Overview

• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered immediate negotiations focused on freeing all hostages under terms acceptable to Israel, with no formal response yet to Hamas’s 60‑day truce offer to swap 10 live captives and 18 bodies for about 200 prisoners.
• Israel intensified operations around Gaza City after Netanyahu approved plans to seize the urban center and defeat Hamas, with roughly 60,000 reservists mobilized.
• A Mumbai special court granted conditional relief to NCP (Sharad Pawar) MLA Rohit Pawar in the ED’s MSCB case as the EOW filed a C‑summary in the predicate offence; the court will take up the closure report from 18 September and listed the ED matter for 8 October.
• NHAI fined ₹20 lakh, seized ₹3.70 crore security and blacklisted the Bhuani (Meerut) toll operator for a year after a video of an army jawan’s assault, and police have arrested eight suspects as the agency moves to install a new operator.
• Punjab Vigilance filed a detailed chargesheet alleging ₹700 crore in unexplained assets against former minister Bikram Singh Majithia, and the Supreme Court rebuked parties in the Bihar voter‑roll case after the EC posted a booth‑wise list of about 6.5 million excluded names online.