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The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a three per cent Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) for central government employees and pensioners from 28 per cent. After this hike, the DA will increase to 31 per cent.
Amarinder Singh slams Congress, says stop hiding behind secularism
Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday hit out at Congress saying that the party is no one to talk of secularism. He said this pointing out to the alliance with Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, and induction of multiple leaders from the BJP and its mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, including the current state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Mumbai court extends Aryan khan’s judicial custody till Oct 30
In an another setback for Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, a Mumbai court on Thursday has extended the judicial custody of Aryan Khan along with other accused till October 30.
NCB grills actor Ananya Panday
Bollywood actor Ananya Panday has been grilled by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) at its office in Mumbai. Ananya was summoned after NCB retrieved her chat messages from Aryan Khan’s phone.
Earlier on Thursday, a team of NCB officials visited actor Ananya Panday’s residence in Bandra wherein Pandey was asked to appear before the NCB at 2 pm on Thursday to record her statement.
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NCB visits Shah Rukh Khan’s bungalow Mannat and Ananya Panday’s house
The Narcotics Control Bureau visited Shah Rukh Khan’s bungalow Mannat to seek some documents and at actor Ananya Panday’s house. According to reports, Ananya Panday has also been called for questioning. Read full story.
IAF plane crashes in MP’s Bhind district, pilot injured
An Indian Air Force’s trainer aircraft crashed in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind on the early morning of Thursday. In the accident, pilot was injured, said Bhind SP Manoj Kumar Singh.
Aryan Khan’s bail application to be heard on October 26
In the latest update in Aryan Khan’s case, now the bail application of Superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son will be heard on October 26. However, his lawyer Manishende requested for hearing tomorrow or on Monday, to which the court said that the hearing of the matter will take place on Tuesday.
Shah Rukh Khan meets son Aryan Khan in Mumbai jail after bail rejection
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan paid a visit to his son Aryan Khan, who has been in jail since October 8 in a drug cruise case. Recently, Aryan’s bail plea was rejected and this is the first meeting of Shah Rukh with his son after his arrest. Read the full story here.
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Congress holds nationwide Sankalp Satyagraha in support of Rahul Gandhi

Congress on Sunday staged a nationwide “Sankalp Satyagraha” in support of former party President Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha following his conviction and two-year prison sentence by a court in Gujarat’s Surat city in a 2019 criminal defamation case.
In national capital Delhi, the Congress kicked off its day-long protest at Rajghat and despite the Delhi Police denying permission for the protest, Congress top brass including chief Mallikarjun Kharge, general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, senior leaders KC Venugopal, P Chidambaram and Salman Khurshid took part in the Satyagraha.
Senior Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Mukul Wasnik, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Saktisinh Gohil, Jothimani, Pratibha Singh and Manish Chatrath were also present at the protest.
Several leaders of the party’s Delhi chapter also took part in the protest while a large number of party workers gathered outside the venue.
Addressing the protesters, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said that the son of a martyr who walked thousands of kilometers for national unity, can never insult the country, referring to her brother Rahul Gandhi and her father Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1991.
Priyanka also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “insulting” Kashmiri Pandits by questioning why the Gandhi family doesn’t use the Nehru surname.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress held a day-long ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ in Srinagar with former Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir accusing the PM Modi-led ruling BJP of taking “illegal and undemocratic” to hush the opposition.
Scores of Congress workers and leaders also staged protests in various Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat.
In Rajasthan, the party’s state unit chief Govind Singh Dotasra, minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and several other leaders participated in the protest at the Collectorate Circle.
Dotasra said the protest is against the Centre’s suppression of the opposition’s voice.
The Punjab and Haryana units of Congress also held a day-long satyagraha against the former Wayanad MP’s disqualification.
Both units held separate events at the state headquarters as part of the protest programme in which many senior leaders participated.
Talking to newsmen, Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring alleged that the action against Rahul Gandhi was taken because the BJP-led Centre was “scared” of his next speech in Parliament on the Adani issue.
In Gujarat, state Congress chief Jagdish Tahor, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Amit Chavda and party leader Bharatsinh Solanki, along with Congress workers were detained by the police as they attempted to stage a protest at Ahmedabad’s Lal Darwaza.
The protesters were taken to the police stadium where they continued to shout slogans against PM Modi and the BJP.
In Jharkhand, senior Congress leaders including Jharkhand ministers—Rameshwar Oraon and Banna Gupta— assembled at Bapu Vatika at Morabadi ground in Ranchi to lodge their protest, claiming that the PM Modi’s BJP regime at the Centre is scared of Gandhi’s “vociferous voice” on Adani issue.
Meanwhile, the BJP tore into Congress for the satyagraha protest, accusing the grand old party of protesting against the nation’s Constitution the court’s verdict against Rahul Gandhi to justify his remarks against the “entire backward community” of the country.
Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, a day after a Surat court convicted him in a 2019 defamation case and sentenced him to a two-year jail term. The disqualification will prevent 52-year-old Gandhi, a four-time MP, from contesting elections for eight years unless a higher court stays the conviction.
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Justice Pritinker Diwaker appointed Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court
Justice Diwaker started his legal career and was enrolled as an advocate in 1984.

