No eye on Gokul: Fadnavis says the amendment only unties a legal knot
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis defended amending the cooperative societies law, saying the government needed to end a statutory deadlock over the Gokul dairy chairmanship. Congress leader Satej Patil is going ahead with a November 9 protest, calling the move a trampling of the farmers' mandate.
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No eye on Gokul: Fadnavis says the amendment only unties a legal knot
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis defended amending the cooperative societies law, saying the government needed to end a statutory deadlock over the Gokul dairy chairmanship. Congress leader Satej Patil is going ahead with a November 9 protest, calling the move a trampling of the farmers' mandate.
BREAKINGNo more brooms: Mumbai's air plan wants vacuum cleaners and sealed debris trucks
Environment and Climate Change Minister Pankaja Munde has announced a Clean Air Action Programme for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, with vacuum cleaning machines for roads and a mandatory full cover for debris trucks. Guidelines will be ready in 15 to 20 days.
BREAKINGProbe the Jarange audio clip through an SIT: BJP hits out at Raut
Demanded a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to verify the authenticity of an audio clip circulating in the name of Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange and to probe the ₹500-crore allegations arising from it.
Politics
A first Ram Mandir visit on December 12, and a demand for an apology first
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will visit the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on December 12, his first. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wants an apology for his party's past stance first, and the BJP calls the timing electoral.
Diwali with the troops in Bastar, and a claim: Naxalism is over
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will spend Diwali with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Bastar, he announced on Sunday morning. He described the region as having been freed from Naxalism, a claim his post attributes to himself and not to any published assessment.
Ministers vs MLAs, and now the AICC: Congress walks into its third year with an open family quarrel
Factional disputes in Telangana's ruling Congress have moved beyond individual constituencies and reached the state leadership and the AICC. A flashpoint in Delhi saw two senior leaders trade abuse, and both stayed away from the peace meeting the state chief convened.
Government
11.11 lakh diyas on the Ganga at Munger, and a promise of an 83-km marine drive
Bihar chief minister Samrat Choudhary joined the Deepotsav at Kalyanpur in his home district of Munger on Saturday, where 11,11,111 lamps were lit along the Ganga. He said work on an 83-km marine drive linking Munger and Bhagalpur will begin within two months.
Past jobs stay, CSE 2025 doesn't: Supreme Court draws the line on creamy layer
Clarifying the scope of its 11 March ruling on the OBC creamy layer, the Supreme Court has held that completed selections, appointments and seniority will not be reopened. But the ruling will govern service allocation for CSE 2025 OBC candidates. The Centre gets two more months to comply.
Diwali on the border: chief minister to spend the night with BSF jawans at Hingalganj
West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari will celebrate Diwali with BSF personnel at a border outpost in Hingalganj, North 24 Parganas, on Sunday, accompanied by DGP Siddharth Nath Gupta. He said the visit is meant to show solidarity with security agencies and push for better coordination on border security.
Mumbai
Threat email names Mumbai Mayor's office, Bachchan's home and Diljit concert
The Mumbai Mayor's office received a bomb threat email on Friday that also named actor Amitabh Bachchan's Juhu home and the venue of singer Diljit Dosanjh's November 27 concert. Searches found nothing suspicious, and police are investigating the email's origin.
PWD contractors' pending dues: Maharashtra calls meeting on October 28
With crores in bills pending from the public works department, the state has called a meeting of contractors' associations in Mantralaya on October 28, to be chaired by PWD minister Shivendraraje Bhosale.
Fadnavis receives Rubio at Gateway of India, presents a traditional shawl
US secretary of state Marco Rubio visited the Gateway of India in Mumbai, where chief minister Devendra Fadnavis received him and his wife. Fadnavis presented him a traditional shawl.
National
A 384 morning: Delhi's worst Diwali-eve air in a decade
Delhi woke to an AQI of 384 on Diwali morning, with stations at Jahangirpuri and Punjabi Bagh past 450. Saturday's 24-hour average of 369 was the city's worst Diwali eve since 2016.
A gang kingpin is flown home from Ethiopia, ten months and four countries later
Punjab's Anti-Gangster Task Force has brought Gurwinder alias Afridi, described as a kingpin of the Doni Bal-Prabh Dassuwal gang, back from Ethiopia after a ten-month manhunt. He landed in Delhi on Sunday morning.
A blast by a police outpost, a claim from an outfit nobody has heard of, and four agencies asking why
An explosion by the Vasundhara police outpost in Ghaziabad injured a food delivery worker on Friday night. A social media account attributed it to a group calling itself Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen Hindustan, a claim police have not verified.
World
Magnitude 5.7 earthquake shakes central Japan, injuring at least 22
The quake struck early on Sunday and was felt across Aichi Prefecture, Hamamatsu, Kyoto, Nara, Yamanashi and Gifu. Japan's Meteorological Agency put it at 5.7 and the USGS at 5.5. No tsunami warning was issued.
Eisenkot gets the first shot at forming a government, and Netanyahu is on the back foot
President Isaac Herzog said on Saturday he will task the former military chief with forming a coalition on Sunday. Sixty-seven MKs recommended Eisenkot and 46 recommended Netanyahu; he has 28 days, with a possible 14-day extension.
Six killed in Krakow market square shooting; three more bodies found at suspect's home
A 25-year-old man drove onto Krakow's Main Market Square on Saturday and fired at people from his car in an attack that lasted about three minutes, killing six and injuring at least 15. Police shot and wounded him. Three more bodies were later found at his home.