Overview

• Chandigarh Police set up a six‑member SIT led by IG Pushpendra Kumar into IPS Y. Puran Kumar’s suicide, as Haryana sent DGP Shatrugjit Kapoor and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarania on leave and appointed Surinder Singh Bhoria as Rohtak SP.
• Puran Kumar’s family has refused post‑mortem and burial pending accountability, alleging the body was moved without consent; an FIR cites abetment under BNS 108 and SC/ST provisions, and AAP announced candle marches in Punjab demanding justice.
• In Bihar, former MP Arun Kumar and his son rejoined JDU and ex‑MP Ajay Nishad returned to the BJP, while NDA leaders met in Delhi to finalize their seat formula and Mahagathbandhan parties pressed to settle unresolved constituencies before nominations.
• A powerful explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems in Humphreys County, Tennessee left 19 people unaccounted for, with investigators probing the cause after multiple secondary blasts initially kept responders from entering the site.
• Reuters, citing security sources, reported that three Qatari diplomats were killed and two injured in a Sharm El Sheikh car crash a day before a Gaza peace summit, with no confirmation on whether the victims were part of Qatar’s negotiating team.