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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Ayodhya on Saturday has set the tone for the consecration of Lord Ram's idol on January 22 with a slew of programs and events lined up in the coming days. The district is abuzz with activity as ministers, officials, saints, Hindutva activists and the media, among others, throng the place. Controversies are not far behind amid all this action.

WWE legend who faced off against iconic wrestlers like Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant, passed away at the age of 76. Known by his ring name Killer Khan, he succumbed to a ruptured artery after being rushed to the hospital around 10pm on Saturday, as per reports in Japan.

Pratap Simha was recently in the news over his connection with the Parliament security breach incident on December 13. The visitor pass was issued to one of the security breach accused in the name of BJP MP from Mysuru Pratap Simha. According to India Today, Karnataka Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre confirmed Vikram Simha's arrest and said authorities held him for illegally cutting 126 trees and selling the wood in the Hassan district.

Gaza on Saturday, as the Biden administration approved a new emergency weapons sale to Israel despite persistent international cease-fire calls over mounting civilian deaths, hunger and mass displacement in the enclave. Even a brief halt in fighting seems out of reach. A senior Hamas official told The Associated Press in Beirut on Saturday that the group has not budged from its position that a permanent cease-fire has to be the starting point for any further releases of Israeli and foreign hostages the group holds, which runs counter to a recent proposal by Egypt for a staged end to the war. It's a demand Israel is bound to reject. Israel has said it will pursue its unprecedented air and ground offensive until it has dismantled Hamas, a goal viewed by some as unattainable because of the militant group's deep roots in Palestinian society. The United States has shielded Israel diplomatically and has continued to supply weapons.

₹68,500 crore during the first six months of the current financial year. During 2022-23, it said banks' balance sheets grew at a healthy pace, with both deposits and credit growth accelerating. The Gross Non-Performing Assets (GNPA) ratio of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) fell to a decade low of 3.9 per cent at the end of March 2023 and further to 3.2 per cent in September.

COVID-19 were recorded in the Greater Mumbai Area on Saturday, the health department said. This brings the total number of positive patients to 208, as per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Public Health Department. Of the new cases, three were hospitalised today (Saturday), increasing the total number of hospitalised patients to 22. Currently, 14 out of 4,215 available beds are occupied, the Public Health Department said.

San Fernando Valley hills. The thieves stole luxury watches worth more than $300,000, adding to a string of break-ins affecting celebrities in the area.

Sanjay Raut's remarks that Shiv Sena (UBT) would contest 23 of the 48 seats in upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra, party chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said he won't do anything that would hurt the MVA alliance. His remarks are seen as a snub to Raut whose «23 seats for Shiv Sena» statement ruffled many feathers in Congress, an ally in the Maha Vikas Aghadi. Talking to reporters here, Thackeray said the ticket distribution will take place smoothly and that he has spoken to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi.

Xi Jinping's military modernization drive amid geopolitical tensions, analysts say. China's top lawmakers ousted nine senior military officers from the national legislative body on Friday, state media reported, a step that typically precedes further punishment for wayward cadres. Many of these were from the Rocket Force — a key arm of the PLA overseeing tactical and nuclear missiles. The purges are a setback for Xi who has pumped billions into buying and developing equipment as part of his modernising efforts to build a «world-class» military by 2050, with Beijing's outsized defence budget growing at a faster pace than the economy for some years. The recent downfall of generals and military equipment suppliers, however, has punctured some of this aura, and raised questions over whether there has been adequate oversight over these massive military investments as China vies with the United States in key areas, including Taiwan and the South China Sea. Since Xi took power in 2012, he has embarked on a wide-ranging anti-corruption crackdown among Communist Party and government officials, with the PLA being one of its main targets. The nine PLA generals removed from the legislature hailed from several military divisions; three were former commanders or vice commanders of the PLA Rocket Force; one a former Air Force chief and one a Navy commander responsible for the South China Sea. Four officers were responsible for equipment. «It is a clear sign that they are being purged,» said Andrew Scobell, Distinguished Fellow for China at the United States Institute for Peace.

Nirmala Sitharman on Saturday held a meeting with heads of public sector banks and reviewed their financial performance. During the meeting, concerns related to cyber security and the risks on the financial sector were discussed, sources said. Issues related to fraud and wilful defaulters and progress on the National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL) also came up for discussion, they said.

Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday accused the administration here of hiding something as she wasn't allowed to meet families of three civilians killed allegedly in army custody in Topa Pir village of Surankote in Poonch district of Pir Panchal region of Jammu. Mufti had reached Bafliaz region of Poonch in Jammu on Saturday along with few of her party members. However, the local police stopped her a few kms ahead of Topa Pir village and didn’t allow her contingent to move further. They put a concertina wire on the road and female police personnel tried to remove Mufti from the road, where she protested against the administration decision. “These people don't want us to meet the families and balm their wounds…it seems they want to hide something which has happened there.

The policemen came under attack on the Imphal-Moreh road. In Moreh two houses were torched. A police officer said that the gunmen reportedly targeted vehicles carrying police commandos when they were moving towards Key Location Point (KLP) from Moreh. A youth was killed in a gunfight with unidentified men in Manipur's Kangpokpi district on Saturday.

Chandrayaan-3 lander module successfully landed on the moon’s South Pole, making it the first country to have achieved the historic feat. Here's a look at other top 10 breakthrough moments in scientific discoveries and inventions: 1. Can humans reproduce in space? In a first, researchers successfully grew mouse embryos aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Greater Noida, reported PTI. Processions without authorization, conducting religious prayers, and public consumption of alcohol are also prohibited on Sunday and Monday. In accordance with the directives, the complete prohibition of private drone usage within a one-kilometer radius of government establishments is mandated during this period.

Imran Khan's nomination for the 8 February 2024 General Elections has been rejected by Pakistan's election body. Imran Khan had filed nomination in two constituencies. The 71 year old former prime minister of Pakistan was granted bail on 22 December in a case alleging he leaked state secrets, but he remained jailed on other charges ahead of an election due on 8 February 2024.

ALSO READ: ‘Manipur violence is oversimplified to malign Hindus’: Indian-American Rajshree Keisham at Congressional hearing The gunmen reportedly targeted vehicles carrying police commandos when they were moving towards Key Location Point (KLP) from Moreh," an eyewitness said. ALSO READ: Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 hits Ukhrul in Manipur According to preliminary reports, indiscriminate firing was continuing near New Moreh entrance gate and M Chahnou village. Sources added that two houses were also set ablaze in Moreh.

Pakistan (ECP) have rejected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan's nomination papers for two national assembly seats — Lahore (NA 122) and Mianwali (NA-89)," the office of the Returning Officer, Lahore, said here. Besides the main reason that Khan was convicted in the Toshakhana case, objections were raised against his nomination papers as the proposer and seconder for the PTI's founder did not belong to the respective constituencies.

neutralised, 291 terrorist associates arrested and 201 overground workers booked under the Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kashmir this year, Director General of Police R R Swain said on Saturday. Swain further said that only 31 local terrorists — an all time low — are left in the Union Territory.

Rick Riordan shared an optimistic update on the potential second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. While Season 1 has only just premiered on Disney+ and Hulu, discussions and preliminary work for Season 2 are underway, hinting at the possibility of the series continuing its successful adaptation of Rick Riordan's novels.

Kashmiri Pandits who got displaced from the Valley with the advent of separatist militancy, possibly because they were not «such a big electorate» as to invite «political intervention», former Supreme Court judge Sanjay Kishan Kaul has said. Justice Kaul, who was part of the bench which upheld the abrogation of Article 370 in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, and recommended setting up an «impartial truth and reconciliation commission» to probe and report on human rights violations by both state and non-state actors since the 1980s, said people of different communities lived in unity before insurgency shattered the peace and he was at a loss to comprehend how the situation «slowly degenerated». A Kashmiri Pandit himself, Kaul feels, it is time now for the people to move forward, after more than 30 years of unbridled violence. In an interview with PTI on Friday, Justice Kaul spoke about the unanimous verdict of the five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud which upheld the Centre's decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution that bestowed special status on Jammu and Kashmir. «It was a unanimous verdict which means all of us must have thought that this is the correct path to follow. Of course, every judgement, especially every important judgement, will generate debates.

IndiaToday said. The report quoted the complaint of Afsana's father-in-law Rojan Ansari who alleged that on Thursday, Afsana Khatoon had a fight with her husband Nizamuddin and after that, she locked herself in a room with her two-year-old son. The complaint added that the two-year-old toddler started crying while Afsana was on a call with someone and instead of comforting her son, she strangled him to death.