Record 114 medals: India finish fourth at Asian Para Games
India ended the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya with a best-ever haul of 114 medals — 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze — finishing fourth. Athletics led the tally with 65 medals, and several Indian athletes set world records.
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Maharashtra
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.
BREAKINGTankers last: Maharashtra gives Nagpur, Amravati, Konkan 4 days to file village water plans
Nagpur, Amravati and Konkan divisions must file village-wise water-scarcity plans by 25 October. Minister Gulabrao Patil says tankers should be the last resort.
Politics
The allies tripped their own, and the MVA walked off with three of five council seats
The Maha Vikas Aghadi has won three of five Maharashtra Legislative Council seats, leaving the ruling Mahayuti with two. Congress's Abhijit Wanjarri held Nagpur by 3,271 votes after 41 hours of counting. Within hours, the BJP and Shiv Sena were blaming each other.
Four arrests, a year later: how the Khammam CPI(M) leader murder probe turned
Khammam police have arrested four men for the October 2025 murder of CPI(M) veteran and former sarpanch Samineni Rama Rao, 72, after polygraph tests on 24 people and forensic work by a team from Gujarat's NFSU. Police cite financial and political motives.
₹1,800 tickets, a UNESCO logo and 13 days in police custody
Former West Bengal minister Indranil Sen was remanded to 13 days of police custody in the Durga Puja pass case, a day after Kolkata Police arrested him outside the ED's office. The ED's preliminary estimate of the alleged irregularities in MassArt's ticket sales is ₹50-60 crore.
Government
The allies tripped their own, and the MVA walked off with three of five council seats
The Maha Vikas Aghadi has won three of five Maharashtra Legislative Council seats, leaving the ruling Mahayuti with two. Congress's Abhijit Wanjarri held Nagpur by 3,271 votes after 41 hours of counting. Within hours, the BJP and Shiv Sena were blaming each other.
Dearness allowance goes to 63%: the arrears ride with this month's salary, the order says
The Finance Ministry has issued the order for a three-percentage-point DA and DR increase, taking both to 63% of basic pay and pension from July 1. It covers 48.54 lakh employees and 68.71 lakh pensioners, and costs Rs 10,016.10 crore a year.
Five extra years to try: Tamil Nadu raises the age limit for government job exams
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay has ordered a five-year age relaxation for government job aspirants appearing in competitive examinations, over and above existing concessions. The relief runs for five years from October 30, 2026. For Group 1 services, the general category ceiling rises from 32 to 37 and for reserved categories from 37 to 42.
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
Voter list deadline moves to Nov 25 in Delhi, Nov 13 in Maharashtra after a nudge from the Supreme Court
A day after the Supreme Court asked the Election Commission to consider giving more time, the EC extended the claims-and-objections window in six states and reopened it in five. Final rolls are now due November 30 in five states and December 22 in Delhi.
Orders broken 'left and right': Supreme Court refuses to read a total cracker ban into the law
A Supreme Court bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and P.B. Varale said on Thursday that its orders curbing firecrackers had been violated year after year, and that religious freedom is subject to public health. It asked the Centre and the Delhi government to enforce action against sellers of spurious and banned crackers.
572 deletion forms, one constituency: BJP booth agents named in most objections to Muslim voters
Figures from Form 7 applications in Mustafabad show 843 objections filed since August 31, the highest for any Delhi constituency. Of 597 third-party forms, 96 per cent name BJP booth level agents as objectors, and 572 of those target Muslim electors across 24 parts of the seat.
World
14 killed on a crowded platform: drone hits Dnipro station trains
A Russian jet-powered drone struck a crowded platform at Dnipro's main railway station on Thursday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 14 more, including an 11-year-old boy. Strikes in Chernihiv and Kremenchuk took the day's toll across Ukraine to 19. A local ceasefire in Oleshky, credited to US first lady Melania Trump, held for a third day.
Patrick Stewart, Captain Picard to a generation, dies at 86
Actor Patrick Stewart died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 86 after living with Alzheimer's disease. He was known to television audiences as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and to filmgoers as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men series.
Tankers burning in Hormuz and drones over Mecca: Brent at $117.7 is India's problem too
Iran said four tankers caught fire after hitting mines in the Strait of Hormuz, a day after the US military said key routes had been cleared, while Yemen's Houthis claimed six attacks on Saudi airports and oil facilities. Brent crude rose 2.3% to $117.7 in Asian trade, its highest intraday level since April 30. India imports most of its crude.