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Indore h2o contamination: Infant calved aft 10-year hold dies; household rejects authorities compensation
A child calved aft 10 years of fervent prayers and vows died wrong days owed to h2o contamination that has claimed respective lives successful Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city. The household claims it has rejected the government’s compensation for the decease of the child, who was calved aft 10 years of prayers and vows. The authorities has announced an ex gratia of ₹2 lakh each to the families of the deceased persons. Also, Indore Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargava connected Friday (January 2, 2026) said helium has received accusation astir 10 deaths owed to a diarrhoea outbreak caused by contaminated h2o successful the Bhagirathpura country of the city. To a question astir suspected cholera dispersed successful the country based connected preliminary trial reports of drinking h2o samples collected from Bhagirathpura, the Mayor said lone the wellness section could supply accusation connected the matter.
Mamdani’s enactment for Khalid: India won’t tolerate immoderate interference successful its interior matters, says BJP
The BJP connected Friday (January 2, 2025) accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of “interfering” successful India's interior matter by penning a enactment connected jailed activistic Umar Khalid and asserted that India volition not tolerate immoderate specified effort. Questioning Mr. Mamdani’s locus standi of commenting connected India’s interior matters, BJP nationalist spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia besides cautioned the New York City Mayor against specified efforts, asserting, “If India’s sovereignty is challenged, 140-crore Indians volition basal agreed nether the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership.” This came aft Mr. Mamdani wrote a enactment for Mr. Khalid, recalling his words connected “bitterness” and the value of not letting it devour one’s self.
Ghaziabad Police orders enquiry aft video shows serviceman intimidating residents with ‘device to observe nationality’
The Ghaziabad Police ordered an inquiry connected Friday (January 2, 2026) aft a video went viral connected societal media showing a constabulary serviceman placing what appears to beryllium a smartphone connected the backmost of a antheral and allegedly intimidating residents of a slum by claiming the instrumentality could find if they are amerciable immigrants. “Are you Bangladeshi? The instrumentality shows that you are, doesn’t it?” a constabulary serviceman could beryllium heard saying portion the antheral stressed that helium was from Araria territory successful Bihar. The constabulary serviceman is from the Kaushambi constabulary station. The incident, occurred during what constabulary called arsenic a “routine country domination exercise”.
SIR successful 12 States/UTs: Enumeration signifier postulation ‘much less’ successful municipality areas
The postulation of enumeration forms from electors successful municipality areas was “much less” arsenic compared to agrarian areas successful the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters’ database successful 9 States and 3 Union Territories, Election Commission of India (ECI) officials said connected Friday (January 2, 2026) citing disposable trends. They said astir apt crushed for electors not returning filled up enumeration forms is that electors are not disposable astatine location owed to enactment oregon nonrecreational commitments. Constant migration was seen arsenic anther crushed down the little signifier collection. In agrarian areas, the enumeration signifier postulation by booth-level officials was overmuch higher arsenic compared to municipality areas.
Stray dogs issue: Delhi Police files FIR aft authorities accuses AAP of spreading misinformation
Delhi Police connected Friday (January 2, 2026) registered an FIR pursuing a ailment by the Directorate of Education connected the alleged misinformation being dispersed connected societal media implicit a circular to name nodal officers for matters related to stray dogs. Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood said the authorities decided to enactment against the “false information” being dispersed connected the contented by Aam Aadmi Party nationalist convenor Arvind Kejriwal. Accordingly, the Directorate of Education (DoE) filed a ceremonial ailment with the police, demanding ineligible enactment into the matter.
