Mahatma Gandhi News: Asaram Bapu News Live Updates: Gandhinagar court convicts godman Asaram Bapu in woman disciple rape case

Heavy rainfall alert by IMD for Tamil Nadu

Heavy rain is likely to occur at isolated places over Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Thootukudi, Ramanathapuram, Sivaganga, Pudukkottai, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Mayiladuthurai districts of Tamilnadu and Karaikal area: IMD

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Avalanche alert in Doda, Kishtwar and Poonch districts

Avalanche with high danger level likely to occur above 2500 m above sea level over Doda, Kishtwar&Poonch districts in next 24 hours. Medium danger level avalanche likely to occur above 1500 to 2500 m over Bandipore,Ganderbal,Kupwara,Kulgam&Ramban districts in next 24 hours: JK DMA

Gujarat: Gandhinagar court convicts godman Asaram Bapu in woman disciple rape case

Actor Shah Rukh Khan on Pathan success during a media interaction in Mumbai:

We are all extremely grateful to the audience and media for supporting the film (Pathaan) so much in spite of the fact that there might have been things that would have curtailed the happy release of the film.

Delhi to Jaipur in two hours

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Sohna-Dausa stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on 4th February. The Expressway will reduce the travel time between Delhi and Jaipur to around two hours.

Budget 2023 Expectation:

Earlier, the monthly household budget used to be Rs 25,000 which used to cover all expenses. But now due to inflation, the monthly budget has gone up to Rs 50,000. We spend most on the education of children, said A housemaker from Delhi, on 2023 Budget expectation.

Abu Dhabi’s IHC invests $400 million in Adani Enterprises’ FPO

International Holding Company, the diversified Abu Dhabi-based conglomerate, announces to invest AED 1.4 billion (USD 400 million) into Adani Enterprises Further Public Offering (FPO) & a part of Adani Group, through its subsidiary Green Transmission Investment Holding RSC Limited. “Our interest in Adani Group is driven by our confidence and belief in the fundamentals of Adani Enterprises Ltd; we see a strong potential for growth from a long-term perspective and added value to our shareholders,” said Syed Basar Shueb, Chief Executive Officer, IHC

All conflicts must be resolved by peaceful means: UNGA President Korosi on China violating India’s sovereignty along the northern border

Budget 2023 Expectation: Govt needs to work to arrest inflation

After agriculture, the textile sector generates the most employment but nothing much is done in terms of incentives for small & medium textile units, many such units closed after Covid, says Monish Tyagi, textile industry expert.

EPC major KEC International bags new orders worth Rs 1,131 cr

Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary:

I think personal income tax from the lowest end to the highest end should be reconsidered for a lower tax slab. This will give more money in hands of people for spending and also for investment. Manufacturing should be scaled up.

– Deepak Sood, Secy General, ASSOCHAM on Budget 2023

Budget 2023 Expectation: LPG cylinders price should drop

Price of LPG cylinders is very high. Paying Rs 1100 p/m for a cylinder is steep. Being a working mother with two children who earns Rs 11,000 per month, it gets difficult to manage expenses amid rising inflation, urges Anita Redekar, a canteen worker on Budget expectation. We expect the govt to focus on lowering the price of fuel and also LPG cylinder. Govt should increase the basic income tax exemption limit: Mahesh Gaikwad, temporary employee, Mumbai Vidya Peeth.

EC defers Lakshadweep Lok Sabha bypoll after HC suspends conviction, sentence of sitting MP

Election Commission of India withholds bye-election for a Parliamentary constituency in Lakshadweep after Kerala High Court passed an order on 25th January, 2023 suspending the conviction and sentence imposed on former Lakshadweep MP Mohammed Faizal PP.

Anurag Thakur slams Rahul’s claim that “No BJP leader can walk in J-K as they are scared”

Union Minister Anurag Thakur answers Rahul’s claim that “No BJP leader can walk in J-K as they are scared”. He said, “You saw Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi playing with snowballs in Srinagar, but they forgot to thank PM Modi who abrogated Article 370 and 35A. After 2014, the situation in Kashmir changed completely. Now there is peace & tourism has also increased. “This is because PM Modi took steps for the betterment of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. I”n Bharat Jodo Yatra, people who worked to break India were seen instead of people who united India. They should answer what Congress wants to do with such people

Csaba Korosi, UNGA President on General assembly praises India for active participation Ukraine-related issues

Blinken urges ‘calm’ as Israel-Palestinian conflict flares

S Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged “calm” and “deescalation” after violence has flared between Israel and the Palestinians, as he kicked off a Middle East tour in Cairo. Washington’s top diplomat, after meeting Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the country’s foreign minister, was later set to travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Israel is reeling from an attack that killed seven civilians outside a synagogue in annexed east Jerusalem on Friday, a day after the deadliest army raid in years in the occupied West Bank claimed 10 lives.

