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- Ajit Pawar Death: The final phone conversation between flight attendant Pinky Mali and her father, Shivkumar Mali, has emerged following the Baramati plane crash that claimed the lives of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four others.
- Days after a public declaration of his desire to divorce his wife, Aparna Bisht Yadav, Prateek Yadav, the younger son of Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, has shared a new post on Instagram with a contrasting message.
- Flagging a new kind of "fraud," the Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Haryana government over a petition filed by Nikhil Kumar Punia and Ekta Punia.
- A 62-year-old man, who died last month, has been named the prime accused in a murder case in Mizoram's Aizawl district.
- Ajit Pawar's death is the latest in a string of abrupt deaths that have blighted Maharashtra's politics for years. The last two decades witnessed three stalwarts– Pramod Mahajan, Vilasrao Deshmukh and Gopinath Munde– die tragically.
- India underlined the moral and strategic depth of its partnership with Israel as Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri used the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in New Delhi to link the lessons of history with present-day challenges.
- Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was travelling in a Bombardier Learjet 45 – operated by VSR Aviation – when it crashed in an open field, killing all five on board minutes before landing at Baramati Airport in Maharashtra.
- The euro has surged past $1.20 for the first time in more than four years, fuelled by Donald Trump's tariffladen presidency and a slide in the dollar.
- Dhaka University student Sadman Mujtaba Rafid defied his parents and police to join protests that toppled former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, convinced the rallies were essential to ensure democracy prevailed over dynastic rule.
- A South Korean judge handed the country's former first lady Kim Keon Hee 20 months in jail for accepting lavish gifts from a cult-like church, but acquitted her for alleged stock manipulation and other charges.
- Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and five other persons were killed after an aircraft carrying them crashed in Pune district on Wednesday morning.
- Budget Session 2026 Live Updates: President Droupadi Murmu is addressing a joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and Rajy Sabha On Wednesday.
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered state agencies and public universities to immediately freeze new H-1B visa petitions, curtailing a programme that has also been overhauled by President Donald Trump.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in an internal message that ICE is "going too far" with its immigration crackdown, becoming the latest corporate executive to voice concerns.
- The deathsl from a landslide in Indonesia have risen to 34 with dozens still missing, authorities said on Wednesday, days after the torrent of debris crashed through a mountain village.
- Ajit Pawar, unlike most other politicians who mask their pursuit of power with pious claims of 'public service', wore his ambition on his sleeve.
- In what is being seen as the strongest minority outreach by Bangladesh's radical Islamists, Jamaat-E-Islami leader Shafiqur Rahman has appealed to Hindus to vote for the party in the upcoming elections.
- As France moves one step closer to banning social media for children, the European Union is seriously considering whether it's time for the bloc to follow suit.
- Supriya Sule, along with Sunetra Pawar, reached Baramati on Wednesday afternoon, just hours after Ajit Pawar's plane crashed in the area early this morning after takeoff from Mumbai.
- Ajit Pawar's death is a tragic blow for Maharashtra at a time when administration must rise over those in power, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has said
- LISBON/MADRID, Jan 28 – Storm Kristin left more than 800,000 people across central and northern Portugal without electricity early on Wednesday, toppling trees and utility posts, damaging homes, and disrupting motorway and rail traffic before moving inland to Spain, authorities said.
- KIGALI, Jan 28 – Rwanda has filed an arbitration case against Britain over the cancellation of an asylum deal by Prime Minister Keir Starmer in 2024, the government of the East African nation said.
- KYIV, Jan 28 – Russia pounded Ukraine with drones and a missile overnight, killing a couple near the capital Kyiv a day after five people died in an attack on a passenger train.
- WASHINGTON, Jan 28 – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is due to testify in the Senate about President Donald Trump's Venezuela policy on Wednesday, after scrambling to keep his former colleagues from passing a resolution to rein in the administration's war powers.
- BERLIN, Jan 28 – The parliament of the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt elected Economy Minister Sven Schulze on Wednesday to succeed outgoing premier Reiner Haseloff, who stepped down ahead of elections in September that could see the far-right AfD win control of the state.
