 Hello everyone, welcome to NewsClick, I'm Anushka and I'm Sarangya and here are the top stories for today's Daily Roundup. Karnataka crisis continues. Muslim man attacked in Tamil Nadu over a Facebook post. Tis Hyderabad students protest against hostile fee hike. Captain and Chief Officer of Grace One arrested in Gibraltar. Public transport workers to go on strike in Argentina. Let's start with the first story. Karnataka's teetering coalition today won a reprieve till Tuesday. As the Supreme Court said there would be no decision on the resignation of dissident lawmakers who threatened the government's survival. The Supreme Court said, in view of the weighty issue that has arisen, we are of the view that the matter be considered by us on Tuesday. We are of the view that the status quo as of today with regard to the prevailing situation be maintained. Neither the issue of resignation nor that of disqualification be decided till Tuesday. This was after hour long arguments involving the lawyers for the rebels, speakers K.R. Ramesh Kumar and Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. On the other hand, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy today moved trust motion in Karnataka Assembly minutes after Supreme Court gave the speaker time to decide on resignation till the next hearing on Tuesday. Today there are many things happening in our state's politics because of the decision of many MLA's which has created a difficult situation. I am not here to sit in power. I appeal to you that in light of the developments I want to move a trust motion he said in the Vidhan Sardar. The next story. 24 year old Mohammad Faiza was attacked by members of Hindu Makkal Kachi, a Sangh Parivaar outfit in Nagapatnam district, Thursday July 10th for his Facebook post about eating beef. This is the first time such an attack has been carried out in Tamil Nadu. The police have so far arrested five men involved in the attack. The attacks on Muslims and Dalits have been on the rise since the Narendra Modi government won a decisive second term with a huge majority. The victims of communal violence are generally Muslims and Dalits involved in cattle trade in one form or the other. The victim Mohammad Faizaan told NewsClick, I am the first victim of attack in the name of beef in Tamil Nadu and I should be the last too. I am even ready to join with progressive organizations to end this inhuman act against the right to food of an individual. The members of Hindu Makkal Kachi posted vulgar comments on my Facebook post and threatened me of dire consequences. Later they deleted the comments. I believe that the issue was over by then but around 30 men after masking their faces attacked me with dangerous weapons while I was waiting near the shop. Having still not recovered from the shock of being attacked Faizaan added, few policemen were on their way to another spot for enquiry and they stopped after they saw the mob. If the police had not arrived I would have been killed by them. We have seen how fee hikes in different universities across the nation have agitated students and have made universities increasingly vulnerable to onslaughts by the market. The latest in the row of controversies is the case of Tis Hyderabad which has seen its students protest over the last couple of days against the sudden proposal towards fee hike for the hostels. The students of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tis Hyderabad have launched a protest outside the academic block of the institute against the hostel fee hike. The students are not allowing even the faculty to enter the academic block. The protest is going on at the academic block since July 8, 2019. The students have protested against the sudden hike in the fees and said that prior to the hostel fee and have said that prior to this the hostel fee hike they were required to pay a sum of Rs 15,000 in three installments. But in the last week of June the administration notified the students about the proposal to hike the hostel fee and asked them for an upfront payment of Rs 54,650 if they wanted to continue staying at the hostel. Upon hearing the sudden demand of the administration the students wrote a number of emails to the administration requesting them to restore the original fees. The institute's student action committee SAC demanded that for students who are unable to pay the dining hall fee immediately to be provided the option to pay off their dues once they receive the student aid and scholarships. Now the next story, thousands of Safai Karamsharis in 27 districts of Uttar Pradesh united under the banner of Akhil Bhartya, Safai Masdoor Sangh and Bhimarni held a protest march where they raised slogans to support their dissent against the move to privatize workers by various municipal corporations of the state. This move has left hundreds of workers unemployed. The sanitation workers are demanding a revocation of the order which allows contractors to employ workers for sanitation and maintenance work. The workers carried banners and placards to register their protest. Now a story on mining, a major portion of domestic production of uranium was being extracted from the Jaduguda mines of Jharkhand. But because the uranium is being dug at considerable depth, extraction costs have made the process unviable. Andhra Pradesh and more recently Telangana are the other states where uranium deposits have been found. The Kadapa basin in Telangana has been found to have the potential for high-grade and extensive uranium deposits. The department of minerals, a wing of the DAE, zeroed in on the lush forests of the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, which in undivided Andhra Pradesh was a part of India's largest tiger reserve, the Nagarjuna Sagar Shri Salem Tiger Reserve. The latter continues to be the largest and the Amrabad Tiger Reserve carved from it is the second largest tiger reserve in India. Home to over 18 tigers and a large variety of wild animals, the department of minerals is convinced that the Amrabad Reserve contains high-grade uranium. The Amrabad Tiger Reserve lies in the Nallamalla Hills and is home to the Chentshu tribe, which in the past was primarily a hunter forest produce gathering community who now account their livelihood by largely working under the Manrega or the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act program. Imran Siddiqui, a co-founder of the Hyderabad Tiger Conservation Society who works in the area of wildlife