Mahatama Gandhi's great-grandson, Oppn leaders, actors among detainees across India

Police detained more than 800 people across several states Saturday to stop protests demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Mumbai saw largest crackdown, with about 600 detained, including Tushar Gandhi; arrests also occurred in Bengaluru, Chennai and Jaipur, while Goa demonstrators rallied.

Kangana Ranaut calls CJP-led anti-CEC protesters ‘anti-national forces trying to destabilise India’

Actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut called Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protesters “anti-national,” alleging their campaign to oust Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar aimed to destabilise India. Delhi police detained over 6,000 people on Saturday, including CJP leaders, before a planned Jantar Mantar march, with most later released. The protests challenge alleged wrongful voter deletions during electoral-roll revision.

Chikankari vs embroidered kurtas: Which festive style should you pick?

Festive dressing comes down to choosing between versatile Chikankari kurtis and coordinated embroidered kurta sets: Chikankari offers delicate traditional threadwork, while embroidered styles range from straight cuts to dressy Anarkalis. Three kurtis and three sets suit different occasions and styling preferences; before buying, compare fabric, fit, embroidery, reviews and included pieces, since set contents vary.

New Zealand's squad for India ODIs announced: Rachin Ravindra returns, Finn Allen makes comeback

New Zealand have named a split squad for a five-match ODI series against India, with Finn Allen, Lockie Ferguson, Rachin Ravindra and Tim Seifert available for part of the contest. Mitchell Santner captains, while six players can play all five matches. Seven additions join for the final two ODIs as others prepare for the Tests. The series will also help New Zealand assess their depth ahead of the 2027 World Cup.

Farmers stopped at Noida-Delhi border amid CJP protest

Police stopped hundreds of BKU-affiliated farmers and workers travelling to Delhi for a protest, barricading them at Chapargarh village and the Yamuna Expressway toll plaza on Saturday, where heated exchanges and pushing followed. Demonstrators staged a sit-in against the restrictions, while BKU leaders said their next steps would be decided by spokesperson Rakesh Tikait.

Delhi Metro stations open today, trains running on schedule after day of closure

Delhi Metro reopened gates at stations across its network Saturday, ending a 25-hour closure affecting 45 stations after the Cockroach Janta Party’s protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar was thwarted. Imposed at Delhi Police’s request ahead of the demonstration, restrictions began Friday night and lasted four hours beyond schedule. The Supreme Court had criticized sweeping transit curbs.

Is Angel Reese suspended for the WNBA Finals against Valkyries?

Angel Reese avoided suspension before the WNBA Finals after her second postseason technical, assessed during a Game 3 confrontation with New York’s Jonquel Jones, but faces a $500 fine and a one-game ban if she earns two more. Atlanta meets Golden State for a first-ever championship; Reese has averaged 18 points and 8.4 rebounds across five playoff games.

GMADA floats over ₹3-cr tenders to rehabilitate sewer lines in Mohali

GMADA invited e-tenders worth over ₹3.1 crore for a pilot to inspect, clean and rehabilitate sewer lines in Sectors 88-89, Aerocity and IT City, targeting blockages and waterlogging. CCTV surveys will pinpoint faults before repairs, limiting excavation; mechanised cleaning and follow-up camera checks will verify results. Work will take three to six months and inform future maintenance.

Mohali builder told to hand over flat, pay 9% interest for delay

A consumer commission ordered Omaxe New Chandigarh Developers to deliver Vipin Verma’s flat with completion and occupation certificates, pay 9% annual interest on ₹50 lakh deposited from November 16, 2023, until possession, and provide ₹2 lakh compensation. It ruled the 2025 offer invalid, nearly three years late, because certificates were absent. Verma booked in 2018.

5 months, ₹2-cr tender, fire safety works still awaited at Mohali medical college

Mohali’s Dr BR Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences has unresolved fire-safety deficiencies four months after an audit, keeping its paediatric ward closed for nearly five months and a brigade vehicle stationed on campus. PHSC floated a ₹2 crore tender for water-tank upgrades, an evacuation ramp, alarms, firefighting and electrical systems; officials will discuss next steps.

