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 A 45-year-old man allegedly strangled his 24-year-old daughter to death with a stole after she threatened to leave him permanently after an argument over her marriage, police said.

The accused Ramkishore Bharti, a resident of Chunchale near the city, prima facie committed the crime as he was fed up with his daughter's habit of leaving home over trivial reasons, a police official said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone and inaugurate projects worth more than Rs 10,800 crore in Karnataka and Rs 38,800 crore in Maharashtra during his visit to the two states on Thursday, his office said.
 

A man rushed towards Rahul Gandhi and tried to hug him as the Bharat Jodo Yatra traversed through the district on Tuesday but was stopped by Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring. Inspector General of Police G S Dhillon said Gandhi had himself called the man and there was no security breach.

The rupee settled 12 paise lower at 81. 70 against the US dollar on Tuesday, tracking a rebound in the greenback overseas and firm crude oil prices. Forex traders said sustained foreign fund outflows further weighed on investor sentiment.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on January 23 a plea of bike taxi aggregator Rapido against the Bombay High Court order directing it to suspend its services in Maharashtra immediately for operating without a licence from the state government.
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha agreed to hear the petition of the Pune-based bike taxi aggregator after senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the firm, said the matter needs to be listed urgently.

Over 25 people were admitted to various hospitals in Ernakulam district on Tuesday after having food at an eatery in North Paravoor.
According to the police, 27 people with symptoms of food poisoning have been hospitalised and their condition is said to be stable.
A case has been registered against the owner of the restaurant and an investigation is on. "The number of affected persons may go up," a police official told PTI.

 A fresh petition was filed before the Supreme Court on Tuesday against the Bihar government's decision to conduct a caste survey in the state, claiming the state's action was violative of the basic structure of the Constitution.
The petition, filed by 'Hindu Sena' President Vishnu Gupta, alleged the notification was "discriminatory and unconstitutional".

Private telecom company Bharti Airtel on Tuesday announced the launch of its 5G services in three cities of Jaipur, Kota and Udaipur of Rajasthan.
The company, in a statement, said it has launched '5G Plus' services in the three cities.

 An attack by the al-Shabab extremist group on a military facility north of Somalia's capital on Tuesday killed five soldiers, officials said. Somali troops repelled the assault, killing 21 al-Shabab fighters. The group has claimed responsibility for the attack at the Hawaadley military facility in Xawaadley village in the Middle Shabelle region, 75 kilometres (about 45 miles) north of Mogadishu. Somalia's Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Odawa Yusuf Rage said that the attackers were “repulsed by the brave Somali soldiers who were on high alert".

Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc resigned Tuesday, becoming the most senior member of the government to step down after a series of high-profile corruption scandals for which he was held responsible.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear the petition of journalist Rana Ayyub challenging the summons issued to her by a special PMLA court in Ghaziabad in a money laundering case lodged against her by the Enforcement Directorate.

A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha agreed to hear the plea on January 23, after advocating Vrinda Grover, appearing for Ayyub, urged the court for urgent listing.

 Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday ordered the immediate closure of a distillery and ethanol plant in Ferozepur after a months-long agitation against the unit by local villagers. Alleging that the distillery was polluting groundwater in several villages and causing air pollution, the villagers staged demonstrations in front of the plant for the past six months under the banner of Sanjha Zira Morcha.

 PepsiCo Global Business Services Center here is on an expansion spree with plans afoot to increase the employee strength to 4,000 in the next 18 months from the existing 2,800.

Roberto Azevedo, EVP Corporate Affairs, PepsiCo, met Minister KT Rama Rao at Telangana Pavilion on the sidelines of World Economic Forum and discussed various plans of the company in the State, an official release from the Telangana Government said on Tuesday.

Three people were killed on Tuesday when their car fell into a deep gorge in Uttarakhand's Tehri district, police said. The accident took place near Saldogi on the Agrakhal-Kusrela road when the car plunged into a 250-metre-deep gorge killing all three on the spot, Circle Officer Ravindra Chamoli said.
 

 Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" on Tuesday expanded his Cabinet for the first time by inducting 12 ministers and three junior ministers and finalised a power-sharing deal, more than three weeks after assuming charge.

French soccer federation president Noël Le Graët is under investigation for "sexual harassment" and "moral harassment," the Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. In a message to The Associated Press, the prosecutor's office said the investigation was opened on Monday following a report by the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research.
It will be carried out by a special police unit dedicated to crimes against individuals.

Two Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists were killed in a brief encounter with security personnel near the court complex in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district on Tuesday, police said. "On a specific input about the movement of terrorists through Budgam, a joint area domination party of the Army and Police tried to stop one suspected vehicle near the court complex. Terrorists fired upon and in retaliation, two terrorists were killed," a police spokesperson said.

At the Delhi assembly, Kejriwal said that children's futures should not be played with.   

The bull taming sport, 'Jallikattu' at Alanganallur here began on Tuesday with traditional sporting fervour and streams of energetic young men raced against time to dominate the robust bulls and emerge victorious. As the bulls jumped and leapt forward from the 'Vadivasal,' the entrance to the sporting arena, filled with sand and hay, men on the sideways tried to embrace the bulls by clinging on to the hump.

BJP MLAs on Tuesday wore black clothes and turbans to the Delhi assembly to protest against alleged corruption and scams of the AAP government and demanded that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal resign from the post.

Pakistan's top election body has suspended the membership of 271 lawmakers across the country for not submitting their statements of assets and liabilities.

President Joe Biden is set to host Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for talks as the US administration looks to persuade the Netherlands to further limit China's access to advanced semiconductors with export restrictions. Tuesday's wide-ranging talks are also expected to cover the countries' efforts to thwart Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and an upcoming democracy summit, according to the White House.

One new case of coronavirus has been detected in Maharashtra's Thane district, taking its infection count to 7,47,415, a health official said on Tuesday. The new case was reported on Monday, he said.

The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) have arrested self-proclaimed chieftain of banned outfit 'Azad Hind Fauj', which was active in Bihar's Sheohar, Sitamarhi, Motihari and Muzaffarpur districts.

The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved market authorisation to COVID-19 vaccine Covovax as a heterologous booster dose for adults who have been administered two doses of Covishield or Covaxin, official sources said on Monday. The DCGI's approval came following recommendation by the Subject Expert Committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO).

China on Tuesday announced the first population decline in recent years as the country witnessed an aging society and a plunging birthrate with over 850,000 fewer people at the end of 2022. ​| READ MORE

Two people suffered injuries during stone pelting, following a scuffle, which broke out between some people over buying meat from a shop in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh, officials said on Monday.

The UN peacekeeping chief on Monday welcomed the deployment of the largest contingent of women peacekeepers from India in Abyei, saying female troops mean efficient operations.

Four people have been arrested on the charge of cattle smuggling in the Kadipur area here, police said on Tuesday. Eighteen animals were rescued from a truck and police also seized a country-made pistol and bullets from the accused, Kadipur Station House Officer Devendra Singh said.

A man made off with $300,000 cash in a bizarre Brink's truck robbery outside a Brooklyn bank last week, police say. According to police, the thief swiped an unattended money bag from the armoured truck's bumper while two other men distracted the Brink's employee by asking him for directions.

The ninth atmospheric river in a three-week series of major winter storms was churning through California on Monday, leaving mountain driving dangerous and the flooding risk high near swollen rivers even as the sun came out in some areas. Heavy snow fell across the Sierra Nevada and the National Weather Service discouraged travel. Interstate 80, a key highway from the San Francisco Bay Area to Lake Tahoe ski resorts, reopened with chain requirements after periodic weekend closures because of whiteout conditions.

 A 14-year-old girl fatally shot an 11-year-old boy at a Dallas apartment complex parking lot after retrieving a gun during an argument with another child, police said.
Police said that the 14-year-old shot in the direction of the girl she was fighting with, but the shot ended up striking the 11-year-old bystander on Sunday afternoon.