Thirty-six people were killed and about 150 injured at Istanbul airport, Turkey, on Tuesday night, when three suicide bombers first opened fire in the departures hall and then blew themselves up in or near the arrivals hall one floor below.

No terror group has claimed responsibility as yet for the attack, though Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that ISIS was suspected.

According to an official, the police had fired at the attackers just as they reached a security point at the arrivals hall, but they blew themselves up.

"It became clear with this incident again that terrorism is a global threat. This attack, targeting innocent people is a vile, planned terrorist act," said Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.

He said: "There is initial evidence that each of the three suicide bombers blew themselves up after opening fire." Preliminary findings, he added, showed that the attackers had arrived at the airport in a taxi and that the ISIS is responsible, says Reuters, quoted by NDTV.

The Justice TP Garg commission looking into anti-Sikh violence in Gurgaon and Pataudi during the riots that followed the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has recommended compensation of Rs 12.07 crore for the families of the 36 victims who died in the two places.

The commission's 300-page report was submitted to the Haryana government on 29 April and has not yet been made public. It looked into cases that had not already been investigated by the Nanavati commission that had been appointed in 2000, according to The Indian Express.

Despite the forecasts of an excellent monsoon, farmers in drought-hit areas of the country are nervous about sowing crops, fearing another round of debt and poverty. They have been backed by their state governments in some cases, for instance, Maharashtra, which asked them not to sow crops till 18 June. Thus, this year's planting figures show a drop of 24 per cent compared to last year.

As on 28 June, the monsoon has been deficient by 16 per cent, and reservoir levels are about 15 per cent of their capacity, according to the Hindustan Times.

A five-member team of the Mumbai crime branch brought in gangster Kumar Pillai on Monday night, extradited to India from Singapore. Pillai had been in hiding for 17 years.

Landing at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, he was formally arrested and taken to the police headquarters.

Pillai's extradition was complicated because three years ago, he had given up his Indian citizenship and become a Chinese national, says the Hindustan Times.

Following the Pampore attack on Saturday, 25 June, in which operatives of the Lashkar-e-Taiba killed eight CRPF personnel and injured 22 others before being gunned down themselves, the RSS's Muslim Rashtriya Manch has decided to withdraw its invitation to diplomats from Pakistan to a grand iftar party on 2 July.

This is due to a remark made by Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit during an iftar party on Sunday, when he was asked about the Pampore attack, according to the Hindustan Times. "We hope we will sit and discuss the issue and find a solution. Let's have the iftar party and enjoy ourselves," Basit said.

Pass percentages in Gujarat schools have slipped this year because the installation of CCTV cameras at examination centres has stopped copying and cheating.

In an official note to the Union HRD ministry, the Gujarat government said "pass percentage of Class 10 has decreased sharply, from 73.86 per cent in 2014-15 to 63.20 per cent" this year and it is "an area of concern", according to the Hindustan Times.

Gujarat education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasma said: "The CCTV surveillance system has affected the board results up to some extent in the past two years."

The CBI has filed chargesheets in two separate cases related to the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh against six people.

The scam involves alleged irregularities in the Pre-Medical Test conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board in 2009 and 2010. The CBI has registered at least 155 FIRs in the Vyapam scam, says The Economic Times.

Demanding to know whether the Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP-BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir is for "bullets or dialogue", the opposition National Conference walked out of the J&K assembly on Tuesday.

The NC was reacting to a BJP leader's remark that suggested bombing Pakistan after the Laskar-e-Taiba attack on a CRPF convoy on Saturday, 25 June, killed eight personnel. NC MLA Devinder Rana said that this had created panic among people living in border areas, according to The Economic Times.

"BJP's war cry has triggered panic in border areas of Kalakote, Dalmia and Poonch, which have to bear the brunt of cross-border firing," said Rana.