1.Netizens oppose Sasikala’s move to be Tamil Nadu CM, to submit petition to President and Governor.
2.NEW DELHI: India is finally taking steps to make its armed forces fighting fit. The country has inked a flurry of emergency deals for ammunition and spares worth around Rs 20,000 crore over the last two to three months to ensure its fighters and tanks, infantry and warships, are all ready to go to battle at short notice.
3.NEW DELHI: With barely a few days left for the first phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh, the brass has hit the campaign trail, keeping surgical strikes and demonetisation at the centrestage to showcase the Modi government’s resolve to take on terror and corruption.
4.JAIPUR: Health and ayurveda minister Kalicharan Saraf said on Sunday that Hindi translations of Sanskrit shlokas and verses from Vedas, Puranas, Smritis, Ramayana and Mahabharata would be painted on the walls of state’s 17,000 government hospitals in the coming months.
5.After presenting herself as a strong woman face and donning the mantle of UP BJP women wing chief, Swati Singh has a tough responsibility at hand, to win the Sarojini Nagar Assembly seat which the saffron party has never won.
6.Assam Assembly Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami on Monday suspended AIUDF MLA Aminul Islam for three days for using Facebook Live to telecast his speech from inside the House.
7.For the fourth consecutive day on Monday, the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway remained closed for traffic in the wake of landslides at some places, even as higher reaches in Kashmir received fresh snowfall overnight.
8.Several technology giants, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, banded together on Sunday to file a legal brief opposing President Donald Trump’s temporary immigration ban, arguing that it “inflicts significant harm on American business.”
9.The New Delhi Municipal Council on Monday passed a proposal to change the name of Dalhousie Road to Dara Shikoh Road, after the eldest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
10.Explosives and ammunitions were found at Red Fort on Sunday during a cleaning operation by the ASI. The matter was reported to the police on Monday morning and the monument has beem cordoned off, with bomb squads and police teams on the spot.