preservation, recalls while speaking to NewsClick about how he along with a group of activists had opposed the original proposal by the department of minerals to do mining at Pedaguttu Lambapur mining site, which was located just 1.6 kilometers from the Nagarjuna Sagar Reservoir, as they were convinced that the noise and pollution would adversely impact its wildlife and its water bodies. Siddiqui recalled that despite the public protest, the mining project received all the requisite mandatory clearances. Fortunately, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh at the time, headed by the Vyasraj Shekhar Reddy, refused to allow mining at Pedaguttu Lambapur site. The Department of Mines began exploring alternative sites. The Amrabad Tiger Reserve was zeroed on upon because it was adjacent to the Pedaguttu Lambapur site. My own hunch is that the Department of Minerals thought it was easier to do mining inside a reserve because animals cannot voice their protest, said Siddiqui. And now over to Surangya for the international news. Now coming to the international section, we start with the latest update on the tanker war-like situation between Iran and the EU. The captain and chief officer of the Iranian super tanker Grace One have been arrested by the police in Gibraltar. However, reasons for the arrest are not clear. Grace One was seized by the British Marines off the coast of southern Spain last week, allegedly for carrying around 2 million barrels of oil, allegedly for Syria, which is under the European Union sanctions. His seizure and the arrest came despite the fact that these EU sanctions don't have extra territoriality. Iran claims the seizing of Grace One is a violation of international law. It had called the UK envoy in Iran and registered a strong protest. The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had warned the UK of repercussions for illegally seizing the tanker. News Clicks Prabir Purkayashta talks about the various legal aspects behind the seizure of the tanker and the arrest of the officers. We know that the tanker Grace One was seized by the UK government of Gibraltar. It has been argued that it is under EU sanctions that the UK has seized this tanker. Though questions have been raised whether these sanctions have extra territoriality, meaning that does EU sanctions pertain to Iran's transferring oil or shipping oil to other countries including Syria? The fact that Syria was sanctioned is not the issue. The question is does exports from Syria come under EU sanctions? Do imports to Syria, the Banias port and the Banias refinery come under sanctions? And does Iran's cargo which was transiting to Gibraltar come under sanctions is a question that will have to be of course argued both in the international court and in the Gibraltar court. Both of these are probably illegal under international law. What is interesting to note is that the captain and the first officer of the ship, Grace One, the super tanker are Indians and today they have also been charged separately in the case saying they were willfully violating EU sanctions. Question again, do the captain and the first officer come under any criminal jurisdiction if they violate EU sanctions because they are not EU citizens? The ship is not a EU ship and it was not a EU cargo. It is of course all open to question. It is also interesting that we have a session of the tanker war which seems to have enacted yesterday in the Persian Gulf where US claimed that Iranian boats were trying to seize another tanker, a British tanker which was passing through Persian Gulf and the British government has said that it was trying to impede the progress of the tanker and it was finally chased away by a war ship which was following the tanker. Now the question is the UK says there were three boats, the US says there were five boats Iran said none of that. It is also important to note that the ship the tanker had switched off its signal which indicates its position in what would be considered a very busy part of its path for almost 24 hours. This raises the question whether this was an attempt to actually get Iran to come and retaliate against UK the tanker or was it basically innocent accident by which this happened. Again question marks and the possibility of an inadvertent start of hostilities in the states of almost of the Persian Gulf which would endanger the entire oil economy of the world. Now we go to Palestine where during the latest free of raids on the homes of Palestinians in the occupied west bank Israeli security forces abducted 14 Palestinians and injured two others. A majority of the Israeli raids took place at dawn on Thursday. The Palestinian prisoner society reported that five Palestinians were kidnapped from their homes in the central west bank governorate of Ramallah. In the jennon governorate in northern west bank three Palestinians were abducted by Israeli soldiers. In one incident Israeli soldiers barged into the Dheyshe refugee camp in south of Bethlehem shooting and injuring two Palestinians and abducting one. Such raids and abductions are continuing unabated even as Palestinians have rejected the so-called deal of the century pushed by Donald Trump and his allies in Saudi Arabia and Israel. Finally in Argentina public transport workers will go on a strike throughout the country except in the province of Buenos Aires. The workers are demanding a 20 percent increase in salaries and a bonus of 16,000 pesos. The call for the strike has been given by the union Tranverios Automator a trade union of public transport workers. The union has called on workers to mobilize all across the country. The UTA brings together workers of different public transport services such as buses trolley buses metros and trams. The union is trying to achieve the same salary agreement that prevails in Buenos Aires for all the workers across the country. The union announced the measure after the failure of negotiations with the business representatives of the Argentine Federation of Automative Public Transport System. Union authorities said the strike was not only against the business sector which operates transport services but also against the national and provincial authorities that ignore and do not consider the union proposal. So that's all the time we have for today in this episode of the Daily Roundup. For more such stories please do visit our website newsclick.in and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Thank you for watching NewsClick.