1. Five of the accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri rape-murder case were arrested last night, while the sixth was shot in the leg by police before catching him. The accused had raped two Dalit sisters and strangled them to death.
2. PM Narendra Modi arrived at Samarkand today to attend the 8-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.
3. After a gap of three months, Saudi Arabia became India’s second-biggest supplier of oil in August, while Iraq continued to remain the top exporter.
4. The Tamil Nadu State Waqf Board has claimed an entire village, Thiruchenthurai, on the banks of Cauvery in Trichy, belongs to it.
5. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar suspects Tuesday evening’s firing that killed a 30-year-old man and injured 11 others in Begusarai as a conspiracy.
6. Maharashtra Deputy Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis reacted to the opposition’s criticisms of Vedanta-Foxconn choosing Gujarat over Maharashtra to invest. He called them “negative, false, and baseless claims” made for political mileage.
7. The SC bench led by CJI U.U. Lalit sought to know what’s “so principally, and fundamentally wrong” in the economic criterion for reservation.
8. Speaking during his outreach in the valley, Ghulam Nabi Azad said though he cannot guarantee restoration of Artice 370, he promised to return to statehood.
9. Chinese President Xi Jinping met Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand in Uzbekistan and said that China and Russia can make efforts to take up the role of great powers.
10. After a verbal duel between India and China over Chinese spy vessel docking at Hambantota, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said Colombo would not participate in any military alliance.