1.Senior Hezbollah leader Hashem Safieddine , the seeming successor of slain group chief Hassan Nasrallah is presumed dead after a barrage of Israeli strikes.

2.The Shimla Municipal Commissioner’s court Saturday ordered demolition of the top three “unauthorised” storeys of the disputed Sanjauli mosque here and gave two months’ time to the Waqf Board and the mosque committee to execute its orders.

3. The Odisha  state government Saturday recruited 16,009 junior teachers in primary and upper primary schools under various schemes.

4.Director General of Police (DGP) Yogesh Bahadur Khurania Saturday ordered an inquiry by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sleuths into the mysterious death of a ‘ganja smuggler’ who was allegedly beaten up by policemen in Kandhamal district.

5.With Dussehra round the corner, around 40 lakh women will receive the first instalment of Rs5,000 under the state government’s flagship Subhadra scheme October 9

6.The state government Saturday allowed Special DG of Police, Training and Director, BPSPA Arun Kumar Sarangi to retire voluntarily from the Indian Police Service (IPS)

7.India conducted three successful flight tests of a very short-range air defence missile system at Rajasthan’s Pokhran firing ranges.

8.Over 60 per cent polling was recorded in the Haryana Assembly elections Saturday in which the ruling BJP is eyeing a third term and the Congress seeking a comeback after a decade.

9. Several exit polls Saturday predicted a clear majority for the Congress in Haryana and gave an edge to its alliance with the National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir with the regional partner emerging as the single largest party.

10.The MCD House was adjourned Saturday amid a ruckus over the delay in appointing a Dalit Mayor of the city.

11.The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its February 15 verdict, which had scrapped the Modi government’s electoral bonds scheme of anonymous political funding.

12.The Reserve Bank of India Friday proposed that banks should be barred from using group entities to circumvent regulations applicable to them.

13.Bank credit grew by 15 per cent in August in India, maintaining steady levels compared to the same month last year (14.9 per cent) as agriculture and industry picked up, a report showed Saturday.

14.Tanush Kotian’s gritty unbeaten hundred laced Mumbai’s 15th Irani Cup victory which was sealed by virtue of their first innings lead over Rest Of India on the fifth and final day here Saturday.

15.An open-mouthed expression that dolphins use for each other while playing and being reciprocated about a third of the time, could be a “smile”, researchers have found.