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Defending champion Mariyappan Thangavelu and Sharad Kumar won a silver and bronze respectively in the men's high jump T42 event as India's medal tally at the Paralympics touched an unprecedented 10 on Tuesday.

On the intervening night of October 23 and 24, CBI Chief Alok Verma was divested of his powers which led to political turmoil in the nation.

Senior IPS officer YC Modi, who was a part of the SC-appointed SIT in the 2002 Gujarat riots case, was appointed the new chief of the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Assistant Commandant J Vishwanath, who was leading the CRPF team that was attacked in Sukma on April 24, has been suspended.

Five years after 26/11, the centre has taken the first step to revive the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre, an umbrella agency subsuming other security agencies including the Intelligence Bureau and the Research & Analysis Wing.

19 Maoists, including 9 who were involved in the Sukma attack, were arrested in a joint operation between the CRPF, CoBRA commandos and local police in Chhattisgarh.

Sources said Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is personally overseeing efforts to launch a "surgical strike" on Maoists in Chhattisgarh.

On 24th April, one of the deadliest attacks by Maoist rebels claimed lives of 25 CRPF personnel.

Indian high jump athletes bagged a gold and bronze medal each in men's high jump T-42 event at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.