News from India’s states and Union Territories.
The chief minister called boats back to shore and ordered power and telecom repair crews into position on Sunday night, with red alerts out for 11 coastal districts and Yanam by Wednesday.
Distant warning signal No. 1 was hoisted at Puducherry port on Sunday as the Bay of Bengal system deepened, and more districts may close schools depending on the weather.
The Union Jal Shakti Minister said in Surat that the state wants water from Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, with Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel due in Delhi on Tuesday to take it up.
Mohit and Pankaj were talking by the Bilaspur-Tauru road on Saturday night when a speeding vehicle ran them down. Police are combing CCTV footage for the driver.
The weekend showers pulled the capital's AQI into the moderate band, yet forecasters see the air sliding back to poor this week, and scientists say rain only moves pollutants around.
Jayabalakrishnan, 55, died when the luxury car, registered in the name of an Additional District Judge, struck his scooter from behind at Cheranalloor early on Sunday.
The civic body wants barricades, lighting, parking and levelled riverbanks in place by 12-13 November, and Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary may inspect the work on 28 October.
Pudukkottai, Thanjavur, Ariyalur, Perambalur and Tiruchirappalli face the heaviest rain on Sunday, with 18 more districts on orange alert and Chennai on yellow.
About 2,000 runners took over Srinagar's lakeside roads for the third Kashmir International Marathon, but the traffic curbs left exam candidates stranded and forced a delayed start to the state eligibility test.
Satellites have picked up 574 stubble fires in Punjab this season, slightly more than a year ago but two-thirds fewer than in 2024, as the AAP government and the BJP trade blame.
Thunderstorms and 4.4 mm of rain at Safdarjung brought the capital's air quality index down to 167, in the moderate band, though 11 of 54 monitoring stations stayed in the poor range.
South Karnataka is in line for the heaviest spells, and Bengaluru is set for a cool, cloudy Sunday with a high of just 24 degrees.
IGP Sujit Kumar told range DIGs and district SSPs to sharpen intelligence-gathering, make checkpoints smarter and finish cases within the timelines set by the new criminal laws.
Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi handed each department its duties at a review meeting on Saturday and said the state's aim was zero casualties.
The IMD expects a very severe cyclonic storm to cross the coast between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam on Wednesday forenoon, with winds gusting to 140 km/h. Southern Odisha is under a red warning for extremely heavy rain.
Economist Parakala Prabhakar, Prof Haragopal and MLC Kodandram joined students and civil society groups by Hussain Sagar. Organisers said police stopped them from forming a human chain along the bund.
The CPCB's 4 pm bulletin ended a three-day run of poor air. Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa credited enforcement, but said the fight was far from over.
Two bullets hit a car parked outside Manpreet Singh's home in Buta Palasi near Baddi. Police have recovered four empty cartridges and are going through CCTV footage.
The Maharashtra Congress chief visited Pradeep Purnekar's family and said only hired hitmen had been arrested. Former Thane mayor Meenakshi Shinde calls the family's accusations baseless.
The leopard climbed down a coconut tree and escaped in the commotion. Police have booked 15 unidentified people for obstructing and hurting a public servant.
Students at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute want the vice chancellor to quit over alleged attacks on campus. BJP MP Rahul Sinha wants Shah's remarks investigated.
Rohit Kumar's body was found by a bridge on the Giddi-Naisarai road three days after he went missing following a quarrel at a Durga Puja fair. Police say the accused have confessed.
Suresh Singh, 65, is accused of killing his younger brother Somnath Singh with a licensed revolver in Dhanushi village on Saturday morning, before walking into the police chief's office in Hajipur.
Police in Krishna Nagar were called to the school after a report of a fire on Saturday and found the 18-year-old's body. A crime team has examined the spot and items from the student's school bag.
About 50 passengers had got down minutes earlier because of a tyre puncture. Driver Janagaraj died under the debris on the Coimbatore-Ooty road, while conductor Kesavan was pulled out injured.
