1.India's leading e-commerce marketplaces witnessed a strong start to the festive shopping season, generating an estimated Rs 24,000 crore in sales during the first two days.

2.A total of 287 candidates will contest the upcoming student union elections across 13 universities in Odisha, according to the final list of candidates released by the Higher Education Department.

3.Cockroach Janta Party Sunday vowed to intensify its agitation against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, even as around 200 people were detained while protests were held at several places in the New Delhi area that remained under a security chokehold.

4.The Supreme Court Sunday orally observed that while there was no dispute over citizens' right to protest, the manner in which demonstrations are conducted must comply with the Police Act, stressing that the exercise of fundamental rights cannot be divorced from the procedure prescribed by law.

5.The Delhi Police Sunday released a video to refute the CJP's claim that its founder Abhijeet Dipke was not informed about his grandmother's death while in custody October 10. It reiterated that the news was conveyed with due sensitivity and assistance was offered for his travel to his hometown for the funeral, but he declined the offer.

6.The Supreme Court on Sunday issued notice to the BJP-led Delhi government seeking its reply on why contempt of court proceedings should not be initiated against it over the closure of Metro stations during the 10 October protests demanding the ouster of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

7.The Supreme Court on Sunday directed that people gathering peacefully should not be illegally detained, while issuing notice to the Centre on a plea seeking contempt proceedings over the alleged violation of its earlier order on metro and train services in Delhi amid the CJP protest.

8.The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear on October 16 pleas of voters deleted from the electoral roll under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in West Bengal for early disposal of their appeals against deletion.

9.Dr Rajkishore Paramaguru, a mining and metallurgy researcher at CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT), has earned a place among the world’s top 2 percent scientists in the 2025–26 listing published by Elsevier in collaboration with Stanford University.

10.Noted educationist and Founder of KIIT and KISS, Dr Achyuta Samanta has been unanimously elected the first President of the Indian UniSport Federation (IUSF).

11.In an unprecedented constitutional development, the Kerala Legislative Assembly is set to move a special resolution seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner .

12.Dubai: A total of 22 Indian crew members were rescued from crude oil tanker MT Gem No. 2,  off the Ras Al Khaimah coast, after an accident, the Consulate General of India in Dubai said Sunday.

13.An IndiGo flight from Delhi to Chennai was diverted to Hyderabad Sunday after a power bank reportedly caught fire onboard..

14.India Sunday trashed the UN human rights agency's remarks voicing concerns over the detention of thousands of protesters in Delhi, describing them as "unwarranted" and an "unacceptable interference" in the country's internal affairs.

15.The latest attack on the international airport in Saudi Arabia's capital of Riyadh killed 12 people and injured over 300 others, civil aviation authorities said early Sunday, with some in critical condition.