Congress pushed country into disarray: PM Modi; 21 dead as Pak army chopper crashes in POK: Reports

Prime Minister Narendra Modi became India's longest continuously serving elected head of government, marking 4,399 days in office. In an address at Bharat Mandapam, PM Modi said that Congress governments pushed the country into "helplessness, misery and an inferiority complex" through years of policy and governance failures. In other development, a Pakistan Air Force Mi-17 helicopter crashed in Muzaffarabad, PoJK, killing all 21 personnel on board amid anti-government protests. Concurrently, tensions in West Asia escalated as former U.S. President Donald Trump issued a warning to Iran. In retaliation for American strikes, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed coordinated attacks on U.S. military targets, including the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait and an F-35 hangar in Jordan.