1.President Droupadi Murmu appointed Justice Arindam Sinha, the senior-most puisne Judge of Orissa High Court, as its acting Chief Justice with effect from January 20. Chief Justice Chakradhari Sharan Singh is set to retire January 19.

2.A Pakistan court Friday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to 14 and seven years in prison respectively after finding them guilty of corruption in the 190 million pounds al-Qadir Trust case.

3.Parliament’s Budget Session will be held from January 31 to April 4, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman set to table her eighth straight Budget February 1.

4.The first batch of 800 senior citizens from Khurda, Puri, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara and Dhenkanal districts began their pilgrimage to places in Maharashtra, such as Shirdi and Nashik.

5.India said 12 Indian nationals have been killed while serving with the Russian military and another 16 listed by Russia as missing.

6.The Enforcement Directorate said it has attached more than 140 units of immovable assets worth about Rs300 crore in a MUDA-linked money laundering case involving Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others.

7.The state government Friday hiked the monthly remuneration of junior teachers from Rs11,000 to Rs16,000, the CMO said in a statement.

8.The Bharti Kisan Union (Krantikari) Thursday slammed the Punjab government for the arrest warrants issued against 25 farmers and insertion of an attempt to murder charge in the FIR in connection with the 2022 prime minister security breach matter in the state.

9.Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday expressed satisfaction over the empowerment of more than 12,000 ‘Lakhpati Didis’ in the Union territory and expressed hope that this number would grow significantly.

10.The telecom department launched the Sanchar Saathi mobile app to make it easier to report any suspected fraud communications by allowing the public to flag such incidents directly from their mobile phone call logs.

11.Israel must withdraw from Lebanese territories and stop conducting military operations inside Lebanon that violate the UN Security Council resolution halting the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war.

12.India’s foreign exchange reserves extended their losing streak for a sixth straight week and stood at a 10-month low of $625.87 billion as of January 10, data from the Reserve Bank of India showed Friday.

13.Seven persons, mostly spectators and a bull owner, died in the jallikattu and manjuvirattu events held across Tamil Nadu on Kaanum Pongal day, police said Friday..

14.This is blatant in the national capital, the Supreme Court Friday said as it came down heavily on the MCD over 3,000 tonne of solid waste remaining untreated everyday.

15.TV actor Aman Jaiswal (23) died after a truck rammed into his motorbike on Jogeshwari road in Mumbai on Friday.