Breaking News, October 23 | HIGHLIGHTS

Gujarat: Union Home Minister Amit Shah attends Garba festival in Ahmedabad

Centre approves voluntary retirement of Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik's private secretary VK Pandian.

Gujarat: Union Home Minister Amit Shah attends Raas Garba in Ahmedabad.

Deep depression over Bay of Bengal intensifies into cyclone 'Hamoon', unlikely to have major impact on Indian coast, as per IMD.

BJP National President JP Nadda visited AIIMS Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh

Haryana: Stubble burning seen in a field in Karnal.

Veteran actor Sharmila Tagore visits the Delhi residence of former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi.

Dharmendra Pradhan visited the birthplace of freedom fighter Veer Surendra Sai and participated in the 'Meri Maati Mera Desh' campaign.

Kerala: Alpasi 'Arattu' procession of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple passes through the Thiruvananthapuram airport.

PM Modi speaks with King of Jordan Abdullah bin Al Hussein on developments in the West Asia region.

The Defence Minister will celebrate Dussehra with the soldiers in Tawang.

Massive fire broke out in the Pavan Dham Veena Santoor Building of Mahaveer Nagar in Kandivali West in Mumbai on Monday, officials said

"People of the country trust PM Modi and the country will definitely elect PM Modi as the PM for the third time," he said.

The hoarding has been reportedly put up by Fakhrul Hasan Chaand.

Amit Shah also distributed membership certificates to NCEL members. Union Minister Piyush Goyal was also present at the event.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma visited several Puja Pandals in Pandu area of Guwahati this morning and offered prayers on the last day of Navaratri.

He is the first Agniveer to have laid down his life in operations. He was deployed in the world’s highest battlefield Siachen Glacier. His mortal remains are being brought to his residence today.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) takes over the security of Kot Bhalwal jail. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) handed over the security of the high-security Central jail to the CISF on October 20. Nearly 260 odd CISF personnel headed by a Deputy Commandant rank officer are deployed to provide inner as well as outer security cover at the jail, which carries over 900 prisoners comprising some foreign nationals.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said he would pay a visit to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on Monday. "Today I shall be reaching Tezpur on a 2-day visit to Assam & Arunachal Pradesh. During my visit, I will interact with Armed Forces personnel deployed in the region and also visit forward areas. Looking forward to celebrate Dussehra with the soldiers in Tawang," he tweeted.

A huge number of devotees gathered at the Kamakhya Devi temple, Guwahati on the last day of Navratri.

Zhang Hongliang, a former restaurant manager in central China, took various gigs in and outside China to support his family after losing his job during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, a job offer to teach Chinese cooking at a restaurant led him into a cyber scam compound in Myanmar, where he was instead ordered to lure Chinese into giving up their savings for fake investment schemes via social media platforms. Zhang is one of tens of thousands of people, mostly but not all Chinese, who have become ensnared in cyber scam networks run by powerful Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asia.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday that the United States expects the Israel-Hamas war to escalate through involvement by proxies of Iran, and they asserted that the Biden administration is prepared to respond if American personnel or armed forces become the target of any such hostilities.

Overall Air Quality Index (AQI) in Mumbai stands at 127, in the 'Moderate' category, said SAFAR-India.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday called Agniveer a scheme devised to "insult" India's brave hearts, saying that no pension or other benefits are given to the families of Agniveers after their martyrdom – a charge denied by the BJP. Gandhi shared a picture of Agniveer Gavate Akshay Laxman and said the news of his death in Siachen was saddening.

AAP released its fourth list of 12 candidates for next month's assembly elections in Chhattisgarh. With the fourth list, AAP now released the names of 45 candidates in the Congress-ruled state. The elections for the 90-member assembly will be held in two phases on November 7 and 17.

US President Joe Biden spoke with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss developments in Gaza and the surrounding region, said White House on Monday.

Early morning 'aarti' was performed at Delhi's Jhandewalan temple on the ninth day of Navratri.

"ESCS TEJ lay centered at 2330 hrs IST of 22 Oct SW Arabian Sea about 130 km north of Socotra (Yemen), 360 km south of Salalah (Oman) and 320 km southeast of Al Ghaidah (Yemen). Likely to move NW and cross Yemen coast close to Al Ghaidah (Yemen) around 24 Oct early hours as VSCS," IMD posted on X.