Trustee of Ram Janmbhoomi Teertha Kshetra says, “Today’s (Trust) meeting was regarding the selection of the idol for the Ram temple”
Bimlendra Mohan Pratap Mishra, Trustee of Ram Janmbhoomi Teertha Kshetra says, "Today's (Trust) meeting was regarding the selection of the idol for the Ram temple. We have selected it. There was a voting system and we gave our preferences. The idol selected unanimously will be brought for Pran Pratishtha."
Dense fog engulfs several parts of India
Dense fog continues to engulf several parts of north India, including Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and extended up to sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Jharkhand this morning. However, the intensity of the fog decreased a bit at several places in Delhi and the visibility improved from 500 m to 600 m. IMD has said dense fog will continue in most parts of Punjab, Delhi, Chandigarh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar till January 2, 2024. It also said that cold wave conditions will get worse in the region till New Year’s Eve.
PM Modi to inaugurate redeveloped railway station and new airport
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today be welcomed by various groups of artists from across the country as he arrives in Ayodhya to inaugurate the redeveloped railway station and a new airport. In a statement, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's office said more than 1,400 performers will present folk art and cultural programmes in a total of 40 stages set up along the route from the airport to the railway station, Ram Path. The Prime Minister will also participate in a public event later, where several development projects worth more than Rs 15,700 crore will be inaugurated. The consecration ceremony at the Ram temple will be held on January 22.
NHRC issues notices to India’s Drugs Controller General, over medicines in Delhi Mohalla Clinics, not meeting standards
National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the Delhi Chief Secretary, Drugs Controller General of India, and Delhi Police Commissioner over medicines in Delhi govt-run hospitals and Mohalla Clinics, not meeting the requisite standards. It took suo motu cognizance of a media report that a medicine ‘Sodium Valproate’, recommended for treatment of epilepsy in Delhi government-run hospitals and Mohalla Clinics, has been found to be not meeting the requisite standards as per a report issued by the Regional Drug Testing Laboratory RDTL Chandigarh and another medicine prescribed by the doctors for the treatment of epilepsy was also found to be inadequate.
Former Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi says, “Nitish Kumar does not want Tejashwi to become CM”
On Bihar CM Nitish Kumar taking over as the president of JD(U), Former Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi says, "This speculation was going on for the last two months because there was a difference of opinion between Lalan Singh and Nitish Kumar regarding making Tejashwi the CM. Nitish Kumar does not want Tejashwi to become CM but these people were pressurising him...Today Nitish Kumar has become the party president and as far as we know, Lalan Singh can form a separate faction with some MLAs and will support RJD. Nitish Kumar is ready for this and if the situation goes out of his control, he can hold Bihar Assembly elections along with the Lok Sabha elections."
Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit concurrently accredited as India’s High Commissioner to Grenada, Commonwealth of Dominica
IFS officer Dr Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit, presently High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to Grenada and to the Commonwealth of Dominica: MEA
IPS officer Nina Singh takes charge as the Director General of CISF
IPS officer Nina Singh takes charge as the Director General of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). Nina Singh became the first woman to be appointed as Director General of CISF.
ED Attaches properties worth Rs. 6.935 Cr Assets in Juhu Taj Slum Fraud
ED has provisionally attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs. 6.935 Crore belonging to Sailesh Savla and his wife Jayshree Savla including one flat and fixed deposits in the Juhu Taj Slum Rehabilitation fraud. Total attachment in this case stands at Rs. 52.36 Crore.
Last rites of actor and DMDK chief Vijayakanth performed today
Last rites of actor and DMDK chief Vijayakanth being performed today with full State Honours at the Koyambedu DMDK office in Chennai.
Congress President Nana Patole, “Our only duty is to oust BJP in the state and seat sharing shall be based on merit”
On the meeting of Maharashtra Congress leaders at the residence of Congress MP Mukul Wasnik, Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole says, "Today we gathered here under the leadership of Mukul Wasnik to discuss the political situation of Maharashtra. High command will make a decision on these discussions held today. Our only duty is to oust BJP in the state and seat sharing shall be based on merit."
