Breaking News, January 28 | HIGHLIGHTS

Alleging that the NDA government at the Centre shows step-motherly treatment towards Telangana, ruling BRS leader K T Rama Rao claimed his party is ready for early polls if the BJP dissolves the Lok Sabha, showing its willingness for early elections.

The US population center is on track this decade to take a southern swerve for the first time in history, and it's because of people like Owen Glick, who moved from California to Florida more than a year ago.
Last year, the South outgrew other US regions by well over 1 million people through births outpacing deaths and domestic and international migration, according to population estimates from the US Census Bureau.

 A day after four persons died on entering an abandoned underground coal mine in Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh, three more bodies were recovered from the facility on Saturday, a police official said.
The four men had entered the mine in Dhanpuri, some 28 kilometres from the district headquarters, allegedly with the intention to collect coal or scrap and died after inhaling toxic gas, police had said on Friday.

At least three people were killed and four others were wounded in a shooting in California area early Saturday morning. Sgt. Frank Preciado of the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the shooting happened just after 2:30 a.m. in Beverly Crest, an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood. Of the seven people who were shot, four were standing outside. The three who were killed were in a vehicle.

 Sri Lanka’s overall economic growth in 2022 was minus 11 per cent and it could be - 3.5 to - 4 per cent this year, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Saturday, as the island nation tried hard to overcome its worst economic crisis since independence.

The BJP Saturday said the renaming of the iconic gardens in Rashtrapati Bhavan as 'Amrit Udyan', shreds yet another symbol of colonialism even as the opposition parties advised the government to focus on creating jobs and controlling inflation instead. While Congress did not officially react to the name change, the TMC and CPI rubbished the move with the Left party terming it an "attempt to rewrite history".

Retired army General Petr Pavel defeated populist billionaire Andrej Babis in a runoff vote on Saturday to become the new Czech president. Pavel, 61, will succeed controversy-courting Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post. “My presidency will succeed only when we all succeed together," Pavel told a cheering crowd of his supporters.

The CBI has registered a case against one Ankit Kumar Singh for allegedly impersonating a secretary in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) handling the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency and seeking favours from senior government officials. The federal agency acted on a complaint from Assistant Director in PMO Anil Kumar Sharma, officials said.

A 45-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing jewellery worth Rs 2 lakh from her employer's house in suburban Khar here, police said on Saturday. The police on Friday arrested the accused who was employed as a domestic help in a flat in a housing society, an official from Khar police station said.

Delhi government will soon start an e-scooter service to address the last mile connectivity issues, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Saturday. These scooters will be self-driven, and will last for 60 kilometres in one charge, he said while addressing a press conference.

A teacher of a government middle school here was arrested on the charge of molesting three students, police said on Saturday. Sub Inspector (SI) Kamaljit Singh said police arrested the teacher identified as Satnam Singh for allegedly molesting three girls during school hours.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday took part in a road show here, as part of Karnataka BJP's 'Vijaya Sankalp Abhiyan', in the run-up to the Assembly polls in the state, due by May. Targeting the opposition Congress and JD(S) and accusing them of dynasty politics and corruption, he sought support for the BJP to form a government with full majority in Karnataka.

A passenger bus which was on its way to Doda from Jammu met with an accident at Sail Sallan on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, Udhampur. 

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has arrested seven passengers, including a woman, for allegedly smuggling 18 endangered animals in their baggage at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru a few days ago. Initially, three people were arrested.
Their interrogation resulted in the arrest of four more people, the DRI said in a statement on Friday.

Karnataka Lokayukta has served a notice to city police commissioner N Shashi Kumar to examine the allegations of corruption at Ullal police station on the suburbs of the city and submit a report. The Lokayukta ordered that the investigation report and other documents should be produced by February 14.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday urged panchayat bodies to conduct skilling courses in collaboration with state-owned corporations to ensure employment for youth in the state.

Wild elephants continued to stray into human settlements and wreacked havoc in many pockets of the high-range district of Idukki in Kerala on Saturday.
A herd of jumbos, which was found roaming in estates, partially damaged a house at B L Ram village in Devikulam taluk in the early hours today, wildlife officials said.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday paid floral tributes to the 40 CRPF personnel killed in a car bomb blast in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district in 2019. Gandhi, who is in the last leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, laid a flower bouquet at the spot where the CRPF bus was blown up by a Jaish-e-Mohammad suicide bomber along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway four years ago.

"We take pride in the thousands of years old our history, civilisation and culture," said PM Modi. 

Addressing a rally at Rajasthan's Bhilwara on the occasion of Avataran Mahotsav, PM Modi said that many people tried to break India.  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers prayers at Malaseri Dungri temple in Bhilwara, Rajasthan. He is in Asind in the district for the 1111th birth anniversary of Lord Devnarayan, a folk deity of the state. 

Japanese whaling operator, after struggling for years to promote its controversial products, has found a new way to cultivate clientele and bolster sales: whale meat vending machines. The Kujira (Whale) Store, an unmanned outlet that recently opened in the port town of Yokohama near Tokyo, houses three machines for whale sashimi, whale bacon, whale skin and whale steak, as well as canned whale meat at prices from 1,000 yen ($7.70) to 3,000 yen ($23).

Three youths were booked for allegedly insulting the national anthem in the Eidgah locality area here, police said on Saturday.

The Centre has notified three grievances appellate committees that will address users' complaints against social media and other internet-based platforms. According to the notification, each of the three GACs (grievances appellate committees) will have a chairperson, two whole-time members from different government entities and retired senior executives from the industry for a term of three years from the date of assumption of office.

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel won her bid Friday to lead the GOP for two more years, prevailing in an election that highlighted fierce internal divisions that threaten to plague the party into the next presidential season.

A camera atop Hawaii's tallest mountain has captured what looks like a spiral swirling through the night sky. Researchers believe it shows the aftereffects of a SpaceX rocket launch when the company's Falcon 9 rocket sent a GPS satellite into orbit. The images were captured on January 18 by a camera at the summit of Mauna Kea outside the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Subaru telescope.

At least five people were killed and as many sustained injuries in a shooting at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov, police and rescue services have said. The shooting took place on Friday evening in the northern part of East Jerusalem, they said. "The terrorist arrived by car at a building used as a synagogue in the neighbourhood in the northern part of East Jerusalem and opened fire," police said.

A teenage girl who, along with a younger boy, engaged in a shootout with Florida deputies from a home they had broken into in 2021 was sentenced to 20 years in prison after reaching a plea deal.

Police on Saturday said two people had died and two more were missing as torrential rain caused widespread disruption to New Zealand's largest city. Authorities declared a state of emergency for the Auckland region and the nation's new Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins, was flying to the city on a military plane to assess the damage. Hipkins was sworn in to the top job on Wednesday after Jacinda Ardern resigned.