The Congress asked whether the Bharatiya Janata Party would agree to an independent judicial inquiry into allegations pertaining to land purchases by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, his family members and their real estate companies. The Congress’ Madhya Pradesh chief Jitu Patwari asked whether Yadav would release a white paper on the land he had bought since taking oath as the chief minister.

This came a day after The Indian Express reported that Yadav, his family and their real estate firms bought at least 137 plots worth Rs 45 crore in areas that will benefit most from infrastructure projects announced by him.

Patwari urged Yadav to explain the source of the funds used by him and his family to buy the land. Read on.

Three persons were killed and 18 injured after an under-construction warehouse near Brace Bridge in Kolkata’s Taratala area collapsed. Eighteen more persons are believed to be trapped beneath the rubble, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said.

Teams from the Army, the National Disaster Response Force, the State Disaster Response Force, the Kolkata Police and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation are undertaking rescue and relief work, the chief minister added. Read on.

The Israeli military deliberately killed Palestinian children to commit a genocide, said the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry. More than 20,000 children have been killed by the forces and 44,000 injured since October 2023, it added.

“Even after the October 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the ceasefire and for the protection owed to Palestinian children under international law,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, the chair of the commission.

The panel also alleged that sexual violence had been used against children as part of the “collective shaming and oppression, entrenched within a prolonged, ethnic, gendered, and intergenerational pattern of Israeli occupation and hostilities”. Read on.

Three persons have gone missing after heavy rains triggered flash floods in Arunachal Pradesh’s Keyi Panyor district. At least 18 homes were also damaged and several low-lying have been inundated.

This led the government in neighbouring Assam to issue an alert for districts in downstream areas.

In Mumbai, heavy overnight rainfall disrupted suburban train services and caused waterlogging in several low-lying areas. The southwest monsoon has advanced into more parts of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, and some areas of Chhattisgarh. Read on.

A video installation at London’s National Portrait Gallery was withdrawn after a controversy over claims about the role of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the Bengal famine in colonial India. The 40-minute video by artist Helen Cammock, titled Persistence, had been on temporary display at the gallery, scheduled to end in August.

In the video, Cammock described 17th-century English soldier and parliamentarian Oliver Cromwell’s military campaigns in Ireland, and remarked that he “starved people en masse, a little like the wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill. Read on.

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