He allegedly threatened traffic personnel at the Belgharia Expressway in Dum Dum and demanded they find him a car home. A scan of his card showed it was fake.
After meeting Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in Srinagar, the chief minister told MLAs to stop lobbying because the list is already decided. The Centre has picked a 1995-batch IAS officer to succeed Atal Dulloo.
A shift in-charge and a young worker died after inhaling fumes at the drug maker's unit in Gaddapotharam. The Pollution Control Board has shut the plant and the company has agreed to pay ₹70 lakh to each family.
The 15 pleaded guilty under the Foreigners Act and were given 15 days' simple imprisonment and a ₹5,000 fine each. They were caught trying to board a boat at Kollam's Vaaddy harbour in 2023.
A Tis Hazari court granted Delhi Police custody on Saturday so investigators can travel to Ahmedabad to recover a mobile phone. Shokeen has apologised but says the clip was scripted.
The CPCB reading at 9 am ended a run of 'poor' days, though Narela, Jahangirpuri and RK Puram had come close to 300 overnight. Satellites have counted 545 farm fires in Punjab and Haryana this month.
The group of 28 devotees from Maharashtra was on its way from Khatu Shyamji to the Sanwaliya Seth temple when the van hit a truck in the early hours of Saturday. Seven people were referred to Jaipur's SMS Hospital.
An enforcement officer and a head constable on deputation at the Enforcement Directorate's Lucknow zonal office were caught in a trap, the CBI said.
Tarn Taran police said shots were fired at a patrol that spotted Manpreet alias Manna, who later admitted to three recent extortion shootings in the area.
A 65-year-old man, his two granddaughters and a 10-year-old neighbour were among the dead in Alampur village on Friday evening. Blasts went on for about two hours, slowing rescuers.
The Congress MP was picked up as he left the campus after meeting students on hunger strike for a union election. SP MP Mohibbullah Nadvi said police pushed him on his way there.
The day's average rose from 223 on Thursday, with Manesar the most polluted town in the country. Slow winds and a dry weekend mean the haze is likely to stay.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said appointment orders had been issued to sailors from the state who finished their Agnipath service, under a policy cleared last month.
Police say four ex-students broke into RC Boys Middle School to steal money for a fair and struck Father Benedict Barla on the head when he walked in on them.
The Narasimha Jaleb wound out of Dhalpur on Friday afternoon to drums and shehnai, while folk dance teams opened their contest at the Kalakendra.
Shyabu Khan, from Rajasthan, is accused of posting fake videos of the Chief Minister on Facebook and collecting registration fees from people seeking help.
Justice M Nagaprasanna quashed two cases filed against a Bengaluru doctor by suspected Bangladeshi nationals he had reported, calling them retaliatory.
Kolkata Police say Sanjib Raha, the puja committee's treasurer, and Kushal Majumdar warned crowds over the public address system that the pandal was falling, setting off the rush that killed 19 people.
Pusa and Jahangirpuri edged towards the 'very poor' mark on Friday as traffic police planned to stop polluting buses at Delhi's borders. Forecasters expect no relief before Sunday.
Chief Justice Soumen Sen administered the oath at Lok Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram, with Chief Minister V D Satheesan and Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan in the audience.
About 40,000 power employees are on strike against a private distribution licence for Gurugram and Nuh. Outages have hit homes, water supply and factories across Gurugram, Faridabad and Nuh.
Gujarat's Deputy Chief Minister is holding about 10 meetings with South Korean companies on Friday, from batteries and electronics to textiles and cosmetics.
Graduates and teachers are choosing members for two graduates' and two teachers' constituencies, with 43 candidates in the fray. Votes will be counted on 27 October.
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister said the pilgrimage, still under way before the shrines close for winter, has drawn more devotees than in any earlier year.
The court found that Azad Maidan police registered the FIR only after arresting Bipin Agrwal, overwrote dates on the arrest memo and wrongly branded him a habitual offender.
