New Delhi, Oct 19 Following are the top stories at 1.03 pm:
NATION
DEL15 RJ-TIGER SHROFF-LD DETAIN (1.01 PM)
**** Tiger Shroff shooting: Three suspects detained at Kota railway station
Jaipur: Three people, including a minor, suspected to be involved in the firing at actor Tiger Shroff were detained on Monday at Rajasthan’s Kota town from a train coming from Mumbai, police said.
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CAL6 BH-ACCIDENTS (12.51 PM)
**** Bihar: Four dead, four injured in separate road accidents in Patna, Lakhisarai
Patna/Lakhisarai: Four people, including two youths, were killed and four others injured in two separate road accidents in Bihar’s Patna and Lakhisarai districts, police said on Monday. ****
CAL2 MG-UDP-NPP (9.37 AM)
**** Churn continues in Meghalaya politics: Three of four remaining UDP MLAs set to join NPP
Shillong: Three of the four remaining United Democratic Party MLAs in Meghalaya are likely to join the National People’s Party (NPP) on Monday, increasing the strength of Chief Minister Conrad Sangma’s party from 33 to 36 in the 60-member Assembly, a UDP leader said. ****
CAL1 MN-CLASH (9.02 AM)
**** One dead, several injured in clashes in Manipur’s Thoubal district, prohibitory orders clamped
Imphal: At least one person was killed and several others were injured in clashes that broke out between two communities in Manipur’s Thoubal district, police said on Monday. ****
MDS7 KL-PRAKASH-CM-MURALEEDHARAN (12.40 PM)
**** ‘Someone behind curtain’: Muraleedharan on UDF convener’s allegations against Keralam CM
Thiruvananthapuram: Keralam Health Minister K Muraleedharan on Monday said that when one person was repeatedly making allegations against Chief Minister V D Satheesan, then “someone was behind the curtain”. ****
MDS6 AP-JAGAN-CEC-APPOINTMENT (11.57 AM)
**** Jagan regrets backing CEC appointment process; TDP, BJP hit back
Amaravati: YSRCP supremo YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s admission that his party made a “mistake” in supporting the 2023 legislation to select the Chief Election Commissioner drew sharp criticism from ruling TDP and BJP leaders on Monday. ****
MDS8 TL-AIRPORT-LD X ACCOUNT (12.54 PM)
**** Hyderabad airport’s X account hacked, recovered quickly
Hyderabad: The official X account of the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) here was hacked on Monday and subsequently recovered. ****
DEL9 ADVANI-HOSPITAL-DISCHARGED (12.06 PM)
**** BJP veteran leader L K Advani discharged from Delhi hospital after improvement in health
New Delhi: BJP veteran leader L K Advani was discharged from a Delhi hospital on Monday after his medical condition improved. ****
BOM13 MH-PROFESSOR-MISCONDUCT (12.24 PM)
**** Nagpur Symbiosis professor placed on leave for sending ‘inappropriate’ messages to ex-student
Nagpur: Symbiosis University has placed a professor from its Nagpur campus on forced leave following allegations that he sent inappropriate messages to a former female student and asked her to follow Islamic religious practices, a senior official from the institution said on Monday. ****
BOM4 MH-CONG LEADER-RAHUL (10.04 AM)
**** Cong says ex-MLA pressured to join BJP, refused after Rahul Gandhi’s intervention
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Congress has alleged that its former MLA Rahul Bondre was pressured to join the ruling BJP and was being targeted with police notices concerning his educational institution after deciding against switching sides. ****
BUSINESS
DEL14 BIZ-GOVT-META-ADVISORY (12.30 PM)
**** Govt asks Meta to ensure its recommendation systems do not expose users to limited set of narratives
New Delhi: The government has asked Meta, owner of Instagram and Facebook, to ensure that its recommendation systems do not result in “disproportionate exposure of users to a single or limited set of narratives”, and to step up checks on content that could cause public disorder or incite violence or other unlawful activity. ****
FOREIGN
FGN11 ISRAEL-NETANYAHU (9.20 AM)
**** Israeli PM Netanyahu warns of potentially hostile future US president, calls for alliances with India, Latin America
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that a future US president could be hostile towards Israel, calling for new alliances with countries such as India and those in Latin America to strengthen his country’s position.
(PTI News)
