Following are the news highlights

Following are the news highlights
at 1800 hours today:
GENERAL:
New Delhi: Fliers on major domestic routes will soon have to shell out more for flights to fund the government's regional connectivity scheme under which fares will be capped at Rs 2,500 for half of the seats in one-hour flights. (DEL35)
New Delhi: CBI registers a case against NRI arms dealer Vipin Khanna and two companies based abroad in a case of alleged kickbacks worth over USD 5.70 million in connection with three aircraft deals with Embraer signed in 2008. (DEL32)
New Delhi: With over 32 lakh debit cards compromised in India's largest banking security breach, the government goes into damage control mode, assuring customers that there is no cause for alarm and prompt action will be taken. (DEL28)

Jammu: A BSF jawan is injured as Pakistani troops violates ceasefire along the LoC in Rajouri and the International Border in Kathua district, prompting the Indian forces to retaliate strongly. (DEL23)

LEGAL:
New Delhi: Supreme Court freezes all financial transactions between the BCCI and state cricket associations by directing the apex cricket body not to disburse any funds, even for the match purposes, to them till they resolved to abide by the Justice R M Lodha panel recommendations on reforms. (LGD6)
Mumbai: CBI files second supplementary chargesheet in the 2012 Sheena Bora murder case in a special court, stating that Sheena's mother and prime accused Indrani Mukerjea kept her husband Peter Mukerjea updated on phone over the selection of spot for disposal of Sheena's body. (LGB4)

FOREIGN:
New York: Hillary Clinton trades barbs with Donald Trump and pokes fun at him, describing him as "healthy" as the horse Russian President Vladimir Putin rides on and wonders how Barack Obama would get past the "Muslim ban" for a presidential photo-op in a Trump White House. (FGN1)
Washington/Delaware: Mocking his detractors, Donald Trump says he will "totally accept" the outcome of the presidential election next month - if he wins, hours after he stunned Americans by refusing to commit that he will accept the results, seen as a threat to the foundation of democracy. (FGN8)
Kirkuk: Suicide attackers storm the site of a power plant being built by an Iranian company in Dibis in northern Iraq, killing at least 16 people. (FGN5)

Washington: President Barack Obama slams Donald Trump for his insistence that he might not accept the election result, saying the Republican presidential nominee's attempt to "sow the seeds of doubt" about the integrity of elections is "dangerous" and "undermines our democracy". (FGN12)
Dhaka: The chief of a radical Islamist group accused of carrying out Bangladesh's deadliest terror attack on a popular cafe here in July died during a police raid, the country's elite security force announces.