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Turkey's foreign and defence ministers and intelligence chief plan to travel to Pakistan this week to discuss its stop-start talks with Afghanistan over a ceasefire in place in South Asia, President Tayyip Erdogan said.

According to an official readout on Sunday of his comments on a return flight from Baku, where he met Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Erdogan said the tripartite visit aim to seal a permanent ceasefire and peace between the nations as soon as possible.

Hamas fighters holed up in the Israeli-held Rafah area of Gaza will not surrender to Israel, the group's armed wing said on Sunday, urging mediators to find a solution to a crisis that threatens the month-old ceasefire.

Sources close to mediation efforts told Reuters on Thursday that fighters could surrender their arms in exchange for passage to other areas of the enclave under a proposal aimed at resolving the stalemate.

Egyptian mediators have proposed that, in exchange for safe passage, fighters still in Rafah surrender their arms to Egypt and give details of tunnels there so they can be destroyed, said one of the sources, an Egyptian security official.

Jammu and Kashmir police dismissed Abdul Latif and Mohammad Abbas from service for assisting terrorists. Both officers face multiple FIRs, and Latif is currently in Doda Jail.

A special court in Mumbai has permitted Gitanjali Gems Ltd to value and auction 13 unsecured properties linked to fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, central to the ₹23,000 crore Punjab National Bank scam. The proceeds, estimated at ₹46 crore, will be deposited as fixed deposits in the court’s name. The move comes as Choksi challenges a Belgian court’s order approving his extradition to India.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has condemned the Southern Railway after a video surfaced showing students singing an RSS song during the inauguration of the Ernakulam–Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express. Vijayan said the act reflected the “subversion of national institutions by Sangh Parivar politics.” The Southern Railway later clarified that the students had performed their school song and reposted the video with an English translation.

In a major crackdown, Indian security agencies have arrested two most-wanted gangsters operating abroad, Venkatesh Garg in Georgia and Bhanu Rana in the US, linked to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. Both men face multiple criminal cases in India and will be deported soon as officials uncover details of their international crime networks.

The Vishva Hindu Parishad has raised concerns over the first batch of admissions at the Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence in Katra, claiming 44 of 50 students enrolled are from the Muslim community. In a letter to J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, the VHP alleged that many faculty members are also Muslims or Christians.

The outfit urged the Shrine Board to review its admission and appointment policies to align with “religious sensitivities” and the expectations of Hindu devotees. Last week, the Rashtriya Bajrang Dal staged a protest seeking “minority institution” status for the medical college to reserve seats for Hindu students.

Three first-year IT students from NIT Silchar went missing after reportedly falling into Boulsol waterfall in Assam’s Dima Hasao district. The body of 20-year-old Sarbakritika from Uttar Pradesh has been recovered, while two others remain missing. Rescue operations by police and NDRF are underway as authorities confirm the students had gone on a picnic.

Gaurav Kumar, wanted for the 2017 murders of journalist KJ Singh and his 92-year-old mother, was arrested in Noida after years on the run. Police said the 27-year-old had assumed a new identity and risen to the post of RWA security manager in a housing society. His arrest ends an eight-year-long mystery and revives the long-pending case that once shocked Punjab.

Delhi woke up to a cold morning on Saturday with temperatures plunging to 11°C — 3.3 degrees below normal and colder than Friday’s 12.7°C. IMD attributed the drop to clear skies and north-westerly winds from the Himalayas, predicting a further dip to 9–11°C by Monday. Air quality worsened too, with the city’s AQI rising to 361, placing it firmly in the “very poor” category.