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• Police have begun the process of moving the bodies of 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex.


• Eleven of the victims - believed to be Chinese nationals - were taken by ambulance from the Port of Tilbury to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford.


• Police have been granted extra time to question lorry driver Mo Robinson, 25, on suspicion of murdering the eight women and 31 men.

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• Bolivian President Evo Morales has been declared the winner of the country's elections, according to the electoral tribunal (TSE).


• TSE said Mr. Morales had 47.1% of the vote with 99.9% of ballots counted, avoiding a second-round run-off.


• There were claims of the election being rigged after the vote count was paused for 24 hours.

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• Britain and other European countries must accept some responsibility for the deaths of 39 people, believed to be Chinese nationals, found dead in a refrigerated truck near London, the state-backed Global Times said.


• Paramedics and police found the bodies of 31 men and eight women on an industrial estate at Grays in Essex, about 20 miles (30 km) east of the British capital.


• For years, illegal immigrants have stowed away in trucks while attempting to reach Britain, often from the European mainland. In 2000, 58 Chinese were found dead in a tomato truck at the port of Dover.

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• Donald Trump's lawyers have claimed the president could shoot somebody on New York's Fifth Avenue and get away with it. The city's mayor disagrees.


• "If anybody shoots someone they get arrested. I don't care if it's the President of the United States or anybody else," Bill de Blasio told a press conference.


• "If you shoot someone, you should get arrested and we would arrest him," added the anti-Trump mayor, until recently a candidate to be the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee.

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• US President Donald Trump is ready to mediate between India and Pakistan on the issue of Kashmir only if asked by both the countries, a senior administration official said reiterating that the onus for peace talks lies on Islamabad by taking sustained and irreversible actions against terrorist groups.


• Donald Trump obviously has expressed his concern over the level of tension between India and Pakistan.


• And he discussed Kashmir directly in his meetings with Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Imran Khan, a senior State Department official said.

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• The United States sought from India a "roadmap" to political and economic normalcy in Kashmir and immediate release of all political detainees, adding that it has seen "progress" in easing of restrictions. Pakistan should take "sustained and irreversible" steps against terrorists in its territory, it said.


• Most of the top-level and second-rung separatist politicians of Jammu and Kashmir have been taken into preventive custody while mainstream leaders, including two former chief ministers -- Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, have been either detained or placed under house arrest after center's decision to revoke special status to Jammu and Kashmir and splitting the state into two Union Territories.

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• Union Minister of Railways, Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said that the government is targeting to become one of the top 25 countries in ease of doing business by the year 2024.


• "Our target is to first come among the top 50 countries and then eventually find a spot among the top 25 countries in the list.


• Only developed countries that have advanced economies are among the top 25. India's target is to become a part of that club," Piyush Goyal told.

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• Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar left for Delhi on October 25 morning to meet senior party leaders and discuss a way forward as the ruling BJP emerged as the single largest party with 40 seats in a hung assembly.


• After the poll results came out on October 24, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fell six short of the halfway mark needed to form the next government.

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• Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said the South American nation will drop its requirement that visiting Chinese and Indian tourists or businesspeople obtain visas.


• Bolsonaro, a far-right politician, came to power at the beginning of the year and has made it a policy to reduce visa requirements from a number of developed countries. But the announcement, made during an official visit to China, is the first he has made expanding that policy to the developing world.

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• Abolishing the no-detention policy, the West Bengal government has decided to bring back the ''pass-fail'' system in classes five and eight from the next academic session, Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said.


• A notification in this regard will be issued soon, Chatterjee told PTI.


• "This is in conformity with recommendations of the Ministry of Human Resources Development to bring back the pass-fail system in classes 5 and 8. Students would have to pass examinations to be promoted to classes 6 and 9 from the next academic session," he said.

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• Himachal Pradesh forest department has invited online applications for recruitment to the posts of Forest guards, October 23, 2019.


• Candidates interested and eligible for the post can apply online at, forp.hp.gov.in on or before November 11, 2019.

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• Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) has declared the combined civil services (Group-II services) main examination results 2019 on the official website of the commission.


• Candidates who have appeared in the examination can check their results directly through the official website, the link for which is tnpsc.gov.in.

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• The state government approved the recruitment in Mohali Medical College (MMC) in a bid to provide affordable healthcare and diagnostic services to the public and to offer an opportunity for students to pursue a career in medical education.


