MP Evening Wrap:NDA announces seat sharing for Bihar polls; Outrage grows over deadly cough syrup scandal in MP more

Bhaskar English brings you the biggest news from Madhya Pradesh and around the world. Here are the top news headlines of the day: 1. NDA announces seat sharing, BJP JDU to contest on 101 seats each NDA has announced seat sharing for the Bihar Assembly elections. BJP will contest 101 seats, while JDU will contest 101 seats. Chirag Paswan’s party LJP (R) will field its candidates on 29 seats. Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) has been given 6 seats, and Upendra Kushwaha’s party has been given 6 seats. Read More 2. Outrage grows over deadly cough syrup scandal: Kamal Nath meets grieving families Former Chief Minister of the state, Kamal Nath, and former MP Nakul Nath reached. Parasia on Sunday to meet the victim families of the poisonous cough syrup incident. Here, they met the families of the children who lost their lives at Utsav Marriage Lawn. Read more 3. Bhopal engineer seen dancing before allegedly being beaten to death: FIR finds no mention of brutal assault A 20-year-old software engineer, Udit Gayki, died after being mercilessly beaten by two constables, Santosh Bamnia and Saurabh Ary, in Bhopal. The post-mortem report revealed that the cause of death was traumatic haemorrhagic pancreatitis. Read more 4. Mamata Banerjee sparks controversy, says girls shouldn’t go out at night; questions Odisha rape case action West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has expressed shock over the alleged sexual assault of a second-year MBBS student in Durgapur, emphasizing that the private medical college where the student was enrolled bears responsibility for ensuring student safety. Read More 5. Festive travel home and back turns costly for passengers: Bus operators’ ‘Diwali loot’ If you plan to travel from Bhopal to Pune by bus a day before Diwali- on October 19- be ready to spend over ₹5,000 on the ticket. Online searches show that an IndiGo flight on the same route that day costs around ₹6,000- barely any difference. Read more 6. Toxic cough syrup deaths trigger nationwide drug reform: Centre makes DEG and EG After the deaths of 25 children due to the toxic cough syrup Coldrif in Chhindwara and Betul districts of Madhya Pradesh, the shockwaves of the tragedy have reached New Delhi. Read more 7. Afghanistan Foreign Minister Muttaqi calls another press meet, this time inviting women journos Afghanistan’s Taliban government Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi addressed a press conference in Delhi on Sunday, where female journalists were also in attendance. Read More 8. ‘You’ll be beaten blue from head to toe’, Morena police officer caught on camera A video from Morena district has surfaced showing Mata Basaiya Police Station in-charge Arun Kushwah threatening farmers protesting against the Green Field Highway project. In the clip.” Read more 9. Dhirendra Shastri defends bursting firecrackers publicly: Says we don’t comment on festivals ‘Bakrid’ and ‘Tazia’ Chhatarpur’s Bageshwar Dham head priest, Pt. Dhirendra Shastri, has said people should not preach to them about bursting firecrackers on Diwali. Speaking at Mumbai’s Siddhivinayak Ganesh Temple on Saturday. Read more 10. AIIMS Delhi performs India’s first robotic kidney transplant using advanced ‘Da Vinci Xi’ surgical system For the first time in a government hospital, AIIMS Delhi has performed kidney transplants with the help of a robot, bringing high-tech surgery to public healthcare. Read More