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Reports of as many as 18 people losing their lives and hundreds being infected with the mysterious coronavirus has come as a shock to the entire world. The Indian Embassy has taken steps to help people started two hotlines to help Indian residents in China.

Days after a Dravidian outfit demanded Rajinikanth to apologise for his comments on a rally led by Dravidian icon Periyar decades ago, the Tamil superstar today said he will neither express regret nor apologise for his speech made at Thuglak magazine’s 50th-anniversary event on January 14. The Dravidian outfit had claimed that the actor had defamed Periyar when he reminded people that the latter had disrespected Lord Ram and Sita. Here’s all you need to know about this controversy.

Rajkot: India are in a must-win situation as they head into the second ODI against Australia today (January 17) in Rajkot. The hosts were handed a 10-wicket defeat by the Aaron Finch-led team. Now, Virat Kohli and his men will be aiming to bounce back and square the series before heading for the finale in Bengaluru on January 19. What will be the likely Playing XI for India? Find out here.

In the event of BJP government taking action against Yogesh Soman for having criticised Narendra Modi (in an imaginary situation) the champions of free speech and champions of dissent would have been on the streets by now. 

Trailing 0-1 and being in a do-or-die situation, India will have to be at their best against Australia in the 2nd ODI in Rajkot. Here is VVS Laxman's advice to Virat Kohli ahead of the must-win game

Hello and welcome to this episode of DePress Room, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about how the Philippines is in danger of a volcano eruption. Images from the erupting Taal Volcano in the Philippines show a desolate landscape of destroyed houses and snapped trees covered in a thick layer of heavy ash. Half-buried bodies of horses and cows that could not escape the island lay in black sludge or floating in the surrounding lake.

Days after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) claimed that 37 people from a 60-member WhatsApp group named 'Unity against Left' have been identified, the team has made more progress and claimed that the masked woman has also been identified

The Special Investigation Team identified the suspects in the JNU attack on the basis of videos and photos that went viral on social media platforms
 

PM Narendra Modi will unveil a plaque of 150 years of commemorative installation at the site of the original Port Jetties

Hello and welcome to this episode of DePress Room, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about how Asia will handle oil price swings after the warlike situations between Iran and the US. An attack in the Middle East. Oil prices surge as investors fear supply disruptions. Once it becomes clear that those disruptions are not materialising, traders calm down and so do oil prices. Life on the global markets returns to business as usual.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman was absent during the pre-budget meeting chaired by PM Modi. Congress made a sexist remark on Nirmala Sitharaman and questioned how many men does it take to do a woman’s job on Twitter. BJP slammed Congress for their remarks and said Congress resorted to false narration and dramatised everything.

The Elephanta Caves in Mumbai is a huge tourist attraction. Every year thousands of people from across the country and the world visit the cave. In 1987, the Elephanta Caves in their entirety and the forested areas around them were declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Legislation to shield the Elephanta Caves has existed since the 1950s, but the state government has turned a blind eye leading to the degradation of the spectacular carvings in the caves. Does anyone care? Let’s find out more in this episode of Culture ‘Shauk’ with me Sunita Iyer.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled Rs 102 lakh crore of infrastructure projects to be implemented in the next five years
 

PSBs has attached assets worth over Rs. 2.3 lakh crore over the last three financial years and to enable online auction by banks of attached assets transparently and cleanly for the improved realization of value, eBkray, a common e-auction platform was launched by the Finance Minister on 28th December. The platform is equipped with property search features and navigational links to all PSB e-auction sites, provides single-window access to information on properties up for e-auction as well as the facility for comparison of similar properties, and also contains photographs and videos of uploaded properties.

The Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu expressed confidence that the Indian economy would rebound in the near future saying that the current slowdown was cyclical. Inaugurating the 102nd annual conference of the Indian Economic Association on December 27th, he said it was true that the Indian economy was facing some challenges due to the decline in growth this fiscal. However, he said the country had faced similar slumps in the past in the wake of the East Asian financial crisis and global slowdown but bounced back with a higher growth rate every time.