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- A week before the Bihar election begins, another opinion poll has given the victory to the BJP-led NDA alliance. The BJP alliance, spearheaded by PM Narendra Modi is expected to surge ahead of the Grand Alliance by a margin of at least four percent.
- Modi govt has turned down IAF's request for more foreign fighter planes and instead is pushing for Made-in-India Tejas aircraft. PM's decision, in line with his Make-in-India policy to encourage domestic industry, is a blow for many foreign manufacturers circling over the Indian military aviation market worth billions of dollars.
- On Wednesday, the Supreme Court declared that the appeal of former PM Manmohan Singh would be heard by a special bench. His appeal is challenging the trial court order summoning him as an accused in a coal scam case. The observation was made by a bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu.
- PM Modi is to tell states to raise electricity prices in return for access to a financial bailout package. Modi's idea seems to overhaul country's largely loss-making utilities (buckling under $66 billion of debts) at top priority.
- Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali’s concert, scheduled to be held in Mumbai on October 9, was cancelled on Wednesday after Shiv Sena threatened to disrupt it. The opposition was predictable. For opposing any cultural ties with Pakistan, the Sena has maintained that the government should call off every cultural and sporting relation with the neighboring country till it stops all terror activity on Indian soil.
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