Breaking News October 16 LIVE Updates

Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh renewed his membership as an active member of BJP.

Odisha: On the birthday of party chief and former CM Naveen Patnaik, BJD organised blood donation camps in Bhubaneswar today. BJD MPs and MLAs also met him and extended him birthday greetings. 

Delhi's Sadar Bazar is witnessing a huge rush of people ahead of Diwali.

Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann holds 'Shobha Yatra' in Jalandhar.

Indian Army has carried out the successful overhaul of the T-90 Bhishma tanks which will enhance the life of these tanks by 20 years and make them as good as new.

EAM S Jaishakar departs for India, from Islamabad in Pakistan.

Patiala House Court in Delhi remands gangster Deepak Boxer to two-day custody of Special Cell in an extortion case.

Central Government notifies MSP for 6 crops in Rabi marketing season for 2025-26.

Union Minister Amit Shah, along with CM-designate Nayab Singh Saini and others, reached Raj Bhawan on Wednesday, met Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya and stoked a claim to form the government. Three independent MLAs who have extended their support to Saini have also reached Raj Bhawan.

Nayab Singh Saini, Haryana Chief Minister-elect, was unanimously elected as leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Legislature Party on Wednesday.

Samajwadi Party MP Awadhesh Prasad said, "After the Milkipur seat fell vacant, the writ filed by a BJP member against me became infructuous. After the seat fell vacant and I had resigned, it was his ( the BJP member) moral duty to take back his writ...This seat has become very important as it is connected to Akhilesh Yadav and Ayodhya. The public is determined to make Ajeet Prasad win from the constituency."

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Wednesday took oath as the first chief minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir after the NC-Congress alliance won the maiden assembly elections held after the abrogation of Article 370.

Top INDIA bloc leaders, including the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, are here to attend the oath ceremony of Omar Abdullah as the first chief minister of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. Gandhi, his sister Priyanka Gandhi, and party president Malikarjun Kharge arrived this morning and will represent the Congress' national leadership at the oath ceremony. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, CPI leader D Raja, CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat, AAP leader Sanjay Singh, DMK's Kanimozhi, and NCP's Supriya Sule have also arrived for Abdullah's oath ceremony.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra have reached Srinagar to attend the oath-taking ceremony of CM-designate Omar Abdullah. Congress fought in alliance with NC but won only 6 seats.

Air India is pleased to announce passengers of flight Al127, which was diverted to Iqaluit in Canada on October 15, are on their way to their destination Chicago, Air India said in a statement, adding the passengers are being ferried on a Canadian Air Force aircraft that has taken off from Iqaluit at 03:54 hrs UTC and is expected to land in Chicago at around 07:48 hrs UTC.

Security was heightened ahead of the swearing-in ceremony to be held at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) in Srinagar. Jammu and Kashmir chief minister-elect Omar Abdullah and his council of ministers will take the oath today.

The toss for the first Test between India and New Zealand has been delayed due to incessant rain here on Wednesday. The teams are also yet to arrive on the ground as the pitch at the Chinnaswamy Stadium remained under covers as rain came down heavily.

Mumbai Congress General Secretary Javed Shroff joined NCP in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and state NCP chief Sunil Tatkare.

Congress will not be part of the Omar Abdullah government in Jammu and Kashmir and it will support the government from outside, said the sources on Wednesday.

Flight 6E 98, operating from Dammam (Saudi Arabia) to Lucknow, was redirected to Jaipur due to a security-related alert. The aircraft was isolated, and all passengers were safely disembarked.

Schools in Bengaluru Urban district will remain shut on Wednesday following heavy rain forecast, officials said. Due to continuous rains in Bengaluru, the Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for the next two days. As a precautionary measure in the interest of students, all taluk Anganwadi centres, private/aided primary and high schools of Bengaluru City will be closed on Wednesday," a government order stated.

The stage is set for National Conference leader Omar Abdullah to be sworn in as the first chief minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir after the NC-Congress alliance won just concluded assembly elections.

India has stated it is taking seriously the allegations of a plot to kill an American citizen, the United States on Tuesday said as a team of visiting Indian officials had a meeting with the officials of the State Department and Department of Justice here. “I don’t have a readout on the meeting yet. The meeting was here as a follow-up on conversations we have been having with the Government of India at the senior-most levels over the past several months,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters at his daily news conference.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a warning of “extremely heavy rainfall” across Tamil Nadu, affecting Chennai and surrounding districts. Due to severe weather, many train, flight and bus services have been cancelled or diverted. The Tamil Nadu government has declared it a public holiday and disaster management teams are on alert.