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The Keralam High Court takes up the former chief minister's challenge to a vigilance FIR, the Bombay High Court hears the actor two days before his deadline to leave, and all of the Supreme Court's benches sit again.
The BRS working president said Revanth Reddy had become Rahul Gandhi's 'ATM card' and that the Congress leader lacks the courage to come to the state.
The Congress president's retort to a man in the crowd drew condemnation from Amit Shah, Nitin Nabin and Rajnath Singh. The BJP will protest at every state headquarters on Monday.
In a forthcoming memoir and a television interview, the retired Supreme Court judge describes the then Chief Justice wondering aloud whether to phone the government during a collegium meeting. Chandrachud says he has not read the book.
C P Joshi demanded the Election Commission's meeting minutes and deletion data, as Jairam Ramesh accused it of hiding the name of the software behind the roll revision.
The Keralam BJP chief said the Kashi Art Cafe is free to serve beef, but that respect for faiths must work both ways, after the Chief Minister warned against communal provocation over a YouTuber's video.
Two posters went up outside two party offices in Lucknow on Sunday. One shows Akhilesh Yadav on a boat; the other tells the Samajwadi Party what its INDIA bloc partner wants for 2027.
A day after the BJP tied the date of the INDIA bloc's Ramlila Maidan rally to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the Leader of the Opposition answered with sarcasm and a fresh call to students, farmers, workers and traders to come to Delhi.
BRS leader Manne Krishank said the Telangana government ignored early warnings from agricultural scientists and is attacking K Chandrashekar Rao to hide its own failures.
Bengaluru's Central Crime Branch says Ritesh Pandey used a second-hand phone with no SIM card to put the clip online. Siddaramaiah calls the video a fake meant to blackmail him.
The Uttarakhand Chief Minister called the Samajwadi Party chief's remark a grave insult and recalled the police firings of the statehood movement under Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Arunachal's Chief Minister says the government's doors are open to opponents of the Siang Upper Multipurpose Project. The Congress's Pawan Khera says protesters have met only repression.
Voting at Kheragarh, Saiyan and Fatehabad on 23 October has been declared void, and the Agra Divisional Commissioner must report on what went wrong by Sunday.
The party says it will watch every polling booth and municipal ward during the second summary revision of the year, and has sent more than 100 observers across the state's 35 districts.
A day after the Delhi High Court declined to interfere, the AISA president was given the police case papers and time to answer the show cause notice.
K C Venugopal says the symbolic proceeding will come two days before the 1 November Dilli Chalo march to Ramlila Maidan, as Kharge asks allied leaders to be in Delhi in full force.
Samajwadi Party MP Ramashankar Rajbhar said an announcement would come soon and the party's manifesto would be released on 26 November.
Ravi Shankar Prasad tied the date of the INDIA bloc's Ramlila Maidan rally to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, while Delhi traders asked Congress to wait until after Bhai Dooj. Congress says the rally against the Chief Election Commissioner is going ahead.
The Rajya Sabha MP hit back at the RSS chief's warning about 'regime change' attempts, saying the protesters at Jantar Mantar carried no lathis, guns or stones.
The Congress MP said three years after the violence began, people in relief camps still have no answers on accountability or rehabilitation.
The Chief Minister said an investment summit planned in 2015-16 had to be moved to Delhi, and that before 2017 electricity reached people 'based on their faces'.
The Congress general secretary says three families in Patlapur village were beaten for refusing to give up their faith and then forced through a 'purification' ritual at a Durga Puja pandal.
Justice Subramonium Prasad refused to quash the ₹10,000 bond notice but told the magistrate to hand over the material behind it first. A day later, the AISA president called signing such bonds 'signing away' the right to dissent.
Advocate Vishal Tiwari's PIL also asks the court to order an 'absolute prohibition' on religious appeals in election campaigns, with complaints decided within 48 hours.
The Congress MP pointed to absurd names on the rolls for Friday's Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council polls and 10,470 changed entries in Pilibhit.
