Breaking News, January 22 | HIGHLIGHTS

A fire broke out in a market at suburban Kurla in Mumbai on Sunday night and has spread to multiple shops, officials said. Nobody is injured in the incident as per the information available so far.

A travelling ticket examiner has been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 33-year-old woman along with an accomplice on the Subedarganj Express, a Government Railway Police official said on Sunday. GRP in-charge at the Chandausi railway station K N Singh said the woman submitted a complaint on Saturday alleging that TTE Raju Singh, who she was acquainted with, and another person gang-raped her on the train after offering her a seat in the AC first class coach.

An 18-year-old youth was allegedly stabbed to death in south Delhi's Maidan Garhi area while resisting an attempt to snatch his mobile phone following which two juveniles were apprehended, police said Sunday. The police received information about a body lying near Radha Krishna Mandir in the Telephone Mohalla at 2.23 pm on Saturday.

 Nepal’s health officials on Sunday identified two more bodies of the Indian nationals who died in a plane crash in Pokhara and assured the victims’ relatives that they will be handed over all four bodies on Monday. Nepalese authorities on Tuesday started handing over to family members the bodies of those killed in the January 14 crash of a Yeti Airlines passenger plane with 72 people on board.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will hoist the national flag at party headquarters in Srinagar at the culmination of 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' on January 30, with all Pradesh Congress Committee offices following suit in solidarity with the Yatra. Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal said the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which started in Kanyakumari on September 7, will conclude on January 30 in Srinagar after having covered 3,970 km, 12 states and two Union territories.

The Joint Kisan Manch of various organisations of farmers and horticulturists has urged Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu to take necessary steps to provide relief to the farmers in view of the rising cost of inputs and abolish GST on cartons and materials for packing.

The organisation wrote a letter to the CM in view of the rising cost of inputs, levying of GST and increasing interference of corporate houses and companies, procuring the products at very low prices.

Bangladesh on Sunday urged Russia not to send cargo through ships sanctioned by the United States, emphasising that Dhaka doesn’t want its ties with Washington to be affected. “We told Russia that they can send us cargo through any of their vessels except 69 ships that are under (US) sanction,” Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen told reporters here.

Outrage over a Quran-burning protest in Sweden produced a second day of protests in Turkey, reflecting tensions between the two countries. Some 250 people gathered outside the Swedish Consulate in Istanbul, where a photo of Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan was set on fire.
Paludan burned Islam's holy book outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on Saturday, sparking protests in Istanbul and Ankara that night.

Four 'ashtadhatu' (made of eight metals) idols of Hindu deities, which were stolen from a temple here a day ago, were recovered within 12 hours of the theft, a police officer said. One person has been arrested in this connection, and the police are on the lookout for four others who were involved in the theft, he said.

A Delhi court on Sunday remanded a man arrested for allegedly staying at a five-star hotel here for about four months by posing as a functionary of the UAE royal family and fleeing with an outstanding bill of more than Rs 23 lakh in two days' police custody.

Duty Magistrate Shivangi Vyas sent Mahamed Sharif for custodial interrogation, noting that police had to recover certain articles from his residence in Delhi, which were allegedly stolen by him.

Superstar Akshay Kumar on Sunday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for asking BJP workers to refrain from making unnecessary remarks on films. In his address to the BJP national executive meeting on Tuesday, PM Modi suggested party workers refrain from making unnecessary remarks on irrelevant issues such as movies, saying that they put the party's development agenda on the back-burner, party sources said.

Jharkhand Congress leader Sunny Toppo joined the BJP at a programme here on Sunday. Toppo, who had contested Mandar assembly seat on Congress ticket in 2019, took the membership of the saffron party in presence of BJP state president and Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash and former chief minister Babulal Marandi.

A fire in a house in Murbad in Thane district ended up injuring two persons and extensively damaging property, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place in Dehnoli village on at 2:30am on Saturday, he said.

The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Monday the CBI's appeal challenging the Bombay High Court order granting bail to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in a corruption case.

A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices V Ramasubramanian and JB Pardiwala would consider the plea of the probe agency against the high court’s bail order.

Jharkhand Congress leader Sunny Toppo joined the BJP at a programme here on Sunday. Toppo, who had contested Mandar assembly seat on Congress ticket in 2019, took the membership of the saffron party in presence of BJP state president and Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash and former chief minister Babulal Marandi.

The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Monday the CBI's appeal challenging the Bombay High Court order granting bail to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in a corruption case. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices V Ramasubramanian and JB Pardiwala would consider the plea of the probe agency against the high court’s bail order.

