Parisians rushed for a dip in the Seine as the authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time since 1923 after an extensive clean-up operation spurred on by it being used as a venue in the Paris Olympics.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis derided Uddhav Thackeray’s speech at a joint rally as a ‘rudali’ act, not a victory celebration. Fadnavis criticised Uddhav for focusing on his government’s fall rather than the language issue. He also took dig at Raj Thackeray, who had humorously credited Fadnavis for uniting him and Uddhav on stage. The rally celebrated the rollback of Hindi as a third language in schools.

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