1. Goa and Karnataka police continue investigation into alleged killing of a four-year-old boy by his mother Suchana Seth in a resort in Goa. The police conducted a mahajar at the site of the alleged crime while the body of the child was cremated by his father in Bengaluru. The West Bengal-born 39-year-old mother headed a startup firm in Bengaluru.
2. Starting today, fuel prices at the petrol outlets in Karnataka will also be displayed in Kannada. Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced on Tuesday that the price of petrol at the fuel outlets here is only in English and Hindi, and there was a demand that the information should be publicised in Kannada too.
3. Continuing its consultations ahead of Lok Sabha elections, Congress will hold meetings of district presidents and district-in-charge ministers today. Tomorrow (January 11), central leaders of the Congress have decided to hold a meeting with 15 senior Ministers of the Siddaramaiah-led Cabinet in New Delhi to decide the strategy and candidates. All political parties, including opposition BJP and JD(S), are in preparation mode for the polls. The two parties, in alliance for the Lok Sabha elections, are holding a series of meetings separately in resorts.
