The Whatup

» A massive fire broke out at HPCL's Visakhapatnam refinery on Monday night, sending residents nearby running out of their homes. Police say it was brought under control within an hour and nobody was hurt.

» For the first time in 47 years, not a single CRPF jawan was killed in action for a whole year. The last such stretch ended in January 1979. The force's DG credited better gear, sharper training and faster evacuation of injured jawans. 🇮🇳

» 16-year-old Dhinidhi Desinghu has become the first Indian swimmer ever to win a medal at the Olympic Games. She won bronze in the 100m freestyle at the Youth Olympics in Dakar, breaking her own national record. 🇮🇳

» Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan met Amit Shah to push for strict action against AI deepfakes of actors. Chiranjeevi says Shah assured them the government will look into it urgently and work on stricter penalties.

» "Everyone knows that I don't have support in my life. If I have support, it is only from my father. No one has supported me in my life." Sarfaraz Khan on being left out of India's Test team despite losing 20 kg and piling up runs in domestic cricket. He hasn't played a Test since 2024 💔

» Pro-Kannada activists have started walking into Bengaluru IT companies to ask how many Kannadigas they've hired. One group from Karnataka Rakshana Vedike was filmed sitting in an office lobby at Bagmane tech park today. The outfit says its teams will visit IT firms across the state all of November, asking for Kannadiga headcounts and hiring criteria. This comes a day after CM DK Shivakumar told Kannada groups not to go after IT companies or take the law into their own hands.

» The Supreme Court has allowed green firecrackers in Delhi-NCR this Diwali, but only for 3 hours a day on November 7 and 8. Every box must carry a QR code, and ladis are banned. The full ban returns on November 9.

» A phone suddenly exploded in a patient's hand inside a Gwalior clinic, and it was all caught on CCTV. A mother with her newborn was sitting just a few feet away. Luckily, nobody was hurt. 🫪

» "Her conduct is not up to the mark. Don't take the court for granted." A Delhi court said this after Nora Fatehi skipped her appearance as a witness in the ₹200 crore extortion case against Sukesh Chandrasekhar. She has been summoned again for November 6.

» "Don't travel by air. Next case." Supreme Court judge Justice Vikram Nath said this to a lawyer who raised a plea over airfares jumping up to 700%.

» A gas pipeline blew up in Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Monday while a drain was being dug right next to it. The blast was heard nearly 3 km away and killed one man. Several others are injured and nearby houses have been damaged. 💔

» Eight labourers were electrocuted while building a road in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu on Monday. The concrete mixing machine they were working with touched an 11,000-volt power line overhead. Several others are being treated in hospital. 💔

» Dozens of Delhi Police personnel protested outside their own headquarters on Monday morning. They want an ACP and an SHO brought back after both were transferred to end a lawyers' strike. The lawyers had alleged an advocate was badly hurt in a scuffle at Shahdara police station, and that the ACP waved a loaded revolver at them. Senior officers say the revolver claim is false.

» A police officer in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas was allegedly run over by a truck carrying illegal liquor after he stopped it on the highway. TI Dilip Puri died in hospital despite two hours of CPR. The driver fled, leaving behind the truck with 1,800 litres of liquor inside. 💔

» A cop in Punjab's Khanna was allegedly caught on a hidden camera slipping a packet under a mattress, minutes before police "found" 30 grams of heroin in the same spot. The arrested man has been let off, and the cop is suspended.

» A man who paid ₹6.69 crore for a flat in Gurugram's Trump Towers says the builder blocked lift access to his 36th-floor home. He called it "house arrest" and says the lift came back on only after his video went viral. Police claim he hasn't paid maintenance charges.

» Seven empty wagons parked at Tamil Nadu's Jolarpettai railway yard rolled away on their own, with no engine attached, and travelled nearly 6 km before derailing on the main line. Railway officials are now probing how they started moving.

» Amitabh Bachchan's decades-old Sunday fan meet outside Jalsa happened from inside a bulletproof glass box this time. It comes after an email threatened an attack on his Mumbai home and Tiger Shroff's car was shot at in Juhu.