The BJP MP said the Leader of Opposition meets 'questionable individuals' abroad. The Karnataka minister dared the party to show documents if Rahul Gandhi had done anything anti-national.
Filing for the mandal and district council polls ended on Friday with clashes in Palnadu, Anantapur and Tirupati. The YSRCP wants more time; the TDP has asked the poll panel to act against Jagan Mohan Reddy's party.
Naam Tamilar Katchi says the cases against M Karthiga, its Dharapuram candidate, and party colleagues are false. Police booked them over a banner, a police station gathering and the disruption of Chief Minister Vijay's roadshow.
Pinarayi Vijayan's lawyers wanted their appeal against the vigilance FIR heard at once. The court posted it before the original division bench on 26 October, inside the Supreme Court's seven-day window.
The Shiv Sena (UBT) MP backed a fresh move to remove CEC Gyanesh Kumar through Parliament. Speaker Om Birla has said any new notice will be examined under the rules, and Goa's Congress has given the poll body 10 days to drop the SIR.
Marching under the banner 'People Against SIR', protesters set out from Gurdwara Bangla Sahib towards the poll body's headquarters, demanding that CEC Gyanesh Kumar resign.
Nine of the 12 parties at Chief Electoral Officer Archana Patnaik's all-party meeting in Chennai left in protest against the SIR and CEC Gyanesh Kumar. AIADMK and BJP stayed.
Speaking in Guwahati, the Assam Congress chief accused Gyanesh Kumar of loyalty to Modi and Shah and attacked the Himanta Biswa Sarma government over the Zubeen Garg probe.
152 candidates are in the fray across five graduates' and six teachers' constituencies. The Election Commission ordered an inquiry into garbled voter slips in Prayagraj on the eve of polling.
Justice Subramonium Prasad heard the AISA president's plea against a magistrate's demand for a ₹10,000 bond on Thursday and said he needed time to write his judgment.
About 2.5 crore people are currently counted as eligible, against 3.38 crore before the revision. Nearly 9.6 lakh cases are still to be checked before the final roll on 9 November.
The row over the Congress leader's description of the RSS as an 'all-male, anti-constitutional cult' widened on Wednesday evening, with a Samajwadi Party MP also joining in.
Rahul Gandhi linked the picture's release to Marco Rubio's Mumbai visit. Pawan Khera said it undercut the minister's account of his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein and demanded an investigation.
A Delhi magistrate turned down a police plea for three more days of custody and freed the two Cockroach Janta Party leaders on bonds of ₹50,000 each, after eight days behind bars.
The Delhi minister said holding the Ramlila Maidan protest against the Chief Election Commissioner on the anniversary of the anti-Sikh riots was hurtful to the community.
Acting on the YSR Congress Party's complaint that violence kept its candidates away, a vacation bench told the State Election Commission to decide by Thursday whether to reopen nominations for the urban local body polls.
The Leader of the Opposition said on the Sangh's foundation day that it treats women as men's property. The VHP accused him of "mental bankruptcy" and BJP leaders told him to study the organisation first.
The vacation bench ruled that the former Keralam chief minister, his daughter Veena T and P A Mohamed Riyas have the right to appeal the order that led to a corruption FIR in the CMRL-Exalogic case.
Justice Subramonium Prasad told the two Cockroach Janta Party leaders their remedy lay in revision and suggested they wait for the afternoon hearing on their sureties.
Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, who have gone to the Delhi High Court against their extended custody, are due before a magistrate at 2 pm on Wednesday. Mallikarjun Kharge has promised to set out his SIR concerns to the Prime Minister.
The Cockroach Janta Party founder said Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka went to jail smiling, as Sanjay Raut asked the Supreme Court to step in over their extended custody.
Speaking in Kalaburagi a day after Kiren Rijiju's reply to his letter, the Congress president said the Prime Minister has two letters from him. Jairam Ramesh asked whether the government has a new delimitation plan at all.
