The Congress Working Committee will meet on Friday to draw up a schedule for the long-pending organisational elections that could also pick a new party chief, the Hindu

Key Congress meet on Friday as party hunts for new president

The Congress Working Committee will meet on Friday to draw up a schedule for the long-pending organisational elections that could also pick a new party chief, the Hindustan Times has reported. The meeting of the party's top decision making body comes five months after the Congress&rsquo; interim president Sonia Gandhi asked the party to relieve her from the top post. Sonia Gandhi offered to step down at a CWC meet last August following a letter by more than 20 prominent party leaders that demanded an &ldquo;active, full-time and visible&rdquo; president. Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi is widely preferred within the party to replace Sonia Gandhi as efforts to pick a non-Gandhi party president have not succeeded in the past two years ago.

The Congress Working Committee will meet on Friday to draw up a schedule for the long-pending organisational elections that could also pick a new party chief, the Hindustan Times has reported. The meeting of the party's top decision making body comes five months after the Congress’ interim president Sonia Gandhi asked the party to relieve her from the top post. Sonia Gandhi offered to step down at a CWC meet last August following a letter by more than 20 prominent party leaders that demanded an “active, full-time and visible” president. Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi is widely preferred within the party to replace Sonia Gandhi as efforts to pick a non-Gandhi party president have not succeeded in the past two years ago.

Sasikala, the aide of late Tamil Nadu&nbsp;chief minister&nbsp;Jayalalithaa&nbsp;has been shifted to the ICU&nbsp;after&nbsp;testing&nbsp;positive for the coronavirus. 

Sasikala, the aide of late Tamil Nadu&nbsp;chief minister&nbsp;Jayalalithaa&nbsp;has been shifted to the ICU&nbsp;after&nbsp;testing&nbsp;positive for the coronavirus. Sasikala, who is currently serving a prison sentence, was admitted to a hospital in Bengaluru on Wednesday&nbsp;after complaining of fever and restlessness. The doctors of Victoria Hospital have said that she has a lung infection but her condition is stable. Sasikala&nbsp;is 7 days away from being released from jail.&nbsp;

The Telangana govt has decided to implement 10% reservation for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in the state.&nbsp;
Earlier this week, upper caste communities in

The Telangana govt has decided to implement 10% reservation for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in the state.&nbsp;
Earlier this week, upper caste communities in Telangana had given an ultimatum to the state government demanding reservations and claiming lakhs of students were being deprived of jobs. &nbsp; Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao said that this is was the need of the hour and appropriate orders will be issued after a high-level meeting in the coming two-three days.
With 10% reservations to the EWS, the reservation percentage will be 60%, in Telangana.

BJP&nbsp;leader Uma&nbsp;Bharti&nbsp;has appealed to party president JP Nadda&nbsp;through a series of tweets to ban liquor in all states ruled by the saffron party. He

BJP&nbsp;leader Uma&nbsp;Bharti&nbsp;has appealed to party president JP Nadda&nbsp;through a series of tweets to ban liquor in all states ruled by the saffron party. Her tweet came days after MP Home Minister Narottam&nbsp;Mishra&nbsp;said that new liquor shops will be opened in the state.&nbsp;
She wrote that during the lockdown&nbsp;when liquor shops were closed people died to Covid-19 and other reasons but no one died due to liquor consumption. She also spoke about recent deaths in UP and MP due to drinking of spurious liquor.&nbsp; The former union minister said that driving after drinking is one of major causes of road accidents and called alcohol a 'messenger of death'
In one of her tweets Uma&nbsp;Bharti&nbsp;wrote that crimes like&nbsp;rapes, murders and child molestation are done under the influence&nbsp;of alcohol and hence liquor prohibition will prove to be beneficial.&nbsp;

The Delhi government has directed the heads of over 550 govt and MCD schools to start installing sanitary napkin incinerators with smoke control units in toilets for gi

The Delhi government has directed the heads of over 550 govt and MCD schools to start installing sanitary napkin incinerators with smoke control units in toilets for girls. 
The Education Ministry's Project Approval Board (PAB) has asked for locations to be identified&nbsp;and installation work to be started in 3,204 toilet blocks.
The school principals are expected to make all immediate arrangements for proper power supply with power points at the proposed installation locations.
The cost of these will be borne by the schools from Vidyalaya Kalyan Samiti funds or grant in aids, the Directorate of Education (DoE) has said in a letter.
Girl students will be trained every month by principal&nbsp;till all are proficient in using the machines, the letter added.

