ONI Bureau: —– Illegal Mining: 14 mine owners depose before Keonjhar district magistrate today.
—– IMD issues Thunderstorm, Lightning, heavy Rain alert for 7 districts in Odisha today.
—– Death of Divyang Student in Cuttack: CCTV cameras to be installed in all hostels & special committee will be constituted to coordinate with Divyang students.
—– Fire-fighters douse flames after fire breaks out in canteen of Dhenkanal district headquarters hospital, no casaality reported.
—– Chit Fund Scam: CBI arrests executive director of Nirmal chit fund company Niranjan Saksena from Madhya Pradesh; Saksena accused of Rs 431 crore scam.
—– Police resorted to lathi charge on journalists in Puri during a scuffle between customers and staff of a petrol pump.
—– Special Task Force (STF) of Delhi Crime Branch today busted an international Red Sandalwood smuggling racket & arrested 3 persons. 4.5 tonnes of Red Sandalwood has been recovered from a truck worth Rs 1.40 crores in the Indian market and 4.2 crores in the Chinese market.
—– Kerala: Shiv Sena has called for a statewide 12 hours strike on October 1 against Supreme Court’s verdict to allow women of all ages to enter Sabarimala Temple.
—– President Kovind addresses at Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention, in New Delhi.
—– UP cop shoots Apple executive dead, arrested.
—– ICC announces updated version of Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) System along with the new ICC Code of Conduct and ICC Playing Conditions.
—– Indonesia quake-tsunami death toll jumps to 384.
—– Sundar Pichai to testify before US House in November.