The Home Minister began a Dussehra tour of three districts at the Gurdaspur home of Bikramjit Singh, while Punjab minister Aman Arora asked why the border with Pakistan still leaks heroin.
At the Vijayadashami rally in Nagpur, with Jagdeep Dhankhar among the guests, the RSS chief said regime change "has neither happened nor will it happen".
The party is challenging the Andhra Pradesh High Court's refusal to extend the nomination deadline. Pinarayi Vijayan's plea against the CMRL FIR order is listed before the same bench.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann announced the transfer hours before Amit Shah arrived in the state to meet families of people killed for speaking out against drugs.
The 20 MPs who broke away to the Nationalist Citizens Party of India must answer Abhishek Banerjee's anti-defection petitions by Tuesday, after three extensions and a Supreme Court nudge.
A Delhi special executive magistrate extended the two Cockroach Janta Party leaders' judicial custody until Wednesday and rejected their sureties, while a third member was let off on a personal bond.
A statement titled 'Spare India from Anarchy', signed by students, researchers and alumni in 27 countries, urges parties to settle differences inside constitutional institutions.
Replying to the Congress president's call for an all-party meeting, the Parliamentary Affairs Minister said the government had already consulted seven other parties and asked the Congress not to obstruct future bills.
The former Keralam chief minister and his family's challenge to a High Court order directing a vigilance case in the CMRL-Exalogic matter is due to be taken up on Wednesday.
The former Balaghat MP took the oath at Lok Bhavan in Dehradun on Monday morning, replacing Lt Gen (retd) Gurmeet Singh, the longest-serving Governor in the state's history.
The YSRCP chief took a list of alleged attacks on his party's candidates to Lok Bhavan, and said he would go to court over polls he called a stain on democracy.
The Congress MLA called for due process in the CMRL payment case, as party colleagues questioned the UDF government's choice of a preliminary inquiry over an FIR.
Congress, AAP and Left workers demanded a probe supervised by the Chief Justice of India, while in Dehradun the BJP called the Congress's plan to surround the assembly 'negative politics'.
Closing the Congress's 27-day Goy Rakhon Yatra with a rally in Margao, the Leader of the Opposition said the Prime Minister, the Home Minister and Gyanesh Kumar would 'pay the price'.
The state BJP chief linked the alleged discontent to the recent sting videos and said senior Congress leaders would meet after this week's council polls.
A day after his own release, the Cockroach Janta Party founder said the party would rethink its protest plans against the Chief Election Commissioner and accused police of stalling.
The Congress veteran endorsed the government's response to the description of Indian IT professionals and said the US must stay sensitive to India's needs.
The former chief minister alleged police firing at Pulivendula, snatched nomination papers and blocked MPs as the deadline for Andhra Pradesh's urban local body polls closed.
The Leader of the Opposition said the state's claim of ₹1 lakh crore in investment on the ground rests on diluted rules and a padded list of investors.
Answering the Sena (UBT) chief's backing for talk of regime change, the Maharashtra chief minister said governments in India change through elections, not on the streets.
Jairam Ramesh said the Election Commission's order to give parties searchable rolls came only because the country was on the streets, and demanded the SIR be suspended at once.
The Speaker's deadline for 20 Trinamool rebels falls on Tuesday, district protests against the roll revision are set for Friday, and the big court cases return only after the Dussehra break.
The BJP president said the opposition was insulting the people's mandate by blaming the Election Commission, and warned that a return to paper ballots would bring back booth capturing in Bihar.
The state unit expressed solidarity with the murdered receptionist's family a day after CBI officers met her parents and promised a fair inquiry.
The Shiv Sena (UBT) chief told a Marathi journalists' meet in Mumbai that a government that takes away the right to vote and protest should be thrown out.
Lawyer Ratul Bora blamed gaps in the police charge sheet after the Gauhati High Court released band member Amritprabha Mahanta and the singer's cousin, suspended DSP Sandipan Garg.
Dhruv Rathee headlined the 'Stop Vote Chori' rally in Parliament Square, where Metropolitan Police officers kept the two sides apart as each tried to drown out the other.
The former Rajasthan chief minister said the 12 October march led by Rahul Gandhi was peaceful and recalled that the Congress accepted the 2014 verdict after the Anna Hazare and Ramdev agitations.
The bench noted that he has been in custody for more than two years and that only seven of 147 witnesses have been examined in the CBI case.
The no-objection certificate covers 25 October to 3 November. Kharge announced the rally after the INDIA bloc agreed to campaign together against the roll revision.
A Special Executive Magistrate released the CJP founder on Saturday afternoon, a day after he was stopped on his way to Connaught Place. The AISA president was let go hours earlier.
A meeting of the party's MPs chaired by M K Stalin in Chennai adopted four resolutions on Saturday, including a petition to President Droupadi Murmu to withdraw the voter roll revision.
The Mokama MLA, at odds with his party over a council seat, says he meant nine of his associates were killed after he sided with Nitish. The RJD calls it a confession.
A Saket magistrate acted after a notice could not be served at the YouTuber's locked Gurugram home. The complainant says Rathee's recent trip to India for the protests made service possible.
The request lands as the Secretary of State begins a six-day India visit, a day after New Delhi called a Congresswoman's remarks on the roll revision 'unwarranted and uninformed'.
Farmer, worker, student and women's groups plan district-level demonstrations demanding the end of the roll revision and the CEC's removal. AIKS will mark its 90th year in Nalgonda in November.
Campaigning for the Legislative Council seats, the Chief Minister accused Akhilesh Yadav's party of handing its Rajya Sabha tickets to family and a Mumbai businessman.
Opposition leaders lined up on Friday to condemn the detention of Abhijeet Dipke for carrying the national flag. In Lucknow, the Defence Minister said Congress and its allies were using young people to spread anarchy.
About 150 people were held in central Delhi on Friday evening. Central Park stayed locked behind a human chain of police, and small groups with the Tricolour marched round the inner circle before being dispersed.
Booth-level officers have been told to reverify every elector left out of the draft published on 31 August, after complaints that living voters at their own addresses were struck off.
A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant issued show-cause notices on the Supreme Court Bar Association's plea but excused both men from appearing in person. "May better sense prevail," the CJI said.
The journalist says the case is a counterblast to her complaint that ACP Vivek Bhagat sexually harassed her at a protest against the Chief Election Commissioner. The Supreme Court has already barred coercive action against her.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court set aside the Ministry of External Affairs' refusal of political clearance for the Chief Minister's France visit. The Centre had cited threats to his security.
Senior advocate Gaurav Bhatia mentioned the application a day after the court refused to act on his oral complaint. The bench said it would examine the matter later this month.
Hours before the CJP's flag protest, traders asked the Supreme Court to step in over the shutdown of Central Park. The bench noted that the Delhi High Court is already hearing a similar case.
Siddharth Luthra told the court the 82-year-old former Keralam chief minister faces possible arrest in the CMRL-Exalogic case. Otherwise the plea will come up on 26 October.
The FRRO told the US citizen and OCI cardholder to leave by 28 October after he joined a Mumbai protest against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Abhijeet Dipke wants supporters at Central Park at 5 pm on Friday. Delhi Police have told the High Court they will take every measure the law allows, and barricades are already up on the Outer Circle.
Friday was polling day for 11 biennial seats and a Bengal bypoll. With no contest anywhere, the BJP takes 10 seats, the SP two, and the BSP loses its last UP member in the House.
Graduates and teachers in Pune, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Amravati vote on 23 October. The Shiv Sena leader said the opposition was criticising relief it had asked for.
The Trinamool MP condemned the couple's detention at India Gate. Ankita's father has given the Centre 24 hours to put Dushyant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim Governor on hold.
The Congress student wing says a woman police officer assaulted its women members and that senior officers refused to register a case. Police have not responded.
R Venkataramani called their posts on Chief Justice Surya Kant 'prima-facie scandalous'. Wagle has apologised and deleted his post; Raut has not responded.
The lawyer spoke at a Press Club meeting with the CJP's Abhijeet Dipke, where Prakash Raj accused the poll machinery of quietly erasing Muslim voters through Form 7.
The 2013-batch officer, who quit the service last month, may contest Mirzapur Sadar. Union Minister Anupriya Patel, the local MP, says the voters will answer her.
A Palika Bazar vendor wants the CJP's Friday flag gathering stopped. Police cited 15 lakh traders and promised 'all possible measures under the law'.
A plea objects to Monday's INDIA bloc march to the court and to a social media post against the Chief Justice. Akhilesh Yadav and others have also been served notice.
The Chief Justice said a committee to look into the complaints from the Delhi protests should be made up mostly or wholly of women. The government denied seizing reporters' phones.
The court issued notice to the Centre and Delhi Police on the petitions over the crackdown on the anti-CEC protests, and appealed to lawyers to stop filing new ones.
Notice went to the Election Commission and all three commissioners. The bench tagged the plea with the pending SIR cases and said its notice to one petitioner was provisional.
The Samajwadi Party's state president accused the Chief Minister of breaking the model code to sway the vote for 11 Council seats, and sought house arrest for both deputy chief ministers.
BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari seized on remarks by Neha Bora, a student leader who has been at the forefront of the protests against the Chief Election Commissioner.
DMRC says only 45 of 303 stations were shut on 10 October. Journalists and a lawyer have filed fresh pleas before Thursday's hearing on the detentions.
The former Vice-President, who resigned in July 2025, is on the guest list for Mohan Bhagwat's address in Nagpur on 20 October, the close of the Sangh's centenary year.
Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma's council of ministers joined the Union Cabinet and other BJP-led states in marking the milestone, crediting the Prime Minister with progress on water, power and investment.
Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi joined the couple, who want the BJP leader's appointment held back until the CBI finishes its inquiry into their daughter's murder. Gautam denies any role.
Jairam Ramesh put three questions to the Home Minister about detections, deletions and deportations. J P Nadda replied that the crores of names flagged in draft rolls were never called infiltrators.
The AIMIM chief says election commissioners' internal objections were never placed before the court. Separately, the bench advanced a plea on deleted Delhi voters to 28 October.
Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were sent to Tihar for five days after entering Jantar Mantar with the national flag. Leaders from the Congress, TMC, AAP, DMK and the Left closed ranks behind them.
The Cockroach Janta Party founder wants supporters with flags at Central Park on Friday evening to protest the jailing of two of its leaders. On his return from Nagpur, a group booed him at the airport.
Justice V Lakshminarayanan said the state was treating citizens as enemies by refusing processions. The RSS wants to march on 18 October or later dates.
The Commission said it could not trace the 2023 recording at the centre of a Karnataka seat decided by a recount. The court warned it would draw an adverse inference.
Kiren Rijiju and Himanta Biswa Sarma seized on a short video from Monday's INDIA bloc march. DK Shivakumar said Gandhi was only worried about his safety.
Patil and two supporters are accused of trying to strike 198 Muslim voters off the rolls during the SIR. The court cited an earlier order in similar cases and will hear the matter on 29 October.
The Deputy Chief Minister's NCP panel beat a BJP-backed rival and a Sharad Pawar-camp slate in the first big cooperative contest since Ajit Pawar's death.
In his first remarks on the protests against the Chief Election Commissioner, the Home Minister said the Congress should look at its own record instead of blaming the SIR. Jairam Ramesh hit back within hours.
Opposition parties, student groups and activists met a day after the Supreme Court march. They gave no dates but said the campaign would go on until Gyanesh Kumar quits.
The four quit and joined the TVK on the same day in May. The court found the resignations genuine but told the Speaker to finish disqualification cases against them within two months.
