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Let’s start with some political news: Among the few Congress veterans to throw their weight behind Shashi Tharoor in the contest for party president, former J&K PCC chief Saifuddin Soz says he thinks Shashi Tharoor will do “better” in the post. While stressing that he has respect for Tharoor’s rival Mallikarjun Kharge, who is seen to have the Gandhi family’s blessing, Soz said: “He (Tharoor) is very well-read. He is energetic and dynamic and he has a wider world view and wider appeal as well.” A two-time Union minister, Soz was one of the first Congress leaders to rally behind Tharoor, and is among those backing him.
Meanwhile, referring to the letters written to him by Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asked him to “chill”, adding that even his wife did not write as many “love letters” to him. “In the past six months, the number of love letters that the L-G has written to me, my wife hasn’t written to me in my whole life. L-G sahib, chill a little. And please tell your super boss to chill a little as well,” Kejriwal tweeted. L-G Saxena recently wrote to Kejriwal over his absence at Raj Ghat on Gandhi Jayanti on October 2. Earlier, he had written to Kejriwal over the delay in granting permissions for felling trees for infrastructure projects.
A day after Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Dussehra rally, political feud continues to brew on the Mumbai University’s Kalina campus that provided the parking facility for the event. Yuva Sena, the youth wing of Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, has circulated photos and videos of liquor bottles strewn around apart from heaps of garbage dumped after the event held on Wednesday. Even liquor bottles are seen lying around besides heaps of plastic bottles, thrown-away food, food packages, and other garbage, said Yuva Sena workers who have sought action against the organisers.
In other news, Indian cough syrup manufacturer Maiden Pharmaceuticals is trying to find out from its buyer in Gambia details related to the deaths of children which the World Health Organization said may have been linked to its products, one of its directors said. “We are trying to find out the situation because it cropped up only today morning,” Naresh Kumar Goyal told Reuters. “We are trying to find out with the buyer and all that what has happened exactly. We are not selling anything in India.” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the U.N. agency was investigating 66 deaths from acute kidney injuries with India’s drug regulator.
The newly launched Mumbai Central-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat Express suffered minor damages after hitting a herd of buffaloes in Gujarat Thursday morning, officials said. The incident happened between the Gairatpur and Vatva station around 11.20 am. A railway spokesperson said the front part of the engine was damaged in the incident. The semi-high speed trains were flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 30.
About a decade ago, he was felicitated by the police for saving the life of a girl after a road accident in Mumbai’s Worli. In 2016, CCTV footage showed him pulling back a man dangling from the Bandra-Worli sea link trying to end his life. Mumbai-based Chetan Kadam, a security supervisor, was among the five people who were killed when a speeding SUV crashed into a stationary vehicle and ambulance on the Bandra Worli Sea Link. Irfan Abdul Raheem Beelkia, who is a real estate developer, has been arrested in a case of rash and negligent driving.
In some international news, the California police Wednesday released CCTV footage showing the kidnapping of an Indian-origin family in Merced County. The four members of the family, including an eight-month-old child, were Thursday found dead. In the video released, the victims were seen taken at gunpoint, and with bound hands. Jasdeep Singh (36), his wife Jasleen Kaur (27), and their 8-month-old daughter Aroohi Dheri, along with Aroohi’s uncle Amandeep Singh, (39), were kidnapped from the premises of their trucking business company in central California
At least 34 people, including 22 kids, were killed in a mass shooting at a children’s day-care centre in a northeastern province of Thailand, reported news agency Reuters citing a police official. The gunman was an ex-police officer and he took his own life following the shooting, it added. The official confirmed to Reuters the gunman killed his wife and child and himself during the incident. He was reportedly discharged from the police force last year. Police added that children as young as 2 years old were among the victims.
Lastly, French author Annie Ernaux has been awarded the highly-acclaimed Nobel Prize in literature 2022 for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. After publishing three novels (Cleaned Out, What they say goes, and The Frozen Woman), she turned to autobiographical writing with her 1984 book, A Man’s Place. According to nobelprize.org, this book was her “literary breakthrough” and “in a scant hundred pages she produced a dispassionate portrait of her father and the entire social milieu that had fundamentally formed him”.

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