🔴 In its manifesto, SP ally RLD has announced reservation for women in government jobs and promised that those with record of crimes against women would be denied tickets.

🔴 Meanwhile, among those to test positive on Thursday was Gujarat DGP Ashish Bhatia, who is currently in home isolation. In Bhatia’s absence, temporary charge of DGP has been given to IPS officer TS Bisht, according to a senior police official.

🔴 The proposal includes Rs 5 lakh crore investment from RIL in the state over 10-15 years to set up 100 GW Renewable Energy Power Plant and Green Hydrogen Eco-System development.

🔴 On Wednesday, Jadeja also wrote to state Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi demanding a CBI probe into the recruitments by GUVNL in the past three years.

🔴 An official said that illegal power connections taken using hooks and cables pose a grave risk to the user's household as well as to his neighbours.

🔴 Police have booked the truck driver on charges of negligent driving under sections 279 and 304 (a) of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Motor Vehicles Act.

🔴 Pradeep Vyas, Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Maharashtra, also said people should report positive results from home test kits as well as rapid antigen tests to the concerned authorities, so that their health can be monitored through regular District IDSP Cell or call centres.

🔴 Dr Baruah, now 72, was embroiled in a controversy when, in 1997, he performed a xenotransplantation (transplanting organs from one species to another) surgery and managed to transplant a pig's heart and lungs on a 32-year-old man.

🔴 Grandson of Kathak maestro, Acchan Maharaj, he began his instruction in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, under the aegis of his father, Sunderlal Shukla, before moving to Delhi in 1960 with his grand-uncle Shambhu Maharaj, uncle Birju Maharaj and percussionist Manika Prasad.

🔴 At least 15,617 cases were reported from Bengaluru city alone. Six deaths were also reported from the city. At present, there are 93,009 active cases in Karnataka, with the state capital having nearly 73,000 active cases.

🔴 The TMC, which is also keen on leaving a mark in its maiden political venture in the coastal state, maintains that the AAP does not figure in its calculations either and that it is “acting more as the BJP’s B-team”.

🔴 Congress can will but if somebody wants to support why will I say no: Chidambaram

🔴 Bashab Chandra Kalita, Chief Advisor, Sadou Asam Karmachari Parishad, an association of government employees, speaks about the one-time special leave initiative which CM Himanta Biswa Sarma recently announced.

🔴 Dar’s family said he was arrested from his home at Gund Jahangir village in Bandipora district during an Army raid, and added that he was later handed over to police.

🔴 Uttarakhand has always voted out incumbent

🔴 The proposal, part of the AMC board’s draft budget worth an estimated Rs 887 crore for the financial year 2022-23, was tabled by the Administrative Officer LD Desai Friday.

🔴 Gujarat on Friday reported 5,396 new Covid-19, of which 2,281 and 1,350 were from Ahmedabad and Surat cities respectively. For the second consecutive day, no Omicron case was reported in the state.

🔴 While the Congress has formed an alliance with the GFP, the TMC, a new player in the Goa fray, has tied up with the MGP for the upcoming polls.

🔴 VHP’s national spokesperson Vinod Bansal said inquiry into the matter will be conducted. He also said identity of the two persons seen in the videos that emerged online is yet to be ascertained.

🔴 The government-aided Senior Basic School at Olassery village has become the first school in the state to bring in gender neutrality in addressing a teacher.

🔴 During the meeting, several residents expressed disagreement over the acquisition process. Officials require the consent of 70% of the villagers for the next step of acquisition.

🔴 According to the police, Niraj Bishnoi is the “main conspirator and creator” of the hate app.

🔴 For, the possibility of protesters blockading roads to disrupt the PM’s rally was raised in a series of letters between December 31 and January 4 from the Punjab Police headquarters to field officers in districts.

🔴 The Congress has once again declared Rane, who will soon be 83, as its candidate from the Poriem constituency, where he has been undefeated over the last five decades.