<h1>Diplomatic expulsion: official ordered to leave within a day over espionage allegations amid heightened bilateral tensions.</h1> India expelled a Pakistani diplomatic official ordered to leave within a day over alleged espionage amid cross-border hostilities; the government pushed back on external mediation and foreign claims on Kashmir and trade. Defence briefings to foreign attaches and public military statements accompanied clearance operations for unexploded ordnance. The Supreme Court refused bail in a major drug-haul case while calling an NIA terror-financing allegation speculative, and authorities arrested an executive in a state liquor-scam probe.