News Highlights | Putin orders ceasefire in Ukraine from January 6-7: Kremlin

-- Operation of theJoshimath-Auli ropeway stopped till further orders. Joshimath administration has ordered NTPC & HCC to make available 4000 pre-fabricated houses.

-- In view of the land subsidence in #Joshimath, the affected areas are being surveyed by a team of experts including Garhwal Commissioner Sushil Kumar, and Disaster Management Secretary Ranjit Kumar Sinha

-- Land subsidence in Joshimath, Uttarakhand | Cracks observed in a total of 561 buildings. A total of 43 families from Joshimath town area temporarily shifted to safer places. To accommodate the relocated people, 70 rooms, 7 halls and 1 auditorium identified.

-- SDRF, NDRF, & security forces on alert

Sammed Shikharji row: Amid protests, Centre bans sale of liquor, non-veg food items on Parasnath Hill

“With new age, there is a need to adapt to new technologies. Ensuring these technologies reach every farmer in India, in Meghalaya, and help raise their income is need of the hour,” Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said.

NSA Ajit Doval and Emmanuel Bonne, Diplomatic Adviser to the President of France co-chaired the annual India-France Strategic Dialogue in New Delhi on 05 January 2023. Emmanuel Bonne also met Prime Minister and External Affairs Minister: Ministry of External Affairs

"Air India confirms that a passenger on Air India Flight 142 from Paris to Delhi on 6 December 2022 relieved himself on the vacant seat and blanket of a fellow passenger when the latter was in the lavatory,"news agency ANI quoted Air India's statement as saying.

Putin orders ceasefire in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas (January 6-7), following request from Russia's spiritual leader Patriarch Kirill.

Kirill, a staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin and his offensive in Ukraine, had on Thursday called for a ceasefire on Orthodox Christmas, celebrated this week by both.

Varanasi Cantt Railway Station awarded five-star 'Eat Right Station' certification for providing high-quality, nutritious food to passengers: Railways

Half-centuries from Dasun Shanaka and Kusal Mendis guide Sri Lanka to 206/6 in 20 overs in the second T20I in Pune. Umran Malik bags three wickets and Axar Patel bags two.

The Delhi Police has written to the authority concerned seeking to issue a Look Out Circular (LOC) against Shekhar Mishra, who urinated on an elderly lady onboard Air India's JFK-Delhi flight on November 26, as he is not joining the police investigation, sources told news agency ANI.

Earthquake Parameters:

M: 5.9

Date: 05/01/2023

Time: 19:55:51 IST

Lat: 36.39 N

Long: 70.66 E

Depth: 200 Km

Region: Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan

Russian President Vladimir Putin tells Turkey's Erdogan that he is open to talks with Ukraine if Kyiv accepts 'new territorial realities': Kremlin