Breaking: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra meet family members of farmer who died in Lakhimpur Kheri

Uttarakhand Congress workers will undertake a visit to violence-hit Lakhimpur Kheri tomorrow. The party delegation will be led by the party's state chief Harish Singh Rawat, news agency ANI reported.

Congress leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi met with the family of the farmer who died in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence on Sunday. The Gandhi siblings set off for Lakhimpur Kheri on Wednesday evening after Rahul Gandhi reached Sitapur guest house where Priyanka Gandhi was detained. Read More

Supreme Court takes suo motu cognisance of Lakhimpur Kheri violence. A bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli will hear the matter on Thursday. 

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) declared on Wednesday that it has takes up the investigation into seizure of 2988.21 kgs of heroin at Adani's Mundra Port in Gujarat. 

Family members of and relatives of Nashhatar Singh, who was killed in Sunday's incident in Lakhimpur Kheri are awaiting the arrival of Congress leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi. The Congress leaders left for Lakhimpur Kheri on Wednesday evening.

Congress leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi left for Lakhimpur Kheri to meet the families of those who lost their lives in Sunday's incident. Rahul Gandhi met up with his sister at the PAC guesthouse in Sitapur where the latter was being detained before leaving for Lakhimpur Kheri. 

Mumbai suburban railway services on the trans-harbour railway route were impacted near Airoli station on Wednesday due to a technical snag following heavy rainfall and thunderstorm. 

Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued refunds of over ₹82,229 crore to more than 53.54 lakh taxpayers from April 1 to October 4 of this year, the income tax department said on Wednesday. 

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Congress, and Shiv Sena, the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance, have called for a Maharastra bandh on October 11 protest of Lakhimpur Kheri incident and demanded the arrest of the accused, NCP state chief Jayant Patil announced on Wednesday. 

The Congress delegation led by Rahul Gandhi reached Sitapur to join party secretary Priyanka Gandhi, who has been detained at a guest house there. The delegation is en route to violence hit Lakhimpur Kheri. 

The road from Haft Chinar Chowk to Jehangir Chowk (where Bindroo Medicates is located) will be named Shaheed Makhan Lal Bindroo Road to honour tribute Bindroo's contributions to society, Srinagar mayor Junaid Mattu told reporters on Wednesday. Bindroo, 68, one of the last remaining Kashmiri Pandits was shot dead by terrorists on Tuesday. 

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) delegation consisting of leaders Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha met the family of deceased farmer Nachhatar Singh who was killed in Sunday's Lakhimpur Kheri violence. AAP delegation was the first such political one that met the family today. They were also the first one released from their detention in Sitapur.

Lakhimpur Kheri district magistrate Arvind Kumar Chaurasiya told reporters that ex-gratia cheques of ₹45 lakhs each have been handed over to families of two farmers who lost their lives in the violence, on Tuesday. He added that 4 more families will receive theirs on Wednesday. 

A Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Wednesday granted Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) custody of four people associated with the Delhi-based-event management company Caneplus Trading Private Limited till 14th of October. This event management company had organised the event on Cordelia Cruises' Empress ship which Aryan Khan was supposed to attend. 

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday. 

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi left for Lakhimpur Kheri after Uttar Pradesh Police allowed him to use his personal vehicle for travelling. The Congress leader sat in a dharna along with Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel as they were briefly stopped from coming out of the airport, Gandhi said. "Whenever I come to UP, I travel in my own car. But now they want to take me like a prisoner. I will sit here. There is no question of moving now," he told reporters. Read More

Chattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel announced an ex-gratia of ₹50 lakhs for the kins of the farmers and journalist killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. “On behalf of Chhattisgarh Govt, I announce ₹50 lakhs each for the families of the farmers and the journalist who died in the violence (in Lakhimpur Kheri)," he said on Wednesday. Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi also announced an ex-gratia of ₹50 lakhs for the kins of the deceased. Read More

District administration in holding discussion on the number of people to be allowed with Rahul Gandhi during his visit to Lakhimpur Kheri, Congress leaders told Hindustan Times on Wednesday. 

Punjab Congress will march to Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district starting  Thursday to protest against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the “brutal murders” of farmers on October 3. The march will be led by Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu and will start from Mohali, said  an aide of the state unit chief. 

Uttar Pradesh government has allowed people to visit Lakhimpur Kheri but only in groups of five. UP Police said anyone is free to visit Lakhimpuri Kheri now. “The state govt had imposed restrictions to maintain law & order, not to restrict any movement,” ADG, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar told ANI.

The police will conduct a detailed investigation in the case, and no accused will be spared: ADG, Law & Order, Prashant Kumar on Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

Aam Aadmi Party workers protest outside Raj Bhawan over Lakhimpur Kheri violence, police use water cannon to disperse them.

PM Narendra Modi interacts with beneficiaries of Svamitva scheme from Madhya Pradesh, via videoconferencing.

The drone is going to give a new flight to the villages of India. Today, money is being sent directly to the bank accounts of farmers under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi for small farming needs: PM Modi.