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The Catch Up: 19 January
This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.
It’s the 19th of January and and here are the top stories of this week.
Ram Lalla idol has been installed in sanctum sanctorum, at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on Thursday.Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced that all central government offices will remain closed for half a day on 22nd of January on the occasion of the consecration ceremony. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday released commemorative postage stamps on the Ram temple in Ayodhya and a book of stamps issued on Lord Ram around the world.
Rahul Gandhi kickstarted his Manipur to Mumbai Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Thoubal near Imphal on Sunday. Of about 100 Lok Sabha seats the Yatra would criss-cross, as per a tentative list The Indian Express has seen, as many as 58 are in the Hindi-speaking states. The Yatra will spend the maximum number of days – 11 – in UP – the politically most-crucial state with 80 seats where the Congress has failed to make a mark in the last two Lok Sabha elections.
Suchana Seth, the Bengaluru-based CEO of a tech start-up accused of killing her four-year-old son in a Goa hotel, had visited the state with her child the previous week too and stayed at a five-star hotel for five days. A children's court in Panaji extended Suchana's police remand by five days on Tuesday. She was produced in court in Goa on Monday afternoon after her six-day police remand ended.
Delhi airport was a scene of chaos after unprecedented foggy conditions hit operations on Sunday and Monday. Tempers soared on board a flight on Sunday when a man allegedly attacked an IndiGo pilot after the flight was purportedly delayed for 13 hours. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security issued show cause notices to IndiGo and Mumbai airport operator Mumbai International Airport Ltd after video of passengers having food on the tarmac beside an aircraft at the airport went viral on social media platforms. IndiGo was fined a total of Rs 1.20 crore for various violations, while Mumbai airport operator MIAL was fined Rs 60 lakh by BCAS.
India's Sumit Nagal defeated World No 31 Alexander Bublik in straight sets to advance into the second round of the Australian Open on Tuesday. He became the first Indian since Ramesh Krishnan at the 1989 Australian Open to beat a seeded player at a Grand Slam. But Nagal ran out of steam to lose to China’s Shang Juncheng 6-2, 3-6, 5-7, 4-6 in the second round of the Australian Open on Thursday.
This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.
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