Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has allowed 20 TMC MPs, who merged with the NCPI, until September 22 to respond to a petition seeking their disqualification on grounds of defection, according to sources from the Lok Sabha Secretariat. The petition was filed by TMC general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee.

IndiGo Flight Diversion

An IndiGo flight 6E 1302 from Doha to Bengaluru was diverted to Muscat in Oman on Thursday after one of the operating crew members required urgent medical attention. The crew member was attended to by a medical team upon landing, IndiGo reported. An alternate aircraft and a new set of crew have been arranged to continue the journey to Bengaluru.

Tamil Nadu Developments

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay announced plans to establish an Olympic City and a Motorsports City in Chennai. He also revealed that the state government will construct a new integrated Assembly-cum-Secretariat complex in Chennai at a cost of Rs 1,200 crore.

The Tamil Nadu Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution moved by Chief Minister Vijay, urging the Centre to recognize Tamil as the principal language of the Madras High Court.

Allahabad High Court Ruling

The Allahabad High Court quashed the National Security Act detention of Akriti Chaudhary, a student arrested during the Noida workers’ protest, labeling it "arbitrary" and ordering the government to pay her Rs 5 lakh in compensation. Chaudhary was detained under the NSA on May 13 and had been held in Kasna jail in Gautam Buddha Nagar.

Flood Situation in Uttar Pradesh

Floods have now affected 31 districts in Uttar Pradesh, with 14,000 people impacted in Chitrakoot alone, leading to mass evacuations as the Mandakini River continues to swell. The scale of the flooding has severely strained rescue and relief operations.

Political Controversies

Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha alleged political vendetta after his name was removed from Punjab’s draft Special Intensive Revision electoral roll. This incident has added a high-profile dimension to a controversy that has been largely statistical, keeping the SIR exercise under political scrutiny.

A retired senior bureaucrat was questioned by Delhi Police for nine hours over his social media posts before being released, raising concerns from civil society groups about increasing surveillance of dissent.

Healthcare Crisis in Delhi

A patient at Delhi’s LNJP Hospital has been asked to wait until the end of 2028 for an MRI scan, highlighting the public healthcare infrastructure crisis in the capital, where one machine serves the entire hospital’s diagnostic needs.

Cabinet Changes in Telangana

Telangana minister Konda Surekha has been dropped from Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s cabinet with immediate effect. This decision follows recommendations from the Congress disciplinary committee regarding remarks made by her daughter against the Chief Minister.