India-Pakistan Cricket Tensions: India’s women refused to collect the Women’s Asia Cup trophy from ACC chief Mohsin Naqvi after beating Sri Lanka by 72 runs in Dubai, with BCCI saying the decision was theirs—echoing last year’s men’s final where India also declined the cup. India Legal-Policy: India’s push to tighten extradition for fugitives is framed as a shift from ad hoc cases to a more systematic national-security approach, with Home Minister Amit Shah highlighted as the architect of the framework. Language Politics: A fresh legal-policy fight is brewing over India’s three-language formula and the status of English, as CBSE faces Supreme Court scrutiny and government pushes back. India-China Reset at BRICS: Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi signaled a cautious thaw after years of friction, stressing “partners not rivals” and border peace, while keeping strategic trust issues unresolved. Bangladesh “Reset” with India: Bangladesh’s foreign minister says ties under Sheikh Hasina were “uncomfortable” and calls for a bilateral reset based on mutual interests, while distancing from “India-fascination.” West Asia Shipping Security: India condemned an attack on a Panama-flagged tanker off Oman; 13 Indian crew were rescued and one seafarer remains missing, with Modi proposing a Seafarers’ Emergency Support Network at BRICS. AI Geopolitics: Trump played down AI safety slowdown calls, arguing the US must not lose the AI race to China; the debate is intensifying across governments and industry.