Overview

• NDA leaders set C.P. Radhakrishnan’s nomination filing for 20 August at 11 a.m. in Parliament with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and alliance MPs to accompany him.
• Modi introduced the Maharashtra governor as a straightforward, OBC leader and urged a consensus election, with Rajnath Singh engaging opposition parties on support.
• INDIA bloc leaders met to settle on a joint nominee; one report says they picked retired justice B. Sudarshan Reddy, though earlier discussions featured other names and final confirmation was not announced.
• After his White House talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump said arrangements are underway for a Putin–Zelensky meeting followed by trilateral talks, and Germany’s chancellor indicated the first meeting could occur within two weeks with details still unsettled.
• A viral Varanasi voter-list screenshot was contextually debunked by officials, who said devotees living in an ashram had registered their guru’s name in place of their fathers’ names.