Editorial attention focused heavily on the India-Japan Annual Summit, where Prime Minister Modi established a personal rapport with Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi, referring to her as his "younger sister" while signing a $10 billion investment pact focused on AI and defense. The Ram Mandir donation theft scandal deepened as investigations shifted from simple theft to institutional bribery, with reports alleging 125 employees paid for jobs and the Ayodhya Bar Association filing for an FIR against trustee Champat Rai. Authorities also issued bulldozer notices to the suspects' residences. Government regulation of messaging platforms expanded during the afternoon; following the halt of WhatsApp’s username rollout, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued similar notices to Telegram and Signal. The day was also marked by the arrival of the monsoon in northern India, which brought relief to Delhi but resulted in multiple fatalities in Mumbai and Thane due to infrastructure failures, including a fatal fall into an open manhole.