On 22 July, Arshid Qureshi, an employee of Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation was apprehended by a joint team of Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad and Kerala Police, for allegedly forcing Kerala youth to convert to Islam, and instigating them to join ranks with the Islamic State. He was nabbed from Navi Mumbai.

A case under IPC sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 153 A (promoting enmity between groups) as well as under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act was registered in Kochi.

He was produced before the Belapur court in Navi Mumbai which granted Kerala Police his transit remand till 25 July.

On 22 July, Donald Trump formally accepted the nomination as presidential candidate from the Republican party on the final day of the 4-day-long Republican Convention at Cleveland. Reiterating his campaign slogan, Trump promised to rectify the law and order situation in the nation, open up employment opportunities, and 'make America great again.'

The 70-year-old real estate tycoon called himself the "law and order candidate" as he vowed to defeat ISIS and reiterated his resolve to build the wall along the Mexico border, stressing that immigration from countries that have compromised on terrorism should be be immediately suspended.

While accepting the nomination "humbly and gratefully", Trump promised to defeat ISIS and Islamic terrorism, but toned down his previous proposal of a complete ban on entry of Muslims in the country.

The BJP and its allies have decided to move a privilege motion against Aam Admi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwant Mann, who has been drawing flak for live-streaming a video which reveals several security spots of the Parliament.

Mann has, however, defended his actions, and has clarified that his intention was not to malign the Parliament's image or put its security at risk.

"I did not play with the security. I never wanted to put the security at risk. I have not done anything that harms security. DD, Lok Sabha everything comes live. My intention was not to malign the image of Parliament. Everyone should get a chance to speak. The Speaker has called me and I will go there," Mann told ANI here.

The alleged owner of the most-visited illegal file-sharing website Kickass Torrents or KAT, Ukrainian national Artem Vaulin (30), was arrested in Poland over charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, criminal copyright infringement and unlawful distribution of copyright materials on the website.

The US Justice Department's criminal division on Wednesday announced the arrest in a statement.

The popular website was also seized and it has gone offline for the moment.

China's People's Liberation Army and Pakistan's border troops are jointly patrolling the border between Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and China's Xinjiang province after reports that more 100 Uighurs have left to join the Islamic State.

The joint patrol was reported by the state-run People's Daily Online, which published photos of the patrol on Thursday captioned "the frontier defence regiment of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Xinjiang, along with a border police force from Pakistan, carry out a joint patrol along the China-Pakistan border", reports The Indian Express.