A 209-member Bastar delegation led by CM Vishnu Deo Sai met President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan today. Murmu hosted a luncheon for Bastar Pandum-2026 winners and tribal leaders and personally served them.

215+ VCs, ex-VCs and academicians backed IIT Madras Director Prof V Kamakoti after Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra allegedly called him a “cow urine expert” in Lok Sabha. The open letter said the remark undermines academic dignity and scientific temper.

Pakistan’s statement comes in response to the Indian embassy’s post on social media, where it said: “There is no Pakistani Kashmir, only Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.”