As state polls loom large over West Bengal, officials from Election Commission held a meeting with with leaders of all major political parties of the state in Kolkata.&

As state polls loom large over West Bengal, officials from Election Commission held a meeting with with leaders of all major political parties of the state in Kolkata.&nbsp;TMC leaders Firhad Hakim, Subrata Bakshi, Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee, CPI-M leader Rabin Deb, CPI leader Prabir Deb, Congress leader Soumya Aich, BJP leader Dilip Ghosh, Mukul Roy and&nbsp;Swapan Dasgupta were present at the meeting.&nbsp;
In the meeting, state minister and Kolkata mayor Firhad&nbsp;Hakim alleged that BSF&nbsp;was terrorising people in the bordering areas of the state to vote for the BJP&nbsp;in the upcoming polls.&nbsp;

The Uttar Pradesh police has come up with a new hack to curb violence against women in the state.&nbsp;An AI-powered facial recognition camera, which will know when a w

The Uttar Pradesh police has come up with a new hack to curb violence against women in the state.&nbsp;An AI-powered facial recognition camera, which will know when a woman is in distress.
The Lucknow&nbsp;police is installing these AI-based cameras at 200 hotspots&nbsp;across the city, especially areas from where&nbsp;more complaints have been received.
According a Times of India report, facial expression of women changes when they are under threat. These AI cameras can detect that change and alert the nearest police station.
A confident&nbsp;Lucknow Police Commissioner said, "before she takes out her phone to dial 100 or 112, an alert will reach the police."

Serum Institute Fire: A major fire broke out at  a building, which was under construction, at the Serum Institute of India in Pune on Thursday.

5 charred bodies have been recovered after a major fire broke out at the Serum Institute of India in an under-construction building. It took close to 2 hours and 10 fire tenders for the firemen to control the blaze. The fire began on the third floor of the under-construction building where electrical work was going on and then spread to the fourth and fifth floors, according to reports.&nbsp;
Serum Institute CEO&nbsp;Adar Poonwalla&nbsp;tweeted that he is&nbsp;saddened by the loss of lives and offered his&nbsp;condolences to the family members of the deceased.&nbsp;
Poonawalla has&nbsp;assured the country that production of its Covid-19 vaccine will not be affected by the fire.&nbsp;The building where the fire broke out is located at a distance from the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing unit and has cause no damage to the vaccines or its production.&nbsp;

China&rsquo;s development and construction activities &ldquo;within its own territory&rdquo; is &ldquo;normal&rdquo; and beyond reproach, the Chinese Foreign Ministry h

China's development and construction activities "within its own territory" is "normal" and beyond reproach, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, reacting to a report about China building a new village in Arunachal Pradesh. The foreign ministry spokesperson also added that China 'never recognised the so-called Arunachal Pradesh'. China claims Arunachal Pradesh as part of southern Tibet, while India's consistent stand has been that the northeastern state is an integral and inalienable part of the country. The Ministry of External Affairs had said that Indian Government keeps a constant watch on all developments having a bearing on India's security after reports on Chinese construction emerged.

