News Highlights: Tamil Nadu Governor gives assent to bill banning online gambling in state

Amit Shah and Nadda attended the BJP core committee meeting in Guwahati.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda attended the BJP core committee meeting in Guwahati.

Jammu & Kashmir has received the most number of tourists this year in 75 yrs. We expect to get more no. of tourists next year. We're focusing on tourism infrastructure including upgrading houseboats. The govt should also help us: President, Shikara Association Dal Lake, Srinagar.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah during the review meeting emphasised a long-term solution to the perennial issue of floods. He also stressed inter-ministerial and inter-departmental coordination for making Assam flood free, saysAssam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma.

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi gives assent to the bill to ban online gambling and regulate online games in the state.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Bharat Jodo Yatra: It's transformation of Congress party and it shows real Rahul Gandhi coming out. I would not say it is new Rahul Gandhi but real Rahul Gandhi that is being seen.

Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma hits out at Centre over deaths of children in Gambia allegedly due to consumption of cough syrups manufactured by Indian firm, asks govt to fix accountability.

2 Army personnel lost their lives after barrel of T-90 tank burst during field firing exercise today in Babina Cantonment, Jhansi It's an unfortunate incident.Their postmortem is being conducted: Dr P Neekhra, Duty Doctor, Postmortem House, Maharani Laxmibai Medical College.

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Operation under way to douse massive fire at plastic factory in Noida

Vande Bharat Express in Gujarat rams into cattle in second such incident in as many days; train's front portion has suffered minor dent: Official.

Eknath Shinde faction of Shiv Sena claims bow and arrow poll symbol, Election Commission asks team Uddhav Thackeray to respond by Saturday.

Congress attacks govt over World Bank report that flags worsening of poverty numbers in India during Covid pandemic and downgrades its economic growth forecast, alleges that PM Narendra Modi is hardly worried and is still indulging in empty slogans.

Six Indian prisoners died in Pakistan in last nine months; we raised issue with Pakistan: MEA.

Around 50 people have been rescued so far. We are trying to get back others too. We do not have the exact number of people captive in Myanmar. We are in touch with many Indians there: MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi on Indians stuck in Myanmar.

Rupee falls 15 paise to close at all-time low of 82.32 (provisional) against US dollar.

During annual firing at Babina Field Firing Ranges on 6 Oct, a tank barrel burst took place. Tank was manned by 3 personnel. Commander & Gunner succumbed to burn injuries. Driver is out of danger&under treatment. The incident is under further investigation: Indian Army statement.

After Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi should start a 'Congress Jodo Yatra' seeing the internal differences in the party in Rajasthan and other states, saysUP BJP chief Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary.

Centre sets up 9 member task force for monitoring cheetahs in Kuno National Park

CM Yogi Adityanath orders relief operations for people affected due to heavy rainfall

Uttarkashi Avalanche: 19 bodies recovered, rescue operation under way

Teams of NDRF, SDRF, ITBP, Indian Army, and district administration is carrying the rescue operation.I'm also monitoring the rescue operation: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami.

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Uttarkashi avalanche: Rescue operations delayed due to bad weather

Varanasi court judgement likely today on 'Shivling' carbon dating in Gyanvapi case

Paid homage to leader Perunthalaivar Kamaraj at his memorial in Chennai: Tharoor

Home Minister Amit Shah to inaugurate Dairy Cooperative Conclave in Sikkim

Veteran actor Arun Bali passed away in Mumbai

Veteran actor Arun Bali passedaway at the age of 79 in Mumbai, reported news agency ANI.

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ED files chargesheet against 2 firms in PMLA case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said it has filed a chargesheet at a special Bengaluru court against several individuals -- Fairoz Khan, Tabrej Pasha, Abdul Dastagir, Syed Mudasir Fairoz Khan and Syed Muthahir, and two firms -- Ajmera Group (represented by Pasha and Dastagir), and MF Enterprises (represented by Muthaheer), for allegedly cheating the people by collecting around Rs 200 crore from them.

The ED said that that the special court has taken the cognizance of the matter.

OPEC output cut: Petrol, diesel price freeze in India just gets longer

The record six-month-long freeze in petrol and diesel price revision in all likelihood will be extended after international oil prices rose on the announcement of deep production cuts by OPEC+.

Some of the world's top oil-producing countries on Wednesday agreed to slash production by two million barrels per day to spur recovery in oil prices that had dropped to pre-Ukraine war levels.

For India, this is bad news as a fall in oil prices in recent weeks had helped it cut down on its import bill as well as limit losses that state-owned fuel retailers were incurring on selling petrol and diesel.