Top news of the day: January 10, 2024

Shiv Sena split | Maharashtra Speaker Nawekar declares Shinde faction as the ‘real Shiv Sena political party’ Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on January 10, held that the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led faction was the real Shiv Sena political party when rival factions emerged in 2022. Congress chief Kharge, senior leaders Sonia, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury decline invitation to attend Ram Temple consecration in Ayodhya Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the party’s leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury have “politely declined” the invitation to attend the consecration ceremony of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya on January 22. India-Maldives row | Our Government must make tougher stand to repair relation with India, says Maldives Opposition leader Amid the ongoing row between India and the Maldives, Opposition leader and the Chairperson of the Maldivian Democratic Party, Fayyaz Ismail, has called for the government to take a “tougher stand”, saying that the racist comments against India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were just isolated individual opinions. No information yet about surrender of Bilkis Bano case convicts: Dahod SP No information has been received yet about the surrender of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case after the Supreme Court quashed the Gujarat Government’s decision to grant them remission, but a police force remains deployed in the area where they live to maintain peace, a senior official said on January 9.