Overview

• Delhi’s transport minister confirmed that vehicles generate 40% of the capital’s air pollution and launched over ₹1 lakh crore in electric, ethanol, bio-CNG, LNG, hydrogen and flex-fuel vehicle projects.
• Ghaziabad police detained two youths for allegedly mixing urine and spit into juice sold on the Kanwar pilgrimage route and have sent samples for food-safety testing.
• Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion arrested five suspects, including Titan Ghazi, in the lynching of scrap dealer Lalchand Sohag and obtained five days’ remand for the key accused.
• The Haryana government imposed a temporary internet and bulk-SMS blackout in Nuh district and deployed 2,500 officers to secure the Brij Mandal Jalabhishek pilgrimage route.
• A weekend monsoon influx at Chikhaldara in Amravati created a 10 km traffic jam as nearly 100,000 tourists descended, exposing gaps in local crowd-management infrastructure.