Overview
- - Delhi checked about 5,000 vehicles on day one, issued 3,746 challans, diverted non-destined traffic and recorded over 61,000 Pollution Under Control certificates within 24 hours.
- - Prime Minister Narendra Modi received Ethiopia’s highest civilian honour and addressed its parliament during a visit focused on outreach in Addis Ababa.
- - Defence Minister Rajnath Singh lauded May’s Operation Sindoor as a high-impact, short-duration joint operation and backed Mission Sudarshan Chakra to field indigenous air defence by 2035.
- - Maharashtra sports minister Manikrao Kokate resigned after a Nashik Sessions Court upheld his conviction in a 1995 housing-scam case, with an arrest warrant issued and a Bombay High Court hearing set for Friday.
- - A fact-check showed three viral boat images were from the 2015 Southeast Asia refugee crisis, not Saudi asylum claims, as Pakistan reported tens of thousands of expulsions for organised begging and large no-fly enforcement to curb the practice.