New Delhi, Oct 18 Following are the top stories at 5 PM
NATION
BOM15 MP-DEVOTEES-2ND LD ACCIDENT (4 PM)
**** 15 killed as truck mows down devotees outside Gwalior temple; CM orders probe, action against 9 cops
Gwalior: Fifteen persons, including several teenagers, lost their lives and more than 25 were injured when a speeding truck ploughed into devotees gathered for Navratri prayers outside a temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district early on Sunday, police said. ****
DEL2 PM-MP-ACCIDENT (10.18 AM)
**** PM Modi condoles deaths in Gwalior accident, announces Rs 2L ex gratia relief for each
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed grief over the loss of lives in an accident in Gwalior and announced ex gratia relief of Rs 2 lakh to the next of kin of each deceased and Rs 50,000 for each injured. ****
CAL40 WB-STAMPEDE-LD SUVENDU (2.40 PM)
**** One out of 19 dead in Kolkata Durga Puja pandal stampede hailed from Bihar: Bengal CM
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday said that of the 19 people who died in the Chorbagan Durga Puja pandal stampede, 18 victims were from various parts of the state, while one deceased hailed from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur. ****
BOM21 GA-CONG YATRA-LD RAHUL (4.46 PM)
**** Rahul Gandhi takes part in Goa Cong’s ‘Goy Rakhon Yatra’; walks 2 km with party functionaries
Panaji: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took part in the party’s ‘Goy Rakhon Yatra’ in Margao, walking two kilometres with workers and leaders. ****
DEL14 RAHUL-EDUCATION (2.25 PM)
**** Education system now an exclusion system designed to keep millions of youth out: Rahul
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said what is prevailing in the country is not an education system but an “exclusion system” that is designed to keep millions of Indian youth out. ****
DEL19 NCR-FAMILY-DEAD-LD ARREST (4.33 PM)
**** 3 kin arrested for abetment to suicide after 5 family members found dead in Greater Noida
Noida: Three people have been arrested for the alleged suicide of a couple and their three children, whose bodies were found at their home in a village in Greater Noida, police said on Sunday. ****
DEL8 RAJNATH-SCO (1.14 PM)
**** Rajnath to represent India at SCO Council of Heads of Government meeting in Tajikistan
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will represent India at the upcoming meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, to be held at Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on October 19-20, the government said on Sunday. ****
DEL18 LAW-COURT FEE-RULES (3.55 PM)
**** Law ministry brings new rules for adjudicating court fee violations in UTs
New Delhi: The Union law ministry has come out with a set of rules to set up a framework to handle violations related to court fees and stamp rules in the Union territories. ****
MES12 KL-WINE-LD REPORT (2.19 PM)
**** Keralam govt seeks report on sale of horti wine through bakeries
Alappuzha (Keralam): Keralam Excise Minister M Liju on Sunday said a report has been sought from the Excise Commissioner after a firm began selling horti wine, an alcoholic beverage with low alcohol content, through bakeries in the state. ****
DEL20 CONG-BIBCOL (4.38 PM)
**** Modi govt has decided to close down BIBCOL, it’s a tragedy: Congress
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday claimed that the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to shut down Bharat Immunologicals and Biologicals Corporation (BIBCOL), which was set up in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr in 1989, and described the move as a “tragedy”. ****
DEL21 CBI-FCI-APPOINTMENT (4.58 PM)
**** Five booked for cheating job aspirants of Rs 2.41 crore by posing as relatives of RSS leader, former VP
New Delhi: It was a meticulously staged deception as government job aspirants went through what they thought were written tests, a medical examination, police verification and even a three-month “training” after their “appointment”, not realising that they had been duped by people who posed as relatives of a senior RSS leader and a former Vice President. ****
LEGAL
LGD5 SC-MENSTRUAL HEALTH (12.53 PM)
**** Menstrual hygiene: SC expresses displeasure over states, UTs not responding to Centre
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over states and Union territories not responding to the Centre on how its judgment declaring menstrual hygiene as a part of the fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution is being implemented. ****
BUSINESS
DEL13 BIZ-PAKISTAN-IMF-SUBRAMANIAN (2.15 PM)
**** Ex-IMF Director KV Subramanian dismisses Pakistan’s global financial leadership claim
New Delhi, Oct 18 ( PTI) India’s former executive director at the International Monetary Fund, Krishnamurthy V Subramanian, on Sunday dismissed Pakistan’s claim of returning to global financial leadership as a “historic milestone”, clarifying that the chair of the IMF and World Bank Boards of Governors is purely ceremonial and rotates annually. ****
DEL11 BIZ-ETHANOL-PETROL (1.49 PM)
**** India bars sugar-based ethanol in 2026-27 tender, cuts maize incentive
New Delhi: State-run oil marketing companies have barred ethanol made from sugarcane juice, sugar syrup and B-heavy molasses from their latest procurement tender for the 2026-27 supply year for blending in petrol, as the government seeks to protect domestic sugar supplies while sustaining its nationwide petrol-blending programme. ****
FOREIGN
FGN11 US-RUBIO-TRUMP-LD TARIFFS (10.19 AM)
**** 60-day pause on Russia sanctions to analyse global impact: Rubio
Washington: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the waiver from sanctions on Russia and tariffs on other countries, including India, was a 60-day pause to analyse the global impact of the measure. ****
FGN17 US-VANCE-H1B (1.45 PM)
**** Vance defends ‘indentured servants’ remark on H-1B workers, admits ‘rhetoric’ has been ‘imperfect’
Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has admitted that his rhetoric has been “imperfect” when he referred to foreign professionals holding H-1 B visas as “indentured servants”.
(PTI News)
