Colonel B Santosh Babu, who has been awarded Mahavir Chakra posthumously by the government on Monday (January 25), had laid down his life in the fight with Chinese troops in Ladakh. Belonging to the Suryapet district of Telangana, he is survived by his wife Santoshi, nine-year-old daughter Abhigna and four-year-old son Anirudh.

Santosh, the Commanding Officer of 16 Bihar Regiment, had been serving on the Indo-China border for the past one-and-half year and his family was looking forward to his transfer to Hyderabad.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday greeted India on its 72nd Republic Day. Johnson, in his Republic Day message, made a special reference to the vaccine collaboration and said that the UK and India are working side by side to free humanity from the coronavirus pandemic.

Johnson was due to be in New Delhi as the chief guest at the annual parade to mark India's 72nd Republic Day but had to call off the visit to focus on the domestic crisis unleashed by the emergence of a new, deadlier variant of coronavirus in the UK at the end of last year.

Security has been tightened in the national capital with police barricades mounted at various important places in the city including ITO, Yamuna Bridge and other locations.

This has been done in view of the proposed tractor rally called by the farmer unions on Republic Day against the recently enacted central farm laws.

Shares of UltraTech Cement hit a record high of Rs 5,800, up 5 per cent, on the BSE in Monday's opening trade after the company's net profit more than doubled to Rs 1,584 crore in the quarter ended December 31, 2020 (Q3FY21) on the back of higher volume growth. The company had posted a profit of Rs 712 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year. The stock surpassed its previous high of Rs 5,695 touched on January 11, 2021.

The total number of global coronavirus cases has surpassed the 99 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.12 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Monday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 99,152,014 and 2,128,721, respectively.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) awardees via video conferencing today, i.e. Monday (January 25), according to the Prime Minister's Office.

The virtual interaction will take place at 12 pm. 32 applicants from across the country, under different categories of 'Bal Shakti Puraskar', have been selected for PMRBP-2021.

Residents of Delhi and NCR are likely to face even lower temperatures in the next two days as fog and cold are predicted to hit the region.

According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), there is a possibility of heavy rain in many regions in north India including Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh in the next two days. An orange alert has been issued by the department in this regard.

With the Delhi Police giving permission to the farmers protesting at different borders of the national capital, all eyes are on the farmers' tractor rally that is scheduled to the carried out on the Republic Day.

Preparations for the rally are underway at Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri borders. The agitation has now entered 61st day.

Indian and Chinese militaries will hold a ninth round of talks aimed at resolving the border disputes in Eastern Ladakh after a deadlock prevailed since the last negotiations in November 2020, sources said.

The latest Corps Commander level meet is likely to take place in the next few days, probably in a day or two, the sources, adding contours of the dialogue were being worked out and some changes are expected.

A year ago, a notice sent to smartphones in Wuhan at 2 a.m. announced the world's first coronavirus lockdown that would last 76 days.

Early Saturday morning, residents in the central Chinese city where the virus was first detected were jogging and practicing tai chi in a fog-shrouded park beside the mighty Yangtze River.

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