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  • Jan Suraaj Party gets its first MLC seat from Dharbhanga in Bihar, ends CPI's lone representation
  • Supreme Court said that it had not yet examined the legality of the hastily introduced logical discrepancy clause in SIR, says it needs to be seen whether the Election Commission can go beyond the 2003 list to scrutinise logical discrepancy
  • Enforcement Directorate arrests former TMC minister Indranil Sen in Kolkata for his role in the Durga Puja VIP pass scam
  • Rahul Gandhi slams the government, says it is 'criminally destroying' the Tata group, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman hits back, says insuniations will not work and asks him whether he is inciting business leaders to join him in spreading distrust and toxicity
  • Cockroach Janata Party announced its supports for the INDIA bloc rally against SIR at Ramlila Maidan on November 1
  • The BJP and JD(S) alliance won all four Karnataka Legislative Council seats contested in the latest polls, with the BJP retaining three and the JD(S) winning the Bengaluru Teachers’ constituency. The result was a setback for the ruling Congress, which lost all four seats
  • Cyclone Arnab crossed the Andhra Pradesh-Yanam coast early Wednesday with sustained winds of 125–135 kmph, killing three people in Andhra Pradesh and damaging 31 houses, according to disaster-response officials. The storm weakened after landfall, but authorities continued relief operations and warned of heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in southern Odisha and parts of eastern India
  • Reliance Jio Platforms surged around 21% on its stock-market debut on Wednesday, valuing the telecom and digital-services company at approximately $131.5 billion
  • India’s industrial production growth slowed to 6.7% year-on-year in September, down from August’s revised 7.8%, according to official data released on Wednesday. Manufacturing grew 7.6% and electricity and gas supply expanded 11.2%, while mining and quarrying contracted 6.2%
  • Indian equity benchmarks closed lower on Wednesday as selling in information technology and oil and gas shares weighed on sentiment amid elevated crude prices. The Sensex fell 352.64 points, or 0.48%, to 73,246.03, while the Nifty 50 declined 50.90 points, or 0.22%, to 22,698.85
  • Asian Para Games gold medallist Neeraj Yadav was found dead beside his SUV near Maujpur metro station in Delhi is a suspected case of suicide
  • Ranji Trophy: In other matches, the match between Gujarat and Maharashtra was evenly poised
  • Ranji Trophy: Bengal eye another outright win as Kerala were fumbling at 53 for 4 in a chase of 408
  • India’s women defeated Zimbabwe by eight wickets in the third ODI in Vadodara to complete a 3–0 series sweep. Vaishnavi Sharma took 5 for 39 as Zimbabwe were bowled out for 131, before Pratika Rawal scored an unbeaten 59 and Shafali Verma made 51 not out in the successful chase
  • Congress calls Election Commission's affidavit in the SC saying all decisions were taken unanimously as 'deceptive, deceitful and duplicitous'
NDA wins 16 of 28 seats in mixed results in the MLC elections across four states, Congress draws a blank /////// Jio Platforms becomes India's second most valuable company at Rs 13.1 lakh crore, after parent RIL, on debut as it closes at Rs 1419 per share, a premium of 27% on the issue price

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