News brief: Big stories of the day

Assam will release the second and final draft of its National Register of Citizens tomorrow at noon. If the name of a resident of the state is on the list, then he or she is a citizen of Assam and therefore India if not, then he or she will have to prove his or her citizenship. 

"I am not scared to be seen standing next to an industrialist," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday. Modi was speaking at the launch of 81 investment projects in Lucknow.

Pakistan's caretaker government has decided to shift former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to hospital, Pakistani news reports said Sunday. The reports said irregularities had been found in an ECG Sharif underwent.

Surging floodwaters have killed at least 10 people and forced tens of thousands from their homes across swathes of Myanmar, a government official said Sunday as more heavy monsoon rain battered the region.

Leaders of the Philippines' mainstream separatist group on Sunday urged Muslims in the country's south to support a new autonomy law designed to tackle extremism and defuse a half-century of conflict in a referendum later this year.