A consensus emerged on the name of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for appointment as the chairperson of the Opposition bloc INDIA on Saturday, sources said. Sources said leaders of the Trinamul Congress, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and the Samajwadi Party did not attend the meeting.
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, who is currently in the national capital, is expected to join Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra that will be flagged off in Manipur on January 14. After participating in the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on its first day, he will return to Delhi and depart for Davos to attend the World Economic Forum summit, sources said.
Enforcement Directorate has issued summons for the fourth time to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in the Delhi excise policy-linked money laundering case, official sources said. According to AAP's Goa unit chief Amit Palekar, Kejriwal is supposed to be in Goa from January 19 to January 20 to interact with party leaders and volunteers.
A purported video of three monks being attacked by a mob in West Bengal’s Purulia over suspicion that they were 'kidnappers in disguise' has triggered a political row, with Opposition BJP alleging collapse of law and order in the state. The Purulia Police, in a post on X, said the incident took place due to a misunderstanding.
US military early today struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk, two US officials said. The first day of strikes on January 12 hit 28 locations and struck more than 60 targets.
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File ImageEnforcement Directorate has arrested two more persons in connection with its money laundering investigation into the Mahadev online betting and gaming app case, officials said. A special court in Raipur sent them to ED custody till January 17.
The estranged husband of Suchana Seth, the AI start up CEO accused of killing her four-year-old child, appeared before Calangute police in Goa as part of the probe, an official said. He Goa police she had not allowed him to meet their child for the past five Sundays.
Days after she was shot dead in a Gurugram hotel, the body of former model Divya Pahuja was recovered from a canal in Haryana's Fatehabad district, according to police. Pahuja was taken to Hotel City Point by five people and shot in the head inside room number 111 because she had allegedly been extorting money from the hotel owner, Abhijeet Singh (56), by blackmailing him with his 'obscene pictures', police had said earlier.
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File ImageAt least 12 people, including two Indians, were killed and 23 others injured after a passenger bus plunged into the Rapti river in Nepal's Lumbini province, according to a media report. A total of 23 people were also injured in the accident.
Actor Radhika Apte claimed she and other passengers at an airport were locked in the aerobridge for hours after her flight was delayed. She also posted a video, in which several passengers were seen behind a locked glass door.