Highlights: Delhi records 130 new Covid cases in last 24 hours

Delhi on Thursday recorded 130 fresh coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 1.84 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. No new fatality was reported due to the viral disease.

Iraqi lawmakers on Thursday elected former minister Abdul Latif Rashid as the country's next president.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Himachal Pradesh twice in the coming days to lay the foundation stone of & inaugurate various projects. He will visit Dharamshala on 16th October and on 18th October, Solan.

Bihar cabinet on Thursday declared 11 districts drought affected. The state chief minister Nitish Kumar had issued a slew of instructions earlier in September to the agriculture and disaster management department during a review meeting held to assess the situation in various districts.

Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Thursday dismissed 4 ministers representing Janata Samajbadi Party from cabinet following the party's decision on alliance with opposition for upcoming elections, Nepal's Presidential office said.

Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad arrests Punjab-based `terrorist' in Mumbai, officials said to news agency PTI.

Aam Aadmi Party Gujarat chief Gopal Italia, detained for stir at the National Commission for Women (NCW) office in Delhi, released.

A 20-year-old woman in Tamil Nadu died after a man named Satish pushed her in front of a train at St Thomas Mount railway station today, ANI reports said. Eyewitnesses told police that they had an argument before the man pushed her. Police officials said seven teams formed by State & Railway Police to nab the accused.

Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia's observations in the Karnataka's hijab row case said there should not be any restriction over hijab, according to ANI reports. "The question this Court would put before itself is also whether we are making the life of a girl child any better by denying her education merely because she wears a hijab!," stated Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani visited Badrinath Dham and Kedarnath Dham on Thursday. The industrialist performed puja and donated ₹5 crores to the Badri-Kedar Temple Committee (BKTC).

Ministry of State for External Affairs Meenakshi Lekhi at Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Summit in Kazakhstan said Pakistan should shut down its infrastructure of terrorism and India desires normal relations with our neighbours including Pakistan.

In relief for Uddhav faction, Bombay HC tells civic body BMC to accept resignation of party candidate for crucial Andheri bypoll. Rutuja Latke will be Shiv Sena candidate in Andheri East assembly constituency by-election, announces Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Anil Parab after HC directed Mumbai civic body to clear her resignation by 11 am tomorrow. Read more

Aam Aadmi Party Gujarat chief Gopal Italia detained on Thursday from National Commission for Women (NCW) office in Delhi. Read more

Army dog Zoom, under treatment at 54 AFVH (Advance Field Veterinary Hospital ), passed away around 12 noon today Amry officials confirmed. They said that he was responding well till around 11:45 am when he suddenly started gasping and collapsed. He had received 2 gunshot injuries in an operation in J&K on Monday.

Ernakulam First Class Magistrate Court sends all three accused in Kerala 'human sacrifice case' to 12-day Police custody till Oct 24. In the custody application filed before a local court here on Thursday, police said the accused need to be further interrogated to probe whether there was any other reason behind the human sacrifice. The police said they need to investigate whether there are more victims of this horrific crime.

The ED on Thursday filed a charge sheet against journalist Rana Ayyub on the basis of an FIR lodged by the Indirapuram Police Station, Ghaziabad, UP, in a money laundering case.  It mentioned that she illegally acquired funds from general public in the name of charity by launching fund-raiser campaigns on an online crowd funding platform.

Congress presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor on Thursday shunned any possibility of enmity between him and opponent Mallikarjun Kharge as the polls approach. Calling Kharge a “senior leader”, the Thiruvananthapuram MP stated that the election is about two colleagues “seeing how to work to strengthen the party”, news agency ANI reported.

PM Modi on Thursday took a sharp swipe at the previous Congress regime in Himachal Pradesh saying they did not contribute in bettering the higher education facilities in the northern hill state. “We are changing that tradition,” he added. Read more.

In Himachal Pradesh's Una, PM Narendra Modi on Thursday said that Diwali has arrived early in the region after he flagged off the inaugural Vande Bharat Express.

In Supreme Court on Thursday, split verdict was given on Karnataka hijab ban case. Justice Hemant Gupta affirmed the Karnataka HC order that banned hijab in educational institutions, while Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia quashed the state government's order and removed the ban. The hijab ban has now been referred to the CJI for constituting a larger bench.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday flagged off Una-Delhi Vande Bharat Express in Himachal Pradesh. This is the fourth Vande Bharat Express to be launched in the country.

President Droupadi Murmu and Tripura chief minister Manik Saha on Thursday flagged off from Agartala Railway Station the extension of Guwahati-Kolkata-Guwahati train up to Agartala and extension of Agartala-Jiribam-Agartala Jan Shatabdi Express up to Khongsang, Manipur.