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The subgroup comprising Ambika Soni, K.C. Venugopal, Ajay Maken, and state in-charge Harish Chaudhary will place its recommendations before Sonia Gandhi by Tuesday, informed sources said.

Delhi has received 69.8 mm rainfall in January this year so far -- the exact amount the city had received in the first month of 1995 -- data from the Safdarjung Observatory, which is considered the official marker for the city, showed after a rainy Saturday. As per data, since 1950, Delhi had received the highest amount of rainfall in January in 1989 at 79.7 mm, followed by 1995 and then Saturday.

Mann told the media in Amritsar that perhaps Channi did not know that his Chamkaur Sahib assembly seat is a reserve. "Neither I nor our national convener Arvind Kejriwal can contest from there. If Chief Minister Channi has confidence, then he should come to Dhuri and contest against me."

Sharing a video of Mohammad Mustafa, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has made many allegations, targeting Congress and its state president Navjot Singh Sidhu in a series of tweets. He said: "This man is Mohammad Mustafa, advisor to Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu ji, former DGP of Punjab and husband of Razia Sultana, minister in Punjab government. He is challenging Hindus, is trying to disturb communal harmony."

Senior SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia while blowing the lid off the multi-hundred crore scam along with audio-recordings which directly implicate the Chief Minister, said only an impartial probe could reveal the extent to which the Chief Minister and his family had looted the state exchequer through his personal illegal sand mining mafia.

"From top to bottom, right up to the level of senior ministers, many people were involved, as I had told Sonia Gandhi while I was the chief minister (of Punjab). She asked me what action I was taking in the matter, and I told her I will have to start from the top. The one and only mistake I made during my entire tenure was that I did not take any action then, out of my sense of loyalty to the Congress, since I did not get a go-ahead from Sonia Gandhi," Amarinder Singh said.

While the maximum temperature is likely to hover between 17 and 19-degree Celsius, the minimum temperature is likely to settle between 5 and 7-degree Celsius. Days preceding January 26, i.e., January 24 and 25, will also be partly cloudy, but with moderate fog in the morning. Meanwhile, Delhi is likely to receive light to moderate rain or thundershowers towards the night on Saturday.

The active caseload has jumped to 21,13,365 which constitutes 5.43 percent of the country's total positive cases. In the same period, a total of 488 deaths were also reported, taking the toll to 4,88,884.

The saffron party is reaching out to Muslim women who benefitted from Narendra Modi's government welfare schemes along with the decision to ban the practice of instant triple talaq.

The Delhi government said on Friday that it is unfortunate that the LG has turned down the strong demand of traders and the business community. AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj said in a press conference, "I met people from the Greater Kailash Market Association and they informed me that due to the odd-even arrangement for shops and the weekend curfew that is in place, they could only run their business for two days last week, which will be three days next week. Due to this, the shopkeepers are facing great troubles and it is becoming hard for them to even run their households."