BREAKING highlights: Victim's family demands death penalty on Sultanpuri case

After the suspension of 11 policemen in the Sultanpuri hit and drag case, the 20-year-old woman's mother on Friday demanded serious action in line with death penalty for the accused. She further urged for financial support for her family. Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday addressed the Voice of Global South Summit on its second day. During his opening remarks, he pointed out that geopolitical tensions are distracting the Global South from focusing on its priorities.

FSL Rohini's blood sample report of the accused reveals that all four accused, who were in the car, had consumed alcohol. The report was handed over to Delhi Police today: Sources (ANI)

According to ANI, a trainee ticketing agent of British Airways on Friday arrested for making a hoax bomb call to SpiceJet call centre.

Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda will visit West Bengal on January 19 for to promote the party's Lok Sabha Pravas campaign. 

Union home minister Amit Shah holds a high-level meeting on security in Raj Bhavan in Jammu. He will also meet victims of Rajouri terror attack.

Shraddha's father Vikas Walkar met Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde at his residence Varsha bungalow in Mumbai today. (ANI)

A sessions court is hearing Delhi Police's revision plea challenging magisterial court’s order of January 7 denying the custody of Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on a woman co-passenger on an Air India flight. There, Mishra's counsel argued that the co-passenger is a kathak dancer and 80% of them have an issue of incontinence.

“The complainant woman's seat was blocked. It wasn’t possible for him (Mishra) to go there. The woman has a problem of incontinence. She urinated on herself. She is a Kathak dancer, 80% of kathak dancers have this issue,” the counsel said. (ANI)

 Congress MP Rahul Gandhi urged Indians to take part in the Haath se Haath Jodo Abhiyan, an initiative to “put the country back on the path of building a Swarnim Bharat - where every single Indian has an equal chance to fulfil their dreams.”

Around 11 policemen from Rohini district who were on duty in PCR vans on the night of December 31 have been placed under suspension.

MHA ordered Delhi Police to take action after a detailed report was submitted to the ministry on the incident.

The flight operations at srinagar airport have been suspended since 10 a.m. due to continue snowfall and low visibility

Following airlines have cancelled all their remaining flights for today due to bad weather:

AirAsia, Indigo, SpiceJet, AirIndia, vistara

Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan paid tribute to former union minister Sharad Yadav, who passed away last night in Delhi, ANI reported. 

Union home minister Amit Shah was received at Jammu airport by L-G Manoj Sinha. He will leave for Dhangri to meet kins of seven prople who were killed in terror attacks on January 1 and 2.

Budget Session of Parliament to commence from January 31 and will continue till 6 April, says Union minister Pralhad Joshi.

A train – coming from Banihal – skidded off the tracks in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam Friday. No one is injured and all passengers have been safely rescued, reported news agency ANI citing an official.

A day after the Supreme Court asked the Centre the purpose of having an elected government in Delhi amid the ongoing Centre versus AAP, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said obstructing elected governments from doing their job for petty partisan gains is bad for the people, democracy and the Constitution. Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged off world's longest river cruise, MV Ganga Vilas and inaugarated the ‘Tent City’ built on the banks of River Ganga in Varanasi. Read more

Ten people were killed and several others injured in Maharashtra after the bus they were in collided with a truck, news agency ANI reported Friday citing police. Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to flag off today the world's longest river Cruise, MV Ganga Vilas, in Varanasi via video conferencing. Read more

The world is becoming increasingly volatile for developing countries, with the Ukraine crisis impacting food and energy security while concerns over a Covid-19 resurgence are dampening sentiment, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday. Read more

The National Remote Sensing Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation has released satellite images of Joshimath, the Uttarakhand town gradually sinking because of land subsidence, and revealed that a rapid subsidence of 5.4cm has been recorded in 12 days -- between December 27, 2022 and January 8, 2023. Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed condolences over veteran politician and former JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav's demise. Yadav died at a private hospital in Gurugram, family sources said. He was 75. Read more

US air travel returned mostly to normal Thursday, a day after a computer system that sends safety information to pilots broke down and grounded traffic from coast to coast, reported news agency AP. Read more