Overview
- In Kanpur’s Ghatampur, 840 DUDA-built flats worth about ₹35 crore remain unusable for a sixth year because a ₹1.5 crore finishing allocation has not been cleared, with materials decaying despite past inspections.
- Bihar’s marquee road projects continue to slip with steep cost overruns, including the Bakhtiyarpur–Tajpur four‑lane now roughly 65% complete as its price tag rose from about ₹1,603 crore to nearly ₹3,923 crore and timelines shift to 2027.
- Police handled a string of cases: Mumbai’s KRK was arrested after admitting he fired his licensed gun in the Oshiwara incident; Ujjain authorities say order has been restored after violence following an assault on a Bajrang Dal worker; Gorakhpur officers are probing an alleged honeytrap racket with explicit videos recovered; and in Bihar’s Bagaha, forensic teams are examining two skeletons identified by families as a missing teen and young man.
- U.S. investigators arrested Jonathan Crist Gerlach and say more than 100 human skulls and other remains taken from graves at Mount Moriah Cemetery were recovered from his basement, with multiple charges filed.
- Madhya Pradesh reported 51.75 lakh tonnes of paddy procured by January 20 and over ₹9,485 crore transferred to about 7.62 lakh farmers, with officials citing strong stocks and steady prices as lifting continues.