⌨Overnight live blogs tracked Cyclone Arnab completing landfall south of Yanam with 135-150 kmph winds, heavy rain in Andhra and Odisha, uprooted trees, power cuts, cancelled trains and flights; toll rose from two electrocutions to three and then five, with 57,000 evacuated and flash-flood alerts extending inland to MP-UP-Maharashtra.
Attention then shifted to counting for 28 MLC seats in UP, Bihar, Karnataka and Maharashtra: the BJP-led NDA swept Congress-ruled Karnataka, took five-six seats in UP while losing Varanasi to SP, and saw sitting MLCs fall in Bihar, leaving Congress with zero and prompting Modi and Shah to mock its ballot-paper loss.
On markets and government, Jio Platforms listed at a 21% premium in the country's largest IPO, while the Cabinet raised dearness allowance 3 points to 63%.