Oct 1, Saturday TNV Top 10 News — 5G services launched in India, Indore cleanest city in the country, Mallikarjun Kharge Vs Shashi Tharoor for Congress President post, Kabul classroom suicide bombing toll rises to 35, and more

1. At the sixth edition of India Mobile Congress (IMC), PM Narendra Modi officially launched 5G services in India. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Airtel, announced that airtel’s 5G services will be available in eight cities starting today.
2. The Congress Presidential poll will finally be between Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor. The nomination papers of former Jharkhand Congress minister KN Tripathi were rejected today due to a signature mismatch.
3. Speaking at the launch event of Mercedes EQS 580 4MATIC EV, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari asked the German car maker to increase its production locally to minimize cost. Citing the car’s price of Rs.1.55 crore, Gadkari said, “We are middle-class people even I can’t afford your car.”
4. The United States has sanctioned Tibalaji Petrochem Pvt Ltd for transacting with Iran. The move is the first of its kind action against an Indian company.
5. The Swachh Survekshan survey has adjudged Indore the cleanest city in India for the sixth consecutive year. Surat in Gujarat has secured second place.
6. A leaked media report revealed that Jio is launching a 5G phone in partnership with LYF. The new Jio phone could cost between Rs.8000 and Rs.12000.
7. Government is testing its Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), a contender to e-com giants Flipkart and Amazon, in Bengaluru. Reports said that on Day 1 of the ONDC beta launch, 151 orders were placed by customers, 51 were delivered, and the remaining are in progress.
8. As per an international study, under the Earth’s surface lies a water reservoir whose volume is three times that of all the oceans on the planet’s surface.
9. During the annexation ceremony of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine into Russia, President Putin reminded Western powers of their colonial policy, slave trade, genocides, and the loot and plunder they did in India and Africa.
10. The death toll in the suicide bombing at Dasht-e-Barchi learning center in Kabul has risen to 35, according to the United Nations. The blast occurred in a neighborhood populated by the Hazara community, an ethnic minority in Afghanistan.

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