03 February 2026
In a big boost to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) UCC Panels, the Supreme Court on Monday gave green signal to the panels.
The CJI said that the Constitution of committees set up by Gujarat and Uttarakhand to frame UCC is challenge here. Article 162 indicates that executive power of states extends to what legislature permits it to like make rules pertaining to divorce, inheritance, maintenance etc.
UN chief calls for massive investment for recovery of ‘doubly victimised' Pakistan
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had sought USD 8 billion assistance over the next three years in his remarks earlier in the day at the opening session of the 'International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan' in Geneva, which he co-hosted with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
"The first part of the plan reflects the recovery and reconstruction, bearing in mind that the minimum funding of USD 16.3 billion is required, half of which will be met with domestic resources, half from foreign resources," Sharif said.
Pakistan estimated that about USD 30 billion were needed to come out of the deadly impact of the floods which was the worst in the last three decades.
India's first bullet train: How solving the land acquisition issue can expedite PM Modi's prestige project
However, one challenge remains: the state’s bid to acquire 9.69 acres of land belonging to Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co. in Mumbai’s Vikhroli has not yet come through. In a plea filed with the Bombay High Court, the company has described the move as “illegal and bad in law”. Challenging the state’s civil suit, it has questioned an amendment to the Land Acquisition Act of 2013, exempting the project from social impact assessment and described the Rs 264-crore compensation offered as “inadequate”, compared to the Rs 572 crore proposed earlier. Since 2019, the state government and the company have been locked in a bitter dispute over the land that is proposed to be developed as an entry point to the underground part of the project.
Asif Maqbool Dar, who lives in Saudi Arabia and is a leading radical voice involved in influencing Kashmiri youth to take up arms, was on Saturday designated as an individual terrorist. The Ministry of Home Affairs announced through a notification that Dar, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir, is involved in instigating or provoking the youth of Kashmir Valley for terrorist activities by using social media platforms. He is the fourth individual to be designated as individual terrorist by the MHA in as many days.
Dar is associated with banned terror group Hizb-Ul-Mujahideen and is one of the leading radical voices on social media and is involved in nefariously influencing Kashmiri youth to take up arms against security forces.
China on Saturday marked the first day of "chun yun", the 40-day period of Lunar New Year travel known pre-pandemic as the world's largest annual migration of people, bracing for a huge increase in travellers and the spread of COVID-19 infections.
This Lunar New Year public holiday, which officially runs from Jan. 21, will be the first since 2020 without domestic travel restrictions.
Over the last month China has seen the dramatic dismantling of its "zero-COVID" regime following historic protests against a policy that included frequent testing, restricted movement, mass lockdowns and heavy damage to the world's No.2 economy.
