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Dismissing concerns of the government, the Supreme Court Collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, has recommended two advocates and six district judges for appointment as judges of the Rajasthan High Court.

Sources told media that the Collegium had sought to know if there were specific objections against any name, based on intelligence inputs, but it did not receive a response.

It is learnt that Collegium has now cleared the names as it “presumed that there were no adverse intelligence inputs” from the government.

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's Nepali Congress-led ruling coalition was on Friday heading towards winning a clear majority in Nepal's parliamentary elections with the alliance bagging 64 seats out of the 118 declared In the 275-member House of Representatives, 165 will be elected through direct voting, while the remaining 110 will be elected through a proportional electoral system.

A party or a coalition needs 138 seats to win a clear majority.

The death of the Delhi Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Leader Sandeep Bhardwaj has sparked a political row as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged it to be linked with a “bribe for MCD ticket" while AAP denying the allegations said it should not be connected to the distribution of tickets.

Addressing a press conference, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday said it is wrong to claim that the AAP leader took his life because he was denied a party ticket to contest the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls. "This is very sad. Sandeep ji was close to me too. He used to play a very important role in the trade wing. You cannot connect the death with ticket, it's wrong,” he added.

In a major push to induct indigenously developed weapon systems, the Indian Air Force has moved a proposal worth over Rs 1,400 crore to the government for acquiring Rudram next-generation anti-radiation missiles (NGARM) to search and destroy enemy radar locations, informed defence officials.

"A proposal for acquisition of advanced missiles developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation is with the Defence Ministry and a high-level meeting would soon be taking a call on it," defence officials told ANI.

The high-stakes Assembly Elections in Gujarat will be held in two phases - December 1 and 5 - during which the ruling BJP is likely to witness a close fight with Congress, AIMIM and AAP. While most of the opinion polls have predicted a comfortable victory for the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party in the 182-member Gujarat assembly, the vigorous campaigning by AAP, the rebellion within the BJP, the anti-incumbency factor and the Morbi mishap are likely to impact the final outcome of the polls. Besides the threat posed by AAP, the recent agitations by local tribals against various government projects in the south Gujarat region could also shatter the ruling BJP's dream to ''break all previous records'' in this election.