram Vriksh Yadav, was arrested on Wednesday morning along with his wife by a police team of Mathura from Caithwalia village, PTI quoted Superintendent of Police, Kripa Shankar Singh as saying.

Ram Vriksh Yadav, the alleged leader of Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi, who was said to be behind the violence, had died in the clashes.

The police officer said both of them will be sent to Mathura.

The Union Cabinet on 15 June cleared the much-awaited Civil Aviation Policy and unveiled a handful of passenger-friendly measures, including capping airfares at Rs 2,500 for an hour-long flight.

The Civil Aviation Policy will include provisions of auctioning unilateral traffic rights and will address issues of regional connectivity. The Ministry has also scrapped the five-year rule which required airlines to fly for at least five years and have a fleet of 20 aircraft.

The Civil Aviation Ministry had sent the proposed policy to the Cabinet for approval on 3 June. The NDA government had for the first time unveiled the policy draft in November 2014, subsequently replacing it with another draft in October 2015.

Violence prompted by an act of vandalism at the Aap Shambu temple in the Janipur area of Jammu on 14 June, has induced the state government to impose a statewide suspension of mobile internet services.

Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir police has arrested a youth for alleged desecration of Aap Shambu temple in Janipura area. As per reports, a youth entered Aap Shambu temple in Janipura area and broke the protective glass in front of the idols.

He also allegedly misbehaved with women performing aarti.

A shocking case of a massacre of at least 50 community dogs has been unearthed from the Keezhamur village near Melmaruvathur, about 50km from Chennai. Villagers unleashed their anger on the strays in the area who were allegedly attacking herds of sheep and goat, by sedating them with food laced with pesticides, before dousing them with kerosene and setting them on fire.

The incident, which had taken place on 5 June, was reported after P Aswath, an animal rights activist was informed of the events. After repeated complaints from Aswath, the Melmaruvathur police registered an FIR, and booked the people involved in the gruesome attacks. An FIR has been filed under IPC Section 429 and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.

As the Bombay High Court put an end to the Udta Punjab controversy by clearing the film co-produced by Anurag Kashyap and Ekta Kapoor with just a single cut, the Central Board of Film Certification rejected another film co-produced by Kashyap on "moral grounds".

The producers of Haraamkhor, directed by Shlok Sharma, about a married teacher and his affair with a teenage student, were told about the CBFC's decision on the day the high court cleared Udta Punjab, says The Telegraph.

More routes for trade and travel are to be opened between Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti announced on Tuesday.

"When I met the Union home minister the last time, he had hinted at opening some more routes," said Mufti. "I told him that the Suchetgarh route should be opened."

Two routes between the two sides of divided Kashmir had been opened nearly 10 years ago, says the Indian Express. Suchetgarh is in RS Pura, Jammu, opposite Pakistan's Sialkot district.

Hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits returned to the Valley over the last few days to participate in an event called Dashaar that was last held 75 years ago.

The event, known as Kashmir's Kumbh, was held at Shadipur in Ganderbal district, at the confluence of the Jhelum and the Sindh rivers.

According to Pandit leader Sanjay Tickoo, their calendar normally marks Dashaar every 10 years or so, but this time the gap was 75 years. "That makes it special for Pandits and that is why they thronged the place in large numbers from different parts of the country," he told The Telegraph.

Data compiled by the Centre for Science and Environment shows that the National Board of Wildlife, the government's highest advisory body on issues pertaining to wildlife, cleared more industrial projects around wildlife habitats in the two years of BJP-led NDA rule than the Congress-led UPA had cleared in five years.

The rejection rate for the UPA government due to wildlife concerns had been 11.9 per cent in five years. But in the past two years, the NDA government has rejected less than 0.01 per cent of industrial projects proposed to be set up in and around wildlife habitats, says the Hindustan Times.

The Congress expelled six of its MLAs in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, for cross-voting during the Rajya Sabha elections, said Janardan Dwivedi, Congress national general secretary.

Three of these MLAs had given their first preference vote to BSP candidates, while the other three had voted for BJP-backed independent candidate Preeti Mahapatra, according to the Hindustan Times.

The six expelled MLAs are Mohammad Muslim (Amethi), the party's chief whip, Nawab Qazim Ali (Rampur), Dilnawaz Khan (Bulandhahar), Madhuri Verma (Bahraich), Sanjay Pratap Jaiswal (Basti) and Vijay Dubey.

Protests in Jammu on Tuesday led to a mob setting a bus on fire, throwing stones at the police, torching vehicles and vandalising shops.

The police fired tear gas shells into the crowd, but even so, the mob set two vehicles on fire inside the premises of the police station, according to NDTV.

The mob was protesting the alleged desecration of a place of worship earlier on Tuesday. The police claim the offender is mentally disturbed and has been arrested.