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The Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday ordered the Ranchi Senior Superintendent of Police Chandan Kumar Sinha to file an affidavit in a criminal writ petition filed by one Subodh Kumar. Kumar, a clerk of an advocate working in the Jharkhand High Court was looted of his belongings while returning from the high court on September 29.
 
Odisha is likely to witness a wet Dusshera as a low pressure is brewing in the Bay of Bengal and the IMD has predicted showers on October 23 and 24. While the Navami of Durga Puja festival is on October 23, the day following will be celebrated as ‘Dasami’ or Dusshera. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its evening bulletin on Wednesday said a low-pressure area will form over the Bay of Bengal around October 20 under the influence of a cyclonic circulation.
 
Former Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das and BJP leader Indra Sena Reddy Nallu have been appointed as the governors of Odisha and Tripura, respectively, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique on Wednesday. The communique added that President Droupadi Murmu is pleased to make the appointments that will take effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices. Das, currently a national vice president of the BJP, was the chief minister of Jharkhand from 2014 to 2019. Indra Sena Reddy Nallu is a BJP leader from Telangana.
 
Congress party workers on Wednesday took out a motorcycle rally in Odisha’s Kendrapara town and staged a dharna in front of the office of the Collector here demanding establishment of a medical college and hospital in the district.
 
PK Mishra, the principal secretary to the prime minister, chaired a meeting on Wednesday during which preparations for the G20 Virtual Summit and the Voice of Global South Summit 2.0 were reviewed. The progress made in the implementation of the G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration was also reviewed at the meeting and Mishra said that a high-level monitoring mechanism will be set up to regularly oversee its implementation, according to a statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.
 
The Congress on Wednesday announced Wanglem Konyak as its candidate for the by-election to the Tapi Assembly seat in Mon district of Nagaland. The by-election was necessitated following the demise of NDPP MLA Noke Wangnao on August 28. The polling for the by-election will be held on November 7, and the results will be declared on December 3.
 
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday launched a bus yatra and kickstarted the party’s campaign for the November 30 assembly polls in Telangana. Rahul and Priyanka, who reached here in a chopper from Hyderabad, offered prayers at the historic Ramappa temple in Mulugu district. Congress sources said they landed at Begumpet airport this afternoon from Delhi on a special flight and reached Mulugu by helicopter.
 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated actor Waheeda Rehman on being felicitated with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and winners of the National Firm Awards, saying they have exemplary contributions to Indian cinema.
 
The Andhra Pradesh government will begin Backward Classes caste census around November 15, aimed at better serving the 139 communities which fall under this category, Minister C Srinivasa Venugopala Krishna said on Wednesday. The Backward Classes Welfare Minister noted the government will extensively deploy the village secretariat system for the caste census, along with the volunteer system.
 
IIFL Securities on Wednesday reported a 94 per cent jump in profit after tax to Rs 107.4 crore during the three months ended September 30. In comparison, the company had posted a PAT (profit after tax) of Rs 55.3 crore in the same period of the preceding fiscal, IIFL Securities said in a statement.
The Congress leadership on Wednesday discussed probable candidates for the upcoming Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh assembly elections with party chief Mallikarjun Kharge expressing confidence that the party would return to power in both the states.
Lalit Patil, a drug case accused who escaped from a hospital in Maharashtra’s Pune city earlier this month, has been arrested near Bengaluru by the Mumbai Police, a senior official on Wednesday.
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said the state government wants a central committee to exclude 40 villages from the list of eco-sensitive areas in Western Ghats of the coastal state.
The government on Wednesday said it has permitted exports of 10,34,800 tonnes of non-basmati white rice to seven countries, including Nepal, Cameroon and Malaysia.
The BJP on Wednesday released the names of its candidates for 12 assembly seats in Mizoram, where polls are slated to be held on November 7.
The government on Wednesday again extended restrictions on sugar exports beyond October 31 next year, a move aimed at increasing the availability of the commodity in the domestic market during the festive season.
Dubbing AICC leader Rahul Gandhi as “Election Gandhi”, BRS leader K Kavitha on Wednesday said he can come to Telangana as a tourist, taste the famous ‘Ankapur chicken,’ a local delicacy, and go back.
BJP declares Bhavna Bohra as a candidate for the Pandariya Assembly seat in Chhattisgarh
The overall Air Quality Index in Delhi was recorded in the ‘moderate’ category at 9 am on Wednesday and the minimum temperature settled at 17.3 degrees Celsius, a notch below normal, officials said.
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will on Wednesday kickstart the party’s campaign for the November 30 assembly polls in Telangana with a bus yatra.
Sensex declines 161.41 points to 66,266.68 in early trade; Nifty skids 36.7 points to 19,774.80.
The rupee appreciated by 2 paise to 83.23 against the US dollar in early trade on Wednesday on the back of a weaker American currency and inflow of foreign funds in the domestic equity markets.
Two BSF personnel were injured after Pakistan Rangers “resorted to unprovoked firing” on border guards along the International Border (IB) here, officials said on Wednesday. 
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday left the White House for a quick trip to Israel to show solidarity with the people of the country in the aftermath of the terrorist attack by Hamas. However, Biden had to abruptly scrap his trip to Jordan for a meeting with leaders of Jordan, Egypt and Palestine after the Palestinian Authority cancelled the summit following a huge explosion at a hospital in Gaza.
A former New York stock broker who fled his job and family to fight alongside Islamic State militants in Syria, then maintained his allegiance to the extremist group throughout his trial, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, who served as a sniper and instructor for the Islamic militant group at the height of its power, sat grinning in the Brooklyn courtroom, flashing a thumbs-up and stroking his bushy beard as a judge read out the sentencing.
The remains of at least 189 decaying bodies were found and removed from a Colorado funeral home, up from about 115 reported when the bodies were discovered two weeks ago, officials said Tuesday.
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