Overview
- Violence in Manipur has escalated into killings, kidnappings and economic blockades on National Highway 2, authorities say dozens were taken, most later freed and several people remain unaccounted for as searches and pressure for government action continue.
- Trinamool Congress is experiencing internal strain after its election loss, with many MLAs absent from a major protest and large numbers of municipal councillors resigning in Kanchrapara and Halisahar, while party leadership has not publicly resolved the dispute.
- Jhalmuri vendor Vikram Sahu, who went viral after feeding Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reports threatening international calls and video calls from Pakistan and Bangladesh, prompting a police probe and deployment of police and CRPF to guard his shop and home.
- Law-and-order flashpoints have multiplied: Saharanpur police filed an FIR naming MP Iqra Hasan and others over a road blockade and protest that also lists 20–25 unnamed suspects, and ITBP officers staged a forceful visit to the Kanpur police commissioner demanding a reinvestigation of alleged medical negligence, leading to new local inquiries.
- In the Twisha Sharma death case the Madhya Pradesh High Court allowed the main accused to surrender to trial courts and ordered a second postmortem by an AIIMS New Delhi team, a move that reopens evidence-gathering and keeps the investigation active.