Hexacopter-Launched Havoc: India’s ULPGM V3 poised to revolutionize unmanned warfare
The new version offers better range, improved accuracy, and greater flexibility compared to earlier models. This development is a significant boost to India’s efforts to achieve self-reliance in defence technology.
Kingfisher, Heineken beer will no longer be available in THIS state, know why
In a media statement issued on Wednesday (January 8, 2025) UBL highlighted the unviable nature of its operations due to stagnant base prices for its products over the past two years.
America’s newest governor looking forward ‘to working with’ Trump administration
EXCLUSIVE: CONCORD, N.H. — Kelly Ayotte becomes the nation’s newest governor on Thursday when she’s inaugurated at the New Hampshire State House. The former U.S. senator, who previously served as a state attorney general, takes office in the key New England swing state a week and a half before President-elect Trump is inaugurated. And Ayotte, who succeeds fellow Republican Gov. Chris Sununu in steering the Granite State, says she looks forward to working with the Trump administration. “I’ll work with the administration on behalf of New Hampshire and advocate for the Granite State on important priorities here: keeping the state safe, making sure that when it comes to federal resources that we’re advocating for New Hampshire, so I look forward to working with the administration,” Ayotte said in a national exclusive interview with Fox News Digital ahead of her inauguration. THE COMEBACK KID: ONE-TIME GOP RISING STAR RISES ONCE AGAIN WITH MAJOR GUBERNATORIAL VICTORY During last year’s gubernatorial campaign, which culminated with Ayotte defeating Democrat gubernatorial nominee and former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig by nearly 10 points in November’s election, the issue of illegal immigration and border security was often in the spotlight in a state that shares a border with Canada and has long dealt with an acute fentanyl crisis. WHAT’S NEXT FOR THIS POPULAR REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR WHO DECIDED AGAINST SEEKING RE-ELECTION Ayotte, who pledged on the campaign trail to prevent New Hampshire from becoming a sanctuary state for illegal migrants, will have what Sununu didn’t enjoy the past four years: a Republican in the White House. “President Trump is going to enforce the laws, and that’s important to me. And we have a northern border.” Noting her tenure as a state attorney general, Ayotte said, “I believe it’s important that criminals are held accountable. And as we look at New Hampshire, we’re not going to allow New Hampshire to become a sanctuary state. And so it’s important that we enforce our laws. We welcome legal immigration, but those who come here illegally and especially those who commit crimes need to be held accountable.” Ayotte was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 and was a rising star in the GOP and regarded as a leader on national security and foreign policy. But Ayotte lost re-election in 2016 by a razor-thin margin of just over 1,000 votes at the hands of then-Democrat Gov. Maggie Hassan. Now, as she takes over running the Granite State, she said that “my No. 1 priority is being a governor for everyone in New Hampshire, for all the people, and being accessible to the people of New Hampshire.” “Making sure that we continue to grow our economy, our prosperity, our freedom here in New Hampshire, having a responsible budget where we live within our means but serve the people of New Hampshire effectively, those will be my priorities on day one,” she added. Ayotte, who made history nearly two decades ago as the state’s first female attorney general, made history again in November as the first Republican woman to win election as New Hampshire governor. “We have so many strong women that have served in this state, a great history,” Ayotte said. “There are so many examples of women who have led and great men who have led, too.” She said her “hope is that every young girl out there understands that whatever position she strives to attain, it’s available to her, and that we aren’t even having these discussions about whether a woman’s elected or a man’s elected because it’s just equal for everyone to understand that those opportunities are there, and I think that’s what’s happening in New Hampshire.”
Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy could be revived under new House GOP bill
FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans is gunning to codify Remain In Mexico, a cornerstone of President-elect Donald Trump’s border policy during his first term. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, a first-term lawmaker, is leading the effort that was first shared with Fox News Digital on Thursday. His bill would require the Department of Homeland Security to reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols, more commonly known as Remain In Mexico. ICE NABS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH SEX CRIMES IN BLUE CITY, AFTER RELEASE FROM JAIL “The American people gave President Trump and Republicans a mandate to secure the border, and Congress must pass the Remain In Mexico Act as a first step to secure our border and fix the problems Democrats created in our country,” Gill told Fox News Digital. The policy, which Trump implemented in January 2019, required migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. southwestern border to await their immigration proceedings in Mexico. A federal judge had halted the Biden administration from stopping the program, but officials ceased its use for new cases in mid-2022. President Biden had campaigned on ending the policy, which human rights groups and left-wing organizations had criticized as cruel and inhumane, given the accusations of rape and other crimes that migrants had endured while waiting in Mexico. The American Civil Liberties Union previously said about the policy, “The Remain in Mexico Policy, misleadingly dubbed the “Migrant Protection Protocols” created a humanitarian disaster at the border and has been the subject of ACLU lawsuits since it was first implemented in 2019.” Proponents of Remain In Mexico, however, have argued that it is one of the only viable solutions to help cities and towns on the U.S. side of the border, many of which have seen their infrastructures strained by the volume of people crossing illegally or seeking asylum. Gill is introducing his bill roughly two weeks before Trump takes office for his second term. Codifying the policy in federal law would make it significantly harder for critics to then repeal it under a different administration. Congressional Republicans have been rushing to prepare for Trump’s return with a flurry of conservative legislative proposals made since the 119th Congress kicked off last Friday. TRUMP, GOP SENATORS TO HUDDLE AT CAPITOL, WEIGH STRATEGY ON BUDGET, TAXES AND BORDER A significant number of those bills are related to immigration and the border, an issue that proved critical for the GOP in the November elections. The House passed its first bill of the term on Tuesday, aimed at enabling federal officials to detain migrants accused or convicted of theft-related crimes. More than 40 Democrats voted in favor of the bill, alongside all present Republicans. Trump has signaled he is hoping for an active first 100 days in office, particularly with Republicans controlling both the House and Senate. The White House did not return a request for comment.
Jimmy Carter’s funeral will bring all five living presidents together in Washington, D.C.
Supporters and friends of the late President Carter will attend his funeral Thursday at Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral. The service, scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., comes as President Biden declared Thursday a National Day of Mourning for the 38th president, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. The so-called presidents’ club — the five living men who once occupied the White House — will all gather for the event. President Biden and former presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama and President-elect Trump will come together for the first time since the 2018 funeral of former President George H.W. Bush. Biden will deliver the eulogy. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., are also expected to attend, along with their Democratic counterparts, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Tributes began Jan. 4, when a motorcade carried Carter’s body through his hometown of Plains, Georgia, before heading to Atlanta and the Carter Presidential Center, where family and loved ones paid tribute. Carter then lay in repose at the Carter Center and then the Capitol, where the public could pay respects from Tuesday evening through early Thursday. JIMMY CARTER, 39TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DEAD AT 100 After the D.C. service, the Carter family will head back to Plains for a private ceremony at Maranatha Baptist Church and another procession through Plains, where supporters are encouraged to line the streets for the motorcade before he’s buried on his property next to his late wife, Rosalynn, who died in 2023. Carter, the former governor of Georgia, won the presidency in 1976. He was guided by his devout Christian faith and determined to restore faith in government after Watergate and Vietnam. But after four years in office and impaired by stubborn, double-digit inflation and high unemployment, he was roundly defeated for re-election by Ronald Reagan. AN ‘EXTRAORDINARY MAN’: FORMER PRESIDENT CARTER LIES IN STATE AT CAPITOL AHEAD OF STATE FUNERAL While in the White House, Carter established full diplomatic relations with China and led the negotiation of a nuclear limitation treaty with the Soviet Union. Domestically, he led several conservation efforts, showing the same love of nature as president as he did as a young farmer in Plains. Carter lived out the rest of his years in the unassuming ranch house he’d built with his wife in 1961, building homes with Habitat for Humanity and making forays back into foreign policy when he felt it was needed, a tendency that made his relationship with the presidents’ club, at times, tense. He earned a living in large part by writing books — 32 in all — but didn’t cash in on seven-figure checks for giving speeches or take any cushy board jobs as other presidents have. In his spare time, Carter, a deeply religious man who served as a deacon for the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains, enjoyed fishing, running and woodworking. Carter is survived by his four children, 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
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Mahakumbh Mela 2025: AIR, Doordarshan unveil special songs ahead of festivities
The official music video of “Mahakumbh Hai” is now available on Doordarshan and its digital platforms.
