Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Congress party on Friday constituted a cluster-wise screening committees for shortlisting candidates for 2024 Lok Sabha elections. AICC General Secretaries/in-charges, PCC Presidents, CLP leaders and AICC secretaries in-charge of the state/UT will be ex-official members of the their respective state and UT, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal informed.
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Friday turned nostalgic while wishing his colleague and friend Manish Sisodia on his birthday. Sisodia was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on February 26 for his alleged role in corruption in the formulation and implementation of the Delhi Excise Policy 2020-21. The AAP leader has been in custody since then. 
The Congress on Thursday said Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Nyay Yatra' will be known as 'Bhatat Jodo Nyar Yatra'. The name change of the proposed yatra came days after the announcement by the Congress that Gandhi will hold a march from Manipur to Mumbai, passing through 14 states and 85 districts from east to west of India in 67 days, beginning January 14. However, Congress today said the yatra will cover 15 states.
Amid the rising number of coronavirus cases, a total of 511 cases of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 have been detected in the country till Tuesday (January 2). According to the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), under the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the country also reported five deaths due to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. 
Pakistan, over decades, was trying to use cross-border terrorism to bring India to the table and used it as its “core policy”, which was made “irrelevant” by the Narendra Modi government, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. He emphasised that India would not deal with Pakistan on their terms in which “practice of terrorism is deemed as legitimate”, and indicated that the neighbouring country has to create a conducive environment free of terror.
In a shocking incident, at least five members of a family were found dead in their house in a village in Jalandhar district's Adampur. The local police on Sunday night found 59-year-old Manmohan Singh, his wife, his two daughters, and a three-year-old granddaughter dead. Singh's body was found hanging from a ceiling fan, while the others lay on a bed in the same room.
Mann Ki Baat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the last episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ of 2023, reflected upon the “excitement and enthusiasm” among people in the country regarding the inauguration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya slated to take place on January 22, 2024, and urged people to share their creations on social media using hashtag ‘ShriRamBhajan’.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
