Overview
- Humayun Kabir, suspended by the TMC, conducted a foundation-laying for a Babri-style mosque in Murshidabad, with videos showing supporters carrying bricks to the site.
- Local police tightened security and the administration is monitoring the situation, after earlier court interventions declined to block the construction.
- BJP leaders including Amit Malviya and Dilip Ghosh accused Kabir of stoking communal tensions for vote-bank politics, while the TMC called him a BJP agent; Kabir claimed police cooperation for the event.
- India and South Africa play a series-deciding third ODI in Visakhapatnam today, with India’s assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate warning that dew could significantly influence the balance between innings and the toss.
- Separate law-and-order updates include Panipat police reporting Poonam’s confession to four child murders and detention in jail, a fatal highway blockade incident in Motihari after a child was struck by a bridegroom’s car, and a CCTV-captured crash near Vadodara that left three injured.