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister stepped in after his Cabinet colleague Subodh Uniyal interrupted the singer on stage at a fair in Narendra Nagar, drawing protests from Mika Singh, Badshah and others.
The Keralam Chief Minister offered to host the exhibition 'in its entirety' hours after the Delhi venue took down most of the pictures, many showing protests by Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi.
More than 50 companies will exhibit at the two-day event, where the Chief Minister is due to pitch the state as a hub for chip packaging, testing and design.
The bus carrying 46 people on the Manendragarh-Kelhari road left the road on Thursday afternoon. Witnesses told police the steering had failed; Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai announced ₹5 lakh for each victim's family.
The campaign will run in all 13 districts until 30 November. The BJP in Bihar began a similar 15-day drive on the same day.
The CPCB's Thursday evening bulletin showed only a small dip from Wednesday's 245, with 29 of the city's monitoring stations in the poor band and GRAP Stage I curbs in force across the NCR.
A low-pressure area is expected to form on Friday and strengthen over three days as it moves west-north-west. Fishermen have been told to stay off the sea, and Odisha's coast could see rain from 27 October.
Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh's Cabinet also cleared paddy land for big newspaper presses that want to move out of crowded neighbourhoods.
Giani Tek Singh Dhanaula met the four people injured in the Mansa attack that killed anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota and called the killing a Panthic issue.
The climate activist said he had booked his ticket for Thursday's round with the Home Ministry, only to be told it was not happening.
The six-day session opened with obituary references and an early adjournment, while the opposition promised to force a debate on drugs, gangs and the killing of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota.
A day after GRAP Stage I came into force, the air quality commission told the MCD to tighten dust control on roads and building sites and warned officials of strict action if its orders are ignored.
State Election Commissioner Anil Chandra Punetha halted the municipal elections while he weighs YSRCP's plea to reopen nominations, as fresh clashes broke out at rural nomination centres on Thursday.
The pilgrims from Vizianagaram district were crossing the national highway at Kathipudi for tea when the Scorpio ran into them on Thursday morning.
Villagers in Holagonda mandal held the night-long Banni Utsav clash despite police orders, and a 28-year-old man from Alur was killed.
Polling runs from 7 am to 6 pm across 16 districts and 2,392 wards. Gram panchayats vote on Saturday, but the results of today's contest will not be known until 20 November.
A fresh low-pressure area formed off the Tamil Nadu coast on Wednesday, another is expected from 23 October with the potential to become a cyclone, and Odisha and Andhra Pradesh are watching its track.
The capital logged its first poor air day of the season on Wednesday, the latest start in a decade. Farm fires are forecast to add more smoke on Thursday, and forecasters see no let-up for a week.
A rod on the tractor trolley carrying the idol struck an overhead line at Rajhi crossing in the Gulriha area on Wednesday evening. Ten people were hurt, several with burns.
Videos of the Dasara night burning in a Koheda village spread on social media. Police acted on the sarpanch's complaint and have also booked the owner of the shop that printed the banners.
The opposition party listed assaults, a torched scooter and police detentions in Chittoor, Tirupati and Palnadu on the first day of filing for the 3 November mandal and district council polls.
The West Bengal chief minister visited the New Barrackpore home of Priya Samaddar, one of 19 people killed in the Durga Puja stampede, and said he would meet every bereaved family by 24 October.
The agency re-registered the case on Wednesday and will look at whether the killing of the anti-drug activist is linked to the open sale of banned psychotropic drugs at chemist shops.
At the Police Commemoration Day parade in Hyderabad, the chief minister said families of sub-inspectors and inspectors will now get ₹1.25 crore, and a notification for 5,000 police posts is already out.
At the Police Commemoration Day parade in Mana near Raipur, the chief minister said a new atmosphere of peace and trust had taken hold in Bastar and other remote areas.
The CPCB reading at 9 am on Wednesday put the capital firmly in the poor band, and the early warning system expects an AQI of 342 by Thursday morning as cooler nights and weak winds trap pollutants.
