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Mahayuti wins civic polls successful Maharashtra
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti confederation swept the municipal corp elections successful Maharashtra connected Friday (January 16, 2026) with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis claiming triumph successful 25 of the 29 bodies. He termed the result a “massive mandate” adjacent though the State Election Commission declared results for lone 11 corporations, with counting going connected till precocious night.
BMC canvass results: BJP-Shiv Sena confederation ends Uddhav Thackeray’s clasp implicit Mumbai
As the BJP-Shiv Sena harvester inched person to the winning fig successful the BMC predetermination connected Friday night, it became wide that Uddhav Thackeray had mislaid power of the municipal corporation for the archetypal time, having ruled it continuously for implicit 25 years.
Trump says helium whitethorn punish countries with tariffs if they don’t backmost U.S. controlling Greenland
President Donald Trump suggested Friday that helium may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t backmost the U.S. controlling Greenland, a connection that came arsenic a Congressional delegation met Danish and Greenlandic lawmakers successful Copenhagen and sought to little tensions.
Diplomat’s gathering with Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami main was routine: India
A fortnight aft the person of Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami successful Bangladesh revealed that helium had held a “secret” gathering with an Indian diplomat, the Ministry of External Affairs connected Friday said the interaction was portion of the regular engagements conducted by Indian diplomats successful Dhaka.
Delhi High Court seeks Centre’s reply connected Iran’s detention of 16 Indian seafarers
The Delhi High Court has issued announcement to the Union government portion hearing a plea by household members of 16 Indian seafarers who were detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRG) connected December 8. At the time, they were connected a vessel in planetary waters disconnected the Dibba larboard adjacent Dubai.
Talks connected Chabahar volition proceed with U.S. and Iran: India
India remains engaged with some the United States and Iran astir ways to proceed operations astatine the larboard of Chabahar successful southeastern Iran, officials said connected Friday. Recent media reports person suggested that India is wrapping up its enactment successful Chabahar successful the airy of caller U.S. sanctions.
EU leaders to beryllium main guests astatine Republic Day function
Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh connected Friday announced that European Union leaders Antonio Costa, President of the European Council, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, will beryllium the main guests astatine India’s 77th Republic Day celebrations.
Apex wildlife assemblage readies guidelines connected ‘religious structures’ successful sanctuaries
An apex adept assemblage of the Environment Ministry, which decides connected permitting infrastructure improvement wrong wildlife habitat, has brought retired guidelines that specify conditions nether which onshore wrong wildlife parks oregon sanctuaries whitethorn beryllium diverted for spiritual structures. This follows a first-of-its-kind instance, erstwhile a connection for onshore diversion wrong the Balaram Ambaji Wildlife Sanctuary, Gujarat, came up successful aboriginal 2024. The sanctuary is big to, according to the State Government, “...two humanities temples—Balaram and Ambaji—situated astatine the other corners of the sanctuary.”
Nobel Peace Prize inseparable from laureate, grant assemblage says aft Trump gets medal from Machado
The Nobel Peace Prize remains inseparably linked to the idiosyncratic or organisation designated arsenic the laureate, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday, 1 time aft past year’s victor gave portion of her grant to U.S. President Donald Trump. The 2025 laureate, Venezuelan absorption person Maria Corina Machado, connected Thursday gave her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Mr. Trump, who thanked her for it. “Regardless of what whitethorn hap to the medal, the diploma, oregon the prize money, it is and remains the archetypal laureate who is recorded successful past arsenic the recipient of the prize,” the grant assemblage said successful a statement.
Trump acknowledgment Iran for not pursuing done connected executions of protesters
U.S. President Donald Trump took the antithetic measurement connected Friday (January 16, 2026) of thanking the Iranian government for not pursuing done connected executions of what helium said was meant to beryllium hundreds of governmental prisoners. “Iran cancelled the hanging of implicit 800 people,” Mr. Trump told reporters portion leaving the White House to walk the play astatine his Mar-a-Lago property successful Palm Beach, Florida. He added “and I greatly respect the information that they cancelled.” Mr. Trump posted, “Thank you!”
WPL-4: Radha, Richa, Shreyanka prima arsenic RCB maintains cleanable run
It’s not for thing that Radha Yadav and Richa Ghosh are rated truthful highly, particularly successful the shortest format of the game. On Friday, the 2 experienced players erstwhile again stamped their people arsenic they brought Royal Challengers Bengaluru retired of the woods with a 105-run concern for the 5th wicket and paved the mode for the team’s 32-run triumph against Gujarat Giants successful a Women’s Premier League 2026 fixture astatine the D.Y. Patil Stadium.
Equity markets to stay unfastened connected Budget Day connected Feb 1
Leading banal bourses NSE and BSE connected Friday (January 16, 2026) said they volition behaviour unrecorded trading connected Sunday, February 1, erstwhile Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman volition contiguous the Union Budget.
