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• There has been heavy fighting in northern Mexico between the security forces and members of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel after one of the group's leaders was discovered.


• Ovidio Guzmán López was found during a routine patrol in Culiacán.


• He is the son of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years in the US.

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• Boris Johnson will attempt to persuade MPs to back his Brexit deal later ahead of what is expected to be a knife-edge vote in the Commons.


• Mr. Johnson has insisted he is "very confident" MPs will back his deal.


• But the DUP's opposition to his plans means he faces a battle to get the agreement through Parliament.

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• Canadians go to the polls on 21 October, four years after Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party swept to power.


• But things aren't as clear-cut this time around, with several other parties rising in the polls.


• Here's a visual look at some key issues and themes which could shape the outcome on election night.

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• China's GDP rose 6% in the July-September quarter, down from the previous quarter's 6.2%.


• The growth was the slowest since the first quarter of 1992, the earliest quarterly data on record, but within the government's full-year target range of 6%-6.5%. China's exports to the US, its biggest foreign market, fell 21.9% in September because of the trade war.

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• Heavily armed cartel fighters surrounded security forces and made them free one of drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman's sons, whose brief apprehension triggered intense gunbattles across the city of Culiacan.


• Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said a patrol by National Guard militarized police first came under attack from within a house in the city, 600 km (370 miles) northwest of Mexico City.


• After entering the house, they found four men including Ovidio Guzman, who is accused of drug trafficking in the United States.

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• The United States slapped tariffs on a record $7.5-billion worth of European goods, with Airbus, French wine and Scottish whiskies among the high-profile targets.


• The tariffs, which took effect at 0001 in Washington (0401 GMT), were imposed despite pleas from European officials for a last-minute reprieve and French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire warning of retaliation.

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• Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari named the highway starting from Kapurthala, connecting Gobindwal Sahib and terminating near Taran Tarana, as Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Marg to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev.


• "The National Highway starting from Kapurthala connecting Gobindwal Sahib and terminating near Taran Taran in the State of Punjab has been declared as new National Highway No. 703AA and named as "Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Marg," Mr. Gadkari wrote.

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• In a first, Odisha Government will empanel sign language interpreters at the police stations to assist people with hearing and speaking disabilities.


• Speaking to ANI, State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, Sulochana Das said that the interpreters will assist diving in recording their statements and filing FIRs at the police stations.

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• Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh said maritime threats like piracy and drug trafficking have a "trans-national" character, and pitched for harnessing "collective military competency" to mutually learn from the best practices of navies.


• Addressing the fourth conclave of defence attaches in Delhi, he said the Indian Navy is "committed to enhancing cooperation and engagement with like-minded navies in the Indian Ocean region".


• "For seagoing forces, cooperation is a very important word, and the nature of the seas is such that they do not divide but unite and called the highways of connectivity. So, navy by nature operates in a cooperative domain," Admiral Singh said.

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• The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has banned the use of mobile phones in colleges and universities in the state. A circular to this effect has been issued by the Directorate of Higher Education in Uttar Pradesh. The circular mentions a blanket ban on the use of mobile phones inside universities and colleges. Students will no longer be allowed to take or use mobile phones inside universities and colleges. The ban is also applicable to teachers across all universities and colleges in the state.

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• Bihar politician Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav was fined on Thursday for driving without a valid license a tractor trolley full of garbage that he threatened to dump in front of a state minister's residence in Patna, police said.


• Mr Yadav, a controversial former MP who has floated the Jan Adhikar Party (JAP), said he did this in protest against the state government's "failure" to check the outbreak of dengue, which has afflicted more than 200 people in the city since the beginning of this month when heavy rain had left many pockets water-logged for several days.

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• A Delhi court remanded former Fortis Healthcare promoters Malvinder Singh and his brother Shivinder to 14-day judicial custody for allegedly misappropriating funds of Religare Finvest Ltd (RFL).


• Metropolitan Magistrate Nishant Garg also sent three others, Sunil Godhwani, Kavi Arora and Anil Saxena, to judicial custody till October 31.