Showers have lashed the city since Tuesday evening under a vigorous northeast monsoon, and the Met office expects heavy to very heavy rain in ten coastal districts over the next 48 hours.
The early warning system expects the season's first spell of poor air on Wednesday and Thursday, with no rain in sight and the Diwali run-up ahead. Monday's 4 pm average was 139.
The West Bengal Chief Minister said no one died after being moved to a private hospital, admitted government hospitals had shortcomings, and asked whether doctors who criticised the decision were on duty.
The Gujarat Chief Minister joined ministers, the city's mayor and two MPs as effigies of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna were burnt at the Shanti Seva Charitable Trust's Vijayadashami Mahotsav.
Two of the suspects admitted to being part of the team that fired on villagers at Khongbal Tangkhul, police said. Seventeen people were also detained at a Kuki militant camp after their identities failed to match.
The Karnataka Chief Minister met protesting farmers in Belagavi a day after they called off their padayatra, and proposed an all-party delegation to Delhi.
The party's chief spokesperson is its candidate in the Patna Graduates' constituency for the Legislative Council. Doctors have not disclosed details of his condition.
What was first logged as an accidental death became a murder case after the post-mortem. Police say the two accused confessed to hitting Sajani Waghari with a hammer after a minor quarrel.
Lucknow Police and the UP Special Task Force picked up Dubey, her sister and a driver, who had been on the run since a murder case was registered on 9 October.
The car, driven by a village head's son, lost control at speed on the Kasya-Deoria road late on Monday. Three others are in hospital.
Sitting in a special session on Navami, a bench led by Chief Justice Ravindra V Ghuge told the West Bengal government to set up a commission of inquiry into the crush that killed 19 at the Kolkata pandal.
The AIADMK chief said it was central investigators, not the state police, who broke the Nagapattinam network that was allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine to Sri Lanka.
Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay has set aside ₹100 crore under a new 'VETRI 150' head so that rural households can get up to 150 days of wage work a year.
The capital's air was in the 'moderate' band on Tuesday morning, a little worse than Monday's 139, as a cool, windless spell set in. Forecasters expect pollution to build as effigies burn and the dry weather holds.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the 'Rudra Roop' of his administration had fallen on encroachers in three reserved forests. Minority rights groups say the displaced need rehabilitation.
The Panipat-born gangster has been linked to more than a dozen extortion and targeted-attack cases in Delhi and Haryana, and about 10 teams are now working on the case, police sources said on Monday night.
Bihar's Samrat Choudhary toured Durga Puja pandals in Munger, Yogi Adityanath washed the feet of young girls at Gorakhnath temple, and Gujarat's Bhupendra Patel joined the aarti at a Bengali puja in Ahmedabad.
With the Kolkata stampede fresh in mind, the city's police have sorted about 200 pandals by crowd size and stationed eight rescue teams trained for crowd surges.
The capital's daily air quality average improved to 139 as the city logged its coldest October night yet at 17.1 degrees Celsius. The early warning system expects the air to slip into the 'poor' band on 21 October.
Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra began an overnight sit-in at the Jaipur police commissionerate on Monday after a city police station refused to register NSUI leader Ritu Barala's complaint.
The Chief Minister promised action against everyone found responsible for Sunday's crash outside the Sheetla Mata temple, saying the government stood 'completely with the affected families'.
The Greater Bengaluru Development Minister said contractors had already been fined ₹93.67 lakh for failing to maintain the city's streetlights, and warned of more action.
A joint team acting on specific inputs found the cache in the Panch Gabbar forest of Koteranka tehsil on Monday, and the search of the area was continuing into the evening.
Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka will lead a cabinet sub-committee on drinking water and rainwater harvesting, with about 10 lakh acres of crops said to be at risk.
The National Conference president told reporters in Budgam that the long-awaited expansion of the Jammu and Kashmir council of ministers had been held up because Manoj Sinha was unwell.
Rajasthan Police picked up the men from a train at Kota railway station on Monday morning, less than a day after gunmen fired at the actor's car in Mumbai's Juhu.
