News Headlines.

 News Headlines.

1.Dubai-based realty firm Emaar Properties on Monday said it will develop a 5 lakh square feet shopping mall at Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between the governments of Dubai and Jammu & Kashmir to facilitate investments into this proposed project.-financialexpress.com

2.China, Russia, Britain, the United States and France have agreed that a further spread of nuclear arms and a nuclear war should be avoided, according to a joint statement by the five nuclear powers published by the Kremlin on Monday.-hindustantimes.com

3.Just as news broke out of Indian and Chinese soldiers exchanging sweets and greetings on January 1, to mark the arrival of new year celebrations, a new satellite image showing China building a bridge on its side of the Pangong lake in eastern Ladakh emerged on Monday amid the prolonged Sino-India military standoff in the border area.-livemint.com

4.British education secretary Nadhim Zahawi on Monday said the Omicron variant of coronavirus is spreading among people aged 50 and above, however, added that the data do not suggest the need for further restrictions. Zahawi told BBC radio that the high uptake of booster jabs by older people means there is no need for further restrictions at the moment despite “leakage” of infection into people over-50s.-hinfustantimes.com

5.Pakistan on Monday reiterated its offer to host the long-pending summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), with foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi saying India can attend the meet virtually if it does not wish to participate in person.-hindustantimes.com

6.Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday announced that farmers will carry out a tractor march on Republic Day.Speaking at a khap mahapanchayat at Bhiwani’s Kitlana toll plaza, Tikait said the Union government was not fulfilling the promise it had made to the five-member committee of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), which had spearheaded the year-long agitation against the three contentious farm laws.-hindustantimes.com

7.With the addition of over 12,000 cases on Monday, active cases in the state raced past 50,000 on Monday from around 7,000 until mid-December.Daily cases in Maharashtra and Mumbai increased by over two hundred and a hundred each even on Monday, when the rate is usually much lower due to low testing and delay in updating the numbers over the weekend.-Times of India

8.Indian Railways’ Western Railway(WR) has decided to resume onboard catering services with cooked food along with ready-to-eat in Rajdhani Express trains between Mumbai Central and Delhi.The onboard catering services in premium trains which have the option of pre - booking of food is being resumed in two more trains of WR viz.-livemint.com

9.Air New Zealand is significantly changing how it serves snacks and drinks on its domestic flights. In a world-first, from New Year’s Day, the airline will hand passengers their inflight snack as they leave the plane – a switch from inflight catering to postflight catering.-simpleflying.com

10.Dubai: India Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai is set to showcase the country as a leading tourist destination globally and highlight the opportunities in India’s tourism and hospitality sector during a two-week participation of the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, starting from Monday.-gulfnews.com