PU’s first senate meeting in December, syndicate elections to follow

Panjab University expects its senate to meet in December, with governing bodies in place by year-end, though dates remain unset and the V-C appointment remains beyond university control. Its first meeting will enable syndicate elections, restoring the university’s executive body. V-C interviews concluded in July; Dean Meenakshi Goyal has served as interim V-C since July 29.

Chandigarh Golf League | Capital Golfers cap off Day 6 in style, drub Green Gators 6.5-0.5

Capital Golfers bounced back from their opening defeat with a dominant 6.5-0.5 win over Green Gators in the GB Realty Chandigarh Golf League at Chandigarh Golf Club on Saturday. Seven Iron beat Golf Ninjas 4-3, Sultans of Swing defeated Golf Masters 4.5-2.5, and GB Legends edged Empire 4-3. Capital’s newcomers had lost their opener to Sultans.

Kharar man ‘abducted’, forced to transfer money; 14 booked

Kharar police booked Parth Taleja, Anuj Yadav and 12 unidentified people after a resident reported being abducted, assaulted and forced to transfer money over a dispute. He said the group took him between locations, threatened him with a pistol and stole his gold chain; medical reports recorded six blunt-force injuries. Police registered an FIR and are investigating.

Chandigarh: Audit flags ₹32L cost escalation in project, lapses on part of public health division

An audit found Chandigarh’s public health division faced a ₹32 lakh overrun on a school water tank, failed to recover contractor penalties and let ₹10 lakh in bank guarantees expire. The final bill rose from ₹45 lakh to ₹77 lakh without required approvals or completion certificates. Seventy of 113 posts were vacant; auditors reviewed records from 2023 to 2025.

Panchkula: Retired PEC professor loses ₹2L while placing online order

Two Panchkula residents allegedly lost a combined ₹4 lakh in separate cyber frauds: an 82-year-old retired PEC professor was deceived while searching online for Blinkit customer care, while a 76-year-old retiree transferred money to callers posing as his childhood friend and a relative needing medical help. Police registered FIRs and are investigating; the suspects remain unidentified.

Mohali man caught with 532gm heroin in Panchkula

Police arrested a 28-year-old Mohali man near Panchkula’s Mansa Devi Complex with 532 gm of heroin allegedly meant for tricity distribution, securing four days’ custody to trace its source, recipients and network. Separately, a dawn raid in three colonies found two men with 35 gm of heroin and another with illicit liquor. The accused had previously been jailed in a murder case.

Day after carjacking in Chandigarh, two caught from Haryana in police encounter

Four men accused of carjacking a milk vendor at gunpoint in Chandigarh were arrested after an encounter in Palwal, Haryana, hours later Friday; the two alleged robbers and their accomplices were injured. Police recovered the stolen Swift, firearms and ammunition. The victim was loading goods in Sector 46 Thursday night, outside an unmanned beat box.

2 booked for forging land registry records in Zirakpur

Zirakpur police booked property dealers Varinder Singh Brar and Sunil Kumar, plus an unidentified woman, for allegedly impersonating a landowner to sell GMDA-acquired land for ₹37 lakh. Chandigarh buyer Ritu uncovered the fraud while seeking a plot under GMDA’s land-pooling scheme; investigators say forged IDs enabled the 2025 sale. Brar has prior cheating cases and is jailed.

Chandigarh: Man gets 9-month jail in cheque bounce case

A local court sentenced Pankaj Goel, authorised signatory of Svocan Handicrafts, to nine months in jail for dishonouring a ₹4.6 lakh cheque issued to HDFC Bank, ordering equivalent compensation with 6% annual interest. The cheque related to a nearly ₹15 lakh business loan; the court rejected his security-cheque defence, finding the debt unpaid and demand notice served.

Haryana cabinet meeting: No exam for ex-Agniveers for Group C recruitment

Haryana’s cabinet approved changes exempting ex-Agniveers from examinations for covered Group C recruitment and physical tests for several newly included posts, while upgrading the mining-guard post to Group C to enable reservation benefits. It also continued local-body funding rules, placed HARTRON under CRID, eased village-land leases for Har-Hith stores and doubled journalists’ emergency assistance.

