Overview

• Thousands queued through the night at Guwahati’s Sarusajai sports complex, where Zubeen Garg’s body remains on public view for a second day.
• Assam’s chief minister said Singapore’s death certificate lists drowning as the cause and that the full post-mortem will be sought and forwarded to the CID.
• Authorities announced a state funeral on September 23 at Kamarkuchi in Sonapur, with site work underway on a 10 bigha samadhisthal inspected by senior officials.
• Police action is advancing after an FIR named festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and manager Siddhartha Sharma, with plans to question those present during the singer’s final hours.
• Campus and online tensions led to complaints over derogatory remarks about the singer, and Nagaland minister Temjen Imna Along issued an apology as police boosted security at Kaziranga University.