Overview

• Israel approved a plan to seize Gaza City and called up about 60,000 reservists, with the cabinet reiterating that any ceasefire requires Hamas to free all hostages at once.
• Israel has not formally accepted Hamas’s reported 60‑day truce offer involving limited hostage releases and prisoner swaps.
• A Mumbai special court granted interim relief to MLA Rohit Pawar, noting an EOW closure report on the predicate offense that could undercut the ED case; the next hearing is set for October 8.
• NHAI fined the Meerut toll operator Rs 20 lakh, seized a Rs 3.70 crore security deposit and blacklisted it for a year after an assault on a soldier, while police reported eight arrests.
• Punjab Vigilance filed a chargesheet against Bikram Singh Majithia alleging roughly Rs 700 crore in undeclared assets supported by tens of thousands of pages of documents, and the Supreme Court pressed parties on Bihar’s voter‑list revision as the EC published booth‑wise names of about 6.5 million excluded voters.