Ajay Dhakad, a revenue official from Raisen district, had taken the boys out on Sunday saying they would watch a film. Their bodies were found hours later in a locked car at the station.
A National Tiger Conservation Authority review finds 402 of 630 sanctioned posts vacant at the Karnataka reserve, with its special protection force at about a sixth of its strength amid poaching concerns.
A day after a Kashmir bus was attacked at a Haryana dhaba and its driver allegedly called a 'terrorist', men threw stones at another bus from the same operator on the Delhi-Jammu highway in Punjab.
Stones thrown at a concert in Khangabok on Sunday night set off fighting between two communities; Laishram Rakesh was shot in the head and houses and vehicles were burnt.
Doctors described the boy as acutely anaemic. He weighed 7.6 kg, against about 12 kg expected at his age, and the child welfare committee has taken his siblings into care.
A day after the Chorbagan crush killed 19, a high-level team began inspecting major Durga Puja venues on Sunday, while Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said crowds could be regulated if needed.
After a Saturday night downpour flooded 35 locations in the city, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister reviewed rain preparedness at Ripon Building and told departments to step up flood-prevention work before more heavy rain arrives.
Satnam Singh, 35, was shot in the chest outside his home in Siddha Navadiya village on Saturday night. Police have named eight people in the FIR.
The state replaced the district's police chief on Sunday, a day after a Kuki man was killed and houses were set alight in Chassad. By evening, Naga women were protesting at the district headquarters.
The air stayed in the 'moderate' band through the day, while the minimum temperature fell to 18.6 degrees Celsius, the lowest of October so far.
Navneet Kumar, 20, was attacked near Chainpur Chowk on Saturday evening. After his death, a mob torched Dalit homes in his village, and extra police have been sent in.
The new bridge links Alappuzha and Kottayam districts across the lake. The Chief Minister said Aroor would be developed under the state's Mission Samudra plan.
Leaving for Jaisalmer on Sunday, the former Chief Minister said thousands of cows had died in the district and asked why the BJP government was not seeking help from the Centre.
A paddy-laden truck ran down a slope into a no-entry zone at Sheetla Mata temple in the early hours of Sunday. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has removed the city's police chief and ordered an inquiry.
Three people on one motorcycle died after hitting a truck near Bhiringi, and two died when a car rammed a bus at Andal crossing.
Police have filed a culpable homicide case over the crush that killed 19 at the north Kolkata pandal. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari says the inquiry's findings will be made public.
The 9 am reading was 30 points worse than Saturday's 4 pm average and a short step from the 'poor' category.
Chetla Agrani, Tala Pratyay and other crowd-pullers stopped letting visitors in after the Chorbagan deaths. Residents say there were too few police on the ground.
The crowd waiting outside the north Kolkata pandal surged forward as rain began on Saturday evening. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has called off all government events linked to the festival.
Speaking in Imphal on Saturday, the Chief Minister said the Census had been deferred in the state after the Centre was told of public worries about updating the NRC first.
With 305 of Maharashtra's 358 talukas declared drought-hit, the Chief Minister said leaders in big bungalows could not understand what ₹5,000 means to a farmer.
The family was driving home to Mau for a relative's wedding when the car hit the divider and overturned. Police believe the driver fell asleep at the wheel.
Wind brought down the lit arch at an engineering college's Navratri event on Saturday. Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has asked officials to find those responsible.
Surrendered NLFT and ATTF cadres sat on the national highway at Hataikator on Saturday morning. Two policemen were hurt when the road was cleared.
The Chief Minister invoked the Durga Puja in a post on Saturday night, saying the state stays alert on its borders 'each day, each occasion'.
The Central Pollution Control Board's 4 pm average was close to double Friday's reading. It stays below the band at which the first stage of GRAP curbs applies.
In a letter after the Mansa killing of activist Parvinder Singh Jhota, the BJP leader said the AAP government had reinstated a drug inspector caught with crores in cash and deposits.
