Highlights: Haryana increases DA for government employees from 34% to 38%

PM Modi will visit Kedarnath & Badrinath in Uttarakhand on 21st Oct. He will lay foundation stone of connectivity projects worth more than ₹3400 crores including two new ropeway projects connecting Gaurikund to Kedarnath and Govindghat to Hemkund Sahib: Prime Minister's Office

The Congress on Tuesday released its first list of 46 candidates for the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections scheduled for November 12.

Jharkhand Police & CRPF in a joint anti-Naxal operation at Budha Pahad recovered 22 IEDs, 7 wireless, 279 cartridges, 3 hand grenades, 26 detonators, 12 batteries & 9 IED mechanisms. Operation against Naxals underway for a long time: Jharkhand Police

Haryana government increases the dearness allowance for government employees from 34% to 38%, to be applicable from July 1, 2022.

Indian Coast Guard chief VS Pathania today visited Goa Shipyard Limited stall at DefExpo-2022 and discussed the ongoing projects at the defence shipyard. GSL chairman Brajesh Upadhyay was present on the occasion: Indian Coast Guard officials.

Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) completes its post-monsoon runway maintenance work. The runway work took place between 1100hrs and 1700hrs on both runways. After 6 hours of work, operations resumed as usual, says CSMIA.

The Allahabad high court on Tuesday granted 10 more days to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) as a last opportunity to file a counter affidavit in the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque case. Read more

Judicial custody of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut extended until October 21; bail hearing to continue then. Sanjay Raut has been arrested by the ED in the Patra Wala Chawl case.

At the 90th Interpol General Assembly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the commemorative postal stamp and commemorative coins of ₹100 denomination.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of Umar Khalid.

The Narendra Modi government on Tuesday approved minimum support prices of six Rabi crops for marketing season 2023-24. Union minister Anurag Thakur announced that the MSP of wheat increased by ₹110, barley by ₹100, gram by ₹105, lentil or masur by ₹500, Rapeseed & Mustard by ₹400 rupees and Sunflower by ₹209 .
 

Helicopter crashes in Kedarnath with 6 passengers on board.

In Jayalalithaa death, panel holds Sasikala, ex TN health minister C Vijayabadkar guilty; recommends probe in report submitted in assembly today.

Ukraine's state nuclear energy company was quoted as saying by news agencies that Russia has kidnapped two senior officials at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and their whereabouts are unknown.

Union Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari while speaking about the status of the Delhi-Mumbai Express Highway said that work on the first phase from Delhi to JNPT in Mumbai would be completed this year itself.

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A total of 47 candidates are in the fray for Munugode Assembly bypoll scheduled to be held on November 3, after the deadline for withdrawal of nominations ended on October 17.

At least 13 people, including three children, were killed after a military plane crashed into a residential area of Yeysk in southwest Russia, Russian news agencies said Tuesday as the search for survivors ended.

"Rescuers have finished excavating the rubble (...) In total, 13 people died, including three children, while 19 people were injured," according to the ministry of emergency situations, quoted by Russian agencies following Monday's crash.
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India on Tuesday saw over 1,500 Covid cases in the last 24 hours. The number of active cases stay above 26,400.

Indian-American Chandru Acharya from Michigan has been appointed to the Faith-Based Security Advisory Council of Homeland Security.

Acharya is the lone Hindu voice in this committee of 25 distinguished faith leaders from the United States, a media release said on Monday.

Japan will impose additional sanctions against North Korea by freezing assets of groups involved in the development of missiles, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a regular briefing on Tuesday.

"We cannot tolerate North Korea's repeated provocative actions which threaten Japan's security and international peace and safety," Matsuno said.

China has recruited dozens of former Royal Air Force pilots to train members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), news agency ANI reported.

Thousands of residents across southeast Australia braced for renewed flooding on Tuesday as weather forecasters warned of more downpours later this week, while swollen rivers continued to roll downstream inundating farms, towns and homes.

A Russian military plane crashed on Monday into a residential area of Yeysk, a town in southwest Russia near the border with Ukraine, causing a huge fire and killing at least six people, according to Russian authorities.

"Six people died, 19 injured including two children," a spokesman for the ministry of emergency situations said giving an updated toll late Monday.