Fuel prices have touched record high in India, with petrol breaching Rs 100 in some parts of Maharashtra and Rajasthan with state-run oil marketing companies hiking rates for two consecutive days. Fuel prices were also hiked for four straight days last week.

A confrontation between Israel and Hamas in contested Jerusalem escalated as Israel unleashed airstrikes on Gaza while Hamas barraged Israel with hundreds of rockets. The exchange killed 28 Palestinians—including 10 children and a woman—in Gaza, and at least two Israelis in Tel Aviv.

The Delhi High Court has granted bail to JNU student Natasha Narwal, arrested last year in May in connection with the communal riots in Northeast Delhi to perform the last rites of her father who died of COVID-19. The court granted the relief as her brother is also infected and the state did not oppose the plea.