- BAGHDAD/DUBAI, Jan 28 – Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who appeared poised for a remarkable comeback despite accusations he stoked sectarian strife and allowed the rise of Islamic State, now finds himself in U.S. President Donald Trump's crosshairs.
- WASHINGTON, Jan 28 – Several Democratic-led states are pursuing laws trying to enable people to sue federal agents deployed to their communities for civil rights abuses, a push that has gained steam amid protests over tactics used by ICE during U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and elsewhere.
- KAMPALA, Jan 28 – A Ugandan court on Wednesday released on bail a prominent rights activist whose detention was seen by campaign groups as part of a widespread crackdown on dissent ahead of the country's general election that was held on January 15.
- WASHINGTON, Jan 28 – President Donald Trump's hardline immigration agenda, a key force behind his return to the White House in 2024, is increasingly showing signs of becoming a liability, threatening Republican prospects in the November midterm elections.
- Greenland’s prime minister acknowledged more needed to be done amid a more aggressive Russia.
- LONDON, Jan 28 – U.S. singer Chris Brown appeared in a London court on Wednesday for a brief hearing ahead of his trial later this year on charges of attacking a music producer in a London nightclub.
- The unit comprises six low-tech two-man teams with a dozen dogs each.
- Pope Leo has condemned anti-Semitism several times since becoming the leader of Catholic Church.
- BUDAPEST, Jan 28 – Hungarian prosecutors have brought charges against Budapest's liberal mayor, Gergely Karacsony, over his role in arranging an LGBTQ+ rights rally, and are seeking to impose a fine without holding a trial, they said on Wednesday.
- One of the victims had stored cash from the sale of an apartment that totalled nearly €400,000 (S$604,614).
- PARIS, Jan 28 – A former French senator was found guilty by a Paris court late on Tuesday of having spiked a lawmaker's drink with ecstasy with the intention of sexually assaulting her.
- The shooting sparked bipartisan condemnation and fresh protests in Minneapolis.
- ZURICH, Jan 28 – Swiss federal prosecutors and police searched several houses on Tuesday at firms paid to collect signatures for initiatives to change the constitution as part of investigations into suspected forgery, authorities said on Wednesday.
- BELGRADE, Jan 28 – Montenegro could face fuel shortages due to region-wide protests and a blockade of the Adriatic port of Bar by truck drivers over restrictive EU entry rules that have left them facing deportation for exceeding Schengen visit limits.
- The Shiveluch volcano is one the largest and most active volcanoes on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
- Across the broader market, gainers beat decliners 318 to 293
- The contributions will support efforts like the provision of debt relief to Sudan.
- The programme will allow customers to lend idle assets to institutional borrowers for fee income.
- ASML is the world’s largest supplier of computer chip equipment.
- UltraGreen.ai's US$400 million IPO was Singapore’s biggest primary listing in eight years outside of real estate.
- The proposed plant will have a planned production capacity of up to 100,000 tonnes of the fuel a year.
- It will also help them build resilience and broaden its outreach efforts to firms that may need support.
- Earlier in January, the US formally cleared the way for Nvidia to sell the H200 to China.
- Housing sentiment has been picking up, supported by falling mortgage rates and demand from Chinese buyers.
- Its latest projections for revenue and jobs growth are lower than what it projected in 2025.
- The index compiler warned of a potential downgrade to frontier-market status.
- Gold has rallied about 22 per cent since the beginning of 2026, while silver has soared roughly 60 per cent.
- Other banks are also grappling with reducing office costs while retaining a premier city-centre presence.
- A company executive sent a commiseration e-mail to affected staff hours too early.
- This is a 49 per cent increase from the $12.6 billion recorded in 2024.
- The Singapore dollar was trading at 1.2598 per US dollar at 4.32pm, after hitting a fresh 11-year closing high of 1.2597 on Jan 27.
- Reductions in 2026 will come from attrition and driver buyouts, said UPS.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 409.98 points, or 0.83 per cent, to 49,000.82.
- Dr Tan Min-Han said the company is well-placed to play a bigger role in educating people about their health as they age
- In 2025, about 10.8 million new vehicles were registered in the EU, an increase of 1.8 per cent from the previous year.