A 19-year-old youth, who unintentionally donated HIV positive blood, which was infused to a pregnant woman by hospital authorities in Tamil Nadu, died after he consumed rat poison. The teenager had consumed rat poison on Wednesday after he got to know that his infected blood had been transfused to a pregnant woman at Sattur Government Hospital, whose three technicians were sacked for the medical negligence. 

Dubbing their remarks as &lsquo;political puffery&rsquo; with no substance or basis to support their criticism,&nbsp;Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday hit out at BJP leaders Nirmala Sitharaman and Prakash Javadekar for their comments over the Hoshiarpur rape-murder case. Defending Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, Captain said&nbsp;pointed out that in the&nbsp;Hathras&nbsp;case, the Uttar Pradesh government and police &ldquo;did not only fail&rdquo; to initiate stern action but in fact was seemingly &ldquo;trying to cover up&rdquo; the matter to benefit the upper-caste accused.&nbsp;This, he said, was in sharp contrast to the prompt action taken by the Punjab Police, who immediately arrested the accused and is now preparing to file the challan within a week.&nbsp;The BJP attacked the Congress on Saturday over alleged rape and killing of a six-year-old girl in Hoshiarpur, as it asked&nbsp;Gandhi duo&nbsp;why had they not paid a visit to the family of the victim yet.&nbsp;The CM, in a statement, said he himself had directed the director general of police to ensure that the case is fast-tracked by the courts to ensure strict and exemplary action for the accused.&nbsp; &nbsp;

The rape and murder of a six-year-old Dalit girl in Congress-ruled Punjab&rsquo;s Hoshiarpur has given BJP fresh ammunition to target the Gandhi family. Union minister Nirmala Sithraman has questioned Rahul Gandhi&rsquo;s silence on the incident. She took a jibe asking why is Rahul Gandhi not going to Hoshiarpur on a &lsquo;picnic&rsquo;, adding incidents of rape should not be politicised.
Referring to Rahul and Priyanka&rsquo;s outrage over Hathras incident, Sitharaman also asked why the Hoshiarpur incident doesn't shake the conscience of the brother and sister who rush to places which can help them politically.
Earlier Union Minister Javadekar also targeted the Gandhis on this issue.

The Income Tax Department on Saturday issued a number of guidelines on the revision of dates for filing returns under different categories. The date for filing of individual income tax returns for FY 2019-20 has been extended for another month till December 31. The finance ministry said in the statement that for the&nbsp;taxpayers whose accounts need to be audited, the ITR&nbsp;deadline has been extended by two months till January 31, next year. Centre had&nbsp;in May extended the date for filing ITR for FY2019-20 from July 31 to November 30, in a major relief to taxpayers.

Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis&nbsp;has tested positive on coronavirus.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Bharatiya Janata&nbsp;Partry&nbsp;leader, who is in-charge of Bihar&nbsp;polls,&nbsp;said that he has gone in isolation and&nbsp;is under medication and treatment as per the advice of the doctors.
Fadnavis&nbsp;who is in charge of BJP's poll campaign for Maharashtra&nbsp;tweeted saying that God wants him to take a break for a while now.&nbsp;
He wrote, &ldquo;God wants me to stop for a while and take a break. I have been working every single day since the lockdown but now it seems that God wants me to stop for a while and take a break ! I have tested Covid-19 positive and in isolation. Taking all medication &amp; treatment as per the advice of the doctors,&rdquo;
Fadnavis requested those who have made contact with him recently to get tested for the virus as well.
&ldquo;Those who have come in contact with me are advised to get covid19 tests done. Take care, everyone !,&rdquo; he said.

