- India's top women's football club awaits a decision from Asian Football Confederation on whether they can play in the Club Championship. 23 girls are stuck in Tashkent after FIFA's ban. The decision will come today. 2. Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis says the boat carrying three AK-47s belongs to an Australian couple who abandoned it after engine trouble. Prima facie, there is no terror angle, but it is unclear why it is carrying arms. The damaged boat has been found near Harihareshwar Beach in Raigad, 190 km from Mumbai, by fishermen. 3. Satellite images sourced by NDTV indicate that China's naval base in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, is now fully operational and supports Chinese warships deployed in the Indian Ocean region. 4. The raging point-counterpoint between the centre and the Delhi government over rehabilitation of Rohingya refugees in the national capital reaches a fever pitch with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia demanding that the centre order a probe into the entire episode. Mr Sisodia alleged a 'conspiracy' to settle Rohingya in Delhi, while keeping the Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, government led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal completely in the dark. Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday tweeted Rohingya refugees would be shifted to flats for the economically weaker section in Delhi's Bakkarwala. Hours later, the Home Ministry in a series of tweets denied the centre would provide flats to Rohingya in the national capital. 5. A little boy's garlanded photo, surrounded by his grieving family at his home in Rajasthan, illustrates the unspeakable tragedy of caste discrimination in parts of the country. On July 20, the nine-year-old Dalit boy in Rajasthan's Jalore, a Class 3 student, made the 'mistake' of drinking from a pitcher meant for upper castes. His teacher thrashed him for touching the pitcher, so badly that he was left practically immobile, with severe wounds in his eye and ear. 'We found out at 4 pm. His limbs were not working,' says his uncle at the Surana village around 250 km from Jodhpur. 'We took him to seven hospitals, but no one could treat him. We finally took him to Ahmedabad, where he died on August 13,' he tells NDTV. 6. People planning to visit the United States are in for a rude shock as they will have to wait till 2024 to get a visitor visa. NDTV checked the website of US State Department and found that the average waiting time was about one-and-a-half years, which means those planning to apply now will get an appointment for March-April 2024. The website shows that average wait for a visa appointment in the US consulate at New Delhi is 522 days for visitor visas and 471 days for student visas. 7. Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announces that 'Dahi-Handi' will now be recognised as an official sport in the state. He further states that 'Pro-Dahi-Handi' competitions will be introduced in the state. 8. Over 6,000 citizens, including grassroot workers and women and human rights activists, have urged the Supreme Court to revoke the remission of sentences for 11 men convicted of rape and murder in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case.