The big news: Congress leads as counting begins in Gurdaspur bye-poll, and nine other top stories
Other headlines: The body of a missing bartender was found cut into pieces in Delhi, and a shooting was reported at the Virginia State University in the US.
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A look at the headlines right now:
- Counting under way in Gurdaspur bye-poll, Congress in the lead: The bye-election was necessitated after the death of BJP MP Vinod Khanna, who had won from the constituency four times.
- Chopped body of missing bartender in Delhi found in friend’s fridge: The police said Vipin Chand Joshi went missing on October 9 after leaving work with Badal Mandal, in whose house the body was found.
- Virginia State University on lockdown after reports of a shooting: One person is believed to have sustained life-threatening injuries.
- ‘Modi’s Cabinet has six female ministers’, says Sushma Swaraj on Opposition claiming BJP was anti-women: She also said Rahul Gandhi’s remarks that he never saw women wearing shorts at RSS offices was vulgar and unbecoming of a politician set to lead a party.
- Pakistan says it does not need to extend militant leader Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest: It withdrew a request to extend the Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief’s detention under an anti-terrorism law.
- ‘Workplace harassment in our industry is over’, says Oscars board as it expels Harvey Weinstein: The Academy said its 54-member board of governors ‘voted well in excess of the required two-thirds majority to immediately expel him’.
- Karnataka SIT releases sketches of suspects in Gauri Lankesh murder, says they cannot be linked to any organisation: US Congressman Trent Franks has expressed concern about free speech in India after Lankesh’s killing.
- Mob beats 5 people suspected of carrying beef in Faridabad, case filed against victims and attackers: The meat samples have been sent for a forensic examination.
- Maharashtra Congress General Secretary Mahadev Shelar found dead at his home in Mumbai: Police have registered a case of accidental death.
- ‘Every BJP reform burdened the poor’, RSS trade union chief attacks Centre on economic policies: The government is going in ‘a wrong direction’, Saji Narayan wrote in an exclusive article for Outlook India.