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President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir on October 14 and 15 and celebrate Dussehra with troops in Drass.

On October 14, 2021, the President will perform Sindhu Darshan Puja at Sindhu Ghat, Leh. He will also interact with troops at Udhampur in the evening.

The next day, the President will pay tributes at the Kargil War Memorial in Drass and interact with officers and Jawans. Dussehra will be celebrated in the country on October 15. 

When it comes to politicians in Uttar Pradesh, there are few like Naresh Agarwal. Over the past two decades, Agarwal, 70, has been part of all four major political parties in the state. He has been with the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress. Briefly, he was also part of yet another party in the 1990s, the Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress, and served as energy minister in the Kalyan Singh government. His son Nitin Agarwal, 40, is now all set to become Deputy Speaker in the Uttar Pradesh assembly, the first time an opposition MLA will hold the post in a BJP government. His elevation is a move by the BJP to counter any political fallout from the death of Kanpur-based businessman Manish Gupta. The businessman was lynched by police personnel at a hotel in Gorakhpur on the night of September 27.

Against the backdrop of the Gujarat government’s overhaul ahead of the 2022 assembly election, state BJP president C R Paatil said on Tuesday that BJP will field at least 100 new faces in the polls.

Paatil made the statement in a party cadre meeting. “Hundred new faces will replace the old ones in the upcoming state assembly election in 2022,” he said. “The sitting MLAs present here need not take this message personally.” He added: “Nobody should approach me for tickets as this decision has been taken by the higher-ups.”

The BJP high command changed the entire cabinet in the state recently, replacing every minister. Vijay Rupani’s chief ministerial chair was given to Bhupendra Patel. Deputy chief minister Nitin Patel was dropped.

Keeping in view the Declared Capacity (DC) offered to the Delhi DISCOMs in the last 10 days, the Ministry of Power has issued instructions on 10.10.2021 to NTPC and DVC as under so as to secure power supply to Delhi. This will ensure that distribution companies of Delhi will get as much power as requisitioned by them as per their demand.

NTPC and DVC may offer the normative declared capacity (DC) to the Delhi DISCOMS as per their allocations made to them under respective PPAs, from their coal-based power stations. Both NTPC and DVC have committed to providing as much electricity to Delhi as demanded by DISCOMs of Delhi.