Breaking news on January 20

Digvijaya Singh: We're against CAA, NRC, NPR. These are against constitution. We're against centre's divisive policy. No one has the right to ask for proof of citizenship from people who chose to live here. I was asked to deliver a speech but I refused as it's not a political stage 

Former Andhra Pradesh CM and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu was detained outside the state assembly, as he wanted to go into villages in Amaravati. Police took him and others in a police van and dropped them at his residence.

Andhra Pradesh state assembly passes 'Andhra Pradesh Decentralisation and Inclusive Development of All Regions Bill 2020'

Ragib Ikram, a JNU student staying at Narmada hostel there, was allegedly beaten up by 3 students today, a day after he had allegedly refused to let them have food at the hostel during 'special dinner', as they belonged to a different hostel. He's admitted at Safdarjung Hospital.

"His roommate says attackers said that he's a Muslim and they will make him disappear just like Najib. He said they hit him on his chest, head and slapped him twice. They also threatened him. While I was bringing my brother to hospital, I saw ABVP poster on attackers' door", Ragib's brother said. 

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh had reached Shaheen Bagh, earlier tonight, where a protest against  Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) is underway.

17 TDP (Telugu Desam Party) MLAs were suspended from the state assembly for the day, today. They had created ruckus while the CM was addressing the House today, and raised the slogans of 'Jai Amaravati'.

A 2-member committee of Shiromani Akali Dal, comprising senior leaders Balwinder Singh Bhunder & Prem Singh Chandumajra to visit MP tomorrow to help people of Sikh community who've been declared illegal occupants of land in notified scheduled tribe block in Sheopur dist's Karahal.

The committee will make efforts to ensure that the land taken away from them is given back to them. It will also ask Madhya Pradesh government to give compensation to the Sikh families whose houses were demolished.

Ministry of Home Affairs approves the re-designation of Central Police Canteen as 'Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandar'.

All India Congress Committee constitutes Manifesto Implementation Committees for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Puducherry, and Chhattisgarh, for 'proper implementation of party manifesto'.

Dr PS Harsha, Commissioner of Police, Mangaluru told ANI, "An FIR has been registered under sections of Explosive Substance Act and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Three teams have been formed for identification and apprehension of the accused." 

Akali Dal leader Majinder Singh Sirsa on Monday briefed the media after holding a meeting with BJP leaders to discuss their denial to support Citizenship law. He said, "During our meeting with BJP, we were asked to reconsider our stand on CAA but we declined."

AAP's Councillor from Kucha Pandit in Old Delhi, Rakesh Kumar joins Congress.

YSRCP workers perform 'Ksheera abhishekam' on YS Rajasekhara Reddy 's photograph in Srikakulam and cut a cake in support of Andhra Pradesh Government approving three capitals for the state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President JP Nadda hold a meeting with state Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers from the party in Delhi.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced that after injection of GSAT-30 communication satellite into an elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on Jan 17, 2020, all the 3 orbit raising manoeuvers have been completed successfully as planned using satellite's propulsion system.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) is questioning Karti Chidambaram at ED office in connection with INX media case.

After a meeting with Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust delegation representative and Shiv Sena leader Kamlakar Kothe on Monday briefed the media and said, "Chief Minister has accepted our demands. People of Shirdi are satisfied with what he said. He has assured us that no new dispute will be created and we are ending the matter. 

N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of the board of Tata Sons, called on Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday in New Delhi.

Jagat Prakash Nadda was elected as BJP's National President on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the event shortly. Senior leaders LK Advani, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, and others are present at the felicitation programme of BJP National President Jagat Prakash Nadda.

Highlights from PM's address: 

- The BJP may face more difficulty in the future and we must be ready.

- It has been BJP's specialty to run its proceedings democratically. We're not here for a short while, we're here to serve mother India for a long time. 

- From the beginning itself, the party has had the tendency to expand horizontally with the vertical development of the workers - the workers of the party develop and the party expands.

- BJP has widened its reach under Shri Amit Shah's tenure as the National President of the party.

- Nadda ji is an old friend, a party worker walks ahead with the duties given to him and shoulders his responsibilities to the best of his abilities. I have seen Nadda ji doing that very well.

- I am confident that under JP Nadda's leadership, party will go ahead by abiding its basic principles and ideologies. We will have to face more challenges than what we faced as a political party in the opposition.

- According to the needs and desires of the nation, molding the workers and taking India ahead is our target.

A meeting of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray with a delegation from Shirdi underway in Mumbai. Ministers Balasaheb Thorat, Ajit Pawar, Aaditya Thackeray and CEO of Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, DM Muglikar present in the meeting.

J&K DGP Dilbag Singh claimed that the terrorist group Hizbul Mujahideen is on the verge of being completely wiped out in South Kashmir.