Women make up 18 of the 22 names in the ruling party's new list for Andhra Pradesh's urban local body polls, a day after nominations opened amid violence.
Suspected NSCN-IM cadres opened fire on the village on Saturday afternoon, two days after an ambush nearby killed a woman and left a Chassad couple missing.
Thiruvananthapuram, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad and Kannur are on alert, and the disaster management authority has told people in landslide-prone areas to be ready to move.
The board set up in March had more than four years left. Its chairman's challenge is still pending in the High Court, and the Kanthapuram Sunni faction finds itself shut out of the new panel.
The rain-washed air of Friday morning lasted only hours. Anand Vihar was the worst spot on Saturday, and forecasters expect the city to stay in the 'poor' band from Monday.
Vijay Singla became the first ruling party leader to visit the men wounded in the shooting. The action committee will picket AAP legislators' homes and offices across Punjab on Monday.
At the Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University convocation in Lucknow, the Chief Minister held up the socialist thinker's essay on Ram, Krishna and Shiv as a guide for lawyers.
The Samajwadi Party chief asked why banks said to be stronger are being sold, why rural branches are shutting and why fraud victims wait for refunds.
Class 10 papers begin first, followed by Class 12 on 21 October and Class 11 on 29 October, in Kashmir and the winter zone districts of Jammu.
The policy sets out a ₹3,548.7 crore plan over ten years, from apple orchard biomass to tourism waste, and leans on producers and user charges rather than subsidies.
The commission froze the party's name and its 'flowers and grass' symbol for last month's bypolls. It will now take up the larger question of which faction owns the Trinamool Congress.
At a day-long review in Phillaur, the Chief Minister told police the Centre was blaming Punjab for problems on its own watch. Hours later, the Home Ministry asked the state for reports on three drug-linked cases.
SUVs were overturned when YSRCP MP Midhun Reddy's convoy reached a nomination centre, and cars were set alight in Rayachoti. The TDP and YSRCP blame each other, and police dispute the MP's account.
A video of Labour Secretary Kumar Rajeev Ranjan shouting down a JKAS officer at a review meeting has united Omar Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, and revived the row over who controls the bureaucracy.
The suspended police officer, held since October last year, is the second of seven accused to get bail. His lawyer expects him out after the Durga Puja holidays.
The State Election Commission has published the electorate for 20 urban local bodies, from the Agartala Municipal Corporation to six nagar panchayats.
The Jan Suraaj founder says the Chief Minister's praise of Modi tries to deify him, and asks voters in the legislative council polls to hand the NDA a 'chastisement'.
Two couples on motorcycles were fired on near Phaikoh on Thursday evening. Kuki groups blame the NSCN-IM; police say only that suspected militants carried out the attack.
Ashwani Kumar faces a week of questioning over the Mansa shooting. The activist's family still refuses to cremate him, and Bhagwant Mann meets district police chiefs at Phillaur today.
Mallikarjun Kharge has approved separate urban and rural district committees for Jharkhand's two biggest industrial towns. Sitting district presidents will run both halves for now.
The state commission found cameras in several child care institutions wired to staff phones and laptops. It has banned remote access by default and wants compliance reports in 15 days.
Withdrawals for the first phase closed on Thursday, a week before voting. In Jodhpur, three opposition candidates were knocked out because courts had already framed charges against them.
Mohan Yadav will chair a new state-owned company to build industrial hubs from Jabalpur to Indore. The cabinet also approved price-gap payments for soybean farmers.
The Allahabad High Court wants gram panchayat elections held by mid-January. With the census and the 2027 assembly election in the same window, the state is unlikely to comply without a fight.
Ayodhya's mayor floated the idea at a meeting of UP's city mayors in Lucknow, as civic bodies look for money to cope with crowds of pilgrims. No amount or decision has been announced.
With prices climbing, dealers must clear stock within 15 days and declare holdings every Friday. Yogi Adityanath says the state has more than 70 lakh quintals in its warehouses.
