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President of Burkina Faso Roch Kabore has resigned, reports Reuters citing sources.

Registering a dip in cases, Karnataka on Monday logged 46,426 new cases of Covid-19, and 32 fatalities, taking the tally to 35,64,108 and the death toll to 38,614. Read more

The Congress on Monday released its second list of 11 candidates for the upcoming Uttarakhand assembly election. Among notable faces, former chief minister Harish Rawat has been named as the party’s candidate from the Ramnagar seat. Read more

West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Jay Prakash Majumdar and Ritesh Tiwari have been suspended from the party, reports news agency ANI. The party's state leadership had issued show-cause notices to the two leaders on Sunday for "anti-party activities".

Mumbai reported 1,857 fresh cases of the Covid-19 disease and 11 related deaths in the last 24 hours. As many as 503 people recuperated from the viral infection in the same time span. 

The Covid-19 tally in Madhya Pradesh reached 9,04,744 on Monday after the detection of 10,585 new cases, while the toll increased to 10,576 with six patients succumbing to the infection in the last 24 hours, an official told news agency PTI. 

The positivity rate reduced to 13.0 per cent on Monday from 13.4 per cent on Sunday, he pointed out.

Delhi on Monday reported 5,760 new cases of the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 30 related deaths in the last 24 hours. 

The tally of active cases in the city stands at 45,140. The positivity rate has gone down to 11.79 per cent. Read more

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will contest the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls from Karhal constituency.

Union health minister Mansukh Mandviya will interact with his counterparts in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Ladakh, Uttar Pradesh, and Chandigarh on January 25 to take stock of the Covid-19 pandemic situation, reports news agency ANI.

Punjab and Haryana high court on Sunday rejected anticipatory bail plea of Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia in drugs case.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be able to go to Britain's Supreme Court to challenge a decision allowing him to be extradited to the United States to face 18 criminal charges including breaking a spying law. Read more

Chhattisgarh chief minister and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel on Monday promised that if the party forms the government in Uttarakhand in the upcoming Assembly polls, then LPG cylinder prices in the state will not cross ₹500.

A Delhi court on Monday slapped sedition and other charges against Sharjeel Imam for 'inflammatory speeches' during anti-CAA stir.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar took to Twitter on Monday to inform that he has tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

All parking lots of Delhi metro stations will remain shut from 6am of January 25 to 2pm of January 26 as part of “security arrangements” for Republic Day, DMRC said in a statement, according to ANI.

Kerala health minister Veena George on Monday said that the southern state have “enough stock of Covid-related and non-Covid medicines,” according to ANI. “We also have adequate staff in hospitals. Only 43% of ICU beds (Covid and non-Covid) are occupied,” she added, pointing out that there is “no need” to worry. Notably, Kerala on Sunday logged 45,449 new Covid cases, up from 45, 136 on Saturday.

A fire has broken out at a chemical factory in Maharashtra's Kolhapur. As many as four fire tenders are at spot, ANI reported.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun interacting with the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar awardees. The winners will also be conferred digital certificates year 2022 and 2021 using Blockchain Technology, which will be the first time the technology will be used for such a purpose.

Delhi CM and AAP supremo Arvind Kejrwal on Saturday launched party campaign 'Ek Mauka AAP Ko' ahead of Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. He urged people of Delhi to make videos capturing development under his government and appeal to people of other states to support AAP. Kejriwal added that he will have “dinner with 50 Delhiites” whose videos go viral.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik on Monday said that it's good to “take pride” in one's religion but it's not right to have “hatred” towards other religions, according to ANI. “It is a fact that the parties that made an alliance with BJP, were gradually destroyed by them,” he added in reference to Maharashtra chief minister and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray's ‘wasted 25 years’ with BJP jibe.

Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal will address a press conference at 12 noon today.

Actor Dileep has reached the Crime Branch office in Kerala for the second straight day, as directed by the high court for questioning in a case lodged against him and five others for allegedly threatening officials probing the sexual assault of an actress in 2017

The Union health ministry said on Monday that more than 162.73 crore doses of the vaccine against Covid-19 have been administered to eligible beneficiaries till now. 

India's daily tally of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) saw a slight reduction on Monday with 3,06,064 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry's dashboard. 

All Covid-19 restrictions in Uttarakhand have been extended till January 31.