Here are the latest updates and the big news stories to follow today 

All 435 seats in the U. S. House of Representatives are up for grabs, as are 35 U. S. Senate seats a

All 435 seats in the U. S. House of Representatives are up for grabs, as are 35 U. S. Senate seats and 36 governorships. Republicans would need to pick up five seats to take a majority in the House and just one to control the Senate. Nonpartisan election forecasters and opinion polls suggest Republicans have a very strong chance of winning a House majority.

Senior-most Supreme Court judge and CJI-designate Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud is all set to become the 50th head of the Indian judiciary on Wednesday when President Draupadi Murmu would administer the oath of office to him at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Strong tremors were felt across north India in the small hours of Wednesday after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Himalayan region near Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand along the Nepal border. The National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said the epicenter of the earthquake was in Nepal, about 90 km east-southeast of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, and it struck at 1.57 a.m. Wednesday.

Cultural performances, yoga sessions, henna painting and Bollywood dances are among the activities planned over the course of the three-day WTM, which concludes today.

A division bench of the High Court of Karnataka has set aside an order that ordered blocking of the INC Twitter handles. The Congress agreed to remove the 45-second clip that used the copyrighted song before noon on Wednesday from all its social media accounts.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday arrived on a two-day visit to poll-bound Himachal Pradesh and held a meeting of top party leaders.

Anil Kant would be inspecting the security arrangements made by police at Pampa in connection with the Sabarimala pilgrimage on Wednesday. Those working in the eateries along the pilgrimage circuit would be required to carry their health cards. A toll free number of Food Safety Authority should be displayed in all restaurants to communicate any complaints regarding quality of the food.