Barricades and central forces held the Rajabazar to Park Circus march at its starting point. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari had said it would not be allowed to move a single step.
Detention and contempt cases over the Delhi protests were put off to Thursday as a judge was unwell. The Chief Justice said police would have to explain the journalists' allegations.
A BJP worker says calling the Prime Minister a 'Commander-in-Thief' defamed party members. The Bombay High Court had refused to quash the case in September.
A Delhi magistrate's court remanded the two Cockroach Janta Party leaders for five days on Wednesday, a day after they climbed the locked gate of the de-notified protest site.
The court will hear pleas on Thursday over Monday night's gathering in its premises. Police sources now count four FIRs over the march, and a separate contempt plea targets Congress leaders.
The AIMIM chief told Muslim voters in Uttar Pradesh that backing the Samajwadi Party had cost them, and said the 2027 contest would be "99 vs 1".
Raj Thackeray's party also wants the SIR scrapped in Maharashtra and a return to ballot papers. Mumbai Police have booked Aaditya and Amit Thackeray over Sunday's protest at Shivaji Park.
Om Prakash Mathur shifts from Sikkim to Keralam. Sudha Yadav goes to Karnataka, Dhal Singh Bisen to Uttarakhand, Braj Mohan Ram to Odisha and Dushyant Gautam to Sikkim.
Ram Pukar Sinha is contesting the Saran teachers' seat in the Bihar Legislative Council as an independent against the JD(U)'s Anand Pushkar. Three of the party's four MLAs attended his nomination.
Yogi Adityanath, Anurag Thakur, Devendra Fadnavis and Himanta Biswa Sarma accused the opposition of attacking constitutional institutions as the INDIA bloc marched towards the Supreme Court.
JNU dismissed the Inner Manipur MP from his professorship after 11 students complained of harassment, and police have filed an FIR. He denies the charges and calls it a witch hunt.
The Bar, two journalists' groups and a Rajya Sabha MP have filed fresh petitions. The Chief Justice said lawyers may join peaceful protests and listed the matters for Tuesday.
The Keralam Congress reacted on X to Chief Justice Surya Kant's remark that the Delhi protests were a law and order matter. The post was later taken down, and the BJP called it an attack on the judiciary.
The Bihar SIR judgment came before the new voter form existed, the bench said. It issued notice on a petition alleging the CEC took decisions without his two colleagues.
Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan's motion, backed by the Left and opposed by the BJP's three MLAs, cites the SIR and wants the Chief Justice on the panel that picks election commissioners.
Police halted the opposition march on Bhagwan Dass Road, short of the Supreme Court. Rahul Gandhi and 10 other leaders filed a writ petition against the Election Commission and its three commissioners.
If revised rolls are not out when polls are notified, the existing rolls apply, the court said. In Bengal, about 1.70 lakh appeals by deleted voters are pending before Kolkata and Howrah civic polls.
The MLAs voted for the TVK government against their party's whip and were later pardoned by the AIADMK. The court said a House member must pursue such cases, and left the law open.
Police held thousands, by most counts, as they blocked a march against CEC Gyanesh Kumar on 10 October. At a Sunday sitting, the court said peaceful protesters cannot be held except by law.
The Congress leader and the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister met for about an hour at Vijay's home. Neither side has said what was discussed, and Gandhi went on to attack the Centre at a student event.
Manipur, Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh complete their terms between March and May 2027. The census count in four of them has been brought forward to December, ahead of the polls.
The Indian Express reported two Election Commissioners objected at least 14 times to SIR decisions. The ECI says differing views are routine and its decisions were unanimous.
Maharashtra lost the most names and Delhi the largest share. The Election Commission says these are not final deletions; opposition parties allege disenfranchisement.
The BJP won Nagaon, Nandigram and Rejinagar, TVK held both Tamil Nadu seats and AINRC took Thattanchavady in the 6 October bypolls, counted on 9 October.
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