• A decision to this effect was taken at the Cabinet meeting which was chaired by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.

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• Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) claimed that its researchers have shown a simple route to produce graphene platelets from graphite.


• "They found that when graphite is suspended in an appropriate fluid and subjected to an intense shearing force of machining, the layers of graphite separate into graphene platelets," a statement from IITM said.

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• PNB Housing Finance gained 13 percent intraday on October 25 after the company reported better-than-expected numbers in the September quarter.


• The company saw a 45 percent jump in its Q2 net profit at Rs 366.8 crore against Rs 253 crore in the same quarter last year.

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• Benchmark indices found new highs in a highly volatile Samvat 2075 amid mixed global cues and domestic data.


• The second successive term for the Narendra Modi-led NDA government in May helped the indices test record highs.


• The move, however, couldn’t be sustained after the Budget, which was presented on July 5, amid a slowdown in the economy and country’s weakening financial position.

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• Bandhan Bank declared its Q2 results for FY 2019-20. The Bank has achieved total business of ₹1,13,381 crore with ₹49,195 crore deposits and ₹64,186 crore advances, in less than 5 years of operations.


• Through its network of 4,220 banking outlets across India and workforce of 35,468 employees, the Bank is catering to 1.83 crore customers.

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• ICICI Bank crossed ₹3 lakh crore in market capitalisation for the first time on Friday, becoming the country's fourth lender to achieve this milestone. Earlier, HDFC Bank, SBI and Kotak Mahindra Bank had achieved this landmark.


• HDFC remains India's most valued bank with a market cap of ₹6.74 lakh crore followed by Kotak Mahindra Bank at ₹3.04 lakh crore.

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• Nicolas Pepe finally lived up to his price tag as he came off the bench to lead Arsenal to a 3-2 comeback victory over Vitūria with perfectly executed free kicks in the Europa League.


• Pepe, the club’s record signing, equalized by curling the ball around the defensive wall in the 80th minute and then replicated the feat in injury time to help Arsenal avoid an embarrassing home loss.

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• Mumbai City FC’s new big buy Amine Chermiti scored a late goal as the team defeated Kerala Blasters 1-0 in the Hero Indian Super League here.


• The goal came off a pass from the right from Souvik Chakrabarti and Tunisian Chermiti, who had been in an African Champions League-winning team earlier, came up with a superb finish in the 82nd minute that silenced the Nehru Stadium.

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• India’s largest merchant financial technology(fin-tech) company, BharatPe has received the DigiDhan Mission Fin-tech Award 2018-2019 for ‘Innovation in Digital Payments through Emerging Technology’ at the MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) Start-up Summit 2019 held in New Delhi.


• The award was given by Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communication, Electronics & IT (Information Technology) and Law & Justice.

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• As per the appointment committee of the cabinet, Government of India (GoI), Arvind Singh (1988 batch IAS – Indian Administrative Service officer of Maharashtra cadre) has been appointed as the chairman of Airports Authority of India(AAI) in the rank and pay of additional secretary.


• He replaces Anuj Aggarwal.Singh is at present serving in his cadre-state Maharashtra.

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• East Africa’s most profitable company, Safaricom, has appointed Peter Ndegwa as its new CEO.


• Ndegwa joins Safaricom from alcoholic drinks company Diageo where he was the Managing Director of Diageo Continental Europe, the first African to hold the role.


• He takes over from Bob Collymore, the highly successful Briton who died of cancer in July.

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• BV Krishnan, the CEO of KKR's lending business in India has stepped down after a decade of heading the business.


• As per reports, KKR India's CEO Sanjay Nayar will take over the reins of KKR India Financial Services.


• KKR India Financial, a non-deposit taking NBFC, is engaged in providing structured funding, promoter financing, acquisition funding and mezzanine financing, among others.

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• Astronomers dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have announced a new collaboration with scientists working on a NASA telescope. So has alien-hunting finally earned its stripes as a scientific discipline?


• To find out, AFP spoke to scientist Jill Tarter who has devoted her life to searching for signals emanating from distant galaxies and who inspired the character played by Jodie Foster in the 1997 film Contact.


• "We've spent a lot of time over the years trying to distance ourselves from pseudoscience and UFOs," said Tarter, 75, the Chair Emeritus for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in California, founded in 1984 and funded by Silicon Valley magnates including the late Paul Allen.