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- Bihar recorded 57.59% turnout in the fourth phase of polls, higher than the voting in the first three phases of the assembly elections. The fifth and final phase of voting will be on November 5 in 57 constituencies. The turnout was 54.85% for Phase 1, 54.99% for Phase 2 and 54.24% for Phase 3.
- In a surprising move, Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) backed Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) which had openly blamed SAD(B)'s alliance partner BJP for shedding crocodile tears on the issue of investigating Sikh's genocide in 1984.
- Union home minister Rajnath Singh asked the litterateurs, historians and artistes to reveal reasons and give suggestions instead of returning Akademi and National awards. He said that these cases of intolerance are matters of law and order which are subjects of the state government and how can Prime Minister or union government be targeted with these issues.
- Hero MotoCorp founder and superman of Indian two wheeler industry Brijmohan Lall Munjal dies after brief illness. Mr. Munjal had retired from active role and became chairman emeritus of the over $4-billion group earlier this year and remained on the board of the company as non-executive member.
- Astrophysicists at the University of Toronto have found that a close encounter with Jupiter about four billion years ago may have resulted in another planet's ejection from the Solar System altogether. Planet ejection occurs as a result of a close planetary encounter in which one of the objects accelerates so much that it breaks free from the massive pull of the Sun.
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