Overnight attention moved from DUSU and Bengal to the Gulf, with Tehran sending seven conditions for restarting talks through Qatar — end fighting on all fronts, release blocked funds, lift sea blockade — and warning of decisive war if rejected. Editors paired it with Trump cutting short his Camp David weekend for the White House, Houthi ballistic missiles sparking fire near Riyadh airport, and US missions placed on alert.
By midday focus returned to Delhi's SIR, extending yesterday's notices to Kejriwal and Rekha Gupta to L.K. Advani, S. Jaishankar, former army chiefs, the CBI director and even an election commissioner, with the EC citing faulty rolls among 33 lakh names.
Evening closed with Tata Trusts calling N. Chandrasekaran's reappointment as Tata Sons chairman illegal, and fatal crashes in Mumbai, where a BMW fell off the Coastal Road bridge killing three, and in Telangana, where a neurosurgeon burned alive.