Breaking News, October 29 | HIGHLIGHTS

Aam Aadmi Party releases third list of 16 candidates for Rajasthan Assembly elections.

Bahujan Samaj Party announces candidates for five seats for the upcoming Rajasthan elections.

Kerala Health minister Veena George visits a hospital to meet victims of Kochi blasts.

One more dead in Kalamassery Blast. The total death toll stands at 2, said Public Relation Department, Kerala.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan arrives at Thiruvananthapuram airport.

 Security heightened in Srinagar following an attack on a police official in city's Eidgah area.

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan holds roadshow in Sehore.

 Congress Screening Committee meeting for the Rajasthan Assembly elections underway at 15 GRG Congress war room, in Delhi.

Jammu and Kashmir: A police official was shot at Eidgah in Srinagar. He has been shifted to a hospital. Further details awaited.

Rahul Gandhi announces free treatment facility up to Rs 10 lakh for the poor in poll-bound Chhattisgarh.

What we promise we deliver, Cong will implement its 6 guarantees in Telangana, said Mallikarjun Kharge at a rally in Sangareddy.

Maharashtra: Fire breaks out at a chemical godown in Bhiwandi Rahnal village in Thane district. Fire tenders have rushed to the spot. Further details awaited.

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan convenes an all-party meeting on Monday in the wake of blasts at a convention centre in Kochi, said CMO.

A fire erupted in the meter room of a housing society in Maharashtra’s Thane city in the early hours of Sunday, a civic official said. No casualties were reported in the blaze that broke out in the meter room of a ground-plus three-storey building around 3.30 am, chief of the civic disaster management cell Yasin Tadvi said.

Heroin worth more than Rs 5 crore was seized while being transported from Manipur in Karbi Anglong district of Assam and one person was arrested, police said on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, police intercepted the vehicle at the Lahorijan outpost area on Saturday night.

Former US President Donald Trump has vowed to revive a controversial travel ban on people from some Muslim-majority countries if he is elected to a second White House term.

Seven members of a family were killed while two others were injured in a head-on collision between a car and a truck in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh district, police said on Sunday. 

Overall air quality in Mumbai in the 'Moderate' category with the AQI at 139 as per SAFAR-India

The Negro River, the major tributary that runs through the Brazilian Amazon, has reached historic lows, revealing millennia-old carvings previously hidden under water. The engravings deeply etched into the black rock along the riverbanks represent human faces, animals and other figures, and are thought to be 1,000 to 2,000 years old, archaeologists said.

Chennai: Ambattur Police arrested 33 guest workers following a clash between two groups among themselves.

Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda will address two public meetings and hold three road shows in poll-bound Chhattisgarh on Sunday, a BJP functionary said.
Nadda arrived at Swami Vivekananda Airport in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur on Saturday evening and went to Kushabhau Thakre Parisar, the BJP's state headquarters.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday spoke with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as the two leaders exchanged views on the latest developments in the Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, a statement released by the Egyptian side said.

Police across Maine were alerted just last month to “veiled threats” by the U.S. Army reservist who would go on to carry out the worst mass shooting in the state's history, one of a string of missed red flags that preceded the massacre.

Union Minister B L Verma on Saturday distributed 314 job appointment letters to the youth here as part of the government's 'Rozgar Mela' initiative, an official said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the nation Saturday night that the military has opened a “second stage” in the war against Hamas by sending ground forces into Gaza and expanding attacks from the ground, air and sea. He said it will only increase ahead of a broad ground invasion into the territory.

The Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday arrested 10 people for using unfair means in the Preliminary Eligibility Test organised by the state's Subordinate Services Selection Commission, an official said.