1.The Budget session of Parliament will be held from January 28 to April 2, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said Friday

2.Russia fires powerful hypersonic missile overnight at a target in Ukraine near the border with NATO-member Poland.

3.Iran was largely cut off from the outside world Friday after authorities blacked out the internet to curb growing unrest, as video showed buildings aflame in anti-government protests raging in cities across the country.

4.The state government Friday announced that as many as 10 lakh pucca houses will be handed over to beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) this month.

5.Fourteen people died in Himachal’s Sirmaur after a bus fell into a 500-foot deep gorge, police said Friday.

6.The Phase-II of the Odisha Skill Development Project (OSDP) and Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited’s integrated solar manufacturing facility were among the 11 proposals approved by the state Cabinet.

7.Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo, Deputy Chief Minister of Odisha, Agriculture & Farmers’ Empowerment, Energy, Friday launched the Odisha Grid Insight (OGrI) Portal (ogri.optcl.co.in) at Lok Seva Bhawan.

8.Kandhamal district cyber police have busted a major cyber fraud involving transactions worth Rs6.27 crore, arresting fi ve persons, including the alleged mastermind, police said Friday.

9.West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday led a massive protest march in south Kolkata against the Enforcement Directorate’s searches linked to political consultancy fi rm I-PAC, as her TMC mounted a show of street strength ahead of the 2026 Assembly poll.

10.As many as 63 Naxalites, 36 of them carrying a collective bounty of over `1.19 crore, surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district Friday.

11.The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea relating to the upcoming elections of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) and directed that the poll results should not be declared.

12.The Enforcement Directorate Friday filed a money laundering case in the Sabarimala gold loss case in Kerala, official sources said.

13.India Friday pressed Bangladesh to “swiftly and fi rmly” deal with attacks on minorities in that country and described as “troubling” the attempts to attribute the incidents to extraneous reasons.

14.Four people including a woman were killed and two others suffered serious injuries in separate elephant attacks in Jharkhand, officials said Friday.

15.Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is preventing most users from generating or editing any images after a global backlash that erupted after it started spewing sexualised deepfakes of people.