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Vice President Kamala Harris will headline the White House's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on Sunday, a bitter historical milestone for the Biden administration after the US Supreme Court rolled back the national right to abortion.

Vice President Kamala Harris will headline the White House's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Roe v.
Wade on Sunday, a bitter historical milestone for the Biden administration after the US Supreme Court rolled back the national right to abortion.

A total of 189 inmates lodged in different prisons of Maharashtra will be released on the Republic Day next week as part of a special remission programme, officials said on Wednesday.

The Maharashtra Prisons Department said in a statement that in order to commemorate the 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav', the Centre has decided to give special remission to certain categories of prisoners on the basis of their good conduct during their term and free them on three occasions - August 15, 2022, January 26, 2023, and August 15, 2023.

The Delhi Commission for Women has issued notices to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the city police after wrestler Vinesh Phogat accused BJP MP and Wresting Federation of India (WFI) President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexually exploiting women wrestlers. DCW chief Swati Maliwal also met the protesting wrestlers at the Jantar Mantar.

The hostel warden and five others of a residential school were transferred and show-caused on Wednesday, two days after its 61 girl students walked 17 km at night and complained about atrocities committed on them to the authorities of Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district.

An official said that besides the warden, four teachers and the accountant of Kasturba Gandhi Girls School at Khuntpani were also served show-cause notices and transferred, while the night guard was removed.

 Gold price declined Rs 105 to Rs 56,526 per 10 grams in the national capital on Wednesday, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had ended at Rs 56,631 per 10 grams.

Silver, however, rose Rs 52 to Rs 69,694 per kilogram.

"Spot gold prices in the Delhi markets traded at Rs 56,526 per 10 grams, down Rs 105 per 10 grams," said an analyst at HDFC Securities.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's two-day visit here starting Thursday is anticipated with much hope given Sri Lanka's crucial negotiations with the IMF to secure a USD 2.
9 billion bridge loan for a bailout to come out of the economic crisis.

Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers, almost 5 per cent of its workforce, in response to “macroeconomic conditions and changing customer priorities”. The company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that had just notified employees of the layoffs, some of which begin immediately.

A suspected improvised explosive device (IED), planted in a tiffin box, was seized in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Wednesday, a senior police official said. Senior Superintendent of Police, Rajouri, Mohammad Aslam said the object was found from an open field in the town's Kheora locality in the afternoon. The area was immediately cordoned off.

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said the solution to the Kashmir problem is within the framework of the Constitution but the starting point for any reconciliation will have to be the restoration of the special status and statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.

"There is no way other than reconciliation in Jammu and Kashmir but the starting point for it will be the restoration of whatever has been snatched from the (erstwhile) state," Mufti told reporters here.
 

 The Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) will give free smart cards to commuters for a 10-day period from January 26, officials said on Wednesday. This is being done to mark the fourth anniversary of the launch of the Aqua Line of the metro network connecting Noida and Greater Noida, the NMRC said. "NMRC is celebrating the ongoing 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav' - 75 years of India's Independence and its fourth anniversary of successful commercial operation of Aqua Line on January 26, 2023," NMRC Managing Director Ritu Maheshwari said.

A special court in Mumbai on Wednesday granted another extension, this time of 15 days, to the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to file its charge sheet in connection with the arrest of five members of the now-banned Popular Front of India (PFI) for alleged unlawful activities and waging war against the country.

Last month, the court had granted 30 days extension to the agency to file the charge sheet.

 A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to Ratul Puri, nephew of former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, in a money laundering case linked to an alleged fertiliser scam for which Rs 685 crore was claimed to have been paid as kickback.

Special Judge Vikas Dhull granted the relief to Puri after he appeared before the court pursuant to summons issued against him.
 

aking a dig at the Prime Minister Modi's comment in the national executive meeting that there are only 400 days left for the 2024 elections, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav said here on Wednesday that the ruling BJP has started counting its days and would not last a day more in power.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has replaced the "politics of the privileged" with "prominence to people", senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Wednesday, a day after Modi asked the party members to reach out to every section of the society, including minorities.

The prime minister has defeated the "deceit of appeasement politics" with the determination towards development with dignity, Naqvi said.

Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra kicked off a three-day visit to Bhutan on Wednesday with the focus expected to be on boosting cooperation in hydel-power sector, defence ties and reviewing the situation in the strategically-sensitive Doklam tri-junction.

 Tata group chief N Chandrasekaran on Wednesday said India has gone through a major attitude transition in the recent years and is now in a position to take the lead in bringing resilience back to the global economy.

Speaking at a session on 'India's road to a USD 10 trillion economy' here at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023, he also said the country has mastered the art of leveraging technology.

he Delhi High Court Wednesday issued summons to payment app BharatPe’s former MD Ashneer Grover on a suit by the company’s co-founder seeking to reclaim the shares he transferred to his erstwhile colleague. Justice Prateek Jalan noted Grover’s counsel's submission that he will file a reply to the suit and not create any third party rights to the 16,110 shares in question.

A rusted bomb shell was found on Wednesday at the military grounds in Khanna, about 45 kms from here, police said.
The shell was lying in the garbage and was spotted by a passerby, they said.

Following a request by the central government, the High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday once again adjourned the hearing of the petition by Twitter against the government’s takedown orders. Additional Solicitor General R Sankaranarayanan informed the court that the Solicitor General was arguing another case before a Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court and he had just returned after a bout of illness. He sought the adjournment of the hearing to February 7.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in poll-bound Karnataka's northern districts of Yadgiri and Kalaburagi on Thursday to lay foundation stone and inaugurate projects worth more than Rs 10,800 crore.
This will be the second such visit by the Prime Minister to Karnataka this month. He was in Hubballi on January 12 to inaugurate the National Youth Festival, during which he had held a massive roadshow.

The Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government Wednesday sought a clear “demarcation” of its power in the row with the Centre over control of services from the Supreme Court which reserved its verdict on the vexatious issue. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud heard Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and senior advocate A M Singhvi for the central and the Delhi governments respectively for almost four-and-half days before reserving the verdict.

Police arrested five persons in the Odisha capital on the charge of black marketing tickets for Men’s Hockey World Cup matches being held here, an officer said today. The special team of the police arrested five persons after it was informed that a group of people were indulging in black marketing of tickets for the matches at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar. 

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday said he has had a detailed discussion with the BJP's central leadership regarding the expansion of the state cabinet and the exercise will take place as soon as he hears from them. Bommai was in New Delhi for the last two days to participate in the BJP national executive meeting.

Heavy commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland has bagged an order from the Sri Lankan Transport Board to supply 500 buses. Sri Lanka Transport Board is the state owned single largest bus transport provider with 110 depots throughout the island nation and operates buses in city routes, hilly and rural routes and also in long distance inter-city routes.

Maruti Suzuki India on Wednesday said it is recalling 17,362 units of models like Alto K10, Brezza and Baleno to inspect and replace a faulty airbag controller.
The affected models are Alto K10, S-Presso, Eeco, Brezza, Baleno and Grand Vitara, manufactured between December 8, 2022 and January 12, 2023, the country's largest carmaker said in a regulatory filing.

Congress party's 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' resumed from Ghatota, Himachal Pradesh amid dense fog.

The White House has insisted that the looming debt ceiling crisis be dealt without conditions and there is no room for negotiations on this. “This should not be political brinkmanship. We should be dealing with the debt ceiling without conditions. It is important. We're not going to work our way around this; we're not going to negotiate on this. This is the basic duty of Congress,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at her daily news conference.

The Border Security Force (BSF) personnel today shot down Pakistan's drone in the Gurdaspur sector. According to reports, weapons some were also recovered with wooden frames.

With the capital continuing to reel under intense cold wave, many homeless Delhite's continue to be at the receiving end complaining of not much help from authorities. A group of people at the Minto Road told ANI that they are not getting any help from the government and hence are forced to rely on traditional methods to stay warm.

People were seen lighting up bonfires to find respite from the prevailing cold wave conditions in the national capital. 

A meeting of the Union Cabinet is scheduled to be held in the national capital today, January 19. The meeting has come two days after the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday conducted its two-day National Executive meeting in Delhi which concluded on Tuesday with the extension of the party's national president JP Nadda till June 2024.