Top News Headlines of October 5, 2025 | Union Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday appealed to the people to take a pledge to use only “swadeshi” products and boycott any foreign-made products in their households. Shah said granting ownership rights of houses under the ‘Mhaje Ghar Yojana’ to lakhs of citizens of Goa, who had been entangled in different types of legal complications, is a major step toward empowerment. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set the target to become ‘Viksit Bharat by 2047. In early September, officials in Madhya Pradesh’s Parasia noticed something was wrong as several children aged under five started dying from unexplained health complications. For two weeks, the district administration scrambled to understand what was killing their youngest residents. Health officials launched an urgent field investigation, testing the usual suspects: contaminated water sources, disease-carrying rodents, and mosquito populations. Over a week after clashes erupted in Bareilly over the ‘I Love Muhammad’ row, DIG (Bareilly Range) Ajay Kumar Sahni said that the posters were not the issue but action had to be taken after a large gathering disturbed law and order last Friday. Authorities also demolished a banquet hall owned by a man arrested in connection with the clashes, stating that it was illegal.
