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  • The Election Commission of India addressed a press conference at noon in Delhi and announced the election dates for the upcoming Assembly polls in five states.
  • BJP leader Krishna Bhattacharya's house in Uttarpara, West Bengal, was allegedly attacked by TMC workers on Tuesday night. 
  • TMC leaders will protest against financial emergency and political vendetta in Delhi at 2.30 pm outside Parliament office.
  • Justice J.S. Khehar takes oath as the New Chief Justice of India today at President House. 

Here are all the live updates: 

3:38 pm IST: All Delhi government offices will observe a holiday on Thursday in view of Prakash Parv celebrations, the LG office in Delhi said.

2:58 pm IST: Special CBI court sets January 17 as date for framing charges against the accused in Sheena Bora murder case

2:35 pm ISTFour suspects have been detained by the Bengaluru Police in the Kammanahalli molestation case in which a woman was groped by two men on a scooter on New Year's Eve.

2:20 pm IST: Marayoor police registered a case against a woman and her husband for leaving her old mother at home for three days without food and water in Kerala's Idukki district.

2:15 pm IST: Peerumedu Police in Idukki district arrested two labourers — one from Tamil Nadu and another from Odisha — for raping and murdering a woman from Odisha.

1:41 pm IST: TMC supporters staged a rail-roko protest in Cooch Behar over the arrest of TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay.

1:30 pm IST: The Election Commission of India addressed a press conference at noon in Delhi and announced the election dates for the upcoming Assembly polls in five states.

11:33 am IST: TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay's wife has filed a complaint against the CBI in Bidhan Nagar Police Station in West Bengal alleging that she was not informed of his arrest. TMC's Chandrima Bhattacharya has also registered a complaint against CBI in Anandpur Police Station over the arrest.

11:16 am IST: A 15-year old girl was allegedly gang-raped in Rajasthan's Churu district. The victim has been admitted to hospital in a critical condition.

11:05 am IST: Two kgs of pressure IED has been recovered and defused by security forces on Dantewada-Aranpur road in Chattisgarh.

11:02 am IST: TMC workers have blocked the NH-2 near Asansol in West Bengal to protest against the arrest of TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay. 

10:37 am IST: TMC Legislative Assembly members will meet the governor today at noon over Bandyopadhyay's arrest and other issues.

10:18 am IST: DMK general council meeting condoled Jayalalithaa's death and urged Sri Lanka to immediately release arrested Tamil fishermen with their boats. Sixteen resolutions were also passed in the meeting.

10:11 am ISTBengaluru Mass Molestation: Woman groped in Kammanahalli as police file FIR after finding 'credible evidence'

A CCTV footage of a woman getting molested by two men riding a scooter in the Kammanahalli area of Bengaluru on the New Year's Eve has gone viral even as the police filed an FIR after they found "credible evidence" in the mass molestation case at MG Road and Brigade Road the same night. Read more...

10 am IST: DMK leader MK Stalin elected as the party's working president in the general council meeting.

K Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin has been elected working president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), succeeding his father. The development came at the party's general council meeting. Read more...

9:52 am ISTUttar Pradesh: 11 family members found dead at home in Amethi

At least 11 members of a family were found dead at their residence in Amethi in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, January 4. Read more...

9:34 am IST: Delhi police apprehended two juveniles for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in Anand Parbat area. A case has been registered under the POCSO Act.

9:19 am IST: The Jammu and Kashmir Police and the 21 Rashtriya Rifles apprehended a terrorist named Ashiq Ahmed of Lashkar-e-Toiba, near the Fruit Mandi crossing in Handwara;. A huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered.

9:09 am IST: Justice J.S. Khehar takes oath as the New Chief Justice of India at the President House in Delhi.

8:27 am IST: The Election Commission of India will address a press conference at 12 noon in Delhi to announce the election dates for the upcoming Assembly polls in five states

8:16 am IST: The DMK General body meeting is scheduled to take place at 9:30 am today.

8:15 am IST: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam will hold a Cabinet meeting to discuss farmer suicide, drought and the state budget in Chennai today

7:47 am IST: In a joint operation, the BSF and the Tripura police seized Bangladesh bound contraband worth Rs 25 lakh (approx) in Agartala.

7:31 am IST: Minister of State General VK Singh and MJ Akbar to hold Ministry of External Affair's mid-term media briefing at 4 pm today.

7:24 am IST: Nine international and eight domestic flights from/to Delhi have been delayed while one domestic flight has been cancelled due to fog.

7:20 am IST: Google CEO Sundar Pichai will attend the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) programme in Delhi today.

7:19 am IST: CBI will produce TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay in the Bhubaneshwar Court today in connection with Rose Valley chit fund scam.

6:17 am IST: Earthquake tremors of magnitude 4.3 was felt in Kurung Kumey district in Arunachal Pradesh at around 1:02 am.

6:15 am IST: Earthquake tremors of 5.4 magnitude was felt in Myanmar-India border region at around 12:20 am.