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The commission froze the party's name and its 'flowers and grass' symbol for last month's bypolls. It will now take up the larger question of which faction owns the Trinamool Congress.
At a day-long review in Phillaur, the Chief Minister told police the Centre was blaming Punjab for problems on its own watch. Hours later, the Home Ministry asked the state for reports on three drug-linked cases.
SUVs were overturned when YSRCP MP Midhun Reddy's convoy reached a nomination centre, and cars were set alight in Rayachoti. The TDP and YSRCP blame each other, and police dispute the MP's account.
A video of Labour Secretary Kumar Rajeev Ranjan shouting down a JKAS officer at a review meeting has united Omar Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, and revived the row over who controls the bureaucracy.
The suspended police officer, held since October last year, is the second of seven accused to get bail. His lawyer expects him out after the Durga Puja holidays.
The State Election Commission has published the electorate for 20 urban local bodies, from the Agartala Municipal Corporation to six nagar panchayats.
The Jan Suraaj founder says the Chief Minister's praise of Modi tries to deify him, and asks voters in the legislative council polls to hand the NDA a 'chastisement'.
Two couples on motorcycles were fired on near Phaikoh on Thursday evening. Kuki groups blame the NSCN-IM; police say only that suspected militants carried out the attack.
Ashwani Kumar faces a week of questioning over the Mansa shooting. The activist's family still refuses to cremate him, and Bhagwant Mann meets district police chiefs at Phillaur today.
Mallikarjun Kharge has approved separate urban and rural district committees for Jharkhand's two biggest industrial towns. Sitting district presidents will run both halves for now.
The state commission found cameras in several child care institutions wired to staff phones and laptops. It has banned remote access by default and wants compliance reports in 15 days.
Withdrawals for the first phase closed on Thursday, a week before voting. In Jodhpur, three opposition candidates were knocked out because courts had already framed charges against them.
Mohan Yadav will chair a new state-owned company to build industrial hubs from Jabalpur to Indore. The cabinet also approved price-gap payments for soybean farmers.
The Allahabad High Court wants gram panchayat elections held by mid-January. With the census and the 2027 assembly election in the same window, the state is unlikely to comply without a fight.
Ayodhya's mayor floated the idea at a meeting of UP's city mayors in Lucknow, as civic bodies look for money to cope with crowds of pilgrims. No amount or decision has been announced.
With prices climbing, dealers must clear stock within 15 days and declare holdings every Friday. Yogi Adityanath says the state has more than 70 lakh quintals in its warehouses.
Ajit Kumar was hit when a lookout riding ahead of the smugglers opened fire near Pawapuri. He died in hospital in Patna, and the gang escaped with the van.
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister spoke after Ankita's parents were detained at their Delhi protest against Dushyant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim Governor.
Thursday's bandh over the killing of the anti-drug activist closed markets from Amritsar to Bathinda. His father says there will be no cremation until Bhagwant Mann resigns.
The Rajasthan Chief Minister spent about 20 minutes with the Prime Minister in New Delhi and is due to meet Union Minister Pralhad Joshi this afternoon, ahead of panchayat elections in the state.
After checking water levels at the Singur and Manjira reservoirs, Chief Secretary Sanjay Jaju told officials to put Hyderabad's drinking water first. The state cabinet takes up the issue this evening.
The State Monitoring Cell raided a highway hotel at Boriyavi and a site at Danteli village over the alleged theft of petroleum products and chemicals. Goods and vehicles worth ₹1.72 crore were seized.
The Samajwadi Party chief cited Form 7 objections filed in Lucknow and Sultanpur. Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar asked whether the SP's 2024 win was honest too.
Speaking by video link, the Prime Minister inaugurated five projects in Ladakh, including a road over Shinkun La to Himachal Pradesh and a 9 MW hydro plant at Hanu.
After a convention of teachers and workers in Varanasi, the Chief Minister campaigns in Prayagraj on Thursday. Polling for the Varanasi division seat is on 24 October.
The chemist accused of shooting the anti-drug activist was caught with the pistol. His shop and part of his house were razed on Wednesday, and the family's bandh call runs until 5 pm today.
In Prayagraj on Thursday, the Chief Minister will begin work on the Padmalok housing scheme at Kasari-Masari and hand keys to 556 families under PM Awas Yojana.
The Chief Minister inaugurated the facility in the Patliputra Industrial Area, a project CtrlS first announced in 2024 as a ₹400 crore, 10 MW edge data centre.
Chief Minister V D Satheesan's senior citizens' bill makes doctors report suspected abuse, recognises living wills and puts gifts by care-home residents under a magistrate's eye.
The 41st monthly instalment of ₹1,500 went out during Navratri from a tribal village in Umaria district, along with LPG refill money and a list of local projects.
The agency's letter lists 20 kinds of official decisions it wants to examine in the corruption case against Rajbir Singh Ghuman. The state told departments to hand over records by 1 pm on Wednesday.
The new terminal, approved at Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai's initiative, will come up on the old cattle market site and take 35 to 40 buses at a time.
Two proposed joint ventures at Sisai near Hansi were discussed with Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, who has since left on a four-day investment trip to Sweden.
