News updates for October 5

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8.00 pm: A BJP delegation led by senior leaders met Bihar governor DY Patil and handed over a memorandum addressed to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking "justice" in the stampede on Dusshera day in which 33 persons were killed.

7.30 pm: In Tamil Nadu, over 500 persons, including women and children, belonging to Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamat protested in front of the Doordarshan office and shouted slogans against BJP for using the channel as a platform to telecast live RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’'s speech.

7.15 pm: BJP pulls out of event to felicitate party leaders and workers, who were arrested following clashes and communal tension in the district in July.

7.00 pm: Trinamool Congress today denied any connection between the party and those involved in explosion in Burdwan district.

6.30 pm: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed election rally at Nashik in Maharashtra cancelled at the last minute due to a severe storm in the area.

5.40 pm: Clashes were witnessed among protesting activists of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in Islamabad over distribution of Eid gifts

4.42 pm: Seven terrorists, allegedly involved in killing a senior police officer earlier this year, were killed in a shoot-out Sunday with the police in Karachi

4.00 pm: Amit Shah addressing a rally in Baroda in Haryana.

Amit Shah addressing a rally in Baroda (Haryana) pic.twitter.com/0N8fAEXZz9

— ANI (@ANI_news) October 5, 2014

3.40 pm: BJP condemns ceasefire violation by Pak along the LoC, says defence forces have been tasked to give an appropriate reply.

2.30 pm: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda addresses rally in Ambala cantt. [Read more...]

2.15 pm: Shouldn't there be a railway station in Chimur? These issues need to be addressed: Rajnath Singh.

1.45 pm: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses rally in Kolhapur, Maharashtra.

1.05 pm: Bhupinder Singh Hooda addresses a rally in Ambala Cantt (Haryana)

All parties will come to you, It is for you to decide who's speaking the truth: BS Hooda pic.twitter.com/C48yu3Bc36

— ANI (@ANI_news) October 5, 2014

12.45 pm: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses rally in Tasgaon, Maharashtra ahead of polls. [Read more...]

I want to work for welfare of people, farmers and the entire Maharashtra: PM Modi pic.twitter.com/kl2YWr2mm4

— ANI (@ANI_news) October 5, 2014

11.35 am: Protesters to lift Hong Kong government blockade, vow to stay in Central.

11.30 am: Rating of India was down during your (Sonia Gandhi) rule, it has gone up in just 3 months, after Modi ji became the PM: Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Ppl of country want to know,if all your programs were so good,why your party failed so miserably in polls: RS Prasad pic.twitter.com/kvgRdU2dwy

— ANI (@ANI_news) October 5, 2014

11.15 am: Two TMC leaders brutally murdered in Bankura District of West Bengal.

Two TMC leaders brutally murdered in Bankura District of West Bengal pic.twitter.com/zEnort09ls

— ANI (@ANI_news) October 5, 2014

10.55 am: After severe criticism, BJP does a complete U-turn on felicitating Moradabad riot accused, cancels event.

10.20 am: Heavy firing by Pakistani troops in Mendhar, Sawjian sector of Poonch. [Read more...]

10.00 am: Hong Kong Protests: Riot Police Fight Back Pro-Democracy Demonstrator.

9.40 am: Ebola ruled out for ill passenger escorted off plane in Newark, New Jersey.

9.15 am: This issue can only be resolved by having dialogue with senior Pak officials: Tariq Anwar, NCP on ceasefire violation.

8.45 am: 37-year-old undertrial prisoner, who was HIV positive, and lodged in Tihar jail, died in the prison hospital.

8.20 am: Google to facilitate online marketing of DWCRA products: Chandrababu Naidu.

8.00 am: A boy was killed and nearly 60 persons were injured in a stampede at the celebration of the annual ‘Banni Utsavam', also called ‘Samaram', at Devaragattu hill on the outskirts of Neraniki village in Holagunda mandal. [See pictures...]

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