Overnight fallout from Shehbaz Sharif's UNGA address dominated, after his Kashmir remarks, praise for Trump's intervention and warning that diverting Indus waters would be an act of war drew India's rebuttal invoking Osama bin Laden's shelter and Form-47 government. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar first dismissed a Pakistani journalist as from a terrorist country, then told the General Assembly Pakistan was a serial practitioner of terrorism, asserting zero tolerance and right to self-defence.
Domestically the Election Commission met for the first time amid the SIR dissent row, asserting unanimity, clarifying Form 6, scrapping physical hearings, ordering BLO home visits and extending deadlines in Delhi and Maharashtra. BJP defended the panel while Mamata Banerjee mocked CEC as Vanish Kumar and the INDIA bloc called a Sept 30 meet.
In Nagoya India completed a kabaddi double with men and women beating Iran for gold.