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Former Union Minister Sharad Yadav passes away, confirms his daughter through a Facebook post.

A SpiceJet flight flying from Delhi to Pune is being searched after a phone call claimed that there was a bomb on plane. The plane was supposed to take off from Delhi's IGI Airport at 6.30 pm today, reports NDTV.

Authorities are searching the plane, but haven't yet found anything suspicious.

US inflation slowed to 6.5 per cent in December, marking the sixth straight monthly deceleration since a mid-2022 peak and reducing pressure for aggressive rate hikes from the Federal Reserve, reports LiveMint.

The Hubbali-Dharwad police denied that there was a breach in PM Modi's security covery during a roadshow on Thursday, reports Hindustan Times.

PM Modi's roadshow in Karnataka witnesses a security breach, a man has been intercepted, reports NDTV

AAP reverted to DIP Secretary saying, "at the outset, it is submitted that demand of approx Rs 164 crores is arbitrary, perverse & contrary to facts & provisions of law & extant policies" and to "provide the copies of those ads whose cost you seek to recover from us".
 
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar categorically ruled out the possibility of appointing another deputy, other than Tejashwi Yadav, ending speculations that a top leader of his JD(U) was being considered for the job. New faces may, however, be inducted in the council of ministers from the allies RJD and the Congress, he told reporters during his visit to Madhubani on Wednesday as part of his 'Samadhan Yatra'.

BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya took on the former bureaucrats who wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla expressing discontent over her alleged hate speech, and said that she had only reminded people about their rights for women safety and that she would stand for the respect of women. "The public knows what is good.. what is right, what is legal, what is illegal, people of all ideologies live in the country and if I remind them of their rights for the safety of women and girls, then there is no need for them to be troubled," she said.

The AAP has been issued a notice for recovery of Rs 163.62 crore for its political advertisements allegedly published in the garb of government advertisements, said PTI citing sources. The recovery notice issued by the Directorate of Information and Publicity also includes the interest on the amount and makes it mandatory for the ruling party in Delhi to pay the whole amount within 10 days, the PTI report added.
 
There is no evidence of a cyberattack, the White House said on Wednesday following hours of grounding of flights in the United States by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) due to a technical system failure. According to FlightAware, a flight tracking company, more than 9,500 flights within, into or out of the US were delayed and more than 1,300 were cancelled due to the system failure. The number of cancellations and delays has continued to climb despite the agency lifting a ground stop.

Poland has decided to send German-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine, said the country's President, Andrzej Duda. "A company of Leopard tanks will be handed over as part of building an international coalition," he was quoted by the Polish Press Agency (PAP) as saying.

Three days after the Cabinet expansion, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu distributed departments among his Ministers. While Sukhu has kept Finance, Home, General Administration, Planning, Personnel and other departments, the departments of Industries and Public Works have been allocated to six-time MLA Harshwardhan Chauhan and two-time MLA Vikramaditya Singh, respectively. Jal Shakti, Transport and Language, Art and Culture are already with Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri.

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First Published: Jan 12 2023 | 7:46 AM IST