NATION Rozgar Mela: PM Modi to present 71,000 appointment letters to new recruits in various government ministries As part of the Rozgar Mela celebration, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will present employment letters to newly employed staff members in a number of government agencies and organisations. He will speak to them on Friday via video conference as part of a hiring initiative for 10 lakh people that was first announced last year.
CURRENT AFFAIRS Twitter is on firing binge, to lay-off more employees in coming weeks 50 employees from the product section of social media sites will be let go by Twitter Inc. in the upcoming weeks.
POLITICS Raghuram Rajan: Rahul Gandhi is a smart, young and curious man; pappu image’ for him unfortunate Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan, has apprised that image of ‘pappu’ attributed to Rahul Gandhi is very unfortunate, and stated that Wayanad MP is a smart, young and curious man. He continued by saying that he joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra because he supports the principles that the yatra promotes.
NATION Sexual harassment charges against Brij Bhushan Singh taken seriously by Sports Ministry, seeks explanation from him within 72 hours Since Olympic wrestlers including Vignesh Phogat complained against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and its President Brij Bhushan Singh, there has been a flurry of action within the Sports Ministry. The Sports Ministry has been putting out fires and has declared that the situation is being treated as a "very serious matter" since it concerns the well-being of the athletes.
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CURRENT AFFAIRS Expelled & FIR registered after 47 year old BJP leader elopes with SP leader’s 26 year old daughter In the Hardoi district of Uttar Pradesh, a BJP leader is charged with kidnapping an SP l daughter. The police opened an investigation and began looking for them both after receiving a complaint from the Samajwadi Party leader. Ashish Shukla, the general secretary of the BJP in the city, has been charged with enticing a woman, 26, away.
NATION Delhi Police Detain Contract Employee for Breach of Confidential Information in Connection with Financial Ministry Espionage The Delhi Police have charged a contract employee for the Finance Ministry with violating the Officials Secret Act in advance of the Union Budget, which will be unveiled on February 1. Data entry operator Sumit has been recognised as a contract employee.
POLITICS BJP leader Tejasvi Surya apologises for opening IndiGo's emergency exit; confirms Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia confirmed today that BJP politician Tejasvi Surya opened the emergency exit of an IndiGo plane last month "by mistake" and apologised for it, confirming an incident that that landed him in trouble.
NATION US attempts to reduce wait time for Indian visa applicants According to a senior US visa officer, the US is doing everything it can to reduce the lengthy wait times for visas in India. It will be deploying a group of consular employees there and opening up its other overseas embassies as far away as Germany and Thailand.
NATION Supreme Court: Wikipedia Not entirely dependable for academic veracity; may spread false information The Supreme Court has stated that crowdsourced and user-generated editing models used by online sites like Wikipedia are not entirely reliable and can promote false information.