Opposition MPs stage sit-in in Delhi seeking CEC's resignation
Opposition MPs including Rahul Gandhi held a sit-in at Akashvani Bhawan in Delhi, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. An INDIA bloc march from Parliament was stopped on Parliament Street and MPs were briefly detained. The Opposition cited concerns over the Election Commission's functioning and its special intensive revision of electoral rolls. Separately, Belgian physicist Francis Halzen, 82, won the Physics Nobel for discovering high-energy neutrinos via the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.