Breaking News, January 30 | HIGHLIGHTS

A five-member delegation of the ruling party of Tanzania, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), led by its vice chairperson Abdul Rehman O Kinana, met BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda here on Monday and deliberated on several issues.

Commuters travelling towards central Delhi from the eastern parts of the national capital and Noida faced heavy traffic due to VIP movement towards and away from Rajghat on Monday.President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered floral tributes to the Father of the Nation at his memorial in Rajghat.

A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque packed with worshippers during afternoon prayers on Monday in the high-security zone in Pakistan's restive northwestern Peshawar city, killing 46 people and wounding nearly 150 others, mostly policemen, officials said.

The ED on Monday said it has attached benami assets worth Rs 17.48 crore of arrested accused Saumya Chaurasia, a deputy secretary in the Chhattisgarh chief minister's office, and coal trader Suryakant Tiwari in the coal levy 'scam.'

An Andhra Pradesh government plane with Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy onboard returned to the Gannavaram airport here about 24 minutes after the take-off as it faced a technical glitch, according to an official statement. The chief minister was going to the national capital to attend a preparatory meeting for the Global Investors' Conference.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Karnataka on February 6 to participate in programmes organised in Bengaluru and Tumakuru including the India Energy Week, a G20 event. According to a statement issued by the Karnataka Information Department, the Prime Minister will inaugurate India Energy Week at Bengaluru International Exhibition Centre, near Madavara on February 6 morning.

Some 200 people had to be evacuated as fire crews on Monday extinguished a fire that engulfed a camp where hundreds of migrant workers live near Spain's farming heartland. The fire started on the same day the Nijar city council had ordered the camp's demolition.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the prayer meet organised on Mahatma Gandhi's death anniversary at Gandhi Smriti.

The heart from a 34-year-old brain dead man in Madhya Pradesh's Indore was flown to Pune in a special plane of the Indian Army on Monday to be transplanted to a soldier suffering from a heart ailment, an official said.

Twenty-nine people, including 25 schoolchildren, were injured in an accident at central Delhi's Salimgarh flyover on Monday, police said. The police received information regarding the accident around 11 am.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra was not for winning elections but to counter the hate spread by the BJP and the RSS in the country. Addressing a rally to mark the culmination of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, amid heavy snowfall, he also said Gandhi was determined to restore Jammu and Kashmir statehood.

Commuters travelling towards central Delhi from the eastern parts of the national capital and Noida faced heavy traffic due to VIP movement towards and away from Rajghat on Monday. President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered floral tributes to the Father of the Nation at his memorial in Rajghat.

In a show of opposition strength, leaders of several national and regional parties on Monday braved snowfall and bone-chilling cold to share the stage with Congress leaders at a rally organised to mark the culmination of the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar.

Several students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Lakkidi area of Wayanad district in Kerala are undergoing treatment at a local hospital for suspected food poisoning, an official said on Monday. More than 60 students are presently admitted in the hospital following vomiting and diarrhoea, an officer of Vythiri police station said, adding that the health condition of all of them was stable.

Voting was underway on Monday for five Maharashtra Legislative Council seats, in a contest primarily between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) and the Maha Vikas Aghadi.

Supreme Court to hear case against ban on BBC documentary on PM Modi to February 6.

BSP president Mayawati on Monday alleged that the recent controversy over Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya's remarks on the 'Ramcharitmanas' was aimed at benefitting his party and the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh electorally.

Life in Kashmir was disrupted on the final day of the 'Chilla-i-Kalan', the harshest winter period in the region, on Monday as fresh snowfall snapped the Valley's connections with the rest of the country, affecting surface and air traffic, officials said.

A woman member of the CPI (Maoist), wanted in a case related to an attack on a police party in 2021 that left 22 personnel dead and 30 others injured, was arrested in Chhattisgarh, an NIA spokesperson said on Monday.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Chitra Wagh has compared Maharashtra cabinet minister and her senior party colleague Chandrakant Patil with social reformer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule. Wagh, who heads the state BJP women's wing, made the comments on Sunday at a programme organised here by local party leader Hemant Rasne which was also attended by Patil.

A 13-year-old girl, who was gang-raped in Korba district of Chhattisgarh in June last year, delivered a baby recently, following which police arrested two men and detained a boy for the offence, an official said. The main accused in the case is on the run, the police official said.

Voters in Tunisia massively shunned parliamentary elections seen as an important test for their president and their country's troubled democracy, according to preliminary turnout figures. Independent observers reported scattered violations. Turnout was just 11.3 per cent of Tunisia's 8 million voters, according to preliminary estimates from the national electoral commission on Sunday. That is about the same level of participation as in the first round of voting last month.

Missouri mother who reported that her infant twins were stillborn has been convicted of manslaughter. Maya Caston, 28, was convicted on Friday of second-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts of child endangerment. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the jury found her guilty of lesser charges instead of convicting her of second-degree murder.

A reward-carrying criminal succumbed to bullet wounds during treatment at a hospital in Hapur, a senior police officer said on Sunday. Manoj Bhati carried a reward of Rs 1 lakh and was shot by police on Saturday.