- Top Iranian commander Qasem Solemani was killed on Friday in a US strike on Bagdad’s international airport, Iran. The tension between the two countries is escalating.
- Rupee dips 42 paise and settles at a one-and-a-half-month low of 71.80 against US currency.
- Adani port to buy 75% in Krishnapatnam port (SPCL) in a cash deal valued at Rs. 13,500 crores.
- SBI plans to sell 1% stake in NSE.
- Oil price jumps on fear of Iranian retaliation against the USA.
- Liverpool completes a year without a Premier League defeat.
- In a first, an astronaut abroad the International Space Station who developed a deep vein thrombosis or blood clot, in the jugular vein of the neck has been treated by a doctor on Earth.
- Poland to cull of at least 60000 hen at a farm affected by bird flu.
- Qantas Airways was named safest airline in the world on a to-20 list published by AirlineRatings.com.
- PT Garuda Indonesia was crowned 2019’s most punctual carrier.
Today in History:
- World Braille Day is celebrated every year on January 4th because it’s Louis Braille’s birthday, the person who created a reading and writing system based on Charles Barbier’s night writing system for blind people.
- Myanmar received independence from Britain in 1948.
- In 2010, World’s Tallest Building Burj Kalifa (828 Meters) was inaugurated.
