MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. The US has sent an official request to hold a session of the UN Security Council on Venezuela on Saturday, January 26, the US mission to the UN’s Twitter account informed.

On January 23, Juan Guaido declared himself acting president during an opposition rally in Caracas. Venezuela's incumbent President Nicolas Maduro described these developments as an attempted coup organized by Washington and said he was breaking diplomatic ties with the US.

Amethi (UP), Jan 24; PTI: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Thursday said he has given his sister Priyanka Gandhi, newly entrusted with eastern Uttar Pradesh, the target of ensuring that the party forms the next government in the state.

The Congress will also fight the coming Lok Sabha polls with “full strength”, he said at a public meeting in his constituency.

His two-day visit to Amethi had coincided Wednesday with the formal entry of Priyanka Gandhi in politics, after years of speculation on whether she would take the plunge.

25 Jan 2019; DW: Two men, members of a militia group called the "White Rabbits," have pled guilty after trying to blow up a mosque to "scare" Muslims out of the country. They are also suspected of trying to bomb an abortion clinic.

Two members of a militia group that calls itself the "White Rabbits" pled guilty on Thursday to bombing a mosque in the US state of Minnesota. The men said that they had hoped to scare Muslims into leaving the country.

New Delhi, Jan 24 (PTI) Amid renewed demands against the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs), Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Thursday asserted that the Election Commission is not going back to ballot papers.

EVMs are being used as a "football" due to a "motivated slugfest", he said.

"I would like to make it very, very clear one more time that we are not going back to the era of ballot papers," Arora said, addressing a gathering ahead of National Voters Day.

New Delhi, Jan 24 (PTI) Students, farmers and veterans along with several other groups will launch a nine-day protest meet here against the government, starting January 30.

The groups, led by Left-backed All India Kisan Sabha, said the protest meet will be held at Jantar Mantar from January 30 to February 7.

JAKARTA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian disaster authority has put the total casualty of floods and landslides in South Sulawesi province to 59 while search and evacuation of survivors continue, spokesman of national disaster management agency Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told Xinhua in a text message on Friday.

25 Jan 2019; AFP: Indian dairy traders have lodged a police complaint after cinema fans stole huge amounts of milk to pour on film posters for an upcoming movie to bring it good luck.

"Paal abhishekam" is a Hindu religious practice involving pouring milk on the idols of deities.

But film buffs often perform the same ritual on huge cut-outs and posters of actors, particularly in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu where temples dedicated to film stars are not uncommon.

MOSCOW, January 25. /TASS/. The number of people detained during protests in Venezuela, which started on January 21, has reached 364 people, said Alfredo Romero, Executive Director of the NGO Penal Forum, on Twitter on Friday.

"A total of 364 people were detained during protests from January 21 to 23," Romero tweeted.

New Delhi, Jan 24 (PTI) The Supreme Court Thursday refused to stay the proposed amendments to the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act which restored the no anticipatory bail provision for the accused.

A bench headed by Justice A K Sikri said the pending review petition filed by the Centre against the apex court's March 20, 2018 verdict and the pleas challenging the new amendments made in the SC/ST verdict will be taken up together.

The bench referred the matter to the Chief Justice for reconstitution of a bench which Justice U U Lalit was a part of.

KANPUR: A romance ended with the youth’s plunge into the sacred river on Thursday. Standing on an even spot of the historic Dhruv Teela in Bitthoor area, the disturbed lover took an ultimate resolution.

That distressed youth, who was brimming with emotional thoughts and desperately devoted on his passionate love with a female, could not bear her argumentative conversation.

Jammu, Jan 24 (PTI) A man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly raping a woman in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district last year, police said.

The accused was identified as Mukesh Gupta, they said.

A case was registered after a 45-year-old woman alleged that Gupta had raped her in October last at a hotel in Katra when she had come on a pilgrimage, the police said.

A police team arrested the accused from New Delhi, they said, adding that further investigation was underway.

Agartala, Jan 24 (PTI) A man was arrested on the charge of raping his 4-year-old daughter in Dhalai district, police said Thursday.

The 4-year-old child complained of severe pain in her private parts when she was at her Anganwadi school and when the teacher questioned her, she revealed what her father had done to her.

The Anganwadi school teacher then filed an FIR on the basis of which the accused was arrested Wednesday, Superintendent of Police Sudipta Das said.