Justice Printiker Diwaker on Sunday was appointed the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath of office to him at 11 am in the Chief Justice’s court.
The swearing-in-ceremony was attended by Chief Secretary Uttar Pradesh, Advocate General Ajay Mishra, Minister Suresh Khanna, Additional Advocate General MC Chaturvedi, Manish Goel, Neeraj Tripathi and other senior and junior lawyers.
The ceremony was also attended by the Justices of Allahabad and Lucknow benches and their family members and relatives of the Chief Justice and working judges of Madhya Pradesh.
Justice Diwaker started his legal career and was enrolled as an advocate in 1984. He was designated as Senior Advocate in 2005 after practising law in the Chhattisgarh High Court. Later, he also joined the Madhya Pradesh State Bar Council and became a member for seven years and a member of the Chhattisgarh State Bar Council for five years.
He was appointed as a judge of the Chhattisgarh High Court on March 31, 2009. In October 2018, he was transferred to the Allahabad High Court.
Justice Diwaker graduated from Jabalpur’s Durgawati University and dealt with criminal, civil, and constitutional matters during his legal career. He also worked as standing counsel for SBI, SAIL, Chhattisgarh Gramin Bank, Bank of Baroda, and others.
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UP man arrested for killing 16-year-old Jammu girl he eloped with: Police

A 16-year-old girl from Jammu was strangled to death, allegedly by a man from she had eloped and was living with in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur, police said on Sunday.
According to the police, the accused, identified as Ashu, allegedly strangled 16-year-old Mahinur to death at his home in Bheem Nagar area of Hapur after an argument between the them.
The minor girl had eloped with the accused from Jammu a few months ago and was living with him in at his house in Hapur.
An official said that the victim’s father, Talib Ali—originally a resident of Assam, who has been living in Jammu for the past eight years— told the police that Ashu had come to Jammu four months ago where he befriended his daughter Mahinur and swayed her to come along and live with him in Hapur.
The official said that Ashu initially told the police that Mahinur had committed suicide, however, after the girl’s autopsy revealed that she was strangled to death leading to the case being investigated as a murder and the arrest of the accused who after interrogation confessed to killing the minor girl.
He said that a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the POCSO Act has been registered against the accused.
Mahinur’s murder is latest among the spree of murders of women committed by live-in partners that have rocked the country over the past few months.
The killings came in to the limelight after the infamous Shraddha Walkar murder case, who was allegedly murdered and then her body hacked to pieces by her live-in boyfriend in Delhi.
The accused, 28-year-old Aaftab Amin Poonawala, allegedly sawed Shraddha Walkar’s body into 35 pieces and kept them in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in south Delhi’s Mehrauli before dumping them across the city over several days. Poonawala is currently in jail facing trial.
Shraddha was allegedly strangled, chopped into several pieces, and disposed of at different locations of a forest area in south Delhi for several months by Poonawala.
In another similar case, a 37-year-old Nurse, Neha, was slain by her live-in partner, in Maharashtra’s Palghar. As per the police, the accused, who was in a relationship with the victim for the past three years and living with her from the past six months, stuffed her body in bed storage and fled.
On Monday, the Supreme Court junked a plea seeking registration of live-in relationships in the country with the Centre, calling it a “hare-brained” idea.
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