Overview
- Lionel Messi’s Salt Lake Stadium appearance was cut short for security reasons after VIPs formed a human cordon on the field, with vandalism reported and opposition leaders demanding an independent inquiry into crowd management.
- New South Wales Police say at least 10 people are confirmed dead, including one attacker, after the Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooting, a second suspect is in custody, the attack has been declared a terrorist act targeting the Jewish community, and explosives were found and neutralized.
- Police identified 43-year-old Ahmed Al-Ahmed as the civilian who wrested a gun from a shooter during the Sydney attack; he was shot twice and remains hospitalized.
- Bharuch police dismantled an inter-state trafficking network, arresting four agents including Bangladeshi national Farook Sheikh and rescuing 14 women lured by fake job offers; cases have been filed under ITPA, immigration and BNS provisions and the probe continues.
- In Kerala’s high-profile assault case, a trial court acquitted actor Dileep while convicting six others, and the survivor said she has lost faith in the court’s process, fueling debate over the conduct of the nearly nine-year trial.