The day's dominant story was the Supreme Court's directive to journalist Tarun Tejpal to surrender within two weeks in the 2013 Goa sexual assault case, covered across outlets. Earlier, the Allahabad High Court rejected a Muslim student's plea to wear a hijab with her school uniform, ruling it not essential to Islam. Heavy rains in Delhi-NCR caused severe waterlogging, trapping children in school buses for over seven hours in Gurugram and prompting work-from-home orders. In Patna, student protests over BPSC exam demands escalated into clashes with police, including lathi-charge and water cannons. Internationally, the US announced new sanctions on Iran, threatening dollar cutoff for countries allowing money laundering, while Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs on US goods. NSA Ajit Doval met Chinese Vice President Han Zheng in Beijing ahead of border talks, and former CDS Anil Chauhan revealed that an Indian drone inadvertently hit Pakistan's Kirana Hills nuclear facility during Operation Sindoor due to low fuel.