Five workers were killed and five injured when a reactor exploded at a pharma intermediates unit in Saykha GIDC in Gujarat's Bharuch district, also causing a toxic gas leak.
Nineteen people died and 25 were injured when a rain-triggered crowd surge hit the Chorbagan Durga Puja pandal in north Kolkata. Organisers have been detained and a judge-supervised probe announced.
The Centre has widened the list of people who can be appointed census enumerators, bringing private school teachers and staff of banks, PSUs and private companies into the pool for Census 2027.
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that rules to rein in volatile airfares under the Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024 are approved and will be published within two weeks. The next hearing is on November 16.
Former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, 98, was admitted to Apollo Hospital in Delhi on Friday evening with a chest infection and is being treated in the pulmonary department. Reports say he is stable.
Sukhna wetland in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Uttar Pradesh have been designated Ramsar sites, taking India's tally of internationally important wetlands to 103.
The Election Commission has ordered a Special Summary Revision of electoral rolls in 17 states and Union Territories with January 1, 2027 as the qualifying date. Draft rolls come out on November 12 and final rolls on January 4.
PM Modi inaugurated projects worth about Rs 3,350 crore in Ladakh, including a new Leh airport terminal that can handle 35 lakh passengers a year and the 298-km Nimmu-Padum-Darcha road.
The Union Cabinet has extended the National Social Assistance Programme till 2030-31 with Rs 53,428 crore, renamed it, and made the disability pension higher and easier to get.
The road transport ministry has proposed BS-VII emission norms for cars from April 2029 and heavy vehicles from 2031, adding brake, tyre and battery rules for the first time.
The Supreme Court has ordered Indian Railways to give insurance cover to passengers who buy tickets at counters from October 27, on par with online e-tickets.
The Indian Navy will commission Samarthak, the first of four L&T-built Multi-Purpose Vessels, at Naval Base Karwar on October 16.
