Live Breaking News Headlines & Updates, January 15, 2019: Haryana | Manager of Shri Ram Hotel Shot at by Miscreants on Cash Counter
The special cell of Delhi police on Monday filed a chargesheet in the sedition case against former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar and other activists, including Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya.
Haryana: Manager of Shri Ram Hotel has been shot at by unknown miscreants at the hotel's cash counter. The hotel is based on Fazilpur Road in Gurugram. The Manager has been admitted to hospital in critical condition. Investigation has been initiated by police.
Kerala: Defense PRO Dhanya Sanal reaches Agasthyarkudam peak; she is the 1st woman to trek to Agasthyarkudam after 2018 Kerala High Court order that women can't be excluded from trekking the peak which is considered final resting place of sage Agasthya, who is an eternal celibate.
Prayagraj: 33,000 earthen lamps lighted at Kumbh Mela for construction of Ram Temple; a saint, Moni Maharaj, says, "We'll light total 11 lakh lamps in a month. We believe that the construction of Ram Temple will start immediately after the conclusion of Kumbh".
Karnataka: Our MLAs went to Mumbai for holidays, they'll be back by tomorrow. As per media, the number is increasing but according to us, it's decreasing. For us, it has come down to 2 from 15-16, says Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan.
Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti: We shook hands with BJP as they had the mandate, to have talks on Jammu & Kashmir issue just like Vajpayee Ji held talks with Hurriyat & Pakistan. But Modi Ji couldn't walk on the path of Vajpayee Ji even though he had the mandate.
We've often seen infrastructure projects get stalled for various reasons. Public money is wasted due to cost & time over-runs. We decided that this culture of wastage of public money can't continue. Through PRAGATI, we're accelerating projects & overcoming problems, says Narendra Modi in Kollam.
International Cricket Council: Manu Sawhney has been named as the ICC's new chief executive. He will join the organisation next month before formally taking over from David Richardson following Cricket World Cup 2019.
Supreme Court defers hearing for four weeks on a plea by Zakia Jafri against the clean chit given to PM Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases.
On the orders of district magistrate Anuj Jha, the Uttar Pradesh police has slapped the stringent provisions of the National Security Act (NSA) against 3 men arrested for alleged cow slaughter in Bulandshahr district last month. The recovery of cow carcasses in Syana town of the district had triggered the mob violence which claimed the lives of a policeman and a local youth.
The High Commission of India (HCI) in Pakistan has written to Pakistan government that attempts are being made to hack social media accounts of senior Indian diplomats, said ANI sources. In a letter to Pakistan government, HCI wrote, High commissioner and Deputy high commissioner are being closely followed and aggressively watched by a Pakistan security official during a wedding reception in Islamabad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Odisha and Kerala Tuesday to launch a series of projects, including a railway line and a highway bypass. In Odisha, he will dedicate to the nation a Multi-Modal Logistics Park (MMLP) in Jharsuguda and other developmental projects, and inaugurate a new railway line between Balangir and Bichupali.
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