Abbas Siddiqui, an influential cleric of Furfura Sharif Dargah in West Bengal's Hooghly district, on Thursday floated a new political outfit&nbsp;ahead of the upcoming 

Abbas Siddiqui, an influential cleric of Furfura Sharif Dargah in West Bengal's Hooghly district, on Thursday floated a new political outfit&nbsp;ahead of the upcoming assembly polls. The cleric said he said formed India Secular Front to ensure that constitutional democracy is protected, everybody gets social justice. Siddiqui&nbsp;also expressed his desire to be a kingmaker and said that his&nbsp;party&nbsp;might contest state elections from all 294 Assembly seats.&nbsp;
Siddiqui has indicated that his party will be a platform for Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis residing in West Bengal.&nbsp;Once considered a vocal supporter of the Trinamool Congress in the past, Siddiqui has been taking on the state government in the recent past. After holding discussions with Siddiqui in early January, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi announced that his party will fight the Assembly polls in an&nbsp;alliance&nbsp;with the cleric.&nbsp;

Days away from Republic Day, the decision on where the tractor rally by farmers will be held&nbsp;remains inconclusive. The second round of talks between farmer unions 

Days away from Republic Day, the decision on where the tractor rally by farmers will be held&nbsp;remains inconclusive. The second round of talks between farmer unions and the Delhi Police ended in no resolution, as farmers continued to demand the permission to hold the tractor rally in Delhi on January 26.
The farmers want the rally on Delhi&rsquo;s busy outer ring road while the Delhi Police wants them to change the location to Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway, outside the national capital. The farmer unions have rejected the proposed route by Delhi Police and insist that their rally in Delhi will be peaceful.
Thousands of farmers have been protesting on Delhi&rsquo;s borders against the new farm laws, which have been stayed by the Supreme Court till a mutual conclusion is reached.

Bangladesh received two million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, Covishield from India as a gift, the country&rsquo;s senior minister said on Thursday. 'In

India has handed over 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Bangladesh under grant assistance, a senior minister said on Thursday. The vaccines were given to Bangladesh at a crucial time when the number of coronavirus cases in the nation continues to rise and has reached 529,687 till Thursday.&lsquo;India has come with gifts of vaccines&rsquo;, Bangladesh foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said as Indian High Commissioner Vikram Doraiswami handed him over the vaccines. Health minister Zahid Maleque joined the function during which Momen termed the New Delhi initiative as a proof of true friendship between Bangladesh and India.

Ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi&nbsp;is slated&nbsp;to visit the state, to mark&nbsp;'Parakram Diwas'&nbsp;on January 23,

Ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi&nbsp;is slated&nbsp;to visit the state, to mark&nbsp;'Parakram Diwas'&nbsp;on January 23, also the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
The Centre had announced that January 23 will be celebrated as Parakram Diwas to honour Netaji for his selfless service for India&rsquo;s independence. The Prime Minister is also expected to preside over the inaugural function at Victoria Memorial.
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has also asked the Centre to declare Netaji&rsquo;s birth anniversary as a national holiday.

BJP MP Gautam Gambhir contributed ₹ one crore for construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. Gambhir said that the contribution was made by him and his family for a 'glorio

BJP MP Gautam Gambhir contributed ₹ one crore for construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. Gambhir said that the contribution was made by him and his family for a 'glorious' temple that is the dream of Indians. The Delhi BJP has launched a campaign to collect donations through coupons of ₹ 10, 100 and 1,000 across the city for the construction of the Ram Temple, said Kuljeet Chahal, Delhi BJP general secretary. Some are willing to contribute large sums of one crore or more, he added.

A case of gold jewellery worth nearly&nbsp;₹13 crore being burgled from a jewellery showroom in South Delhi&rsquo;s Kalkaji early Wednesday was solved by the police who

Police on Thursday arrested a 25-year-old electrician for stealing 25kg gold worth ₹13 crore&nbsp;from a jewellery showroom in South Delhi&rsquo;s Kalkaji. A CCTV footage from the store showed the alleged thief, identified as Mohammed Shaikh Noor&nbsp;in a PPE kit&nbsp;making his way inside the shop using ropes and a gas cutter. Officials have said he entered the showroom alone at 9:30 pm on Tuesday and left at around 3 am. The man took the stolen gold away in an auto.

