The Times of India reports: A Greenpeace India employee who had business visa to visit London, to address British Parliamentarians on January 14 on the rights of forest communities being infringed for coal mining in India, especially Madhya Pradesh was stopped at the New Delhi airport on Sunday morning by the immigration office.

She was invited by the British MPs to talk about her campaigning with local communities in Mahan, Madhya Pradesh, where a proposed coal mining project led by Essar.

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Second of the two constables accused of gang-raping a 14-year-old girl inside a polices station in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun was arrested in Bareilly today, police said.   

Veer Pal Yadav was apprehended from satellite bus station in the city, Superintendent of Police Rajiv Malhotra said.He said Veer Pal was here to surrender in the court tomorrow.   

Earlier, on January 6, the other accused, constable Avnish Yadav was held by the Special Task Force and local police whenhe was about to board a Delhi-bound train in Bareilly. He was later remanded to the judicial custody for 14 days.

Jordan's Queen Raina tweets: There is no justification for responding to an offence with murder. Not in the name of religion. Not in the name of Islam. #ParisShooting.

She joined the solidarity march today at Paris to protest against the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

Just in: French President Francois Hollande and Germany's Angela Merkel lead the march with counterparts from around the world in Paris to protest against last week's terror attack.

At least, one billion people are expected to join the rally. 

"Je suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie") is seen on placards, armbands and on T-shirts as numbers keep growing by the minute at the 'unity march' in Paris against last week's terror attacks.

French presidents and prime ministers past and present joined the march.  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Britain's David Cameron are among the world leaders present. 

Cameron met French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace ahead historic rally.

Image: French President Francois Hollande with UK's David Cameron in Paris. Photograph: Reuters

Playback singer Ankit Tiwari, who was arrested on rape charges, was seen performing at an annua lMumbai Police event in suburban Andheri.  

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and a number of policemen, including Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria, last night attended 'Umang-2015' where a galaxy of Bollywood stars perform for men and women in uniform.   

Fadnavis, however, had left the venue by the time Tiwari arrived on the stage.   Tiwari, along with his co-performer, sung a number from soon-to-be released horror flick 'Alone' for the audience   

Asked about Tiwari's participation in the event, an IPS officer said it would be checked as to who invited Tiwari. "We usually avoid performance (in the programme) by a person facing criminal charges. We will check who invited Ankit. However, a fair investigation will be conducted into the rape charges against him," the official said.

There was an attack in Germany on a newspaper that ran the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. Back home in India, Live Mint was the only publication to run the controversial cartoons, but soon removed them and tendered an apology.   

AFP reports: Divers have found the black box of crashed AirAsia jet, said the Indonesia transport ministry. 

Searchers had closed in on the all-important black box of the crashed AirAsia jet after strong "pings" were heard in the Java Sea and a large object likely to be the plane's fuselage was located near the spot from where the tail section was retrieved.

S B Supriyadi, operations coordinator for Indonesia's search and rescue agency, and other officials involved in the search said they were confident the "pings" were from the black box, describing the signals as strong.

The "pings" were detected about a kilometre east of the tail, Supriyadi told reporters. He said an object believed to be the main body of the Airbus A320-200 had also been detected close to the area from where the pings were emanating. "We are now trying to check by sending our divers," he said.

Indonesia AirAsia plane carrying 162 people on board lost contact with ground control on December 28, less than half way into a two-hour flight from Indonesia to Singapore and crashed possibly due to bad weather. Only 48 bodies, including at least two strapped to their seats, have been found in the Java Sea.

Some of London's prominent landmarks will tonight light up in blue, white and red -- the colours ofthe French national flag -- to pay tribute to the 17 people killed in the Paris terror attacks.   

The famous Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square and National Gallery in central London are to be lit up with blue, white and red colours.

The show of solidarity will coincide with British Prime Minister David Cameron's visit to Paris to join other world leaders for a mega unity march. 

UK Home Secretary Theresa May has also joined EU interior ministers at a meeting to discuss the response to the attacks.   

Cameron earlier tweeted to say he was on his way to Paristo "march with the French people". "The #CharlieHebdo murders will not crush our spirit orour values," he said.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit has become the country's "principle economic summit" and welcomed other states organising similar events.

"The more the states organise it, the more their idiom and their attitude in support of investment change.... it's a welcome phenomenon," he told reporters on the sidelines of the summit here.

The FM said the recent trend, wherein states like Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal have held such summits while Maharashtra is also mulling one such show, is very heartening and he is glad that such aggressive activities are being undertaken.

The Uttar Pradesh government has also adopted an aggressive posture in attracting investors, with a strong media campaign wooing investors.

"I think this has become the principle economic summit as far as India is concerned. Now I think this is where economic activity is happening," Jaitley said. Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also lauded the efforts by states and promised all help from the Centre in the efforts.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has tweeted: I'm on my way to Paris to march with the French people. The #CharlieHebdo murders will not crush our spirit or our values." 

