Overview

• India’s chief economic adviser said he expects the extra 25% US tariff to be removed or reduced within weeks, following fresh talks in New Delhi that could ease pressure on roughly half of Indian exports.
• Congress has shifted a major share of its Bihar messaging to a voter-rights and alleged vote-theft narrative, even as Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraj draws youth and upper-caste interest.
• BJP strategists are moving to blunt the “PK factor,” rolling out a plan to create 10,000 ‘Modi Mitra’ volunteers in every Assembly seat to court young voters and reinforce their core base.
• Prashant Kishor escalated attacks with new corruption allegations against Deputy CM Samrat Chaudhary and other NDA figures, saying he will publish documentary evidence if they do not respond.
• After Indian strikes degraded PoK camps, reporting points to JeM and HM activity shifting into Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while a separate probe alleges ‘half-encounters’ by UP police and an NH48 traffic jam was blamed for delaying an ambulance in a toddler’s death, even as CM Yogi Adityanath defended hard policing citing a recent firing case.