Breaking News October 31

Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Thursday asked the Election Commission of India to remove Director General of Police Rashmi Shukla in view of the November 20 assembly polls. In his letter to the ECI, Patole alleged Shukla was a controversial officer who had sided with the BJP, and her continuing in office would raise doubts about holding polls fairly and in a transparent manner.

A woman allegedly committed suicide on Thursday by jumping from the 22nd floor of a building in Maharashtra's Thane city, a police official said. The 45-year-old woman jumped to her death around 9:25am from a building in Hiranandani Estate, the Kasarwadavali police station official said.

Two persons on Thursday succumbed to the injuries they suffered during a fire incident at a chemical factory in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, police said. The toll in the blaze that broke out on Wednesday afternoon in the factory where crude oil was distilled rose to three. The two seriously injured persons had been admitted to Barasat Government Medical College and Hospital where they died, police said. One person died in the incident on Wednesday.

A man and his co-passenger in a bus were injured as some firecrackers being carried by him caught fire in Dwarka's Chhawala area on Thursday evening, a police official said.
On receiving information about the incident, police officials visited the spot. On enquiry, it was found that the man was carrying a small quantity of firecrackers that caught fire in the bus and caused burn injuries to him and a co-passenger sitting beside him, the officer said Nothing suggesting blast has surfaced so far, he said. Both have been taken to a hospital and further investigation is underway, the officer added.

A 59-year-old man was crushed to death on Thursday by a state-run 'Shivshahi' bus in Maharashtra's Latur district, a police official said. The incident took place in Gul market at 10 am, he said. "The bus dashed into a motorcycle, killing its rider Yusuf Sayyad, a resident of Alampura here," he said.
Residents complained of frequent traffic jams and alleged traffic police were mostly absent from the area.

Two men and a teenage girl were arrested in connection with the gang rape of another girl in Bhubaneswar, police said on Thursday. Two other persons, aged 21 and 23 years, have also been detained and they are being interrogated, a police officer said, adding that the arrested men are both aged 19 years. The girl was allegedly gang raped in a hotel in the Odisha capital on October 16. A case was registered with Nayapalli police station on Wednesday on the basis of a complaint lodged by the survivor, Bhubaneswar DCP Pinak Mishra said.

Gold prices traded flat at Rs 82,400 per 10 grams while silver prices dropped by Rs 1,500 per kg in the national capital on Thursday, according to the All India Sarafa Association.

Five members of the Chhota Rajan gang were held from Bandra in Mumbai for allegedly trying to extort Rs 10 crore from a real estate developer and his partner, a police official said on Thursday.

A gas explosion in a residential building in southern Russia on Thursday killed four people and injured another four, local emergency officials said.

Amid controversy over his use of an ambulance to reach the Thrissur Pooram venue after hearing that the festival was disrupted, Union Minister Suresh Gopi on Thursday detailed the sequence of events leading to the incident and demanded a CBI probe into the entire episode.

An elderly man allegedly committed suicide by setting himself on fire in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, police said. The incident occurred late on Wednesday night in the Kaseru village in the Mukundgarh area, they added. Police said that Sukhdevaram, aged 75 years, used to live separately from his family members. He allegedly set ablaze his car before immolating himself in his house. The body was shifted to the mortuary for postmortem, police said, adding that the case is being investigated.

Six people, including four of a family, were killed when a tempo they were travelling in was hit by a tractor in the Mujaria area here Thursday morning, police said. Five injured were rushed to the district hospital. The party was returning home to celebrate Diwali. The victims, who worked as vegetable vendors in Noida, were travelling in a three-wheeled loader tempo which collided with a tractor-trolley.

On joining AAP, former BJP MLA Brahm Singh Tanwar said,  "I felt that I would be able to work more (for Delhi) at AAP. Besides, I was inspired by Arvind Kejriwal and that's why I joined this party."

Former BJP MLA Brahm Singh Tanwar joins AAP today in the presence of party convener Arvind Kejriwal. 

Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis says "Today Congress leader Ravi Raja has joined BJP. He is one of the strongest leaders and we believe that his joining in BJP will strengthen us. In Maharashtra, there is a positive environment in favour of Mahayuti. Yesterday we had a meeting where, CM Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar were present. We discussed cross-form issues... Our stand is very clear on Nawab Mallik, our president Ashish Shelar earlier cleared everything.. we are not going to give any favour to Nawab Malik..."

In a big blow to the Mumbai Congress Leader of Opposition in BMC and senior Mumbai Congress leader Ravi Raja on Thursday joined the BJP in the presence of Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. The development comes as Ravi Raja was angry for not getting a ticket from Sion-Koliwada assembly seat.

Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sand artwork at Puri Beach to pay tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, on his birth anniversary.

A layer of smog engulfs the National Capital as the air quality continues to deteriorate.

On 'Rashtriya Ekta Diwas', Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "Today the situation is such that even talking about Unity has been made a crime. There was a time when we used to sing songs of unity with great pride in school, college, at home and outside...If someone sings these songs today, the people of Urban-Naxals will take the opportunity to abuse him and if someone says today that if we are one then we are safe, then these people will start defining it in a wrong way as well...We need to be more cautious than before from such people, such thoughts, such tendencies, such attitude..."

On 'Rashtriya Ekta Diwas', Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "The people of Jammu and Kashmir have rejected the age-old agenda of separatism and terrorism. They have made the Constitution of India, the democracy of India victorious. They have put an end to the propaganda going on for 70 years with their votes."

Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi pays tribute to former Prime Minister and his grandmother #IndiraGandhi at Indira Gandhi Memorial, on her death anniversary.

Amid the Diwali celebrations, Delhi's air pollution situation remains grim. On October 31, air quality stood in 'Very Poor' category in the area near Akshardham temple.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the 'Rashtriya Ekta Diwas' parade on the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, in Kevadia, Gujarat.