Former J&amp;K Chief Minister and NC chief Farooq&nbsp;Abdullah will head the newly formed People's Alliance for Gupkar&nbsp;Declaration as its President and Mehbooba&nbsp;Mufti, another former CM of J&amp;K, will be its Vice-President. The announcement was made after a meeting of the alliance members in Srinagar. People's Conference chief Sajjad&nbsp;Lone said after the meeting that they will be prepare a document within a month that will present the facts behind the 'lies' being propagated.&nbsp;
Major political parties of J&amp;K have come together under the Gupkar&nbsp;alliance to demand the rollback of Centre's decision to scrap J&amp;K's&nbsp;autonomy, take away its statehood and bifurcate it.&nbsp;
&nbsp;

In a relief to borrowers, government has said that it will implement a loan relief scheme by November 5. The Supreme Court had&nbsp;directed government to implement interest waiver on loans of up to ₹ 2 crore under the Reserve Bank of India's moratorium scheme. The relief will come to borrowers in the form of grant of ex-gratia payment of difference between compound interest and simple interest for six months from March 1 to August 30. Lending institutions will first credit the amount on eligible loans up to&nbsp;₹&nbsp;2 crore, which will be reimbursed by the government. Borrowers will only need to pay simple interest for their outstanding borrowing. The government will have to shell out ₹ 6,500 crore for the implementation of the scheme, PTI reported.

The Indian Army shot down a Pakistani drone on Saturday morning along the Line of Control in J&amp;K's&nbsp;Keran&nbsp;sector. Indian Army officials told news agency ANI&nbsp;that the drone, made by a Chinese company, was shot down at around 8am while flying over Indian positions in the area.

Bengaluru woke up to another gloomy day after Friday&nbsp;saw heavy rains which left most of the IT hub underwater.&nbsp; Many parts of South Bengaluru&nbsp;has been waterlogged and traffic has been disrupted. The IMD has predicted that residents of several areas of Karnataka will be witnessing rains or thundershowers.

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav, who is the chief ministerial candidate of Mahagathbandhan, released the party&rsquo;s election manifesto on Saturday as battle heats up in Bihar ahead of the assembly polls. Releasing the manifesto, Tejashwi&nbsp;promised 10 lakh&nbsp;government jobs.&nbsp;
After NDA came under fire for the vaccine promise ahead of the state polls&nbsp;Yadav took a swipe at their employment pledge. Criticizing JDU chief and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Tejashwi questioned how could BJP provide 19 lakh jobs if its alliance in the state have failed to provide employment opportunities all along.

A Delhi Court on Friday directed the Tihar Jail Superintendent to ensure that former&nbsp;JNU Student Leader Umar Khalid, who was arrested in connection with alleged conspiracy in Delhi Riots, was allowed to step out of his confinement. The court also termed as &ldquo;bizarre and strange&rdquo; Tihar&rsquo;s&nbsp;justification on keeping him confined. The jail&rsquo;s reply came after Khalid told court that he was not allowed to step out of his cell or meet anyone. The court directed authorities to ensure there are no more complaints that an undertrial is being kept in sort of solitary confinement.

India's coronavirus count has crossed 78 lakh with a jump of 53,370 cases in the last 24 hours, according to government data. 650 deaths in the last 24 hours have pushed the total death count to 1,17,956. Meanwhile, 70,16,046 people in the country have recovered since the beginning of the pandemic. The country has been reporting a steady decline in its daily coronavirus infections after reaching a peak of about 90,000 cases a day in September. Maharashtra, India's worst COVID-19-affected state added 7,347 new cases, while Delhi on Friday reported over 4,000 coronavirus cases in a day, sparking concerns of a virus wave amid the festive season.

The result of the Civil Services Preliminary was declared by the&nbsp;Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Friday. Candidates can check the qualifiers' list on the official website.
The UPSC Prelims 2020 exam was held on October 4 this year. About 10.58 lakh candidates had registered for the UPSC civil services examination prelims.&nbsp;
Candidates who pass the UPSC Preliminary exam will have to fill a Detailed Application Form (DAF) to appear for the Civil Services Main exam. The official notification says that&nbsp;the DAF document will be released on the UPSC website on 28 October and will be available till 6 pm on 11 November.

