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Indian spinner Amit Mishra was today arrested in Bengaluru following assault charges against him. TV reports now suggest that he has been granted bail.

Reports say that he was questioned for three hours before finally being arrested by the Bengaluru Police.

Vandana, a Mumbai-based film producer in Bengaluru, filed the FIR against him on 27 September following which he was asked to appear before the investigating officer within a week.

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Polling for the third phase of the Bihar assembly elections started today at more than 14,000 polling stations across six districts. The 50 constituencies spread over Patna, Saran, Nalanda, Buxar, Vaishali and Bhojpur are going to poll in this phase, a total number of 808 candidates are fighting in the elections, and nearly 1.45 crore voters are eligible to decide their fate.

Voting began at 7 am in all the 50 constituencies and will end at 4 pm in 10 constituencies and at 5 pm in the remaining 40 constituencies.

Nearly 6,747 polling stations have been declared as critical, whereas 1,909 as left-wing extremist hit polling stations.

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The Supreme Court today refused to order blanket ban on firecrackers on Diwali, and expressed its displeasure over the central government's failure to carry out its earlier directive to give wide publicity to the ill effects the bursting of crackers has and the sound and air pollution it causes.

The apex court bench of Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra asked the Centre and other authorities to start publicity campaign both in print and electronic media on the harmful impact of firecrackers during the festival season from October 31 to November 12.

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With India jumping 12 positions to rank 130th in the world on ease of doing business, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said the improvement in ranking does not fully reflect the reforms initiated and the position will improve further next year.

"I am grateful that the World Bank has recognised that India is now becoming an easier place to do business... I believe that this 12 point movement does not reflect the full pace of reforms that we have done," he said.

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Students of the Film and Television Institute of India have decided to end their 139 day long hunger strike. They had been demanding the removal of recently appointed chairman Gajendra Chauhan and four others.

The students have decided to start attending classes, but protests against Chauhan and the other four other appointees--Narendra Pathak, Anagha Ghaisas, Pranjal Saikia and Shailesh Gupta--will continue.

"The success of our agitation lies in the fact that we took our concerns to common citizens. Filmmakers, artists and others should now take our battle ahead. They should take our genuine concerns forward," a representative of the protesting students said at a press conference in Pune.