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Congress took out a protest march in Telangana's capital Hyderabad on Tuesday over the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, ANI reported. "MoS (Home) Ajay Mishra should be removed from the cabinet immediately and the black laws should be repealed," state party chief A Revanth Reddy was quoted as saying.

Lucknow Police on Tuesday issued a statement, imposing curbs under Section 144 of CrPC till November 8 to maintain law and order, and make sure adherence to Covid-19 norms due to upcoming festivals, various entrance exams and farmers' protests.

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is going to meet China's top diplomat, AFP reported citing White House.

Kolkata Metro has changed timings of train operations during the days of Durga Puja on October 12, 13 and 14. The first trains will leave from terminal stations at 10am, and the last trains will at11pm, ANI reported.

A third civilian - man, has been shot dead in Kashmir in Hajin today. This comes after an owner of a medical store and a street hawker were killed.

A five-member Congress delegation led by party leader Rahul Gandhi to visit Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh tomorrow, ANI reported.

A street hawker was shot dead by terrorists in Srinagar's Hawal on Tuesday, only hours after a 68-year-old owner of a prominent medical store in Iqbal Park met with the same fate. The hawker was shot dead near Madin Sahib on the outskirts of Jammu and Kashmir, IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) in a statement said that an independent group of experts are scheduled to meet next week to “carry out the risk/benefit assessment and come to a final decision whether to grant Emergency Use Listing to Covaxin.”

The chief judicial magistrate’s court in Prayagraj has granted a 14-day custody to CBI of three suspects in the death of Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad (ABAP) president Mahant Narendra Giri.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has issued a statement on her house arrest in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district en route to Lakhimpur Kheri. In the statement, she said that she has not been allowed to meet her legal counsel, who has been standing at the gate of the PAC compound since morning.

UNICEF representative Yasmin Ali Haque said on Tuesday that according to reports one in seven children suffer from mental health issues globally, and Covid-19 has intensified it. “We've seen that despite having issues children are not comfortable talking about it,” Haque was quoted as saying by ANI.

Tripura BJP MLA Ashis Das, who is set to join TMC in Kolkata later in the evening, shaved his head and took a dip in Ganga as a “mark of penance.”

Internet services in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri was resorted at 6pm on Tuesday after being snapped at 8.30pm on October 3, following the farmers' protest incident.

Delhi court on Tuesday denied bail to Olympic medallist, wrestler Sushil Kumar in Chhatrasal Stadium murder case, ANI reported.

Mumbai's Esplanade Court on Tuesday sent four more accused in cruise rave party raid case namely Abdul Qadir Sheikh, Shreyas Nair, Manish Darya, and Avin Sahu to NCB custody till October 11. All of them were held earlier today, news agency ANI reported.

Pope on Tuesday expressed 'great sorrow' for victims of French Church abuse, news agency AFP reported.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says “gratitude to people for repeatedly blessing us” following BJP's win in Gujarat local body elections on Tuesday. 

Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district DM Vishal Bhardwaj on Tuesday said that Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was stopped from entering the district as “section 144 of CrPC was imposed in the district." “We've stopped Priyanka Gandhi in Sitapur,” Bhardwaj told ANI.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar will administer oath of office to TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, and two other newly-elected MLAs - Amirul Islam, and Jakir Hossain, as the state assembly on October 7, ANI reported. Mamata along with Islam and Hossain won the recently concluded bypolls in Bhabanipur, Samserganj and Jangipur.

Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday took to his Twitter profile to launch a warning, saying that the Punjab Congress will march towards Lakhimpur Kheri if “by tomorrow” MoS Ajay Mishra Teni's son is not arrested and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has been “unlawfully arrested, fighting for farmers," is not released.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said that it is up to Lalu Prasad Yadav to decide what he wants to do amid reports that the latter is going to campaign in  the upcoming bypolls. “Whether he wants to address rallies or do anything else. He was working from the jail anyway,” Nitish told news agency ANI.

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their “groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.”

Former Milkfed chairman Harminder Singh has joined Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), leaving Congress. SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal has announced Harminder as the party's candididate from Sultanpur Lodhi for the upcoming Punjab assembly polls in 2022. 

Angered over slow and conditional paddy procurement, farmers have blocked NH44 near Pipli in Kurukshetra district in Haryana. Police have diverted traffic on the link roads from Shahbad-Ladwa-Karnal.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday tweeted that ‘joint opposition’ is needed for taking action against oppression by Uttar Pradesh government. In his post, he added that he is going to meet Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at 4.15 pm today.