India news Highlights, 10 September 2026 | ‘It is a terrible tragedy’: Rahul Gandhi pays tribute to Chongtham Vikram Singh

Tanusree Bose reports from Kolkata that a massive team of CID and STF officials arrested Sumit Roy, the personal assistant to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, at Banerjee's Kalighat residence following the Supreme Court's dismissal of Roy's anticipatory bail plea in the alleged Salboni land grab case. The arrest occurred after the Supreme Court vacated the interim stay on Roy's protection, enabling authorities to take him into custody regarding allegations that he and other influential figures illicitly sold government land by fragmenting it into smaller plots. Roy, who had faced extensive interrogation throughout the investigation, was transported to the CID headquarters, with plans to produce him in court for custody.

Aditi Raja from Vadodara reports that Justice Alpesh Y Kogje bid an emotional farewell to the Gujarat High Court to assume his new role as Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, with his oath-taking ceremony scheduled for September 26. Reflecting on his career journey—from starting as a lawyer in Vadodara under the mentorship of Additional Solicitor-General S V Raju to serving as a judge at the Gujarat High Court—Justice Kogje expressed deep gratitude and attachment to the institution. His tenure at the Gujarat High Court included presiding over significant cases, most notably being part of the bench that upheld 38 death sentences in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case earlier this year.

A leopard was captured after entering a residential area and hunting an animal in the Dalkhania area of Amreli district in Gujarat.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati announced that her nephew Akash Anand has been "fully relieved from the party."

Following this, Anand's father-in-law, Ashok Siddharth announced retirement from politics.

In a post on X, Siddharth said that he was retiring from political and social life "right now".

"Mayawati's order is greater than anything else in the world for me," Siddharth said.

"You made a small worker like me a member of your family. This is a debt I cannot repay in this lifetime," he said.

In a series of posts on X, Mayawati reacted sharply to Siddharth's retirement announcement, calling it a "correct step, albeit taken too late."

Mayawati said if Siddharth had taken the decision earlier, the party, the Bahujan Samaj, the Bahujan Movement, and his son-in-law Akash Anand would not have had to face adverse situations.

"Anyway, people say that if this decision had been taken much earlier, then B.S.P., Bahujan Samaj, and Bahujan Movement, as well as their son-in-law Shri Akash Anand, would not have had to continuously face adverse circumstances, nor would I have had to take several tough decisions regarding them multiple times, especially amidst the intense preparations for forming the government for the fifth time in UP during the assembly general elections, keeping in view the broader interests of the party and the movement," she wrote.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to visit India, with a formal announcement expected today. He will reportedly be accompanied by senior officials and business leaders. His first visit to India in seven years is expected to deepen the diplomatic thaw between New Delhi and Beijing.

Mahender Singh Manral from Delhi reports that security in the national capital has been significantly ramped up with the deployment of 30,000 personnel, including paramilitary forces, to manage the upcoming BRICS summit. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to arrive on September 11 and 12, respectively, with security teams already positioned at hotels in the Chanakyapuri area. Officials have finalised complex logistics and security plans, including route rehearsals and employee background checks, to facilitate the secure movement of various heads of state and government dignitaries to the Bharat Mandapam venue between September 12 and 13.

DMK president MK Stalin has fired back at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay after the actor-turned-politician made remarks about the Emergency-era Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) in the state Assembly. Addressing Vijay as "Thambi [brother] Vijay," Stalin said the DMK's Emergency-era struggle was a matter of historical record that "can never be changed." He accused Vijay of using social media reels and publicity to conceal poor governance.

"You turned the Assembly itself into a place where reels are shot, standing on the bridge we built and doing photoshoots," Stalin said in a video posted to X. "You are running the administration just like a cinema shooting. To hide your inefficient administration, you are posting various reels and cheating a whole generation." The remarks came two days after Vijay clarified that a hand gesture he made while referring to MISA — widely interpreted as a reference to Stalin's jaw injury during his 1976 detention — was "not in any way intentional."