Government enforces ISO Act to establish unified theatre commands, enhancing military integration and efficiency with the creation of ITCs. This significant move aims to streamline command and control for better operational synergy.

Nettaru, a BJP Yuva Morcha district executive committee member, was hacked to death by two motorcycle-borne assailants in Bellare village of Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka by allegedly PFI cadres.

This was the third major strike on Naxalites by security forces in the last month and comes three weeks after 29 extremists were killed in an encounter in Kanker district