Haryana: Over ₹1,600 crore transferred to 50 lakh social security scheme beneficiaries

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Saini transferred ₹1,634 crore to nearly 50 lakh beneficiaries under social-security and welfare schemes, including ₹212.16 crore for 10 lakh women in the 12th Lado Lakshmi installment. From November 1, recipients must complete app-based face verification quarterly, not monthly. The state expanded Lado Lakshmi eligibility, raising its income cap from ₹1 lakh to ₹1.8 lakh.

Rinku Singh the focus as UP begin Ranji Trophy campaign

Former champions Uttar Pradesh begin their Ranji Trophy campaign against Bihar at Rajgir International Stadium on Sunday, with Rinku Singh’s red-ball form vital to their hopes. The 28-year-old has 3,757 first-class runs at 58.70, including nine centuries, and struck consecutive match-saving hundreds last season. Coach Gyanendra Pandey returns, while the fixture marks Rajgir’s first Ranji match.

CJP protest: NCR districts of Haryana on high alert; several detained

Haryana’s NCR districts tightened security and detained or confined leaders seeking to reach Delhi’s Jantar Mantar for a Cockroach Janta Party protest. Rohtak invoked Section 163 and banned demonstrations; police detained activists in Hisar, Hansi and Narnaund, while Congress leaders in Karnal remained under house arrest. BKU (Charuni) president Gurnam Singh Charuni was also detained in Delhi.

HC restrains Haryana from deploying private school teachers for census duty

Punjab and Haryana High Court stayed Haryana government communications seeking private unaided school teachers for Census 2027 duty, pending the state’s response. The Haryana Progressive Schools Conference argued the Census Act permits requisitioning local-authority staff, not private-school teachers, and that compulsory deployment violates institutional autonomy and constitutional protections. The court deferred the hearing to April 29, 2027.

Faridkot woman arrested, two armymen booked for espionage

Punjab Police arrested a 30-year-old Faridkot woman and booked two serving army personnel for allegedly passing sensitive military information to Pakistani agencies; a case was registered under the Official Secrets Act. Investigators suspect the soldiers gathered information on cantonments and defence matters and routed it through the woman, detained with a tablet, as police assess the alleged network.

HC summons Rohtak DC for inaction over MGNREGA fund misappropriation

The Punjab and Haryana high court summoned Rohtak’s deputy commissioner for October 15, seeking records over alleged inaction against officials implicated in MGNREGA fund misappropriation. It said Lokpal recommendations were ignored for three years, and an FIR followed only after a PIL; an independent probe may follow if the court is dissatisfied. The complaint dates to 2023.

‘Slow paddy’ lifting clogging Haryana mandis

Slow paddy lifting is creating space shortages at Haryana purchase centres, forcing some farmers to wait or sell crops ₹300–₹400 below the minimum support price. By Saturday evening, only 3.10 lakh tonnes—36% of purchased paddy—had been lifted, while 16 lakh tonnes, 28% of estimated arrivals, had reached centres. Officials are monitoring procurement, which began September 29.

Security tightened in GB Nagar, Ghaziabad amid protests

Police imposed Section 163 restrictions across Gautam Budh Nagar from October 10 to 20, tightening security at Delhi borders amid protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, with barricades, vehicle checks and deployments in Ghaziabad. The measures slowed commutes and prompted allegations of farmer leaders’ house arrest; reports of 50 Metro station closures were unverified.

Man arrested for pushing wife to death in Sec 12

Police arrested a 30-year-old man in Meerut Friday for allegedly beating his wife and pushing her from a second-floor balcony in Gurugram on Wednesday, leaving her with fatal injuries. Her mother’s complaint prompted a murder case, and the accused was remanded for two days. The couple married in December 2024 and worked at private firms.

Four arrested for robbing ₹1.04cr from property dealer’s house in F’bad

Four men were arrested Thursday for allegedly robbing Faridabad property dealer Abdul Qadeem of ₹1.04 crore at gunpoint after holding him hostage at home on September 26, police said. At least four suspects remain at large, and the stolen cash has not been recovered. An insider allegedly knew Qadeem had sold land and kept the proceeds at home.