Justice Alito says he spoke with Trump about former clerk before hush-money filing to high court
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito confirmed to Fox News Wednesday that he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump the day before Trump’s high court appearance but said they did not discuss an emergency application the former president’s legal team planned to file to delay the sentencing. Alito told Fox News’ Shannon Bream he was asked if he would accept a call from Trump regarding a position that his former clerk, William Levi, is being considered for, and praised Levi’s “outstanding resume.” “William Levi, one of my former law clerks, asked me to take a call from President-elect Trump regarding his qualifications to serve in a government position. I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon,” said Alito. JUDGE DENIES TRUMP MOTION TO STOP NY CRIMINAL CASE SENTENCING Alito said he did not speak with Trump about the emergency application, nor was he “even aware at the time of our conversation that such an application would be filed.” “We also did not discuss any other matter that is pending or might in the future come before the Supreme Court or any past Supreme Court decisions involving the President-elect,” Alito said. Alito told Fox News that he is often asked to give recommendations to potential employers for former clerks and that it was common practice. Levi once served in the Justice Department during the President-elect’s first term and also clerked for Alito from 2011 to 2012. TRUMP SAYS NEWSOM IS TO ‘BLAME’ FOR ‘APOCALYPTIC’ WILDFIRES Alito, speaking to Trump the day before Trump’s appearance in high court regarding his New York hush-money case, is causing some to call him out, saying the conversation was an “unmistakable breach of protocol.” “No person, no matter who they are, should engage in out-of-court communication with a judge or justice who’s considering that person’s case,” Gabe Roth, executive director of the nonpartisan group Fix the Court, said in a statement. Alito said he was unaware there was an emergency request being readied by the Trump legal team with respect to the New York State case, and there was no discussion of it. He confirmed to Fox News that the call was solely about Levi, and that there was no discussion of any matter involving a Trump legal issue – past, present or future. He also said there was no discussion of any issue before the Court or potentially coming before the Court. ABC News was the first to report the Trump-Alito call.
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Newsom calls Trump’s claims ‘pure fiction’ after president-elect points finger over California fire tragedy
Gov. Gavin Newsom is firing back at President-elect Donald Trump for comments he made Wednesday about the response to deadly wildfires currently devastating Southern California. Trump spoke with reporters after attending meetings Wednesday on Capitol Hill and accused Newsom of not “[doing] a good job,” but noted they “worked well together” and would again when he takes office later this month. “It’s very sad because I’ve been trying to get Gavin Newsom to allow water to come – you’d have tremendous water up there, they send it out from the Pacific – because they’re trying to protect a tiny little fish,” Trump said. “For the sake of a smelt, they have no water… It’s a mistake of the governor, and you could say, the administration.” Newsom’s press office released a statement on social media following Trump’s remarks saying there was a reason for not using the pumps. PALISADES FIRE: HEIDI MONTAG, SPENCER PRATT LOSE HOME; CELEBRITIES FLEE RITZY NEIGHBORHOOD “LADWP said that because of the high water demand, pump stations at lower elevations did not have enough pressure refill tanks at higher elevations, and the ongoing fire hampered the ability of crews to access the pumps,” Newsom’s press office wrote on X. His office added that the city used water tenders to supply water, which is a common tactic in wildland firefighting. Newsom’s office also dismissed claims there is a water shortage. “Broadly speaking, there is no water shortage in Southern California right now, despite Trump’s claims that he would open some imaginary spigot,” Newsom’s office said. The office posted a number of quotes from California officials saying water reliability and water supply are stable. One of the comments said there was enough water to supply 40 million people for a year. PACIFIC PALISADES INFERNO FORCES THOUSANDS TO FLEE CALIFORNIA HOMES; GOV. NEWSOM DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY Earlier in the afternoon, Trump accused Newsom of refusing to sign a water restoration declaration and criticized him for the low fire containment. “Let this serve, and be emblematic, of the gross incompetence and mismanagement of the Biden/Newscum Duo. January 20th cannot come fast enough!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Newsom’s office said there was no such thing as a water restoration declaration. They also noted that the supply and transport of water are unrelated. “Trump is conflating two entirely unrelated things: the conveyance of water to Southern California and supply from local storage,” according to the post. “And again, there is no such document as the water restoration declaration – this is pure fiction.” Still, Trump was not done with his criticism of Newsom. In a scathing late-night post on Truth Social, Trump said the wildfires were “all his fault!!!” Trump also called on Newsom to resign. “One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground,” Trump wrote. “It’s ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!” In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper earlier on Wednesday, Newsom was asked in general about Trump blaming him for the wildfire disaster. “One can’t even respond to it. I mean… you know, people are literally fleeing. People have lost their lives. Kids lost their schools. Families completely torn apart. Churches burned down,” Newsom told Cooper. “This guy wanted to politicize it. I have a lot of thoughts, and I know what I want to say – I won‘t.” Newsom went on to praise President Biden, saying he “didn‘t play politics.” Biden visited a fire station Wednesday in Los Angeles alongside Newsom for a briefing from authorities on the raging wildfires. The California wildfires, which ignited Tuesday afternoon, have already forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes. The Los Angeles area fires are threatening at least 28,000 structures. At least five people were killed. Newsom declared a state of emergency Tuesday after the Palisades fire grew to an unmanageable level.