Morgan Stanley names Arun Kohli new country head for India

German economy contracts, fuelling recession fears

Germany’s economy unexpectedly shrank at the end of 2022 due to the fallout from the war in Ukraine, official data showed, adding to worries it could be on the brink of recession. Europe’s top economy contracted 0.2 percent in the October to December period compared to the previous quarter, according to preliminary figures from statistics authority Destatis. Analysts from financial data firm Factset had been expecting zero growth, while Destatis said earlier this month the economy stagnated in the fourth quarter.

Tensions mount in France ahead of new pension strike

France braced for another day of mass protests and strikes over proposed pension reform, with the government of President Emmanuel Macron and its left-wing opponents trading blame for the expected disruption. Around 1.1 million people took to the streets for the first strike day on January 19, according to official statistics, the biggest demonstrations since the last major round of pension reform under right-wing president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2010.

DK Shivakumar hatched conspiracy against me: Karnataka BJP leader Jarkiholi on sex CD case

Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former state minister Ramesh Jarkiholi, who resigned from the Cabinet after a sex video of him surfaced in the state two years ago, attacked state Congress president DK Shivakumar and accused the latter of hatching a conspiracy against him over the sex CD case. Addressing a press briefing here in Belagavi, former minister Ramesh Jarkiholi said that DK Shivakumar and Congress leaders including Belagavi Rural MLA Lakshmi Hebbalkar are behind the video.

Russian shelling kills five in tough eastern Ukraine combat

Russian shelling killed at least five people and wounded 13 others during the previous 24 hours, Ukrainian authorities said Monday as the Kremlin’s and Kyiv’s forces remained locked in combat in eastern Ukraine. The casualties included a woman who was killed and three others who were wounded by the Russian shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city in the country’s northeast, according to regional Gov. Oleh Syniyehubov.

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee meets Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in Birbhum, says allegations of land grabbing against him baseless

Pune: A motivation parachute, free fall jump done by Bombay Sappers

A motivation parachute and free fall jump was undertaken by the Bombay Sappers today at the traditional Dighi Hills drop zone in Pune. Central Army commander Lt Gen Yogendra Dimri was part of the jump: Army officials

Uzbekistan gas explosion kills at least five

A gas explosion tore through a flat in Uzbekistan killing at least five people, officials said, as residents facing a brutal energy crisis resort to makeshift heat sources. Gas and electricity shortages in the Central Asian country have led to the sacking of a slew of senior officials this month, as Uzbekistan struggles under historically low temperatures. The resource rich ex-Soviet nation is plagued by ageing energy infrastructure, which regularly leads to deadly incidents.

Indian men’s hockey team chief coach Graham Reid resigns following World Cup debacle

Analytical coach Greg Clark and scientific advisor Mitchell David Pemberton also step down

At least 28 people were killed and 150 were injured at a blast inside a mosque that shook Peshawar’s Police Lines area, reports Pakistan’s Dawn News citing Officials

DMK leader from Salem South District D Manickam abused a Dalit boy for entering the temple premises in Salem Kanthampatti

DMK has suspended D Manickam. DMK General Secretary Duraimurugan in his statement today stated this.

Indian cricketer Murali Vijay announces retirement from all forms of International cricket

Day after death of Odisha’s health minister Naba Kishore Das, CM Naveen Patnaik allocates his portfolio to cabinet member Niranjan Pujari

Bihar Technical Service Commission aspirants protest outside JDU & RJD party offices in Patna

“I was selected as Junior Engineer & dept was also allotted. I was waiting for the joining letter but the result was withheld. We request govt to publish the result,” said a protestor.

