TITBITS
1. Pongal gift package distribution
was inaugurated by Chief Minister M.K.Stalin on January 9 at Fair Price Shop in
Chinnamalai under Saitappettai Constituency, Chennai.
2. When humans are bitten by
bacteria-infected parasites, insects, and organisms called Rickettsia, they
develop sScrub typhus fever.
3. Veteran journalist, poet and
filmmaker Pritish Nandy (73) died of a heart attack in Mumbai.
4. The Kerala High Court ruled that
'Sexual description of women's physical appearance is also a punishable offense
under the Sexual Harassment Act'.
5. New Zealand cricketer Martin
Guptill (38), announced his retirement from international cricket.
6. A very common cold infection
which has spread indiscriminately to every nook and corner in India for the
past 25 years is now exaggerated by the name of HMP (Human Metapneumovirus).
7. Current Foreign Minister
Alexander Schallenberg has been appointed as interim Prime Minister until the
right-wing Freedom Party takes power in Austria.
8. Wildfires are spreading rapidly
around the city of Los Angeles, California, USA.
9. Army soldier Matthew Livelburger
used artificial intelligence (AI) technology to carry out the car bombing near
the Trump Hotel in the US, police have now said.