TODAY NEWS ON January 05, 2025

News Headlines for CAT, CLAT and IPM aspirants

Source: THE HINDU

• Manipur Governor reviews security, tribal body extends shutdown
• No unusual rise in respiratory illnesses, influenza cases in India, Health Ministry says after review of Chinese surge
• X’s Grok AI revives concern about deepfakes ahead of Delhi Assembly election
• Courts must stick to strict conditions if bail is not for violation of fundamental rights: SC judgment
• Manipur Governor suggests use of NSA against miscreants in Manipur, stresses on employment opportunities for youth
• M.P. to seek time from HC for Bhopal waste disposal as protests get violent in Pithampur
• INSV Tarini with two woman Navy officers begins third leg of circumnavigation
• Delhi records longest duration of zero visibility due to intense fog; over 300 flights delayed
• Three women activists of Punjab farmer organisation killed in road accident
• Delhi air pollution: SC to consider extending order for colour-coded stickers for vehicles beyond NCR
• Experts cautiously welcome Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025
• Bihar PSC examination: Retest held for select candidates at 22 centres in Patna amid tight security “Altogether, 12,00
• Jimmy Carter’s 6-day funeral begins with a motorcade through south Georgia
• Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza Strip as new ceasefire talks beginy

Headlines:

Manipur Governor reviews security, tribal body extends shutdown

Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla reviewed the State’s security situation on Saturday, less than 24 hours after he was sworn in and a mob clashed with the police in Kuki-dominated Kangpokpi district.

No unusual rise in respiratory illnesses, influenza cases in India, Health Ministry says after review of Chinese surge

The recent surge of cases of respiratory illness in China is not unusual in view of the ongoing flu season, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday, following a meeting of the joint monitoring group convened to review the situation. There has been no unusual rise in respiratory illnesses or influenza cases in Indian hospitals, it said.

X’s Grok AI revives concern about deepfakes ahead of Delhi Assembly election

The Aam Aadmi Party posted an Artificial Intelligence-generated deepfake of B.R. Ambedkar supposedly blessing former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal last month, prompting an AI-generated response from the Bharatiya Janata Party in return.

Courts must stick to strict conditions if bail is not for violation of fundamental rights: SC judgment

The Supreme Court has made it clear that constitutional courts cannot relax or overlook stringent conditions in special statutes like the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) or Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in order to grant bail on grounds other than the violation of the fundamental rights of accused persons.

Manipur Governor suggests use of NSA against miscreants in Manipur, stresses on employment opportunities for youth

A day after assuming charge, Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla held a security review meeting on Saturday where he suggested that the State police use legal options such as the National Security Act, 1980, which provides detention for a year without trial, against miscreants and troublemakers, a senior government official told The Hindu.

Jimmy Carter’s 6-day funeral begins with a motorcade through south Georgia

Jimmy Carter’s long public goodbye began Saturday (January 4, 2024) in south Georgia where the 39th U.S. President’s life began more than 100 years ago.

M.P. to seek time from HC for Bhopal waste disposal as protests get violent in Pithampur

The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to seek some time from the Jabalpur High Court to dispose of the Bhopal gas tragedy’s toxic waste from the Union Carbide factory in Pithampur, State Chief Secretary Anurag Jain said on Saturday (January 4, 2025), amid the ongoing protests in the industrial town against the government’s plans.

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza Strip as new ceasefire talks beginy

An Israeli military strike killed 12 persons in a house in Gaza City early on Saturday (January 4, 2025), bringing the death toll from strikes across Gaza to 62 over the last day, Palestinian medics said, as mediators launched a new ceasefire push in Qatar.

INSV Tarini with two woman Navy officers begins third leg of circumnavigation

Indian Naval Sailing Vessel (INSV) Tarini left Lyttelton Port in New Zealand on Saturday (January 4, 2025) morning at about 9. 30 a.m. local time for Port Stanley (Falkland Islands) in the third leg of the ongoing global circumnavigation journey by two woman Navy officers under Navika Sagar Parikrama-II.

Delhi records longest duration of zero visibility due to intense fog; over 300 flights delayed

The national capital recorded its worst fog yet this season with zero visibility conditions for nine hours from mid-night hampering flight operations at Indira Gandhi International airport where over 300 flights were delayed, 41 cancelled and 19 diverted. Intense foggy conditions also prevailed over Punjab, Haryana, parts of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram.

Three women activists of Punjab farmer organisation killed in road accident

“Three women activists of a farmer organisation were killed and 30 others got injured after a bus carrying them met with an accident in Punjab’s Barnala on Saturday (January 4, 2025),” police said. The bus was carrying over 52 members of BKU (Ugrahan) from a village in Bathinda district to Haryana’s Tohana for a farmers’ mahapanchayat there.

Delhi air pollution: SC to consider extending order for colour-coded stickers for vehicles beyond NCR

The Supreme Court has stressed on the need of hologram-based colour-coded stickers for vehicles to tackle air pollution, saying it was considering to make it mandatory in states and Union Territories beyond the National Capital Region. In 2018, the top court accepted the proposal of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), which envisaged that hologram-based light blue stickers would be used in vehicles using petrol and CNG in the National Capital Region (NCR), whereas diesel-run vehicles would have orange stickers.

Experts cautiously welcome Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025

Experts working with the tech industry tentatively welcomed the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, issued on Friday (January 3, 2025). The draft Rules document “gives broad direction to the industry to start preparing for compliance,” Aparajita Bharti, a founding partner at TQH Consulting, which works with tech companies in complying with Indian laws, said in a statement. “It is encouraging to finally witness progress on this front,” Shreya Suri, senior partner at IndusLaw said in a statement.

Bihar PSC examination: Retest held for select candidates at 22 centres in Patna amid tight security “Altogether, 12,00

“The retest for a select group of candidates who had appeared in the recent Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) examination, which has been embroiled over allegations of question paper leak, was held on Saturday (January 4, 2025) afternoon at 22 centres in Patna,” officials said.“ Altogether, 12,000 candidates were scheduled to sit for the re-examination that started at 12 p.m. and continued till 2 p.m.,” they said.