Ajit Kumar was hit when a lookout riding ahead of the smugglers opened fire near Pawapuri. He died in hospital in Patna, and the gang escaped with the van.
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister spoke after Ankita's parents were detained at their Delhi protest against Dushyant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim Governor.
Thursday's bandh over the killing of the anti-drug activist closed markets from Amritsar to Bathinda. His father says there will be no cremation until Bhagwant Mann resigns.
The Rajasthan Chief Minister spent about 20 minutes with the Prime Minister in New Delhi and is due to meet Union Minister Pralhad Joshi this afternoon, ahead of panchayat elections in the state.
After checking water levels at the Singur and Manjira reservoirs, Chief Secretary Sanjay Jaju told officials to put Hyderabad's drinking water first. The state cabinet takes up the issue this evening.
The State Monitoring Cell raided a highway hotel at Boriyavi and a site at Danteli village over the alleged theft of petroleum products and chemicals. Goods and vehicles worth ₹1.72 crore were seized.
The Samajwadi Party chief cited Form 7 objections filed in Lucknow and Sultanpur. Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar asked whether the SP's 2024 win was honest too.
Speaking by video link, the Prime Minister inaugurated five projects in Ladakh, including a road over Shinkun La to Himachal Pradesh and a 9 MW hydro plant at Hanu.
After a convention of teachers and workers in Varanasi, the Chief Minister campaigns in Prayagraj on Thursday. Polling for the Varanasi division seat is on 24 October.
The chemist accused of shooting the anti-drug activist was caught with the pistol. His shop and part of his house were razed on Wednesday, and the family's bandh call runs until 5 pm today.
In Prayagraj on Thursday, the Chief Minister will begin work on the Padmalok housing scheme at Kasari-Masari and hand keys to 556 families under PM Awas Yojana.
The Chief Minister inaugurated the facility in the Patliputra Industrial Area, a project CtrlS first announced in 2024 as a ₹400 crore, 10 MW edge data centre.
Chief Minister V D Satheesan's senior citizens' bill makes doctors report suspected abuse, recognises living wills and puts gifts by care-home residents under a magistrate's eye.
The 41st monthly instalment of ₹1,500 went out during Navratri from a tribal village in Umaria district, along with LPG refill money and a list of local projects.
The agency's letter lists 20 kinds of official decisions it wants to examine in the corruption case against Rajbir Singh Ghuman. The state told departments to hand over records by 1 pm on Wednesday.
The new terminal, approved at Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai's initiative, will come up on the old cattle market site and take 35 to 40 buses at a time.
Two proposed joint ventures at Sisai near Hansi were discussed with Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, who has since left on a four-day investment trip to Sweden.
The attack at Satyabadi followed a viral clip in which the chairperson allegedly called BJP members dogs. Naveen Patnaik said anarchy was crossing its limits in Odisha.
Seven men in an Innova raided the Kanke house of SAMETI director Ramshankar Prasad in the morning. The goods taken were put at about ₹3.5 crore.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said 19,254 workers would get the cash and 50 kg of grain, and that the state is trying to reopen 21 shut gardens in North Bengal.
Water Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh launched the centre and an emergency repair truck for the Chandrawal supply project, which covers about a tenth of the city.
It is the second time this year the party has thrown him out. A March expulsion was revoked; this one follows a show-cause notice in September.
IT Minister Priyank Kharge told GCC leaders in Bengaluru the state would help them find the right departments, procedures and approvals for social projects.
The district judge rejected pleas for leniency in the killing of merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput, whose body was sealed in a cement-filled drum in March 2025.
Chairing the first meeting of the SANKALP Society, the Chief Minister told police to trace the source of every seizure and to stop chemists selling narcotic pills.
The low-income group flats come with a 25% discount under the DDA Housing Investment Scheme 2026. Booking opens at noon on 20 October.
Jhota was livestreaming an argument over alleged drug sales when the shopkeeper opened fire. Mansa shut down, the BJP is protesting across Punjab today and a bandh has been called for Thursday.
