Overview
- The central Home Ministry has constituted a committee chaired by retired Justice Prakash Prabhakar Navlekar with census, policing and policy experts to evaluate claims of demographic change linked to illegal infiltration and to recommend legal and administrative measures.
- State enforcement in West Bengal has stepped up with scores of FIRs, multiple arrests and mass resignations by local TMC officeholders while police recovered large cash sums in the Baduria case involving municipality chairman Dipankar Bhattacharya.
- The new West Bengal government has handed 142.79 acres to the BSF and received voluntary land donations to accelerate India–Bangladesh border fencing, a move officials say will curb cross‑border movement and smuggling.
- City and festival management measures include shifting Kolkata’s main Eid congregation from Red Road to Brigade Parade Ground to ease traffic and security, and Uttar Pradesh enforced strict Bakrid rules with drones, CCTV and heavy policing to confine prayers to marked sites.
- Severe storms in Uttar Pradesh have caused injuries and fatalities, including a collapsed platform shelter in Lucknow and a bridge collapse in Hamirpur that killed six workers, while the IMD forecasts short‑term rain relief and a one‑ to two‑day delay in the monsoon’s progress.