News Summary

• A cargo vessel with 24 Indians on board issues a distress call near the Strait of Hormuz.
• Indian media initially reported that the vessel MT Merry Vex had been attacked.
• Thousands march in Manipur to demand that authorities update the controversial National Register of Citizens.
• Four Indian seafarers stranded on an abandoned container ship off the coast of Turkey were finally taken off the vessel, AFP news agency reports.
• The sailors were trapped on board the Mongolia-flagged AZRA C, which had been moored off Istanbul since August 2025.