Overview
- Police are probing a railway-track blast near Fatehgarh Sahib after a banned group, KZF, claimed it as a ‘trailer’, with forensic results pending and inquiries under way into possible Pakistan links and the claim’s authenticity.
- The Telangana phone-tapping investigation widened as the SIT summoned former MP Joginapalli Santosh Rao, after earlier questioning of K.T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao in the case tied to the previous BRS government.
- Uttar Pradesh saw rapid personnel churn with Bareilly City Magistrate Alankar Agnihotri suspended and placed under a departmental probe following his resignation, and Ayodhya GST deputy commissioner Prashant Kumar Singh quitting in public support of CM Yogi Adityanath.
- New Delhi prepares to host the second India–Arab foreign ministers’ meeting on 30–31 January, with participation expected from across the 22-member Arab League as regional security and economic issues top the agenda.
- Reuters-cited reports say India and the EU are close to announcing an FTA that would cut import duty on some European cars from about 110% to roughly 40% with phased reductions over time, while keeping EVs outside the initial relief.