The attack at Satyabadi followed a viral clip in which the chairperson allegedly called BJP members dogs. Naveen Patnaik said anarchy was crossing its limits in Odisha.
Seven men in an Innova raided the Kanke house of SAMETI director Ramshankar Prasad in the morning. The goods taken were put at about ₹3.5 crore.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said 19,254 workers would get the cash and 50 kg of grain, and that the state is trying to reopen 21 shut gardens in North Bengal.
Water Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh launched the centre and an emergency repair truck for the Chandrawal supply project, which covers about a tenth of the city.
It is the second time this year the party has thrown him out. A March expulsion was revoked; this one follows a show-cause notice in September.
IT Minister Priyank Kharge told GCC leaders in Bengaluru the state would help them find the right departments, procedures and approvals for social projects.
The district judge rejected pleas for leniency in the killing of merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput, whose body was sealed in a cement-filled drum in March 2025.
Chairing the first meeting of the SANKALP Society, the Chief Minister told police to trace the source of every seizure and to stop chemists selling narcotic pills.
The low-income group flats come with a 25% discount under the DDA Housing Investment Scheme 2026. Booking opens at noon on 20 October.
Jhota was livestreaming an argument over alleged drug sales when the shopkeeper opened fire. Mansa shut down, the BJP is protesting across Punjab today and a bandh has been called for Thursday.
The boat overturned on Tuesday evening near Rampur Shyamchand village in Vaishali district. Divers searched the swollen river through the night as families waited on the bank.
The former Chief Minister calls the videos defamatory and politically motivated. The BJP says his own party has abandoned him, while H D Kumaraswamy wants a CBI inquiry.
A Division Bench reserved orders on appeals by the former Chief Minister, his daughter Veena T and her husband P A Mohamed Riyas in the CMRL-Exalogic case.
Trinamool MP Dola Sen says the woman lunged at the former Chief Minister with a knife on Tuesday evening. Kolkata Police say she was held on the spot.
More than 160 houses in DLF phases and other licensed colonies have been sealed for commercial use. The court has paused further action until it hears the case on 3 November.
Beijing objected on Tuesday to the peaks, passes and lakes India put on the Survey of India map this month, some of them in Aksai Chin. New Delhi called Ladakh integral and inalienable.
The State Meteorological Centre expects wet weather from Wednesday to Friday, with hail likely in places and temperatures set to drop by up to 4°C.
The Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting wrote to the Prime Minister saying he wants to return to the grassroots ahead of the 2029 Lok Sabha election.
Telangana's Deputy Chief Minister set a 15-day deadline for compassionate appointments and offered a way back for workers dismissed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The J&K Waqf Board, chaired by BJP leader Darakshan Andrabi, wants a committee to set shared themes for sermons in mosques it controls. The Chief Minister called it interference in religious affairs.
First-year student Aditya Kumar died on Saturday. His classmates, protesting for a third day, want the director removed and say help came too late.
Assam's Chief Minister said he would fight on ballot papers if the Congress governments in Keralam, Karnataka and Telangana quit first. Telangana's Chief Minister, in Delhi for the protest, said SIR was being used against opposition voters.
Odisha's Chief Minister reviewed plans to remake the temple town, from a new airport and wider roads to a Jagannath interpretation centre, and warned officials against delay.
The Chief Minister told the Assembly the LDF left behind huge dues to employees and pensioners. His predecessor's Finance Minister says the money and the process were already in place.
A committee chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi approved final eligibility certificates for projects expected to create about 8,178 jobs across eight districts.
Opening a mountain development summit, the Chief Minister blamed careless hill cutting for landslides and argued against abrupt limits on tourists at Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonamarg.
Meeting on the banks of the Ganga in Haridwar, Pushkar Singh Dhami's cabinet also cleared a new fire services bill and a second Jan Vishwas bill for the Assembly.
The input subsidy for crop losses went straight into bank accounts at an event in Gorakhpur. The Chief Minister said about ₹1,000 crore has gone to disaster-hit farmers and residents this monsoon.
Vivek Bhimanwar will stay away until a five-member panel headed by retired judge Dilip Bhosale finishes its inquiry. The government says cases against protesting students will be dropped.
Villagers had been protesting for days against the crusher's restart. Police have detained suspects for questioning, and Congress leaders want a fair probe.
The court refused to stay the CBI case against Rajbir Singh Ghuman, Bhagwant Mann's officer on special duty, but said no coercive steps may be taken while it hears the Punjab government's appeal.
The court said the 2019 law breached the 50% ceiling without exceptional reasons. Withheld posts must go to open-category candidates within three months, and both BJP and Congress plan to fight on.
On his first Tamil Nadu visit since the TVK government took office, the Prime Minister launched projects worth over ₹13,000 crore. Vijay used the stage to list what the state wants from the Centre.
The court said total reservation could not cross 50% without proper data and ordered polls within six weeks. Chief Minister Naidu now promises 34% of NDA tickets to BC candidates instead.
The Kerala (Alteration of Name) Act, 2026 came into force on 25 August after a Home Ministry notification. It changes the state's name in the First Schedule of the Constitution.
Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's rule applies from 1 September. Letters to the Centre are to go in Bengali and Hindi. Opposition parties welcomed the aim but questioned how it will work.
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