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1. The government releases a video of the Parliament scuffle that took place yesterday in the Rajya Sabha, the video of the MPs jostling with Parliament marshals. This is after the opposition claims that women MPs were manhandled. 2. Opposition leaders hold a march outside the Parlaiment building today to protest the abrupt ending of the monsoon session and the alleged assault of women MPs in the upper house. 3. The official Twitter handles of the Congress and around 5,000 of its leaders and workers have been locked, the party claims Thursday, amid growing controversy over 'selective' action against Rahul Gandhi and others for posting photographs that show Mr Gandhi interacting with the family of the nine-year-old Dalit girl who was allegedly raped and killed in Delhi last week. 4. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has invited Mamata Banerjee, Uddhav Thackeray and other Chief Ministers and opposition leaders to a meeting aimed at consolidating the unity displayed by the parties versus the government in parliament. Besides the Chief Ministers of Bengal and Maharashtra, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren have also been invited to the virtual meeting on August 20. 5. More than 100 villages are marooned amid flood fury in Uttar Pradesh, and at least 600 villages have been affected so far. Of the state's 75 districts, 24 are battling floods. 6. Olympic boxing medalist Lovlina Borgohain returns to a hero's welcome in Guwahati. She is the first Assamese to win an Olympic medal.