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Nitish Kumar is the National Democratic Alliance’s chief minister face in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has said. Party leader and Union minister Giriraj Singh also said that seat-sharing arrangements for the polls are underway and “the final formula would be announced soon”, asserting that “everything is fine within the NDA”.

This came on the same day that Jitan Ram Manjhi, whose Hindustani Awam Morcha is a member of the NDA, warned that the party would not contest the Bihar polls if it is not allocated 15 constituencies in the seat-sharing talks.

The Assembly polls are due to be held in two phases on November 6 and November 11, while the votes will be counted on November 14.

The polls will be held over a month after the Election Commission published updated electoral rolls after a special intensive revision revision of the voter lists. At least 47 lakh voters were excluded from the final list published on September 30. Read on.

Why exclusion of women voters in Bihar should worry Nitish Kumar

The Assam Police has arrested Zubeen Garg’s cousin, Deputy Superintendent of Police Sandipan Garg, who had travelled with him to Singapore, where the singer drowned during a yacht trip. He is the fifth person to be arrested in the investigation being conducted into the singer’s death.

Sandipan Garg was produced in court and remanded to 14 days’ police custody. His arrest came after five days of questioning.

Sandipan Garg was said to have accompanied the singer on the yacht trip and had also brought back some of Zubeen Garg’s belongings to India after his death. Read on.

Why musician Zubeen Garg’s death has unleashed a storm of anger in Assam

Actor-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam has moved the Supreme Court against a Madras High Court order constituting a Special Investigation Team to probe the stampede at the party’s rally in Tamil Nadu’s Karur district, which left 41 persons dead. The bench listed the matter for Friday, alongside a related petition seeking a CBI probe into the incident.

On October 3, the High Court criticised the party for having “abandoning” the site after the stampede.

Challenging the order, the party’s secretary Aadhav Arjuna has sought an independent investigation into the incident monitored by the Supreme Court, objecting to the SIT comprising only Tamil Nadu police officers. Read on.

The Supreme Court has directed the Madhya Pradesh government and the Central Bureau of Investigation to explain why it had delayed arresting two police officers accused in the alleged custodial torture and death of an Adivasi man in June 2024.

In September, the top court warned that it would initiate contempt proceedings against officials if they failed to arrest the police officers. Subsequently, while one of them was arrested in Indore on September 27, another was taken into custody in Shivpuri on October 5.

“What happened all these days?” the bench said. “Why couldn’t you trace them? We have to almost frame contempt charges for you to act. This is not how Supreme Court order should be applied. There was a three-judge bench order to arrest.” Read on.

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