TODAY NEWS ON October 28, 2024

News Headlines for CAT, CLAT and IPM aspirants

Source: The Hindu

National News

• Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam conference: Vijay lambasts at looting in the name of Dravidian model
• Maharashtra Assembly polls: MVA names 259 candidates, Mahayuti 235
• 10 injured in stampede at Mumbai’s Bandra station
• BJP’s next big target is to form government in Bengal, says Amit Shah
• India to procure 15 more C-295 aircraft; 12 to be built at home
• Report flags abuse of economic charges to silence media
• Two workers die, seven hospitalised after inhaling toxic fumes at Ahmedabad textile factory
• Rural Development Ministry defends Aadhaar-based wage payment
• State not empowered to frame rules for motor driving schools: Allahabad HC on Uttar Pradesh govt’s order

International News

• Russian forces thwart attempted cross-border assault from Ukraine, official says
• Disengagement in Depsang and Demchok first step, de-escalation next: EAM Jaishankar on India-China ties
• Georgia ruling party wins polls: election commission

Headlines in detail

Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam conference: Vijay lambasts at looting in the name of Dravidian model
Setting his path clear in politics, actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay, on Sunday (October 27, 2024), declared that his party will fight against sectarian forces “ideologically” and ‘Dravida model’-invoking corrupt forces “politically”. He also declared the party is open to sharing power with parties, which approach the TVK in the 2026 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu.

Maharashtra Assembly polls: MVA names 259 candidates, Mahayuti 235
The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) and Congress on Sunday (October 27, 2024) released candidate lists featuring nine and 12 names respectively for the November 20 Maharashtra Assembly election. With this, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance has so far announced 259 candidates. The ruling Mahayuti alliance has so far named 235 candidates, with 20 more candidates from Shiv Sena and four more from Ajit Pawar-led NCP being the latest addition. The State Assembly has 288 seats.

10 injured in stampede at Mumbai’s Bandra station
A stampede on an overcrowded platform at Bandra railway station in Mumbai left at least 10 persons injured in the early hours of Sunday (October 27, 2024), officials said. Two of them were in a critical condition.

Russian forces thwart attempted cross-border assault from Ukraine, official says
Russian forces thwarted an attempt at another cross-border incursion by Ukraine into southwestern Russia, a local official reported Sunday (October 27, 2024), months after Kyiv staged a bold assault on its nuclear-armed enemy that Moscow is still struggling to halt.

India to procure 15 more C-295 aircraft; 12 to be built at home
India is looking to procure 15 additional C-295 transport aircraft from Airbus, beyond the 56 already contracted, of which 12 would be manufactured in India by Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL), while three would come in fly-away condition, according to official sources.

Report flags abuse of economic charges to silence media
A new report from the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) flags the growing trend of governments resorting to false charges of financial crimes to silence the press. The report, titled ‘Misuse of economic charges to silence, threaten and attack the press: Review of case studies’ documents eight different cases of media under attack for their independent journalism, including that of NewsClick from India.

Two workers die, seven hospitalised after inhaling toxic fumes at Ahmedabad textile factory
Two workers died and seven were hospitalised after they inhaled toxic fumes at a textile factory in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Sunday (October 27, 2024), police said.

Rural Development Ministry defends Aadhaar-based wage payment
The Union Rural Development Ministry in a statement issued on Sunday (October 27, 2024) defended using the Aadhaar Based Payment System (ABPS), calling it a “major reform” that helps in better targeting, increased efficiency, reducing delays in payments, and greater inclusion by curbing leakages.

Disengagement in Depsang and Demchok first step, de-escalation next: EAM Jaishankar on India-China ties
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said the disengagement of troops at Depsang and Demchok in Ladakh is the first step, and it is expected that India will return to the 2020 patrolling status. The next step is de-escalation, which will not happen until India is sure that the same is happening on the other side as well, the EAM said, obviously referring to China. Earlier this week, India announced it had reached an agreement with China on patrolling along the LAC in eastern Ladakh, a major breakthrough in ending the over four-year-long military standoff.

State not empowered to frame rules for motor driving schools: Allahabad HC on Uttar Pradesh govt’s order
The Allahabad High Court has held that Section 27 of Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 empowers the central government to make rules for licensing and regulating motor driving training schools. The State Government is not competent to frame rules in this regard. The Uttar Pradesh Government had issued an order in 2023 laying down Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for private motor driving training schools and their operation which was challenged before the High Court.

Georgia ruling party wins polls: election commission
Georgia’s ruling party has won the country’s parliamentary elections, the central election commission said Sunday (October 27, 2024), after the opposition decried the results as fraudulent. Brussels had warned that Saturday’s vote, seen as a crucial test of democracy in the Caucasus country, would determine the EU-candidate’s chances of joining the bloc. Official results from more than 99% of precincts showed the ruling Georgian Dream party winning 54.08% of the votes, while a union of four pro-Western opposition alliances garnered 37.58%, central election commission chair Giorgi Kalandarishvili told a news conference.