* World exhales, holds breath: Israel’s Lebanon strikes test 14-day pause, Vance to join talks in Pakistan

* India calls for lasting peace, underlines need for diplomacy, dialogue

* Pakistan emerges key mediator; US pushed it to broker ceasefire: FT

* Pause welcome, path ahead forbidding: 5 key minefields amid US-Iran chasm

* Cabinet clears Bills for women’s quota in Lok Sabha and Assemblies

* CEC told us to ‘get lost’, say TMC MPs; EC hits out with ‘straight talk’

* India no longer inclined to host COP33 climate meeting in 2028

* Bangla Foreign Minister meets Jaishankar, seeks return of ex-PM Hasina

* In fabric hub Surat, labour exit adds to raw material crisis, output halved