Overview
- The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs approved the Budget Session schedule, with top sources indicating Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget on February 1.
- External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar criticized what he called Western hypocrisy in reactions to Operation Sindoor.
- Security forces tightened a cordon in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua following a gunfight with terrorists.
- Delhi Police arrested five people after stone-pelting during a Municipal Corporation of Delhi demolition near Turkman Gate.
- FIDE’s overhauled two-year Circuit and new regulations took effect on January 1, restructuring the international chess calendar.