Pawan Kalyan criticised Tamil Nadu politicians for opposing Hindi but allowing their movies to be dubbed in Hindi for financial gain. He called for embracing linguistic diversity in India.

Rakshit Ravish Chaurasia, a 23-year-old law student, denied being drunk during a car accident in Vadodara that killed a woman and injured four others. He claimed the accident occurred after his car’s airbags deployed suddenly. CCTV footage captured the incident, and Chaurasia has been arrested and booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Slamming Pakistan, India asserted that such remarks will neither validate the country’s claim nor justify its practice of cross-border terrorism.