- Farmers protesting the central government's new agricultural laws said on Saturday that they will hold a 100-km tractor rally in Delhi on Republic Day after getting a go-ahead from the Delhi Police that set aside the initial resistance from authorities for the demonstration.
- Over a thousand large dams in India will be roughly 50 years old in 2025 and such aging embankments across the world pose a growing threat, according to a United Nations (UN) report which notes that by 2050, most people on Earth will live downstream of tens of thousands of dams built in the 20th century.
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday rolled out the "Ayushman CAPF" scheme, extending the benefit of the central health insurance programme to the personnel of all armed police forces in the country.
- The Election Commission of India will formally launch the e-EPIC (Electronic Electoral Photo Identity Card) programme on January 25, the National Voter's Day.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited the Netaji Bhawan in Kolkata and paid tribute to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on his 124th birth anniversary.
- The World Health Organisation has thanked India for "continued support" in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. India has been sending vaccines to countries in the Southeast Asian neighbourhood and to others like Brazil and Morocco. South Africa will also get the vaccine soon.
- Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) after an RTI reply revealed that the varsity spent over Rs 9.90 lakh over the unveiling event of a statue of Swami Vivekananda in the campus. The statue was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via video conference on November 12 last year.
- The military talks are slated to be held at the Moldo border point on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, the sources said on Saturday.
- A team of doctors has been constituted to evaluate and monitor the former Bihar chief minister's condition and he has been admitted under Dr Rakesh Yadav, professor of Cardiology at AIIMS.
- India has received 8 Rafale jets, 3 more expected by month end: IAF chief
- More than eight years after his death, the ruling Shiv Sena honoured its founder and patriarch Bal Thackeray by installing a nine-feet tall bronze statue inside a traffic island near the National Gallery of Modern Art on MG Road in south Mumbai, on the occasion of his 95th birth anniversary
- The Supreme Court on Friday refused to accord early hearing to the plea related to mining major Vedanta’’s Sterlite copper unit at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu which is closed since May 2018 over pollution concerns
- The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was not in favour of granting one extra opportunity to those civil services aspirants who could not appear in their last attempt in the exams conducted by the UPSC last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- South Africa has welcomed the United Nations’ Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which entered into force on Friday to ban nuclear weapons from the world.
- Central African Republic has declared a 15-day state of emergency throughout the country as a coalition of armed groups seeks to overthrow the newly re-elected President Faustin-Archange Touadera
- President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked a recent Trump administration report that aimed to promote “patriotic education” in schools but that historians mocked and rejected as political propaganda.
- Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will soon resume its e-catering services in phase-wise manner for the passengers travelling in the currently operating special trains
- Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday distributed cheques worth Rs 7.48 crore as financial assistance to 307 sportspersons. In a function organised at Chhatrasal Stadium, he urged the sportspersons from Delhi to achieve big and make Delhi and the entire nation proud.
- With the State government inoculating 22,364 more healthcare workers (HCWs) on Saturday, the total number of beneficiaries in Odisha crossed 1.5 lakh mark.
- India will be displaying some of its key military assets, such as T-90 tanks and BrahMos missile system, during the 72nd Republic Day celebrations on Rajpath, with a marching-cum-band contingent of the Bangladesh armed forces all set to take part in the ceremonial parade for the first time.
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