Overnight coverage carried the Tata succession fight, with Trusts calling N. Chandrasekaran's reappointment invalid, and Delhi SIR notices to Jaishankar, Advani and Dhankhar, alongside Asian Games shooting medals.

By morning the IIT-Bombay death of Sahil Wakode dominated. Director Shireesh Kedare signed an 18-point charter after protests, apologised for pre-empting the police probe, and removed dean Suryanarayana Doolla. Faculty marched in his defence, security was deployed and a forensic team visited campus, as the family alleged caste abuse and demanded a CBI inquiry while a friend denied it.

Attention later turned to Jamui, Bihar, where video of two minors harassed and groped led to three arrests, an SIT and notices against sharing the clip, with a minister's 'sporadic incidents' remark drawing opposition attack. A Delhi court separately revived scrutiny of Sonia Gandhi's voter entry, and an SIT cited 105 CCTV instances of Ram Temple donation theft.