A 19-year old girl got killed in ceasfire violation by Pakistan troops in Ramgarh sector of Samba district, Jammu and Kashmir, on 1 November. The firing has been going on since around 6:30 am.

Two civilians were also reported injured in another ceasefire violation by Pakistan in Arnia sector of RS Pura district of Jammu and Kashmir. According to reports, India has been retalliating appropriately to Pakistan which is firing using small arms, automatics, 82 mm mortars.

Meanwhile, according to reports, encounter between security forces and terrorists is also underway in the Ajar village in Badipora district of the state.

Rolls-Royce, the British Defence major, made 'secret payments' of around 10 million pounds in cash to an Indian defence agent, Sudhir Choudhrie, to win big defence contracts for engines on Hawk aircrafts used by the Indian Air Force, according to BBC.

As per reports, the investigation was conducted by BBC's Panorama team and The Guardian, which found evidence indicative of Rolls-Royce making secret payments to Chaudhrie, who is on the Indian government's blacklist of people suspected of "corrupt or irregular practice".

Meanwhile, according to BBC, Rolls-Royce said it was "fully co-operating with the authorities" and "cannot comment on ongoing investigations".

After the Indian authorities declared one of its officials persona non grata, the Pakistan Government is now considering calling back four of its officers posted in the High Commission in New Delhi, from India.

"This is under consideration. A final decision would be taken shortly," the Dawn quoted a source at the Foreign Office as saying on Monday.

The names of the officers that were made public after Indian officials released a recorded statement of a High Commission staffer Mehm­ood Akhtar - who was expelled from India after being declared persona non grata - are commercial counsellor Syed Furrukh Habib and first secretaries Khadim Huss­ain, Mudassir Cheema and Shahid Iqbal.

An exasperated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 1 November wondered why there a need to question the nation's law enforcement agencies over the elimination of eight Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) "terrorists" who broke out of the Bhopal Central Jail on 31 October morning.

It said that political parties should raise the morale of the police for their achievement, rather than always placing them in the witness box of scrutiny.

Lashing out at the Opposition, BJP leader GVL Narsimha Rao told ANI, "You have parties indulging in cheap politics and targeting the security forces rather than praising them. We are facing terrorism threats from both across the border and within and the Congress and other parties are indulging in political opportunism."

Samsung is going though a rough patch. On 2 September, Samsung announced a global recall of 2.5 million Note 7s from 10 markets including the United States s its faulty batteries were leading to the handsets catching fire.

As if this was not enough, a recent report by IDC is set to add to Samsung's woes. The IDC survey was conducted just four days after Samsung stopped production of the Galaxy Note 7.

"The survey focused on three groups of consumers - current Samsung smartphone owners (507), past Samsung smartphone owners (347), and people who have never owned a Samsung smartphone (228). Among the surveyed people, only 24 of them were Galaxy Note 7 users. After the survey was completed, the results showed that half of those 24 Galaxy Note 7 users said that they have or they will choose an Apple iPhone instead of the Galaxy Note 7. 17% of them said that they would still opt for a Samsung smartphone. The survey also showed that most of them will return their Galaxy Note 7 through a carrier's physical store," reports BGR.in.