A fire broke out in a market area in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur on Sunday morning, gutting three shops and a godown, police said. No person was reported to be injured in the blaze which erupted at around 5.30 am near Phool Chowk area, Moudhapura police station house officer Nitesh Thakur said.

In a suspected case of a leopard attack, an 11-year-old boy, who had gone missing from T Narsipura taluk here, has been found dead, police said on Sunday. According to sources, this is said to be the second such human death in the last 48 hours, and the fourth since November 2022 in the taluk.

A local court here has directed the Principal Secretary (Home) and the Uttar Pradesh DGP to take disciplinary action against several police officers for misrepresenting the particulars of a case while seeking cancellation of a bail.

The Delhi High Court has asked the Centre to ensure within six months the enforcement of legal provisions pertaining to the grant of compensation to victims of road accidents caused by an uninsured vehicle as well as in cases of hit and run. The central government told the court that it has amended the law pertaining to motor vehicles to grant compensation in case of accidents caused by uninsured vehicles but guidelines were yet to be framed.

A 66-year-old Indian-origin gas station employee was shot dead during an armed robbery in the US city of Philadelphia and police are searching for three men in connection with the murder, according to media reports. Philadelphia police on Thursday released a surveillance video showing the three suspects wanted for killing the victim identified as Patro Siboram, 6ABC, a television station in Philadelphia, reported.

A man and his mother have been convicted and sentenced by a court here in a 2016 case of abduction and rape of a 15-year-old girl. The court of Special Judge (POCSO Act) Chandra Mohan Chaturvedi awarded.

Trading in the equity market in the holiday-shortened week ahead will be largely guided by the ongoing quarterly earnings, global trends and foreign fund movement, analysts said. Dalal Street also may face volatility amid monthly derivatives expiry, they added.

To bring down the power sector's aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses, the Tripura government has formed a separate entity for electricity transmission in the state, a senior government official said. Tripura State Power Transmission Ltd (TPTL) has been formed this month as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited (TSECL) for power transmission, State Power Secretary Brijesh Pandey told PTI here.

BJP's State Working Committee meeting began on Sunday with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in attendance. The meeting is being chaired by State President Bhupendra Chaudhary along with Deputy CM Keshav, Brajesh Pathak. All ministers and office bearers are present in the meeting. 

Low income group farmers in Rajasthan will be provided drones on rent that will help them monitor crops and spray chemicals in a wide agricultural area with less cost and time.
Around 1,500 drones will be made available at custom hiring centres by the state government in two years.

Billionaire Gautam Adani's group plans to spin off businesses like hydrogen, airports and data centre between 2025 and 2028 after they achieve a certain investment profile, it's Chief Financial Officer Jugeshinder Singh said.

Revenue department officials have destroyed equipment worth Rs 97 lakh used for illegally dredging sand in Maharashtra's Thane district, officials said on Sunday.

The Wrestling Federation of India's (WFI) emergency general council meeting, scheduled here for Sunday, was called off after the Sports Ministry directed it to suspend all ongoing activities owing to the various allegations against the sports body and its president. The ministry Saturday said it has asked the WFI to suspend "all ongoing activities with immediate effect", including the Ranking Tournament in Gonda, UP, the federation president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's stronghold.
 

An earthquake of magnitude 3.8 occurred on January 22 at 8.58 IST, Latitude: 29.78 & Longitude: 80.13, Depth: 10 Km, Location 23km NNW of Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, India, informed the National Center for Seismology

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will address the State Working Committee meeting of the BJP here on Sunday during which the party will review the work done so far and hold discussions on the future action plan. The national executive meeting of BJP was held in New Delhi on January 16-17.

The BJP in Rajasthan has attacked the Congress government over a purported video of a woman being forcibly moved out of a public hearing at the residence of state Women and Child Development Minister Mamta Bhupesh. Targeting the ruling party in the state, the BJP on Saturday said it reflects the working of the Congress government and its ministers.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fired Brazil's army chief just days after the leftist leader openly said that some military members allowed the January 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters. The official website of the Brazilian armed forces said Saturday Gen. Julio Cesar de Arruda had been removed as head of the army. He was replaced by Gen. Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva, who was head of the Southeast Military Command.

The FBI searched President Joe Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware and located six additional documents containing classified markings and also took possession of some of his notes, the president's lawyer said.

Peru indefinitely shut the famed ancient ruins of Machu Picchu in the latest sign that anti-government protests that began last month are increasingly engulfing the South American country.

"Two were killed and two got injured in an explosion in a chemical tanker in Panipat yesterday. The incident took place during the welding work. 2 people died and 2 are undergoing treatment. The roof of the shop was also damaged in the blast," said Ramniwas, SHO Sadar, Panipat