A video clip of RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav speaking to Patna DM on phone has gone viral. The opposition leader arrived at a teachers protest in the state Capital when he

A video clip of RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav speaking to Patna DM on phone has gone viral. The opposition leader arrived at a teachers protest in the state Capital when he was told that the administration has denied the permission to hold a sit-in. He called the DM and extracted an assurance that the protest would be allowed. What's interesting in the clip is that the DM's tone changed the moment Tejashwi told him his name. The official assured the young leader that permission will be sorted.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to get vaccinated for Covid-19 in the second phase of the immunisation programme, the Hindustan Times has reported quoting govern

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to get vaccinated for Covid-19 in the second phase of the immunisation programme, the Hindustan Times has reported quoting government officials. The second phase of vaccination is likely to start in March or April. All the chief ministers, MPs and MLAs above 50 will also receive vaccines in the second phase, reports said. In his meeting with the chief ministers before the vaccination drive, PM Modi had strictly warned anyone against jumping the queue.

Two brutal rape cases have shocked Madhya Pradesh. A 14-year-old girl was raped, bludgeoned with a stone and buried alive but survived the attack in Betul. In Indore, a

Two brutal rape cases have shocked Madhya Pradesh. A 14-year-old girl was raped, bludgeoned with a stone and buried alive but survived the attack in Betul. In Indore, a 19-year-old college girl was gang raped, stabbed, stuffed in a sack and thrown on railway tracks. She also survived the attack. The incidents come at a time when the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government is running the 'Samman' campaign - a fortnight-long public awareness drive about crime against women across the state.

India has reported at least 600 adverse event following Covid immunisation from across the country in the past five days. The figure, the govt says, is one of the lowes

India has reported at least 600 adverse event following Covid immunisation from across the country in the past five days. The figure, the govt says, is one of the lowest in the world. So far, 10 people have been hospitalised in six states due to reported adverse event following Covid immunisation, of which seven have been discharged. The country has vaccinated over 8 lakh healthcare workers against Coronavirus disease till Wednesday evening. A total of 4 healthcare workers have died since the start of the vaccination, but the govt said three of these have not been found to be related to the vaccine effect.

According to the Ministry of Health, as on Sunday morning, there are 81,84,083 confirmed coronavirus cases in India, of which 5,70,458 are active cases.


According to the Ministry of Health, as on Thursday morning, there are 1,06,10,883 confirmed coronavirus&nbsp;cases in India, of which 1,92,308 are active cases.&nbsp;
While 1,02,65,706 people have recovered, 1,52,869 deaths have been reported.&nbsp;
Among the states, Kerala&nbsp;has the most active cases, followed by Maharashtra and Uttar&nbsp;Pradesh.&nbsp;
&nbsp;

A historic day at Dalal Street. The Sensex scaled the record peak on Thursday surging past the 50,000-mark for the first time. The Sensex rose as much as 335 points to 

A historic day at Dalal Street. The Sensex scaled the record peak on Thursday surging past the 50,000-mark for the first time. The Sensex rose as much as 335 points to hit an all-time high of 50,126.73 and Nifty 50 index also moved 14,700 mark for the first time. The domestic indices rose on optimism over the new US President Joe Biden's administration will mean more support for the struggling US economy, setting off a recovery that's crucial for the export-driven Asian region.

The UK government on Wednesday reiterated its stance that the situation in Kashmir remains an issue for India and Pakistan to resolve. Responding to a debate on the &ld

For India and Pakistan to resolve Kashmir, says UK

The UK government on Wednesday reiterated its stance that the situation in Kashmir remains an issue for India and Pakistan to resolve

The UK government on Wednesday reiterated its stance that the situation in Kashmir remains an issue for India and Pakistan to resolve. Responding to a debate on the &ldquo;Political situation in Kashmir&rdquo;, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office minister Nigel Adams stressed that it is not for Britain to play any mediatory role in a bilateral matter. He, however, accepted that there were human rights concerns on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC). &ldquo;The government&rsquo;s policy [on Kashmir] remains stable, it&rsquo;s unchanged. We continue to believe that this is for India and Pakistan to find a lasting political resolution to the situation that takes into account the wishes of the Kashmiri people&hellip; as laid out in the Simla Agreement,&rdquo; said Adams, in his capacity as Minister for Asia. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not appropriate for the UK government to prescribe a solution or act as a mediator in this regard...,&rdquo; he said.

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