DMK to skip INDIA bloc meet: Opposition unity in tatters, advantage BJP?

The top focus of this episode of News Today is on DMK's decision to boycott the INDIA bloc meeting and the Delhi hotel fire that claimed 21 lives on Wednesday. Ahead of the INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi next week, the DMK has pulled out staing it would not attend any meeting where Congress participates. While Udhayanidhi Stalin called Congress a party of 'betrayers'. Amidst this fractured opposition, the central government considers reintroducing a delimitation bill to increase parliamentary seats. Meanwhile, an India Today investigation has exposed how residential buildings were illegally converted into commercial accommodations operating without fire safety norms or tenant verification in Delhi's Malviya Nagar. The programme further addresses the national crisis of student suicides following the medical entrance examination cancellation due to paper leak controversies. Additionally, a ground report from Madhya Pradesh showed how despite a four hundred and thirty crore rupee expenditure, residents in several villages still lack tap water and dig dry riverbeds to get water.