While addressing a rally in Siliguri West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announced that on January 22, she will hold a rally against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC), in Darjeeling. 

She said, "Don't worry about CAA and NRC, I am with you."

J&K DGP Dilbag Singh on Monday announced that the police has neutralized 3 terrorists in Shopian. One of them, their commander Wasim Ahmed Wani was active since 2017 and was on a top position in Hizbul Mujahideen. He had 19 FIRs against him and was also involved in the killing 4 civilians and 4 cops.

The second was Adil Sheikh and the third is being identified as Jahangir.

Sensex tanks 416.46 pts to end at 41,528.91; Nifty plunges 127.80 pts to 12,224.55.

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MP Jayadev Galla detained in Amaravati during protest rally held by farmers against cabinet nod on setting up 3 state capitals for Andhra Pradesh. 

Jagat Prakash Nadda takes over as National President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after being elected unopposed.

Supreme Court dismisses Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by convict Pawan Kumar Gupta as the Court did not find any fresh ground in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case. Pawan has claimed that he was a juvenile at the time of the crime, & the Delhi High Court had ignored this fact.

A Delhi Court convicts 19 accused including NGO owner Brajesh Thakur in connection with sexual & physical assault of girls at a shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district. One accused acquitted.

Nirbhaya case: SC to pronounce at 2.30 pm its order on juvenile claim of a convict

Several students gathered at Mandi house on Monday to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register for Citizens.

Students, belonging to different universities, raised slogans demanding "Azadi" from the new citizenship law and carried posters which read "We stand united against CAA' and 'Agar Tum decent hote toh dissent ko samajhte' (If you were descent, you would have understood dissent). 

The students will be marching from Mandi House towards Jantar Mantar.

The Supreme Court on Monday commenced hearing on the plea of a death-row convict in the Nirbhaya case against a Delhi High Court order dismissing his claim that he was a juvenile when the crime was committed.

A bench headed by Justice R Banumathi is hearing the plea of convict Pawan Kumar Gupta.

Gupta's counsel told the bench that the convict was minor at the time of the commission of offence in December 2012 and the high court had wrongly dismissed plea.

Services were briefing affected on a section of Delhi Metro's Blue Line due to a 'passenger on tracks' at Karol Bagh station, officials said on Monday.
Blue Line connects Dwarka in Delhi to Electronic City in Noida.

"Delay in services between Yamuna Bank and Dwarka due to a passenger on track at Karol Bagh. Normal service on all other lines," the DMRC tweeted.
Further details are awaited. After some time, it again tweeted, saying normal services have resumed.

Three terrorists killed in encounter in J-K's Shopian district: police

PM Narendra Modi, new BJP president to hold meeting with CMs, deputy CMs of party-ruled states on Monday evening: Sources

SC issues notice to UP govt on PIL challenging changing name of Allahabad to Prayagraj

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will felicitate the newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President, later today at the party headquarters. 

ED arrests NRI businessman C C Thampi, being probed in multi-crore FEMA case and other property deals, under PMLA: Officials

Fire breaks out at Delhi Transport Department office at Civil Lines, 8 fire tenders rushed to the spot

A woman Naxal has been killed in an encounter with a joint team of security forces led by the CRPF in the jungles of Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, officials said on Monday.

They said the incident took place around the Tekalgudem-Basaguda villages of the district when a team of CRPF's 168th battalion, a unit of its 204th CoBRA battalion and state police were conducting an operation.

Body of a female Maoist wearing a uniform-like dress and three rifles have been recovered from the spot, they said. A search of the area is ongoing, officials said.

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) to file case in Delhi High Court today seeking order to quash the Inter Hostel Management (IHA) manual

Five women from Myanmar, detained in possession of 3 lakh US dollars at Gaya airport, Bihar. Further investigation underway

Around 22 lakh children between 0 to 5 years of age were administered polio drops on the first day of the National Immunisation round of Pulse Polio on Sunday. Around 38 lakh children, under five years of age, are anticipated to be covered under the programme.

Giving information in this regard, a Health Department spokesperson said Education minster Kanwar Pal, inaugurated the campaign in Jagadhri-Yamunanagar, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment M Om Parkash Yadav and Transport minister Mool Chand Sharma inaugurated the campaign in Narnaul and Ballabgarh (in district Faridabad), respectively. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to interact with students during ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha 2020’ at Talkatora Stadium in Delhi, today. Around 2000 students from across the country will participate in the programme

Supreme Court to hear today the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the convicts in 2012 Delhi gang-rape case. Pawan has claimed that he was a juvenile at the time of crime, and the Delhi High Court had ignored this fact.

A newborn girl was stolen from a government hospital in Purba Barddhaman district on Sunday by a woman who lured her parents with the promise of
getting them money from a scheme, police said.

The accused woman was identified through CCTV footage of the hospital and efforts are on to nab her and rescue the baby, police said.