The BJP unit in Jammu &amp; Kashmir on Friday demanded the arrest of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti for her "seditious remarks" wherein she said she would only hold the national tricolour when the flag of the erstwhile state is restored. In an act seen as defiance, the flag of the erstwhile state was prominently placed on a table in front of the PDP president as she addressed reporters for the first time since her release from 14-month detention following the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019. The BJP said "no power on earth" can either hoist the state flag again or restore Article 370. J&amp;K BJP president Ravinder Raina told reporters that Governor Manoj Sinha must take cognisance of seditious remarks of Mehbooba Mufti and put her behind bars.

Delhi's air quality index (AQI) on Saturday deteriorated to the 'severe' category, which is likely to affect people's health, according to the Delhi Pollution Control Committee data (DPCC). The AQI in Alipur was at 432 while it stood at 427 and 409 in Mundka and Wazirpur, respectively. According to experts, the severe category affects the health of people and seriously impacts those with existing diseases. Amid the rise in pollution levels, people are beginning to have problems with breathing and some children have started facing throat issues due to contaminated air.

Kerala has launched the first of its kind water taxi service. The vehicle launched in the backwaters of Alappuzha, ferried passengers. The Catamaran diesel-powered craft has a seating capacity for 10 passengers, and is first in a series of 4 boats, that State Water Transport Department is planning to introduce.&nbsp;After feasibility study was done on the vehicle, the government ordered four of such boats to use them as taxi for the public service. The backwaters of Alappuzha is a major tourist region.

The United States is watching the India-China standoff in Ladakh closely, senior officials of the Trump administration said on Saturday, ahead of an important visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper next week. US wants to ensure the situation does not escalate, they said. The US also stresses it is important to work with like-minded partners like India to counter "China's aggressive behaviour" and wants an increased Indian involvement in Southeast Asia including its military presence in the South China Sea. 'The defence relationship with India is at its best in recent memory&rsquo; the US officials noted.

Delhi on Friday reported 4,086 fresh cases, its highest spike in 35 days. On Thursday, it saw 3,882 cases. Except on October 19, the capital has been reporting over 3,000 cases daily for the last 10 days, sparking concerns of a second wave as the festive season sets in. The numbers are worrying especially when national Covid figures have shown a remarkable decline. On Friday, India saw a marginal improvement in its COVID-19 numbers. 54,366 new cases of COVID-19 were reported from across the country on Friday, while on Thursday, the figures stood at 55,839.

Foretelling the result of the assembly elections and future of Bihar, RJD&nbsp;leader Tejashwi&nbsp;Yadav&nbsp;while addressing a rally in Hisua said that his father Lalu&nbsp;Yadav&nbsp;will be released from jail on November 9 and the next day, November 10, will be Nitish&nbsp;Kumar's&nbsp;farewell. November 10 is the counting day for Bihar&nbsp;assembly elections.&nbsp;
RJD&nbsp;supremo&nbsp;Lalu&nbsp;Yadav is currently jailed for corruption and his bail plea will be heard on November 9 which is also Tejashwi&nbsp;Yadav's&nbsp;birthday.&nbsp;

The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Raninder Singh, the son of Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, in connection with its probe against him for alleged forex contraventions and holding untaxed foreign assets. Reports quoting sources said that Raninder has been summoned by the probe agency at its Jalandhar office on Tuesday to explain the alleged movement of funds to Switzerland and creation of a trust in the tax haven of British Virgin Islands. The move comes as a setback as the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government brought its own farm bills earlier this week to negate the Centre's farm laws, to pacify the agitating farmers in the state.

India is preparing a database of all government and private health personnel to quickly vaccinate them against the novel coronavirus once it is safe to do so, health authorities said on Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to provide any successful vaccine to each of India's 1.3 billion people, but frontline health workers would be the first to get the shots. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is aiming to vaccinate 200 million to 250 million people by July. The vaccine would be supplied by the government of India to all states for free.

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