Iran warned of severe revenge and said arch-enemy the United States bore responsiblity for the consequences after killing one of its top commanders, Qasem Soleimani, in a strike Friday outside Baghdad airport.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed the commander of its Quds Force foreign operations arm had been killed by US forces in Baghdad, with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denouncing it as a dangerous escalation.

A Thane resident lost a little over Rs 1 lakh in an online fraud involving popular payment gateways, police said on Saturday. The complainant, a resident of Patlipada, wanted to sell his furniture and posted an ad on Facebook on December 21, an official said.

On December 24, he received a call from one Rajendra Sharma who offered to buy the furniture and wanted to transfer the amount through payment gateways — Paytm and Google Pay, he said.

The situation in Kota’s JK Lon Hospital, Rajasthan, continues to worsen as the death toll of infants has reached 107 on Saturday. The death toll climbed over a hundred since December last year at the hospital with seven deaths taking place in January 2020.

Lok Sabha Speaker & MP from Kota, Om Birla met the family members of one of the infants who died in JK Lon Hospital today.

The value of transactions made using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) channel crossed Rs 2 lakh crore in December after falling marginally month-on-month in November. The UPI recorded 1.3 billion transactions in December worth Rs 2.02 lakh crore, up from 1.22 billion transactions worth Rs 1.89 lakh crore in the previous month.

According to data released by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), its Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) app was used for making 17.82 million transactions worth Rs 6,316.37 crore. In other words, the app now contributes a mere 1.37% to UPI usage in volume terms.

Apple CEO Tim Cook salary in Indian rupees: Apple chief Tim Cook saw his annual payslip to $11.6 million (approx 83,24,27,600 at current dollar to rupee rate) in 2019 after the company registered a weaker financial performance compared with the previous year, according to documents filed Friday. His current year’s salary was down by $4.1 million (approx Rs 29,42,20,100) from the previous year.

Cook, who took home $15.7 million (approx 1,12,66,47,700 at current dollar to rupee rate) in 2018, is paid a base salary of $3 million, in addition to a bonus and various compensations.

Nearly 1,75,000 people remain displaced in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta and nearby towns, after flash floods and landslides killed at least 53 people, amid some of the heaviest rain since records began, authorities said on Saturday.

The death toll has risen to 53 people, with one person missing, disaster mitigation agency spokesman Agus Wibowo said.

Ahead of the Union Budget, Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee has opposed any further cut in corporation tax rates. He stressed the need to push demand to encourage investment by India Inc.

At an event in New Delhi, Banerjee said corporate houses in India were sitting on a pile of cash without investing it in the economy.

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration on Friday stated that it will take strict action against students who disrupted the semester registration process on Friday.

In a statement, the administration said that a group of students wearing 'masks on their faces' entered the Center for Information System in the Univesity, evicted the technical staff, switched off the power supply and 'made servers dysfunctional' to disrupt the registration process.

The security forces on Friday late night arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Nissar Ahmed Dar from Srinagar. According to news reports, he was arrested by the Special Operations Group of the J&K Police from Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital in the city.

Arms and ammunition were also recovered from his possession. Security forces are now interrogating him for more information about planned operations.

In what comes as a shocking revelation, recent data shows that there has been a record increase in farmers' suicides in Maharashtra, specifically in the month of November 2019. Data shows that 300 farmers across the state ended their lives in the month.

Among these deaths, a record number of suicides occurred in the Marathwada region alone - where as many as 120 farmers committed suicide in eight districts of Aurangabad, Jalna, Beed, Latur, Osmanabad, Nanded, Parbhani, and Hingoli.

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