4.00 p.m. | Congress workers, under the leadership of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Subhash Chopra, hold a dharna outside Shastri Bhawan in New Delhi on January 02, 2019 against price hike of LPG (cooking gas).
3.00 p.m. | Women carry diapers as they cross an area flooded after heavy rains in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 2, 2020.
2:00 p.m. | Smoke rising from a battery factory that caught fire and collapsed in Peera Garhi area in outer Delhi's Peeragarhi industrial area near Paschim Vihar in the early hours on January 2, 2020. At least 14 people, including 13 fire fighters, were injured in the fire.
1 p.m. | Hollywood actor Richard Gere arrives at Kalachkara Ground in Bodh Gaya to attend Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama's opening ceremony of a teaching session, on January 2, 2020.
12:30 p.m. | Protesters hold up banners during a rally in Hong Kong on January 2, 2020. The banner at left reads "Against authoritarianism, we are not afraid because we have each other." The protests began in June in response to a now-withdrawn Bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party, and have evolved into a broader pro-democracy movement.
11:30 a.m. | The elections for the rural local bodies were held in two phases in 27 districts on December 27 and 30 in Tamil Nadu. The process of counting of votes polled is underway at different counting centres in the state. Top to bottom: At a counting centre in Dindigul. G. Karthikeyan; At Chithode, Erode district. M Govarthan; At Perumalpattu, Tiruvallur district. B.Velankanni Raj.
10 a.m. | The process of counting of votes polled in the two-phased rural local bodies held on December 27 and 30 in Tamil Nadu began on January 2, 2020. Polling officials start sorting ballot papers at Vasavi Arts College at Chithode in Erode district in Tamil Nadu.
9 a.m. | Severe flooding hit Indonesia’s capital as residents were celebrating the New Year, killing many, displacing thousands and forcing the closure of a domestic airport. A boy swims in the floodwaters at the Jatinegara area after heavy rains in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 2, 2020.
