Rajnath Singh called for forging a unified front to tackle terrorism, separatism, extremism by eliminating safe havens and rejecting any political exceptions. 

 Rajnath Singh called for forging a unified front to tackle terrorism, separatism, extremism by eliminating safe havens and rejecting any political exceptions. 

 A bandh by Dalit groups in Kerala over a student’s suicide led to clashes and arrests, disrupting normal life statewide amid demands for justice. 

 A tribal man in Odisha faced outrage after carrying his sister’s skeletal remains to a bank to claim her savings; the bank later processed the claim. 

 The BJP has fielded R Sreelekha, Kerala’s first woman IPS officer, while the Congress nominated K Muraleedharan, son of former chief minister K Karunakaran.