Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS: ISRO Launches OneWeb India-1 Mission From Sriharikota

ISRO's heaviest rocket LMV3-M2 with 36 satellites onboard blasts off from Sriharikota, ANI reported. 

"Of 80,164 candidates, 72,865 have accepted college and course allotted to them in DU's first merit list," Registrar Vikas Gupta said, PTI reported. 

Speaking on freebies politics, PM Modi said: "Large section of population has resolved to free India from revdi culture."

ED has opposed actor Jacqueline Fernandez's bail plea. The agency has said that Fernandez never cooperated with the probe, only made disclosure when confronted with evidence. ED also says that she made an abortive bid to flee India but couldn't do it due to the issuance of LOC, ANI reported.

Delhi's Patiala House Court extends interim protection granted to actor Jacqueline Fernandez till November 10, in the Rs 200 crore money laundering case, ANI reported.

Actor Jacqueline Fernandez arrives at Delhi's Patiala House Court in connection with her regular bail plea over the Rs 200 crore money laundering case involving conman Sukesh Chandrashekar

"AAP couldn't open accounts in either UP or Uttarakhand & they'll draw a blank in HP as well. In Gujarat, we'll win more seats than last time & form govt. AAP has nothing, the states in which they've formed govt are in bad shape: Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur said, as quoted by ANI.

"We'll get the benefit of the leadership of PM Modi at the centre & Jairam Thakur in the state in upcoming elections in Himachal Pradesh," he added.

Arunachal Pradesh chopper crash yesterday | Search and rescue mission concludes with the recovery of the fifth and last body: Defence PRO, Tezpur.

Anti Extortion Cell of Mumbai Police arrested gangster Ganesh Shinde for threatening a builder with extortion. The accused was produced in court yesterday, sent to a 14-day in judicial custody. The complainant is a businessman: Mumbai Police informed, as reported by ANI.

Hours after being removed from the protest site by the police, teaching job aspirants filed a petition before the Calcutta High Court challenging a single bench order that imposed Section 144 of the CrPC at the venue.

The candidates, in the petition on Friday, claimed that they have a right to hold a peaceful protest.

Firdaus Shamim, the lawyer for the petitioners, said on Saturday that the appeal against the single bench order will be taken up for hearing on October 28 by a division bench.

Hundreds of candidates were staging a sit-in, earlier in the week, outside the West Bengal Board of Primary Education office at Karunamoyee in Salt Lake, near here, claiming that they were denied jobs in state-sponsored and –aided schools despite having cleared Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) way back in 2014.

Some had even resorted to hunger strike to press for their demand.

They were removed from the protest venue by the police following a Calcutta High Court order enforcing section 144 of the CrPC at the site of agitation. (PTI)

In view of festive season rush at railway stations & to regulate number of passengers on railway premises, it's been decided to increase rate of platform ticket from Rs 10 to Rs 50 over few nominated stations of Western Railway's Mumbai Central Division till Oct 31: Western Railway

The nominated railway stations are Mumbai Central, Dadar, Borivali, Bandra Terminus, Vapi, Valsad, Udhna and Surat: Western Railway

PM Narendra Modi launches Rozgar Mela, the recruitment drive for 10 lakh youth, via video conferencing.

During the ceremony, appointment letters will be handed over to more than 75,000 newly inducted appointees.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakhs from PMNRF for the next of kin of each deceased. The injured would be given Rs. 50,000: PMO

The Election Commission of India seeks an explanation from the Gujarat Chief Secretary & DGP for not sending a compliance report for carrying out transfer postings of all the officers under the condition laid by the Commission; asks them to send the compliance report immediately, ANI reported.

ECI has also directed the Gujarat Chief Secretary and DGP to explain the circumstances as to why the compliance report has not been furnished so far even after the lapse of the stipulated time limit despite issuing the reminder in the matter.

China's 20th Communist Party Congress ended in Beijing, after leader Xi Jinping presided over seven days of closed-door meetings with top officials.

"Dare to struggle, dare to win, bury your heads and work hard, be determined to keep forging ahead," Xi said, as quoted by AFP

There were five personnel onboard when the mishap took place. Four mortal remains have been retrieved by the late evening of 21 October. As per the latest reports, efforts are on to retrieve the fifth body, ANI reported

It is reported that the weather was good for flying operations. The pilots had more than 600 combined flying hours on the Advance Light Helicopter (Weapon Systems Integrated) and over 1800 service flying hours between them. The aircraft was inducted into service in June 2015.

ANI reported that Prior to the crash, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) had received a May Day call suggesting a technical or mechanical failure.  This will form the focus of the Court of Inquiry, which has been immediately constituted to investigate the causes of the accident.

A case of gang rape with a software engineer has been reported in Chaibasa on October 20. Police have registered the FIR against 10 accused. SIT has been formed to probe the case. Raids are being conducted to arrest the accused, Chaibasa Police said, as reported by ANI.

The victim stated that on the evening of Oct 20, she had gone out with her friend. They were having a conversation on the roadside. Meanwhile, 8-10 people came to them. They first beat up the two, forcefully took the victim woman to a secluded place and raped her: Chaibasa Police

India reports 2,112  fresh cases and 3,102 recoveries in the last 24 hours. 

Active cases 24,043
Daily positivity rate 1.01%

Death toll in the incident of collision between a bus and trolley truck rises to 15: Navneet Bhasin, SP Rewa 

Delhi | In an exchange of fire between police and criminals in Jyoti Nagar PS area at 2 am, 2 criminals apprehended - 36-year-old Shakti and 24-year-old Sachin. One wanted criminal received bullet injury on his leg; a semi-automatic pistol, 2 live rounds, 2 empty cartridges recovered: DCP North-East said, as reported by ANI.

MP | 14 dead, 40 injured in a collision b/w a bus & trolley near Suhagi Pahari in Rewa. Of the 40 injured, 20 admitted to a hospital in Prayagraj (UP). Bus was going from Hyderabad to Gorakhpur. All people on the bus are reportedly the residents of UP: Navneet Bhasin, SP Rewa said, as reported by ANI.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi resumes 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' from Yeragera village, Raichur in Karnataka