• The Singh brothers had moved a bail plea which will be heard, along with that of Arora.

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• National Testing Agency (NTA) is expected to begin form correction process for UGC NET and CSIR NET examinations.


• The form correction process will begin today and conclude on October 25, 2019. Correction in only certain specific details will be allowed and candidates cannot change every detail in the application form.


• To make corrections in the application form, candidates would need to login to their candidate's account created at the time of application on the NTA website.

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• Staff Selection Commission (SSC) will conclude the online application process for Stenographer recruitment today, i.e. October 18.


• The Commission had advertised Stenographer Grade 'C' and Grade 'D' vacancies in September. The exact number of Stenographer vacancies available will be notified later. The facility to pay application fee online or to generate offline Challan will be available till October 20.

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• WBJEE 2020 application process will begin. West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) is conducted for admission to undergraduate courses in Engineering & Technology, Pharmacy and Architecture in Universities, Government Colleges and Self-Financed Institutes in West Bengal. The examination will be conducted on February 2, 2020.


• The last date to apply for WBJEE 2020 is November 13, 2019. After the application process is over, candidates will be allowed to make corrections in the application form and download the revised confirmation page from November 14 to November 16, 2019.

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• Home Credit India (HCIN),a leading consumer durable loan provider has for the first time joined hands with one of the oldest banks in India , Karur Vysya Bank (KVB) for offering joint lending.


• Under the partnership, Home Credit and KVB will be jointly providing the loan as a single amount to the customer. End-to-end automated processing is the special feature of this tie-up by which the customer gets real-time approval and disbursement.

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• England’s legendary female cricketer Jennifer Louise Gunn (33), who won the England team three times the World Cup, has announced her retirement from international cricket.


• Jennifer Louise Gunn’s (known as Jenny Gunn) international career has been around 15 years, in which she has played 259 international matches.

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• India vs South Africa third Test will begin on Saturday with the JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi playing host to the final encounter.


• India took an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series after thrashing the visitors by an innings and 137 runs in the second Test in Pune and many may see the final Test as a dead rubber.


• But the World Test Championship has ensured that is not the case. With 40 points at stake, both teams will be looking for a win.

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• 45 year old professional Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra became the first Asian orchestra to win Orchestra of the Year 2019 award given by the Gramophone Magazine at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2019.


• It was the only category of the annual awards opened to public votes in which Hong Kong.

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• Arecord number of films have been submitted for consideration in the Best Animated Feature category for the 92nd Academy Awards.


• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 32 films would be competing for five spots in the coveted Best Animated Feature category at the 2020 Oscars, though several of the entries have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying run in order to advance.

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• India has emerged as the third-largest hub for 'unicorns', startups with a valuation of $1 billion or more, in the inaugural Hurun Global Unicorn List 2019.


• India accounts for 21 unicorns and is behind only China and the US, which have 206 and 203 unicorns respectively, the list noted. Hurun Research found 494 unicorns globally, based in 25 countries.

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• The Board of Directors (BoD) of the World Steel Association (world steel) elected new officers for 2019/2020 at the Worldsteel General Assembly in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico for a term of 1 year.


• Mr. Sajjan Jindal, Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of JSW Steel, was elected as the vice-chairman along with Andre Johannpeter, executive vice-chairman, Gerdau S.A succeeding Yu Yong and Kosei Shindo.

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• Book titled “India in a Warming world: Integrating Climate Change and Development” featuring a collection of articles by climate experts including Sunita Narain, Anil Agarwal, Dr Friederike Otto & Shibani Ghosh, edited by Navroz K Dubash is set to release in November 2019. It is published by Oxford University Press (OUP).


• The foreword of the book is written by Nitin Desai, former Under-Secretary General (Economic and Social Affairs) at the United Nations

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• Veteran broadcast journalist P.V. Krishnamoorthy, aged 98, passed away in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was born in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 1,1921.


• He had joined External Services Division, All India Radio (AIR), as news reader/announcer in 1944. He had served as a Station Director of the AIR in Chennai and Kolkata and of the Doordarshan Kendra in New Delhi and Mumbai, Vice-Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi.