Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar met Congress leaders in Delhi to address cabinet portfolio dissatisfaction and fill 20 vacant ministerial positions. 

 TMC MP Sushmita Dev resigned from Rajya Sabha, citing personal reasons, following fellow MP Roy’s departure, deepening the party’s crisis. 

 The successful test flight represents a major leap in the C295 programme and the government’s “Make in India” initiative. 

 India condemned a US attack on the tanker Settebello, leaving three Indian crew missing, and summoned a US diplomat to protest the incident. 

 The new study by researchers from Lancaster University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) was published in PLOS One