1. Election Commission calls all-party meeting today to discuss and demonstrate Remote Voting Machine.
2. Kite Festival organized in Jaipur on occasion of Makar Sankranti.
3. Union Textiles Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said that he requested the Maharashtra Govt to convert non-cess buildings to cess buildings for the rehabilitation and redevelopment of people living on the National Textile Corporation (NTC) land in Mumbai.
4.Earth Sciences Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh has said that the entire country will be covered by Doppler Weather Radar Network by 2025 to predict extreme weather events more accurately.
5. PM Modi announced a new ‘Aarogya Maitri’ project under which India will provide essential medical supplies to any developing country affected by natural disasters or humanitarian crisis and proposed to set up a ‘centre of excellence’ to facilitate development solutions to these countries.
6. South Central Railways’ Secunderabad Railway Station in Telangana is going to be redeveloped with superior infrastructure and world class amenities.
7. Odisha government on Sunday imposed Section 144 in Cuttack after a stampede during the Makar Mela in the Singhanath Temple area killed one woman and injured several others on Saturday.
8. 19 persons were grievously injured by raging bulls involved in a Jallikattu event at Avaniyapuram in Madurai, Tamilnadu on Sunday.
9. Supreme Court will on Monday hear a plea seeking its intervention to declare the land subsidence in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath a national disaster. The petitioner said the incident has occurred due to large-scale industrialisation.
10. Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra resumes from Jalandhar after 24-hour hiatus owing to Cong MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary’s demise.
11. Congress suspended Maharashtra leader Sudhir Tambe after he withdrew from the biennial legislative council polls despite being the official candidate. Now his son will contest the polls as Congress has decided to promote youngsters.
12. BJP will hold a grand roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday in Delhi. The two-day BJP national executive meeting will be held at NDMC Convention Centre in the national capital on January 16-17.
13. Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot has sanctioned ₹1,337 crore to build and operate animal shelters in 1,500 gram panchayats.
14. Mukarram Jah, the titular Nizam VIII of Hyderabad, passed away in Istanbul, Turkey on January 14, He was 89. As per his desire of being laid to rest in his home land, his children are scheduled to travel to Hyderabad with the mortal remains of the late Nizam on January 17.
CRIME REPORT
1. Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested Indian Railway Service of Engineers officer, Jitendra Pal Singh and his associate in a bribery case of 50 lakh rupees.
2. Rajashree Swain, a woman cricketer of Odisha, was found dead in a dense forest near Cuttack city on Friday, police said. She was missing since January 11. The body was found hanging from a tree in Gurudijhatia forest in Athagarh area.
3. Three persons were shot dead in Bhind in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday allegedly due to enmity caused by last year’s panchayat poll results.
4. Security forces on Sunday busted a terrorist hideout in Jammu and Kashmir’s border district of Poonch, leading to the recovery of a huge quantity of arms, ammunition and explosives.
5. Police have registered a cheating case against former Mumbai mayor and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Kishori Pednekar and three others for allegedly acquiring flats built under the Maharashtra government’s Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) in suburban Worli,
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
1. 21st Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) kicked off to a colourful start on Saturday in the capital city Dhaka.
2. 71st Miss Universe Competition. R’Bonney Gabriel of the United States of America won the coveted title of Miss Universe 2022 and was crowned by previous year winner, India’s Harnaaz Sandhu.
3. MM Keeravaani, the winner of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s best music score award for his work on global blockbuster movie RRR, thanked maestro John Williams for teaching him the importance of ‘simplicity’ in film soundtrack.
RRR is a pre-Independence fictional story focusing on two real-life Indian revolutionaries in the 1920s — Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, essayed by Ram Charan and Jr NTR, respectively.
DEFENCE
1. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh attended Saurya Sandhya event organised at the ASC Centre as part of the National Army Day in Bengaluru on Sunday. He exhorts Armed Forces to further develop capabilities and work on strategies & policies keeping the global security scenario & future challenges in mind.
2. Army Dy is Celebrated in Delhi Since 1949, But Why is Bengaluru the Pick for Army Day This Year?
Every year on January 15, India celebrates its Army Day. But this time, something is different as the occasion is being celebrated outside of Delhi. This is why:
Army Day commemorates the day on which Field Marshal Kodandera M. Cariappa (then Lieutenant General) took over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from the last British Commander-in-Chief of India, General Fransis Bucher in 1949. Field Marshal K M Cariappa, who hails from Karnataka.
The Army Day is being held outside of the national capital for the first time as part of the government’s initiative to move major events away from the National Capital Region and into other parts of the country, to increase representation and connect with larger parts of the country.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) also moved its annual fly-past and parade from Hindon Air Base near Delhi to Chandigarh.
3. Two Indian Coast Guard Ships arrived at Chattogram on Friday for a six-day visit as part of ongoing close cooperation between the Coast Guards of Bangladesh and India.
4. Indian Navy’s destroyer INS Delhi reached Sri Lanka’s Trincomalee Port on Sunday for a formal visit. During the ship’s stay, its crew will take part in several programmes organised by the Sri Lankan Navy, aimed at promoting cooperation between the two navies.
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