Opposition leaders staged a brief walkout from today’s all-party meeting ahead of the Monsoon Session to protest the invite to NCPI, a new outfit comprising ?20 Trinamool rebel MPs whose merger is still pending Speaker approval. Congress called it a ‘symbolic boycott’.

Activist Sonam Wangchuk shared a handwritten note from his ‘illegal detention’ at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital on day 21 of his hunger strike. Frail but still protesting, he urged supporters to make tomorrow’s march to Parliament a “big success”.

An Indian has alleged that she was forced to work for hours without pay in Oman’s Muscat where she had gone to work as a housemaid. She has appealed to Jaishankar for her safe return.