1. Reliance Jio to launch its new 4G-enabled feature phone around Diwali. The phone unveiled at the India Mobile Congress 2023 will target the 2G-dominated feature phone market with several smartphone-like features.
2. Onion buyers to go teary-eyed as the price of the Kitchen staple is steadily increasing. In Bengaluru, onion prices have shot up by 40-50 percent within a week. In Delhi-NCR, the price stood at Rs.70/kg.
3. In Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama, migrant worker Mukesh from UP was gunned down by terrorists. On Sunday, Inspector Masroor Ahmad Wani, who was off duty, was shot thrice at a close range while playing cricket in the Eidgah area.
4. AP Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy took an aerial survey of the train collision spot in Vizianagaram. On Sunday evening, the collision between two trains and the derailment of the third in the Vizianagaram district killed 13 people, injuring 50 others.
5. BRS sitting MP Kotha Prabhakar Reddy was stabbed in the stomach by a man identified as Raju on Monday. Prabhakar was campaigning in Surampalli village when he was assaulted.
6. Hiring by IT companies in India has fallen during the July-September quarter, as per a Mint report. Something drastic in 25 years, the trend was observed in 9 out of 10 IT companies, amid Western countries restricting their spending and looming geopolitical risks.
7. Teams investigating the Kalamassery blast said the bombs were low-grade but had petrol packets and Jute bags to make them inflammatory. Police investigation said IEDs and radio frequency devices were triggered using a mobile device.
8. The Supreme Court has given Maharashtra assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar time till December 31 to complete hearing the disqualification petition against Shinde faction MLAs of the Shiv Sena.
9. A fire that broke out at SV coach’s garage near Banashankari in Bengaluru gutted 21 buses. Some 42 persons were working at the garage at the time of the accident. However, no casualties have been reported.
10. As Air Quality in the Delhi-NCR gets poorer by the day, a record 1068 farm fires were reported from Punjab on Sunday alone, increasing the tally of stubble incidents in the state to 5,254.