India
1.B'luru molestation: Hundreds of women march in protest across nation.Hundreds of women gathered in over 30 towns and cities across the country late on Saturday, saying they were "occupying the night streets" to demand safety in public spaces after reports of the mass molestation of women in Bengaluru on New Year's Eve.
2.Modi addresses military commanders, outlines vision on security issues.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday addressed top military commanders in Dehradun during which he is understood to have outlined his vision on security challenges before the country.
3.SC to examine TN govt’s 1986 decision giving land to religious structures.The Supreme Court has agreed to examine whether the government can allot land free of cost to any private organisation for construction of religious structures.A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud decided to hear a petition which has challenged the Tamil Nadu government's 1986 decision allotting 0.27 acres of land free of cost for construction of a mosque in Ullagaram village near Chennai.
4.Rashtrapati Bhavan writes to EC after President's photos appear on Cong hoardings.The Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday took strong exception to President Pranab Mukherjee's photographs appearing in some Congress hoardings in poll-bound Punjab and wrote to Election Commission to ensure that neutrality of his office "is not breached in any manner”.
5.Death toll in Andhra train derailment rises to 39, Centre orders probe.The death toll in the derailment of Jadgadalpur-Hirakhand Express at Koneru under Vizianagaram district in Andhra Pradesh rose to 39 on Sunday morning after retrieval of five more bodies from the mangled coaches.The East Coal Railway (ECoR), however, confirmed only 27 deaths.
6.AP train tragedy: Modi offers condolences to kin of victims.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday extended his condolences to the kin of the deceased in the deadly derailment of the Hirakhand Express, and assured that the Railway Ministry is closely monitoring the situation.
7.Jallikattu ban 'removed completely', will bring permanent law soon: TN CM.Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam on Sunday said that the ban on Jallikattu has been ‘removed completely’ following the signing of an ordinance to the effect by state governor CH Vidyasagar Rao.“We will bring the draft of a permanent law on Jallikattu in the Tamil Nadu assembly soon,” the CM added.
8.As Jallikattu furore grasps TN, 2 die during event, 1 killed in protests. Three persons died, two during Jallikattu in Pudukottai and one during demonstration at Madurai, as the bull taming sport was today conducted in various parts of Tamil Nadu amid protests which forced chief Minister O  Panneerselvam to leave for Chennai without inaugurating it at Alanganallur.
9.Kerala: CBI files charge-sheet in recruitment scam.The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the multi-crore nurses recruitment scam has filed one more charge sheet naming L Adolphus, Protector of Emigrants, Kochi, as the key accused. The chargesheet, submitted in the CBI court here, names Kochi–based Al Zarafa manpower Consultants Private Limited, its owner Mailakkattu Varghese Uthuppu, his wife Susan Thomas, also chairman of Al-Zarafa, and two of their employees -Jossy and Pradeep K.S., as the remaining accused. Further two hawala operators identified as V S Suresh Babu of Kottayam-based Suresh Forex and Abdul Nasser of Malabar Foreign Exchange in Kochi have been also arraigned as the accused.
10.NDA govt, Modi support SC/ST reservation: Union minister Athawale.In the wake of remarks by a senior RSS functionary advocating review of reservation policy, Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Sunday said the Constitution has given reservation to SC/STs and the NDA government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi support it.


World
1.UK govt accused of covering up failed nuclear missile test.The British government was accused today of covering up a failed test of its nuclear weapons deterrent in 2016, just weeks before lawmakers voted to renew the system.Prime Minister Theresa May refused to say whether she knew about the reported malfunction of an unarmed missile when she urged MPs to support updating the Trident nuclear system.
2.US has no choice but to end radical Islamic terrorism: Trump."We've been fighting these wars for longer than any wars we've ever fought. We have not used the real abilities that we have. We've been restrained. We have to get rid of ISIS. Have to get rid of ISIS. We have no choice. Radical Islamic terrorism," Trump told members of the CIA community at its headquarters in Langley.
3.Botched Nigerian air strike may have killed 236 people: official.As many as 236 people may have been killed in the botched Nigerian air strike against Boko Haram that hit a camp for civilians displaced by the unrest, a local official told AFP on Saturday.
4.Turkey's president eager to hear Trump's policies on Mideast.Turkey's president says he is interested in hearing US President Donald Trump's policies on the Middle East.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters before departing on an African tour on Sunday that Turkey wants a Mideast where countries' territorial integrity is upheld and the region is not "shattered."
5.'Europe will wake up in 2017', Le Pen says in Germany.French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen on Saturday told a European gathering of rightwing populists in Germany that a string of high-stakes elections in 2017 would blow a wind of change across the region.Galvanised by Britain's vote to leave the EU and Donald Trump's US presidential victory, the far-right National Front leader said voters in France, Germany and the Netherlands would be next to reject the status quo.
6.Militants blow themselves up after gunfight with Saudi forces.Two men accused of planning attacks against Saudi Arabia blew themselves up following a confrontation with security forces in the city of Jeddah on Saturday, the interior ministry said.Saudi security forces surrounded a house in Jeddah's eastern Al-Harazat district and exchanged fire with the men, who blew themselves up, an interior ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by state news agency SPA.
7.Trump hotel starts 'inaugural tradition' amid ethics concern. Red, white and blue balloons rained down over crystal chandeliers in the soaring atrium of the Trump International Hotel at midnight in "a new inaugural tradition," its social media account promised.
8.El Chapo, if convicted, would likely do time in 'Supermax’ prison.If Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, known as much for jail breaks as narcotics trafficking, ends up convicted in U.S. court, there is little doubt where he will spend the rest of his life - a super-secure Colorado prison housing America's most dangerous inmates.
9.Pakistan asks India to suspend work on hydro projects in J-K. Pakistan on Friday asked India and the World Bank to inform it about all the dams and hydropower projects proposed to be built by India under the Indus Waters Treaty on the western rivers, and not just the two projects under dispute currently.
10.3 dead, 20 injured after driver ploughs car into pedestrians in Melbourne. A man deliberately drove into pedestrians, killing three and injuring at least 20 in the centre of Australia's second largest city Melbourne on Friday, but police said the lunch-time incident was not terror-related.


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