Overnight papers followed Trump's UN ultimatum with a three-hour US-Iran meeting in New York on reopening Hormuz. At dawn attention moved to Azamgarh, where police shot dead a man accused of killing his wife and two priests after a seven-hour hostage standoff.
By morning coverage settled on a report that two election commissioners dissented 14 times in 10 months over SIR and voter lists. The Commission said decisions were unanimous and differing views normal. Rahul Gandhi called vote theft treason, Mamata Banerjee demanded CEC Gyanesh Kumar's arrest and repolls in five states, the BJP dismissed the charge, and the Supreme Court split on sending the 2023 appointments law to a larger bench.
In the evening Pezeshkian displayed photos of children killed in US-Israeli strikes as the US delegation walked out, and a torpedo strike on MV Cape Dao off Oman killed UP sailor Suraj Yadav, with 19 Indians rescued.