? The Indian Chamber of Commerce calls on Indian airlines to stop flying to Maldives and asks tour operators to cease offering travel packages to the destination, following derogatory remarks made by senior government officials.

BIG NEWS?

India discovers a huge oil basin, 30 kms off the coast of Kakinada in the Krishna Godavari Basin.

The production is expected to be 45,000 barrels per day and over 10 million cubic metres of gas per day, contributing towards an energy 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat'. 

This project is expected to add 7% to current national oil production and 7% to national natural gas production.  

First oil was extracted yesterday.

? Alert CISF personnel of Delhi airport caught 2 Iranian nationals with fake Bulgaria passports, who were planning to travel to Paris from Delhi airport.

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FLASH? All the crew, including 15 Indians, onboard the hijacked vessel MV Lila Norfolk have been secured and are safe.

Indian Navy Marine Commandos are carrying out sanitisation operations in other parts of the vessel

Top deck of the hijacked vessel MV Lila Norfolk sanitised by the Marine Commandos of the Indian Navy.

? Indian naval warship INS Chennai with Marcos commandos has reached the hijacked vessel MV Lila Norfolk off the Somalia coast and will carry out sanitization operations.

? The upper house of the Pakistan Parliament passed a resolution to postpone the February 8 Pakistan general election due to security concerns

? Allama Masood-u-Rehman Usmani, a radical Islamist preacher of the Sunni Ulema Council of Pakistan and spokesperson of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, was shot dead by 'Unknown Gunmen' in Islamabad, Pakistan.