Rahul Gandhi and other Opposition leaders were detained from their sit-in at the Akashvani Bhawan premises in Delhi on Tuesday, after police stopped their march towards the Election Commission headquarters. The protest was against alleged “vote theft” and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with Opposition leaders demanding action against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. What are the larger political implications of the protest? Also in focus: byelections in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, West Bengal and Assam amid the SIR controversy, demands by Muslim and Christian communities in Karnataka, Harmanpreet Kaur stepping down as India women’s cricket captain, Israel’s security alert ahead of October 7, the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, and The Hindu’s editorial on India’s Asian Games performance.