A special investigation team examining thefts at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya identified 105 instances after reviewing CCTV and records. A chargesheet is expected by 25 September.
A Delhi court set aside a magistrate’s order and directed a fresh look at a plea seeking an FIR against Sonia Gandhi over an alleged pre-citizenship voter roll entry from 1980.
In Bihar’s Jamui district, a minor girl and a friend were harassed; a video circulated widely. Three accused were arrested under POCSO provisions. Opposition leaders criticised the state government.
IIT Bombay relieved a professor of deanship duties and apologised amid a probe into a student’s death. The student’s family alleged caste discrimination and institutional harassment. Faculty members offered support to the professor.
The Supreme Court ruled that arrests without written grounds violate constitutional rights and directed departmental inquiries against officers who fail to provide them.
Mamata Banerjee sought an urgent Supreme Court hearing on the Election Commission’s freeze of the Trinamool Congress name and symbol.
Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Delhi generated notices to several high-profile individuals, including former officials and politicians, over discrepancies.
Almost 40 percent of India’s coal power stations faced severe fuel shortages, according to government data, amid high demand and supply constraints.
India and New Zealand’s free trade agreement is set to come into force on 20 October.
Nine people died in flash floods and landslides in Kerala within 24 hours.
A neurosurgeon died after a car hit a barrier and caught fire on a national highway in Telangana.
Warships prepared to join drills with the ASEAN grouping.
Google agreed to report child sexual abuse material directly to Indian authorities rather than through a US intermediary.
World Political Whispers
Quiet contacts between Ukrainian and US intelligence figures were reported in Ireland, coming after earlier US visits to Moscow. The timing, just before the UN gathering, has drawn private notice among European diplomats.
Gulf capitals are signalling openness to a broader security framework with Iran even as Houthi activity continues. Some see this as an attempt to ring-fence oil interests from the wider US-Iran confrontation.
In Germany, Merz’s insistence on staying the course after state election setbacks is being read in Berlin as an effort to prevent further fragmentation of the centre-right before federal pressures mount.
The US-China summit is being framed by both sides as transactional on rare earths and AI, yet underlying suspicion over Taiwan remains the unspoken constraint.
India Political Whispers
The Ram Temple theft findings and the Sonia Gandhi voter-roll case have sharpened the political temperature in the Hindi heartland and at the national level. Both ruling and opposition camps are preparing talking points.
The TMC symbol freeze continues to dominate West Bengal calculations, with Mamata’s court move seen as an attempt to regain initiative before bypolls.
Bihar’s Jamui incident has revived older debates on law and order, with JD(U) leaders downplaying it as isolated while the opposition frames it as systemic.
SIR notices reaching senior figures in Delhi have created quiet unease across party lines about the scale and speed of the electoral roll clean-up.