The MSP committee promised by PM Modi formed during the farmer’s protest should be dissolved, and a new committee must be formed. The PM must make MSP a statuary right of the farmers

– Harsimrat Kaur Badal, SAD MP

Powerful suicide blast at Peshawar mosque kills 17: Pakistani media reports

AAP’s Sanjay Singh, RJD’s Manoj Jha, DMK, Left, others raise Adani issue in all-party meeting, seek discussion in Parliament

Govt willing to discuss in Parliament every issue under rules, we seek Oppn’s cooperation: Minister Pralhad Joshi after all-party meeting

Blast reported in Peshawar’s police lines area. More details to follow: Pakistan’s Geo English

No BJP leader can walk like this in J&K because they are scared

– Rahul Gandhi at Bharat Jodo Yatra rally in Srinagar

Four children came to me. They were beggars & had no clothes on…I hugged them…They were cold & shivering. Maybe they didn’t have food. I thought that if they’re not wearing jackets or sweaters, I too shouldn’t wear the same

– Congress MP Rahul Gandhi

At all-party meet, YSR Cong demands nationwide caste-based economic census to find out status of OBCs in country: Party leader Vijaysai Reddy

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture today will take up the issue of unruly behaviour by passengers on flights

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture today will take up the issue of unruly behaviour by passengers on flights and what airlines need to do in this regard. Several officials from the Civil Aviation ministry will be present before the Committee.

She wrote, “I can see your knee is hurting because when you put pressure on that leg, it shows on your face. I can’t walk with you but I’m walking beside you from my heart because I know you’re walking for me & my future. Right at that moment, my pain vanished,”

– Rahul Gandhi

I learned a lot. One day, I was in a lot of pain. I thought I’ve to walk for 6-7 hrs more & it’ll be difficult. But a young girl came running to me & said that she has written something for me. She hugged me & ran away. I started reading it

– Rahul Gandhi, in Srinagar, J&K

All secular parties must come together to liberate country from BJP: CPI leader D Raja at Bharat Jodo Yatra rally

Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis today will hold a meeting with all MPs from the State before the Parliament budget session to discuss the demands and needs of the state

Tripura CM Manik Saha files nomination from the Town Bordowali Assembly seat, in the presence of Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and Manipur CM N Biren Singh

Tripura CM Manik Saha holds a roadshow ahead of filing his nomination from the Town Bordowali Assembly seat for the upcoming polls

Air India urination case: A sessions court in Delhi reserves order on bail plea moved by accused Shankar Mishra

I will rather die than join hands with BJP: Nitish Kumar

Unilever News Live Updates: Unilever appoints Hein Schumacher as its new CEO replacing Alan Jope from July 1

Hein is currently CEO of the global dairy and nutrition business Royal FrieslandCampina and became a Non-Executive Director of Unilever in October last year. He will begin as Unilever CEO on 1 July 2023, after a one-month handover period.

Renault to reduce stake in Nissan, rebalancing alliance

Philips cuts 6,000 more jobs after sleep device recall: AFP

Embattled Dutch medical tech maker Philips said on Monday it will slash 6,000 more jobs worldwide after fresh losses caused by a massive recall of faulty sleep respirators. Chief Executive Roy Jakobs announced the “difficult, but necessary further reduction of our workforce” by 2025, which comes just three months after it announced another 4,000 cuts.

SC dismisses Jalan-Kalrock’s appeal seeking stay on recent NCLAT order

In a setback to Jalan Fritsch consortium, the successful bidder of debt-laden Jet Airways, the Supreme Court refused to interfere with the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s order that asked it to clear the unpaid provident fund and gratuity dues of ₹250 crore to the former employees of the grounded airline

Sun Pharma acquires Disperzyme and Phlogam brands for its anti-inflammatory portfolio

LIC says credit rating of all of the Adani debt securities held by LIC are AA and above. LIC’s exposure in Adani Group, as on date, is 0.975% of LIC’s Total AUM at book value

LIC to ET NOW: LIC’s total holding under equity & debt is Rs 35,917.31 cr as on Dec-end under Adani Grp of cos

Total purchase value of equity, over the yrs under all the Adani Group companies is Rs 30,127 cr

Welspun India announces brand licensing agreement with The Walt Disney Company for the EMEA region, giving co the rights to design, develop, manufacture and distribute home textiles products leveraging Disney’s franchises and characters across Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Lucas brands

Price as on 30 Jan, 2023 11:46 AM, Click on company names for their live prices.

Bottle thrown at singer Kailash Kher while he was singing in closing ceremony of Hampi Utsav at Hampi, Vijayanagar yesterday; 2 detained

The men were angry at Kher for not singing Kannada songs, said Police

On 23rd Jan, a man Bharat Sukhraj Doshi disguised as Jain priest stole 160 gm of gold plate from a Jain temple. He was nabbed from Malad West after checking over 100 CCTV footage; gold recovered. He planned it after watching Crime Patrol

– D Kavde, Crime Police Insp, Dinoshi PS