India, Oct. 9 -- Good evening, readers! Here's your evening news brief with the biggest stories of the day. From BJP's bypoll wins in West Bengal and TVK's victory in Tamil Nadu to Navi Pillay winning the Nobel Peace Prize and the Supreme Court's key directions on protests in Delhi, here's what made headlines today.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won the Nandigram and Rejinagar Assembly bypolls in West Bengal, with candidates Hasirani Rath and Shankharavh Sarkar registering decisive victories. Rath defeated Congress candidate Milan Pradhan by 1,22,753 votes, securing 1,64,427 votes. She is the mother of Chandranath Rath, a close aide of West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari who was killed in May. In Rejinagar, Sarkar defeated Aam Janata ...