Priyanka Gandhi Slams BJP Over Alleged Voter Deletion, Opposition Questions ECI

A Chandigarh Police head constable, Nitin, posted in the accounts branch at police headquarters, was shot dead at his residence in Sector 22 on Friday morning. Neighbours raised the alarm following the sound of gunfire. Police found him lying on his bed with a gunshot wound to the head, and he was declared dead upon arrival at the hospital. A country-made pistol was recovered from the spot. Chandigarh Senior Superintendent of Police Kawaldeep Kaur visited the scene, confirming that forensic teams are gathering evidence and that Nitin's wife and son were present in the house at the time. Authorities stated that an investigation across all angles is actively underway.

The Delhi High Court has agreed to hear an urgent criminal writ plea seeking the takedown of sexually explicit, AI-manipulated deepfake images of a woman morphed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The petitioner alleged that the morphed photographs were circulated on social media and displayed on physical banners during a protest in Delhi. Despite an FIR registered by the Delhi Police Cyber Cell, the plea states that authorities and social media platforms failed to remove the content. The petitioner cited targeted harassment, constant mental trauma, and severe threats, moving the court for immediate removal of the manipulated images.

American mercenary Matthew Aaron Van Dyke and a Ukrainian national, among seven foreigners arrested by the National Investigation Agency earlier this year, have been released from Delhi's Tihar Jail. The court granted them permission to travel to their respective home countries to visit their families for a period of one month. The temporary release from prison is subject to specific legal conditions and formalities.

An India Today ground reality check examines the massive gap between the price to retailer and maximum retail price of life-saving cancer medicines following remarks by the Supreme Court. The top court questioned steep markups on cancer drugs, observing that a drug costing retailers twenty-seven hundred rupees carried an MRP of twenty-seven thousand rupees, terming the practice extortion and daylight robbery. At Delhi's wholesale medicine market, traders highlighted wide margins between procurement costs and printed MRPs on drugs such as trastuzumab. Meanwhile, patients and families at Delhi Cancer Institute shared financial struggles caused by expensive treatments and medicine shortages in dispensaries, forcing them to buy high-cost drugs outside.