| Welcome to the Evening Wrap newsletter, your guide to the day's biggest stories with concise analysis from The Hindu. We hope you are staying safe. Here are the big stories that you need to follow today: Indian troops follow the Chinese in pullback  This June 18, 2020, satellite photo released by Planet Labs, shows the reported site of a fatal clash between Indian and Chinese troops in the Galwan River Valley in the Ladakh region near the Line of Actual Control. With Chinese troops pulling back two km from the clash site at the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, Indian troops have also moved back around 1.5 km, a senior government official has told The Hindu. The Indian Army, which till now was patrolling till Patrol Point 14, the site of the clash when 20 soldiers were killed on June 15, will not be able to do so for the next 30 days as per a moratorium on foot-patrolling agreed upon during the June 30 Corps Commanders talks. The official said this was a cause of concern as the Chinese were well within the Indian perception of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), and if a long-term solution was not found, then the Indian troops may permanently lose the right to patrol the area. Galwan is one of the friction points in eastern Ladakh. There had been a build-up all along the LAC, including in the Hot Springs and Finger 4-8 at Pangong Tso (lake) area since April-May. Why no insistence on restoring status quo ante, asks Congress  Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. File Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday asked why India has not insisted on restoring status quo ante, why China was allowed to 'justify' the Galwan Valley clashes in its official statement on the de-escalation talks, and why there was no mention of India's territorial sovereignty over the Galwan Valley in India's official release. Both India and China had put out official statements on the telephonic conversation between the two countries' special representatives, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, on July 5. In his tweet, Gandhi said the government of India was duty-bound to protect the national interest. Lok Sabha member and former Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor too stressed on restoring status quo ante. "Disengagement is welcome, but means little unless the status quo ante is restored. Otherwise we'll yet again see both sides declare peace, with China having changed the facts on the ground & moved the LAC closer to where it wants. The May-June status cannot become the 'new normal,'" Tharoor tweeted, as the Congress insisted on restoration of the LAC status that existed before May 5, 2020. Thousands of Indian students in U.S. could lose visas The U.S. has said it would not allow foreign students to remain in the country for the autumn semester if, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, all their university classes are moved online. In its notice, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added that students could stay back if they shift to a course with in-person tuition. Indian officials will raise the issue with their U.S. counterparts on Tuesday during Foreign Office Consultations, a high-ranking Indian official told The Hindu. The rule, announced by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says F-1 and M-1 (non-academic and vocational students) visa holders planning to take online classes only will not be allowed to remain in the U.S. Due to Covid-19, a number of universities are planning to shift all their classes online for the fall semester, which normally starts in September. With at least 2,00,000 Indian students in the U.S., the country is the second largest source of foreign students, China being the first. The announcement comes weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump suspended H1-B highly skilled worker visas till the end of the year. A big number of these visas go to Indian citizens each year. Kerala govt removes top official in connection with gold-smuggling case  File photo of M. Sivasankar. The Kerala government has removed M. Sivasankar from the post of Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Sivasankar had come under a cloud after the Opposition attempted to associate him and, by extension, the CM's office, with Swapna Suresh, a suspect in a gold-smuggling case. "I have applied for leave for a year," the bureaucrat told The Hindu. Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party workers attempted to whip up anti-government sentiment after videos and pictures of Suresh with top ruling front politicians, senior bureaucrats, and ranking police officials surfaced on social media. They organised street protests across Kerala and torched effigies of Vijayan and Suresh. Covid Watch: Numbers and DevelopmentsThe number of coronavirus cases reported from India stood at 7,37,662 at the time of publishing this newsletter, with the death toll at 20,599. India's total number of coronavirus cases and fatalities per million population is one of the lowest in the world, the Union Health Ministry said today, even as the country's infection tally went past the 7 lakh-mark, and death toll rose to 20,160. Referring to the 'WHO Situation Report-168' dated July 6, the Ministry said India's Covid-19 cases per million population is 505.37, as against the global average of 1,453.25. "The WHO Situation Report also shows that India has one of the lowest deaths [due to Covid-19] per million population. India's cases of death per million population is 14.27, while the global average is more than four times that, at 68.29," the Ministry said. In Brief: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Pulwama resident for allegedly providing logistical support to terrorists involved in planning the attack on a CRPF convoy that left 40 jawans dead in February last year. Bilal Ahmed Kuchey, a resident of Kakpora of Pulwama district, is the seventh person to be arrested in connection with the attack. Three more people, including a close relative of gangster Vikas Dubey, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the encounter in which eight police personnel were killed, a senior police officer said on Tuesday. According to the police, the total number of arrests in the case now stands at four. Evening Wrap will return tomorrow. | 
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