These sources provide a wide-ranging overview of current events and developments in India, focusing heavily on security, politics, technology, and foreign relations. Significant security incidents include a deadly car explosion near Delhi's Red Fort and the dismantling of a major terror module in Jammu and Kashmir, involving the arrest of radicalized professionals. Politically, the texts cover the second phase of the Bihar assembly elections and a fierce attack by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against the Election Commission concerning electoral roll revisions. On the foreign policy and economic front, there is news of the United States and India nearing a trade agreement and diplomatic tensions with Bangladesh following India’s defense minister warning their interim chief adviser. Finally, technological progress is highlighted through the launch of a new Aadhaar mobile application, government efforts to enhance the ease of doing business in the data center and AI sectors, and the leaked capabilities of Google’s advanced image-generation model, Nano Banana 2.

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