Tibetan refugees and activists, including members of Friends of Tibet, staged a protest at Mumbai's Azad Maidan against China's new Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law. Protesters from Tibetan settlements in Mundgod, Karnataka, and Bhandara, Maharashtra, expressed concerns over the legislation, alleging that it could increase assimilation pressure on minority communities and impact their cultural identity. PICS/ASHISH RAJE

Senior Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, and former CM Siddaramaiah, gathered in Bengaluru to pay their last respects to AICC secretary Suraj Hegde, who passed away due to cardiac arrest. (PICS/PTI)