# Supreme Court

• Following through its orders in May directing the release of life convict A G Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case by invoking its powers under article 142 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court on Friday used the extraordinary jurisdiction to extend the same to six other convicted for assassinating the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and ordered that they be also set free forthwith.
• Four of the six convicts may have landed in no man’s land after the Supreme Court decision. Murugan, Santhan, Robert payas, jayakumar claim to be srilankan though they have no documents to prove it.
• Congress on Friday said the decision is bad in law, “totally unacceptable, completely erroneous” and not in consonance with the spirit of India.

# PM Modi

• BJP’s double engine government see India’s need for speed as ambition and scale as its strength unlike its predecessors who treated the first as luxury and later as risk said Narendra modi.
• PM Modi on Friday flagged off Southern India’s first Vande Bharat express and inaugurating terminal 2 of Bengaluru airport.
• PM Modi also unveiled the 108 feet bronze statue of Kempegowda, the founder of Bengaluru, at the international airport.

# Rupee

• The rupee on Friday rallied 100 paise to close at ₹80.81 against the dollar.
• Dollar weakened following lesser than anticipated inflation in the US, according to Reuters.
• Rupee touched an intraday high of 80.58.

# Jharkhand

• The JMM led coalition government in Jharkhand passed two landmark bills by voice vote in the one day extended monsoon session of the assembly.
• One bill seeks to define state locals based on the land survey records of 1932.