NDTV TOP STORIES
1. The government releases a video of the Parliament scuffle that took place Wednesday 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. Seven union ministers addressed the media for over half an hour on Thursday to counter the opposition's charge. The opposition must apologise for disruptive and threatening behaviour that forced Parliament to close two days early, the government says, countering allegations that outsiders not part of Parliament security were brought in to manhandle opposition MPs, including women. 3. Opposition leaders hold a march outside the Parliament building on Thursday to protest the abrupt ending of the monsoon session and the alleged assault of women MPs in the upper house. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. A 45-year-old Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur town iss paraded through a street, assaulted and made to chant Jai Shri Ram slogans on Wednesday. 7. Thirteen people are dead and around 25 are still missing after a landslide in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur, left several vehicles buried under the debris. 8. 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. 9. Olympic boxing medalist Lovlina Borgohain returns to a hero's welcome in Guwahati. She is the first Assamese to win an Olympic medal.
