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The poll spending limit for candidates contesting Lok Sabha and assembly elections has been enhanced by 10 per cent based on the recommendation of the Election Commission that contestants be allowed to spend more on campaigning keeping in mind difficulties they may face due to COVID-19 curbs.

Amid speculations that senior BJP leader Eknath Khadse may join the NCP in a couple of days, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said there are talks every day of such kind of "muhurat".

Shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted about his address to the nation this evening, Chirag Paswan - whose relationship status with ally BJP has turned "complicated" ahead of the Bihar polls -- retweeted the message and added his own appeal to it.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi became the first leader of the party to openly criticize senior leader KamalNath for his "item" remark on Imarti Devi, a BJP candidate for the by-elections in Madhya Pradesh.

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said the Centre would definitely help the state in the wake of damages caused due to heavy rains, but the state government should also spell out what it is doing to provide relief to the affected farmers.

The Delhi High Court today observed that its blanket order extending interim bails and paroles granted to prisoners in view of the COVID-19 pandemic should come to an end as the number of infected persons in jails here was only three.

Hitting out at a comment by BJP-led National Democratic Alliance's chief ministerial candidate Nitish Kumar that Tejashwi Yadav has no real power, and was thus incapable of fulfilling his pre-poll promises, RJD-led Grand Alliance's chief ministerial candidate asked why then was the "world's largest party using its full force" against him.

Balwinder Singh who was arrested for allegedly carrying a firearm at a BJP rally on October 8, was granted bail by a court in Howrah on Monday.

Durga Puja 2020: In a pandemic year, Durga Puja organizers have chosen the sudden Covid lockdown triggered migrant crisis and the 'coronavirus' as themes for the pandals. Migrants and Covid have emerged as the dominant themes of pandals and decorations in Kolkata and other places.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today hinted at the radical changes brought about by COVID-19 in the global economic hierarchy by asking a pointed question: "Is the IMF's relocation to Beijing imminent?"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has tweeted that he will address the nation at 6 pm today.

Australia will participate in the Malabar naval exercise next month involving India, the US and Japan that will bring the four key defence partners and democracies in the region together, demonstrating their collective resolve to support an open and prosperous Indo-Pacific.

"I am not afraid of resigning," Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said today after he moved a resolution in the state assembly against the contentious farm laws enacted by the centre recently.

Support is growing within the union government to formally start talks on a trade deal with Taiwan as both democracies see relations with China deteriorate.

Pollution levels dipped slightly in the national capital this morning due to favourable wind speed, though the air quality was still in the "poor" category.