INDIA
Rahul, Priyanka meet bereaved families in Lakhimpur Kheri
Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and other leaders met the family of deceased farmer Lovepreet at the Chaukhada farm in Palia at around 9 p.m. on Wednesday. They later met the family of journalist Raman Kashyap, who was also killed in violence. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Singh Hooda accompanied the Gandhi siblings during their meetings with the farmers' families.
Delhi reports 26 fresh Covid cases, no death in 24 hrs
The city's death toll continues to be at 25,088, and the death rate at 1.74 per cent. Delhi has recorded only one death due to the coronavirus infection in October so far. The Covid infection rate in the national capital has declined to 0.04 per cent, while the active case tally has climbed to 354. With 21 patients recovering in the last 24 hours, the total number of recoveries rose to 14,13,611 so far, the health bulletin said.
NCP says BJP men part of NCB raids on ship; MVA seeks arrest, probe
NCP national spokesperson and state Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik slammed the NCB operations, terming it as a 'fraud' in which BJP leader Manish Bhanushali and a so-called 'private detective' Kiran P. Gosavi were seen hauling out some of the accused, including Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan and Arbaaz Merchant.
Congress gives extra weightage to Pilot, Baghel & Channi
Baghel went twice to Lucknow, once with Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday and previously alone on Tuesday and had even sat on a sit-in protest while Pilot was called from Jaipur to go to Lucknow by road. The Congress through this agitation is trying to put its house in order where the internal rift has deepened.
NCB admits 2 outsiders were 'independent witnesses', rejects NCP claims
However, the NCB scoffed the claims of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson and Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik as "baseless, with malice to malign the agency's image and in retaliation against an earlier actoin of the NCB". On Wednesday afternoon, Malik had made the sensational claim that a BJP 'vice-president', Manish Bhanushali, and another 'private detective', Kiran Gosavi, were involved in the NCB operation on Sunday.
NDA puts up Manjhi, Sahani to counter Lalu in Bihar bypolls
For the NDA, the JDU has fielded two candidates who will face the heat from the RJD. Bihar assembly election 2020 was contested without Lalu Prasad as he was serving a jail term in the fodder scam. Now in the by-election, he is out on bail and the RJD has announced his entry into the election campaign with a bang for these two seats. The voting for the two seats of Kusheshwar Sthan and Tarapur is to be held on October 30 and the results will be out on November 2.
SC directs suspension of Tihar officials for conniving with ex-Unitech promoters
On August 26, the top court hadordered shifting of Chandra brothers, in a money laundering case involving Unitech company, to separate jails in Mumbai. The Delhi Police informed the top court that a criminal case has been lodged against the jail officials under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Southwest monsoon withdrawal commences on Wednesday: IMD
"In view of the establishment of an anti-cyclonic circulation in the lower tropospheric levels over western parts of northwest India and substantial reduction in moisture content & rainfall, we can say the withdrawal of southwest monsoon has commenced today," the IMD said in a release. The IMD had revised the date of withdrawal of the southwest monsoon last year to September 17.
Rahul, Punjab, Chhattisgarh CMs now allowed out of Lucknow airport
A huge crowd had gathered at the airport to welcome the Congress leader who was accompanied by Chief Ministers of Chhattisgarh and Punjab, Bhupesh Baghel and Charanjit Singh Channi, respectively. Less than an hour after the Uttar Pradesh government said Gandhi would be allowed to visit Lakhimpur Kheri - where violence at a farmers' protest on Sunday had left at nie dead, security personnel stopped him at the Lucknow airport.
42 squadron strength not possible in next 10-15 years: IAF Chief VR Chaudhari
Speaking to media persons ahead of the Air Force Day which is scheduled on October 8, Chaudhari said that the strength will continue to be 35 squadrons in the next decade. When asked about the S-400 missile system, Chaudhari said that the first SAM system will be inducted within this year but it will be no substitute to the fighter jets.
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