Rahul targets Modi at Yuva Kranti Yatra
Congress president Rahul Gandhi addressed the concluding session of the Youth Congress' nationwide public outreach campaign ‘Yuva Kranti Yatra’ in New Delhi.
Mr. Gandhi, once again targetted the Narendra Modi government on the Rafale deal. He alleged that the Prime Minister “sold” the Indian Air Force and “stole” opportunities of the youth by giving away Rs 30,000 crore to his “friend” and businessman Anil Ambani.
Goa Budget
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar addresses the State Assembly during the Budget Session on Wednesday.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar presented the State Budget in the Assembly on Wednesday.
Mr. Parrikar, who is undergoing treatment for a pancreatic ailment, read out the Budget speech seated in his chair, and aided by assistants.
Martyrs’ Day
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paying homage at the Gandhi Samadhi during the Martyrs' Day at Rajghat in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Leaders across India on Wednesday paid tribute to the Father of the Nation on his 71st death anniversary, observed as Martyrs’ Day with floral tributes, devotional songs and all-religion prayer.
Apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial at Raj Ghat in New Delhi. Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman were among those present.
New TTD temple at Amaravati
TTD priests performing Vastu Homam at Venkatapalem as the part of new construction of Sri Venkateswara Swamy temple on Wednesday.
The TTD will be constructing the temple of Lord Venkateswara in Amaravati at a cost of ₹150 crore.
The temple will come up in 25 acre land at Venkatapalem.
Telangana panchayat polls
An elderly woman goes to cast her vote in the 3rd phase of the Telangana panchayat elections at ZP High School at Nekkonda, Warangal rural on Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Polling began in the third and final phase of the Panchayat elections in Telangana on Wednesday. The first and second phases were held on January 21 and 25 respectively. Polling began at 7 a.m. and will end at 1 p.m. while counting will start from 2 p.m.
Philippines mosque attacked
In this photo provided by WESMINCOM Armed Forces of the Philippines, a police investigator examines the scene of a grenade attack of a Muslim mosque in Zamboanga city in southern Philippines early Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019.
A grenade thrown into a mosque in the southern Philippines killed two people and wounded four, security officials said on Wednesday, three days after twin bombings at a church on a nearby island killed 21 people. The incident took place just after midnight in Zamboanga, a predominantly Christian province in the Mindanao region. Zamboanga is just a short boat ride from the mainly Muslim Sulu archipelago where Sunday's church bombing took place.
May seeks Brexit deal changes
A Pro-EU protester demonstrates in the rain outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster on January 29, 2019 in London, England.
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday won a few weeks to salvage a Brexit deal but headed toward a clash with the European Union by promising to overhaul the divorce agreement she spent a year and a half negotiating with the bloc.
Trying to break the U.K.’s Brexit deadlock, Ms. May got Parliament’s backing for a bid to rework an Irish border guarantee in the withdrawal deal a provision Ms. May and the EU both approved, and which the bloc insists cannot be changed.
Polar vortex freezes U.S. Midwest
A pedestrian stops to take a photo by Chicago River, as bitter cold phenomenon called the polar vortex has descended on much of the central and eastern United States, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., January 29, 2019.
A blast of Arctic air from the polar vortex brought dangerous, bone-chilling cold to a wide swath of the United States, stretching from the Dakotas through Maine, with snow expected as far south as Alabama and Georgia.
The Midwest was the hardest-hit region, as temperatures plunged below zero Fahrenheit (minus 18 degrees Celsius). By nightfall the mercury was hovering at 0F in Chicago, 7F (minus 14C) in Detroit and minus 21f (minus 29C) in Minneapolis.