Modi govt could springiness neither cleanable water, nor cleanable air, making nationalist suffer: Kharge
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge connected Friday (January 2, 2026) said Prime Minister Narendra Modi keeps trumpeting the Jal Jeevan Mission but was soundless connected deaths caused by contaminated h2o successful Indore. He alleged that the Modi authorities and the BJP failed to supply either cleanable h2o oregon cleanable aerial to the country. “Narendra Modi ji, who ne'er gets bushed of trumpeting the Jal Jeevan Mission and Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, is maintaining his accustomed soundlessness connected the deaths caused by drinking contaminated h2o successful Indore.” Mr. Kharge said successful a station successful Hindi connected X, “This is the aforesaid Indore metropolis that has clinched the ‘Cleanest City’ rubric for the eighth consecutive clip successful the cardinal government’s Swachh Sarvekshan survey. It’s a shameful authorities of affairs that, owed to the BJP’s incompetence, radical present are hopeless for cleanable water.”
Canada asks Air India to probe incidental of aviator reporting for work nether power of alcohol, says source
Canada’s transport regulator has asked Air India to analyse an incident of a aviator reporting for work nether the power of intoxicant and failing 2 breathalyzer tests, a idiosyncratic acquainted with the substance said. The tests were conducted by Canadian constabulary astatine Vancouver International Airport, aft the aviator was asked to permission the aircraft, the idiosyncratic said. The incidental was labelled arsenic a “serious matter” by Transport Canada successful a missive to Air India and authorities are apt to prosecute enforcement action, the idiosyncratic added.
Trump says U.S. volition intervene if Iran violently suppresses peaceful protests
U.S. President Donald Trump connected Friday (January 2, 2025) said that if Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, the United States of America will travel to their rescue. “We are locked and loaded and acceptable to go,” helium said successful a Truth Social post. Mr. Trump’s remark follows the deaths of several radical arsenic Iran’s biggest protests successful 3 years implicit economical hardship turned convulsive crossed aggregate provinces.
Pakistan issues support to Biman Airways to commencement nonstop operations connected Dhaka-Karachi
Pakistan’s Aviation authorities person issued support to the Bangladesh nationalist airline, Biman Airways, to commencement nonstop operations connected the way of Dhaka-Karachi. According to a study connected Friday (January 2, 2026) successful the Jang Newspaper, support has been fixed connected a trial ground for a play that volition past until March 30. The report, quoting Civil Aviation authorization sources, said that details of formation schedules and operations volition beryllium finalised by adjacent week, and Biman volition run its flights nether Pakistan Civil Aviation rules.
Maduro unfastened to U.S. talks connected cause trafficking, but soundless connected CIA strike
Venezuela is open to negotiating an statement with the United States to combat cause trafficking, the South American country’s President Nicolás Maduro said successful a pre-taped interrogation aired Thursday (January 1, 2026) connected authorities television, but helium declined to remark connected a CIA-led onslaught past week astatine a Venezuelan docking country that the Trump medication believed was utilized by cartels. Mr. Maduro, successful an interrogation with Spanish writer Ignacio Ramonet, reiterated that the U.S. wants to unit a authorities alteration successful Venezuela and summation entree to its immense lipid reserves done the months agelong unit run that began with a monolithic subject deployment to the Caribbean Sea successful August. “What are they seeking? It is wide that they question to enforce themselves done threats, intimidation and force,” Mr. Maduro said, aboriginal adding that it is clip for some nations to “start talking seriously, with information successful hand.”
Saudi envoy says person of Yemen separatist radical STC blocked delegation’s landing successful Aden
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Yemen said connected Friday (January 2, 2026) that Aidarus Al-Zubaidi, the person of Yemen’s UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), refused landing permission the previous time for a plane carrying a Saudi delegation to Aden. The halt successful flights astatine Aden planetary airdrome was the latest motion of a deepening situation betwixt Gulf powers Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, whose rivalry is reshaping war-torn Yemen. “For respective weeks and until yesterday, the Kingdom sought to marque each efforts with the Southern Transitional Council to extremity the escalation ... but it faced continuous rejection and stubbornness from Aidarus Al-Zubaidi,” the Saudi ambassador, Mohammed Al-Jaber, said connected X.
