Overview
- Police freed all children from Powai’s RA Studio and arrested the suspect, Rohit Arya, who was shot during the operation and later died in hospital.
- An airgun and suspected chemicals were recovered as investigators examine Arya’s claims of unpaid education-project dues and prior protests; former minister Deepak Kesarkar rejected allegations tied to the dispute.
- Cyclone Montha made landfall on Andhra’s coast and has weakened, yet IMD advisories warn of continued rain and gusty winds across southern coastal districts, with at least one death reported from a fallen tree.
- Separately, reports from Haiti attribute about 25 fatalities to Cyclone Melissa.
- In Abbotsford, British Columbia, Indian-origin businessman Darshan Singh Sahsi was killed; a Lawrence Bishnoi network associate claimed responsibility online, with the gang under heightened attention from Canadian and Indian authorities.