TODAY NEWS ON January 11, 2025

News Headlines for CAT, CLAT and IPM aspirants

Source: THE HINDU

National News

• SC orders status quo in Sambhal mosque well row, issues notice to Centre, ASI
• PM to visit Paris next month, French President announces
• Savarkar defamation case: Pune court grants bail to Rahul Gandhi
• Rashtrapati Bhavan crafts special invites for 75th Republic Day reception
• Odisha will be the highlight of Singapore President’s India visit
• SpaDeX docking: Spacecraft are at distance of 1.5 km, to come closer on January 11
• Adityanath inaugurates ‘Maa Ki Rasoi’ scheme offering full meal for just ₹9
• President Murmu describes bond between Indian diaspora and their homeland as eternal
• Assam mining tragedy: ‘Sardar’ of labourers held, dewatering exercise underway
• Supreme Court says JAB’s ‘folly’ caused dispute over JEE attempts; refrains from considering its merit
• Neeraj Chopra named world’s best male javelin thrower in 2024 by reputed U.S. track and field magazine

International News

• Donald Trump gets no-penalty sentence in his hush money case
• Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is sworn in despite credible evidence of election loss
• Wildfire rages in Los Angeles, 10 dead in California
• Canada’s Liberal Party to decide who will be the country’s next Prime Minister on March 9
• Jimmy Carter laid to rest after dual funeral services in Washington and Georgia

Headlines
 

SC orders status quo in Sambhal mosque well row, issues notice to Centre, ASI

Ordering a status quo, the Supreme Court on Friday (January 10, 2025) asked the Uttar Pradesh authorities, the Archaeological Survey of India and others not to take steps over a “private well” near the Mughal-era Jama Masjid mosque in Sambhal. Considering a plea of the management committee of Shahi Jama Masjid, Sambhal, a bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar issued notices to the Centre, the director general of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Sambhal district magistrate and other private individuals from the Hindu side led by Hari Shankar Jain.

PM to visit Paris next month, French President announces

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Paris next month on a bilateral visit and also attend the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday (January 10, 2024).

Savarkar defamation case: Pune court grants bail to Rahul Gandhi

A special court in Pune on Friday (January 10, 2025) granted bail to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case related to his alleged objectionable remarks on Hindutva ideologue V. D. Savarkar.

Rashtrapati Bhavan crafts special invites for 75th Republic Day reception

A stiff white card embossed with the Lion Capital of Ashoka is the usual format of the invitation card sent out for the customary “At home” reception held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Republic and Independence Day. This year, however, to mark 75 years since the formation of the Republic of India, things are different.

Donald Trump gets no-penalty sentence in his hush money case

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced on Friday (January 10, 2025) in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment, an outcome that cements his conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.

Odisha will be the highlight of Singapore President’s India visit

Singapore will mark the 60th anniversary of bilateral relation with India with the January 15-18 India visit by President Tharman Shanmugaratnam. According to diplomatic sources, the visit is part of a year-long chain of events and exchanges that will mark the maturing of the relationship over the past six decades.

SpaDeX docking: Spacecraft are at distance of 1.5 km, to come closer on January 11

“The two Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) satellites that ISRO is hoping to unite are at a distance of 1.5 km and will be brought much closer on January 11,” the space agency said on Friday (January 10, 2025).

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is sworn in despite credible evidence of election loss

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in Friday (January 10, 2025) to serve a third six-year term, extending his increasingly repressive rule until 2031 despite protests and credible evidence that his opponent won the election.

Adityanath inaugurates ‘Maa Ki Rasoi’ scheme offering full meal for just ₹9

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday (January 10, 2025) inaugurated ‘Maa Ki Rasoi,’ a community kitchen initiative offering a full meal for just ₹9, in Prayagraj. The community kitchen will be operated by the Nandi Sewa Sansthan at Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital to serve people from the economically weaker section.

President Murmu describes bond between Indian diaspora and their homeland as eternal

Describing bond between Indian diaspora and their homeland as eternal, President Droupadi Murmu said their entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and knowledge-sharing are crucial in shaping the vision of a developed India.

Wildfire rages in Los Angeles, 10 dead in California

Massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighbourhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, authorities said, as California’s National Guard soldiers readied to hit the streets to help quell disorder. News of the growing toll, announced late Thursday (January 9, 2025) by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, came as swaths of the United States’ second-largest city lay in ruins.

Assam mining tragedy: ‘Sardar’ of labourers held, dewatering exercise underway

The ‘sardar’ of workers of the coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, where eight miners remained trapped, was arrested, even as a dewatering exercise continued in the quarry to facilitate the resumption of rescue operations, police said on Friday (January 10, 2025). The fate of the trapped miners appeared to be grim with personnel involved in the rescue operations racing against time to bring them out of the ill-fated quarry, while the body of one labourer, hailing from Nepal, has been recovered from there, an official said.

Supreme Court says JAB’s ‘folly’ caused dispute over JEE attempts; refrains from considering its merit

The Supreme Court on Friday (January 10, 2025) orally termed the aborted decision of the Joint Admission Board (JAB) in November 2024 to increase the number of permissible attempts for Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) to three, only to suddenly revert to two a few days later, as its “folly”. The top court however refused to consider the wisdom or merit of the abandoned move made by the JAB.

Neeraj Chopra named world’s best male javelin thrower in 2024 by reputed U.S. track and field magazine

India’s Paris Olympics silver medallist Neeraj Chopra has been named the best male javelin thrower in the world in 2024 by the globally renowned American magazine ‘Track and Field News’. The 27-year-old Chopra, who was beaten by Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem for the Olympic gold medal in August last year, pipped two-time world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada for the top spot in the 2024 rankings published by the California-based magazine.

Canada’s Liberal Party to decide who will be the country’s next Prime Minister on March 9

Canada’s governing Liberal Party will announce the country’s next Prime Minister on March 9 after a leadership vote that follows the resignation of Justin Trudeau this week, party leaders said late Thursday (January 9, 2025). Mr. Trudeau remains Prime Minister until a new leader is chosen. The front runners for the Liberal leadership are former central banker Mark Carney and ex-Finance Minster Chrystia Freeland, whose abrupt resignation last month forced Trudeau’s exit.

Jimmy Carter laid to rest after dual funeral services in Washington and Georgia

Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday (January 9, 2025) for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency in a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.S. president typically eschewed. It was followed by an intimate hometown funeral near where he was born a century ago.