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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 after landing, IndiGo said.

An alternate aircraft and a new set of crew have been arranged to continue the journey to Bengaluru. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay announced plans to set up an Olympic City and a Motorsports City in Chennai.

He also announced that the state government will build a new integrated Assembly-cum-Secretariat complex in Chennai at a cost of Rs 1,200 crore. The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution moved by Chief Minister Vijay, urging the Centre to recognise Tamil as the principal language of the Madras High Court.

The Allahabad High Court has quashed the National Security Act detention of Akriti Chaudhary, a student arrested during the Noida workers' protest, calling it "arbitrary" and ordering the government to pay her Rs 5 lakh in compensation.

She was detained under the NSA on May 13 and had since been held in Kasna jail in Gautam Buddha Nagar — the ruling is one of the most pointed judicial interventions against the crackdown on protesters during the year's unrest.

Floods have now spread across 31 Uttar Pradesh districts, with 14,000 people affected in Chitrakoot alone and thousands more evacuated as the Mandakini continues to run high. The scale of the flooding across the state has placed rescue and relief operations under severe strain.

Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha has alleged political vendetta after his name was deleted from Punjab's draft Special Intensive Revision electoral roll — a development that has added a high-profile individual face to a controversy that has until now been largely statistical, and that will keep the SIR exercise under political pressure in the days ahead.

The note circulated after a key caste census planning meeting was rewritten following pushback from the Social Justice Ministry — a rare, visible sign of internal government disagreement over how the landmark exercise should be framed and what its administrative architecture should look like.

A retired senior bureaucrat was questioned by Delhi Police for nine hours over his social media posts before being released — a case that has drawn concern from civil society groups who say it represents a chilling escalation in the surveillance of dissent from former officials.

A patient at Delhi's LNJP Hospital has been asked to wait until the end of 2028 for an MRI scan — a single data point that captures the scale of the public healthcare infrastructure crisis in the capital, where one machine serves an entire hospital's diagnostic needs with a queue stretching years into the future.

Telangana minister Konda Surekha has been dropped from Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s cabinet with immediate effect. The Congress disciplinary committee had earlier in August recommended her removal over remarks made by her daughter, Konda Sushmita, against the Chief Minister.

Revanth Reddy has also removed G Chinna Reddy from the post of Telangana Planning Commission vice-chairman over his alleged remarks against the Chief Minister. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India and Belgium believe in dialogue and diplomacy and support efforts for an early end to conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia.

He said the world is passing through a phase of great upheaval, with conflicts affecting food, fuel and supply chains across several regions. Despite the challenging environment, India’s economy has maintained its momentum, Modi said, noting that the country recorded 7.8 per cent growth in the last quarter.

He said India’s growth story is creating new opportunities for the world. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India and Belgium are working together on modern defence equipment, including the Zorawar tank.

He said cooperation between the two countries has expanded beyond traditional sectors to areas such as defence and semiconductors. Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said the relationship between India and Belgium is broader and more strategic than ever before.

He also described the conclusion of the India-EU free trade agreement as a major milestone. The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the Bar Council of India (BCI) has no statutory power to regulate the conduct of law students.

The court said educational institutions can take action against students under their own rules and regulations. The ruling came in the NALSAR University of Law row, after the BCI acted against students over their objections to Chief Justice Surya Kant’s proposed participation in the university’s convocation.

A total of 306 people have been killed and 49 remain missing in ethnic violence in Manipur since May 2023, Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam told the Assembly. Goa had 27,864 stray dogs as per the 2019 livestock census, Animal Husbandry Minister Nilkanth Halarnkar said.

He said the latest data was not yet available as the 2024-25 livestock census figures have not been published. The government has directed authorities to remove stray dogs from educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus stands and railway stations and shift them to shelters after sterilisation and vaccination.

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

The Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed a writ petition filed by DMK president M K Stalin seeking 100 per cent counting of VVPAT slips in the Kolathur Assembly constituency. Stalin had also sought to declare the election victory of TVK MLA VS Babu void and declare him the winner, alleging irregularities in the voting process.

He claimed that verification of 14 EVMs and VVPAT machines had revealed discrepancies and sought re-verification of all voting machines used in the constituency....