- Prime Minister to inaugurate Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi tomorrow; 23 new buildings in the complex to provide diverse facilities to the pilgrims.
- Depositors’ money amounting to 1300 crore rupees stuck for years, returned in last few days, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi; Addresses programme on Guaranteed Time-bound Deposit Insurance Payment in New Delhi.
- BJP MLA Digvijay Narayan Chaubey, expelled BSP MLA Vinay Shanker Tiwari and former MP Kushal Tiwari join Samajwadi Party in presence of party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow.
- S. P. supremo Akhilesh Yadav said that the Kashi Vishwanath corridor was initiated by Samajwadi Party. We will give documents as well, because this time, we will talk with proof. All this is happening so that the govt escapes providing double income to farmers; it’s a distraction.
- Government leaving no stone unturned to strengthen the Armed Forces, says Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
- Senior Scientist at the Dibrugarh Regional Centre of ICMR, Dr Biswajit Borkakoty prepares a kit detecting Omicron variant within 2 hours.
- Preet Kaur the daughter of Lt Colonel Harjinder Singh, who died in the Tamil Nadu chopper crash, performs his last rites at Brar Square in New Delhi. Lt Colonel Harjinder Singh’s wife Major (retired) Agnes P. Manezes paid him tributes.
- Indian Army chief General MM Naravane, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, Indian Navy chief Admiral R Hari Kumar, and other military officers paid tributes to Lt Colonel Harjinder Singh who died in the Tamil Nadu chopper crash.
- Last rites of Lance Naik B. Sai Teja was performed with military honour in his home town in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh today. Remember that Teja died in the Tamil Nadu chopper crash on December 8.
- National Helpline against Atrocities on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to be launched tomorrow.
- The terrorist killed in today’s Awantipora encounter has been identified as Sameer Ahmad Tantray. He had links with JeM & was part of groups involved in several terror crime cases. Incriminating materials including arms & ammunition were recovered.
- In the United States, rescuers search for survivors after devastating tornadoes tear through several states.