The boat overturned on Tuesday evening near Rampur Shyamchand village in Vaishali district. Divers searched the swollen river through the night as families waited on the bank.
The former Chief Minister calls the videos defamatory and politically motivated. The BJP says his own party has abandoned him, while H D Kumaraswamy wants a CBI inquiry.
A Division Bench reserved orders on appeals by the former Chief Minister, his daughter Veena T and her husband P A Mohamed Riyas in the CMRL-Exalogic case.
Trinamool MP Dola Sen says the woman lunged at the former Chief Minister with a knife on Tuesday evening. Kolkata Police say she was held on the spot.
More than 160 houses in DLF phases and other licensed colonies have been sealed for commercial use. The court has paused further action until it hears the case on 3 November.
Beijing objected on Tuesday to the peaks, passes and lakes India put on the Survey of India map this month, some of them in Aksai Chin. New Delhi called Ladakh integral and inalienable.
The State Meteorological Centre expects wet weather from Wednesday to Friday, with hail likely in places and temperatures set to drop by up to 4°C.
The Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting wrote to the Prime Minister saying he wants to return to the grassroots ahead of the 2029 Lok Sabha election.
Telangana's Deputy Chief Minister set a 15-day deadline for compassionate appointments and offered a way back for workers dismissed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The J&K Waqf Board, chaired by BJP leader Darakshan Andrabi, wants a committee to set shared themes for sermons in mosques it controls. The Chief Minister called it interference in religious affairs.
First-year student Aditya Kumar died on Saturday. His classmates, protesting for a third day, want the director removed and say help came too late.
Assam's Chief Minister said he would fight on ballot papers if the Congress governments in Keralam, Karnataka and Telangana quit first. Telangana's Chief Minister, in Delhi for the protest, said SIR was being used against opposition voters.
Odisha's Chief Minister reviewed plans to remake the temple town, from a new airport and wider roads to a Jagannath interpretation centre, and warned officials against delay.
The Chief Minister told the Assembly the LDF left behind huge dues to employees and pensioners. His predecessor's Finance Minister says the money and the process were already in place.
A committee chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi approved final eligibility certificates for projects expected to create about 8,178 jobs across eight districts.
Opening a mountain development summit, the Chief Minister blamed careless hill cutting for landslides and argued against abrupt limits on tourists at Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonamarg.
Meeting on the banks of the Ganga in Haridwar, Pushkar Singh Dhami's cabinet also cleared a new fire services bill and a second Jan Vishwas bill for the Assembly.
The input subsidy for crop losses went straight into bank accounts at an event in Gorakhpur. The Chief Minister said about ₹1,000 crore has gone to disaster-hit farmers and residents this monsoon.
Vivek Bhimanwar will stay away until a five-member panel headed by retired judge Dilip Bhosale finishes its inquiry. The government says cases against protesting students will be dropped.
Villagers had been protesting for days against the crusher's restart. Police have detained suspects for questioning, and Congress leaders want a fair probe.
The court refused to stay the CBI case against Rajbir Singh Ghuman, Bhagwant Mann's officer on special duty, but said no coercive steps may be taken while it hears the Punjab government's appeal.
The court said the 2019 law breached the 50% ceiling without exceptional reasons. Withheld posts must go to open-category candidates within three months, and both BJP and Congress plan to fight on.
On his first Tamil Nadu visit since the TVK government took office, the Prime Minister launched projects worth over ₹13,000 crore. Vijay used the stage to list what the state wants from the Centre.
The court said total reservation could not cross 50% without proper data and ordered polls within six weeks. Chief Minister Naidu now promises 34% of NDA tickets to BC candidates instead.
The Kerala (Alteration of Name) Act, 2026 came into force on 25 August after a Home Ministry notification. It changes the state's name in the First Schedule of the Constitution.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's rule applies from 1 September. Letters to the Centre are to go in Bengali and Hindi. Opposition parties welcomed the aim but questioned how it will work.
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