Mumbai: Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray faction has been allowed the flaming torch as its election symbol by the Election Commission. Shiv Sena is the name given to the party by the Election Commission. Bala Sahebji gave the name Shiv Sena to the Shinde’s party.
The commission refused to allow the trident, the rising sun and the mace as symbols for the Thackeray sect. It was refused on the ground that these were not in the list of independent symbols.
Meanwhile, the commission has not yet taken a decision on the symbol of the Eknath Shinde faction. The commission has asked the Shinde camp to provide a list of three new symbols by the 11th of this month.
After the arrow and bow symbol was frozen, Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray side submitted new names and symbols to the Election Commission ahead of the Andheri East by-elections. Two symbols, Trishul and Rising Sun, were submitted for recognition. The names of Shiv Sena Balasaheb Thackeray and Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray were also submitted.
A dispute arose between the Uddhav Thackeray-Eknath Shinde factions over the symbol. Following this, the Election Commission has frozen Shiv Sena’s symbol of arrow and bow. The Election Commission then instructed both groups to submit a list containing three names and symbols.

New Delhi: DY Chandrachud will take over as the next Chief Justice of India. The current Chief Justice U U Lal has suggested the name of his successor. U U Lalit will retire on November 8. Justice Chandrachud can remain in office for two years. He will retire from the Supreme Court on November 10, 2024.

According to the procedure, the Union Law Minister writes to the top judge of the country asking him to recommend a successor a month before the resignation of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In the presence of all the sitting judges of the Supreme Court, the letter of recommendation was handed over to the current Chief Justice UU Lalit Chandrachud this morning. The practice is that the outgoing Chief Justice recommends the next senior judge to the higher post.

Stockholm: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to three people. The award goes to Ben S. Bernanke, and two U.S.-based economists, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig. The award is for research on banks and financial crises.
The organizing committee has decided to celebrate the award ceremony this year, which was not held for two years due to Covid.

Lucknow:  Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav passed away. His son and SP president Akhilesh Yadav informed about the death through Twitter. He was being treated in the emergency department of Vedanta Hospital in Gurugram for the past few days due to his deteriorating health condition.

He was a socialist leader who worked to implement the concept of social justice among the backward classes, who made national politics and Uttar Pradesh dynamic for decades, and waged revolutionary struggles against Hinduism.

In 1980, he became the President of the Lok Dal Party. Later this party became part of Janata Dal. With the split of the Lok Dal, Mulayam came to the fore with the Krantikari Morcha party. He became the Chief Minister of UP for the first time in 1989. Samajwadi Party was formed in 1992. He is known as the giant of Indian politics.

New Delhi:  CBI has arrested one more person in connection with the Delhi liquor policy scam. Abhishek Boinpally, a native of Hyderabad, was arrested. He was summoned for questioning yesterday and arrested today. The arrest was made on the grounds of non-cooperation with the investigation.

Meanwhile, Mumbai Malayalee businessman Vijay Nair was arrested by the CBI earlier in the case. CBI says in the charge sheet that Sameer Mahendraru received Rs 4 crore from Sameer Mahendraru through Sisodia’s follower Arjun Panda.

Jammu:  Encounter again in Jammu and Kashmir. The encounter took place in Thengpo village of Kokarnag in the Anantnag district. Two terrorists were killed in the encounter that started at midnight on Sunday. Encounter is continuing in the area.
Last day, two Lashkar terrorists were in the custody of the Jammu and Kashmir police. Ishfaq Majeed Dar, a native of Sadarkota Bala, is one of the arrested.