Author: Newscope Newsdesk
Fifteen people died after a truck crashed into temple devotees in Gwalior, prompting official suspensions and state-federal compensation.
MK Stalin backed CJP’s protests against SIR and CEC Gyanesh Kumar, while ruling out any collaboration with “backstabber” Congress.
Delhi Police detained around 150 protesters, including key figures Abhijeet Dipke and Neha Bora, amid heavy security deployment and minor altercations across central Delhi.
Rahul Gandhi slammed the jailing of CJP leaders, asserting that Jantar Mantar belongs to the citizens and will be reclaimed.
At Bloomberg Economic Forum, PM highlights 500M+ digital user bases and 80,000 newspapers, framing India’s 25-crore poverty reduction and 2.5-lakh startups as models of human-centric growth.
Defying heavy security clampdowns and the detention of Cockroach Janta Party leaders, thousands of student and youth activists mounted decentralized, pop-up protests across Connaught Place, Patel Chowk, and Mandi House on Saturday. Over 7,000 protesters were detained by Delhi Police across the capital and moved to makeshift stadium detention centers, where secondary demonstrations erupted, even as the INDIA bloc announced a joint march to the Supreme Court on October 12 demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over the SIR roll revisions.
In an unprecedented preventive operation, Delhi Police on Saturday detained Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and co-conveners Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka directly inside their aircraft upon landing at IGI Airport from Mumbai. Bundled into waiting police vehicles on the tarmac, the leaders were taken to undisclosed locations as security forces rounded up thousands of demonstrators and maintained an expansive transit dragnet across the national capital to foil planned protests demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed a petition filed by Cockroach Janta Party legal wing head Ratna Singh alleging wrongful confinement by Delhi Police outside her Jangpura residence. Rejecting the plea seeking an FIR under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, Chief Judicial Magistrate Abhinav Pandey held that the application suffered from procedural defects, lacked a supporting affidavit, and failed to identify the specific police officers involved, even as security forces enforced widespread preventive detentions across the capital over the ongoing SIR controversy.
Delhi has been placed under heavy security and transport curbs ahead of a planned October 10 protest by the Cockroach Janta Party at Jantar Mantar demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The Delhi Metro suspended entry and exit at 57 major stations, the New Delhi station interchange was shut, and long-distance trains were cancelled, drawing scrutiny from the Supreme Court as over 23,000 security personnel enforced prohibitory orders across the capital.
Ending an extended period of policy accommodation, the Reserve Bank of India has raised the benchmark repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.50% and shifted its policy stance to ‘calibrated tightening’. Announcing the unanimous MPC outcome, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra cited stubborn inflation prints and geopolitical oil risks, upwardly revising the FY27 inflation projection to 5.2% while raising the annual GDP growth outlook to a robust 7.1%.