Breaking News, January 9 | HIGHLIGHTS

A 35-year-old woman was killed and two others were seriously injured after the earth caved in and fell on them while digging in a forest in Chhattisgarh's Korba district on Monday, police said. The incident occurred this afternoon between Karmandi and Bendarkona villages when the victims- all women- had gone to collect the soil (white clay) used in wall coating, Korba Additional Superintendent of Police Abhishek Verma said.

A woman lost both her legs after being run over by a train here on Monday morning, police said. The incident occurred on the Ayodhya-Prayagraj railway route under the Kotwali police station area, they said. Satna Nishad (40) has been admitted to the district hospital, they said.

 The Ladakh Lieutenant Governor administration has made the use of anti-skid chains mandatory for vehicles plying on snow-covered roads to ensure the safety of people in the Union Territory, officials said on Monday.

Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday said it has issued a show cause notice to Air India regarding two incidents of passenger misbehaviour onboard a flight from Paris to New Delhi last month. In one incident, a drunk passenger was caught smoking in the lavatory and was not listening to the crew. In the second incident, another passenger allegedly relieved himself on a vacant seat and blanket of fellow female passenger when she went to lavatory, according to DGCA.

Water supply will be affected in many areas in Delhi on Thursday and Friday due to work related to interconnection of new pipelines at the Haiderpur Water Treatment Plant, the Delhi Jal Board said on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be initiating various Railway projects worth Rs 2,400 crore in Telangana besides flagging off a Vande Bharat Express train between Hyderabad and Vijayawada, a press release from BJP said here on Monday.

India does not believe in a "hierarchical" world order where few countries are considered superior to others and its ties with other nations are based on sovereign equality and mutual respect, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday amid growing global concerns over China's muscle flexing.

A 28-year-old nurse posted at a Community Health Centre here has accused a senior doctor of sending her objectionable messages and asking her to have sex with him.

Several priests on Monday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of "insulting" those engaged in worship with his comment that India is a country of "tapasvis" not "pujaris". Gandhi had recently said in Haryana that the Congress believes in 'tapasya', while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is an organisation of 'pooja'. The BJP-RSS force people to worship them, he had alleged, adding that India is a country of 'tapasvis' (ascetics) and not 'pujaris' (priests).

3 gangsters from Punjab were arrested in Mumbai on Monday. 

The Supreme Court has asked a petitioner, who has sought the court’s intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand's Joshimath as a national disaster, to mention his plea Tuesday for urgent listing. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha on Monday asked advocate Parmeshwar Nath Mishra, appearing for Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, who mentioned out of turn for urgent listing of the plea, to follow the process and again mention on Tuesday.

Four people were killed Monday morning when their bus rammed into a truck in the midst of a dense fog cover in Unnao on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway, police said. Superintendent of Police Shashi Shekhar Singh said the bus was going from Rajkot in Gujarat to Nepal. The accident occurred in Auras area of Unnao.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday arrived in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city to take part in the 17th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) convention. MP Governor Mangubhai Patel and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan welcomed Modi on his arrival at the airport.

The first 'Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion' meeting of the G20 began in Kolkata on Monday. The first day of the event will feature an exhibition on digital innovations for advancing financial inclusion, and sessions on the role of digital public infrastructure in financial inclusion and productivity gains, among others.

A thick layer of fog blanketed Amritsar, parts of Punjab and Haryana on Monday morning. As per the IMD, Amritsar is likely to experience 'fog/mist in the morning and partly cloudy sky' later during the day.

Humans and animals seek respite from the intense cold wave as they sit by a bonfire. As per IMD, Kanpur will experience 'dense or very dense fog with cold day conditions' on Monday, with the minimum temperature dropping to 4 degrees Celsius.

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People light up bonfires to find respite from the prevailing cold wave and fog conditions in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur.

Several flights have been delayed due to severe fog and cold in the national capital. The visibility at Delhi's IGI is very low at the airport making it hard for the airport authorities to run smooth flight operations.

At least 29 trains are running late in the northern railway region on Monday due to dense fog conditions prevailing in Delhi, parts of Punjab, UP and Haryana.

Congress party's Bharat Jodo Yatra resumes from Khanpur Kolian in Kurukshetra district of Haryana.

At least 40 people have died and 85 were injured after two buses collided near the town of Kaffrine in central Senegal on Sunday, AFP reported citing the government.

The city of joy, Kolkata gears up for the first meeting of Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) under India's G20 Presidency. The meeting will take place from January 9 to January 11.

Dense fog engulfs Delhi, across parts of north India on Monday morning, leading to reduced visibility.