By not forming the government in spite of getting a mandate, the BJP was "hijacking" the agenda of Kashmir-based separatists aimed at creating political instability in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress today alleged.

"The BJP is least interested in formation of government in the state, they just want to hijack the agenda of the Hurriyat Conference to create political uncertainties and instability in Jammu and Kashmir," senior Congress leader Sham Lal Sharma said.

He was addressing youth workers of the party in Jammu and Kashmir's Ankhoor. "People voted for a change, let them now judge how their mandate is being humiliated. Despite having the requisite numbers they failed to form a government which resulted in the imposition of the Governor rule in the state," Sharma said.

Sharma said that the BJP has compromised with the sentiments and aspirations of the people of the Jammu region.

In Germany, police in Hamburg have arrested two men on suspicion of carrying out an arson attack against a newspaper which republished cartoons from Charlie Hebdo.

Police said they suspected that the attack was linked to the Hamburg-based daily Hamburger Morgenpost's publication of the cartoons under the title "there must be so much freedom"

BBC reports:  A video has emerged in which Amedy  Coulibaly, who took hostages at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday and who also reportedly shot dead a policewoman a day earlier, claims to be acting on behalf of Islamic State.

In the video, he pledges his allegiance to Caliph Ibrahim al-Baghdadi, the head of IS, and says he was co-ordinating his attacks with the two brothers who attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices on Wednesday.

Eleven people were killed at the magazine offices in Paris on Wednesday, with a policeman shot dead nearby. Four hostages died at the supermarket on Friday.

Image: A picture of Amedy Coulibaly released by the French police

After the attack on the kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jews in France that Israel is their home and his government wants them to immigrate.

"To all the Jews of France, all the Jews of Europe, I would like to say that Israel is not just the place in whose direction you pray, the state of Israel is your home," Netanyahu said in a statement. "All Jews who want to immigrate to Israel will be welcomed here warmly and with open arms. We will help you in your absorption here in our state that is also your state," he said.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky accompanied Netanyahu to France with Israel's Economy minister Naftali Bennett also expected to be there for the 'unity rally' to protest against the recent terror attacks.  

Al Qaeda has provided its followers with a new "bomb recipe" with which an explosive device can be made using household goods avoiding metal components intended to evade airport security and blow up a passenger jet.

The terror group's branch in Yemen, which directed Wednesday's attack against the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, has also told operatives that Britain is a higher priority target than France.

Outlining the bomb "recipe" in the latest issue of its online magazine 'Inspire', Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula states: We have spared no effort in simplifying the idea. The instructions for the "hidden bomb" are outlined in the latest issue of 'Inspire', which was published on Christmas Eve and features a civilian airliner on its cover.

The device, that can purportedly be made from household goods and avoids using metal components, is intended to evade airport security and blow up a passenger jet, The Sunday Times reported.

What the BJP government has been doing in last seven months is "frightening", says former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit referring to the way it was adopting the ordinance route and the "communal atmosphere" in the country.

She also admitted that her party had during the last assembly election "underestimated" the Aam Aadmi Party, which had decimated the Congress after a 15-year rule in the national capital.

Holding the BJP responsible for the "communal atmosphere" in the country, the 76-year-old senior Congress leader said programmes such as ghar wapsi and other activities of certain right-wing outfits have sparked tension among minorities which was "extremely worrying".

"It may not be fair to say whether they have done good or bad. But some of the things they have done are frightening like taking the ordinance route. Then what is the need for Parliament. Have 'acche din' really come? Look at the communal atmosphere that has been created. It is frightening," Dikshit told PTI in an interview.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is back in New Delhi. Security has been stepped up outside his residence. However, Delhi police say they are not going to question him in the case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death yet. 

The police on Tuesday registered a case of murder against unknown people after medical reports suggested she died of poisoning. Sunanda was found dead in her room in a hotel in January last year.

One of the victims of Australia's Lindt Cafe stand-off was reportedly killed by a police bullet when she was caught in the crossfire between the gunman and the cops, media report said today.

Katrina Dawson, 38, was caught in the crossfire and struck possibly by a ricochet. "The barrister was struck by police fire that was not a direct shot and possibly a ricochet, when tactical operations unit officers stormed the cafe just after 2am on 16 December," police was quoted as saying by Sydney Morning Herald.

Iranian-born Islamic State sympathiser Man Haron Monis had shot dead one of the hostages, cafe manager Tori Johnson, at close range. Monis was later killed in the shoot-out with police.

"Force would not be commenting on any aspect of the investigation until that process had been completed," a police spokeswoman said. Dawson and Johnson, 34, were among the 18 hostages detained by Monis when the Martin Place siege began just before 10am.

BBC reports: An object resembling the plane's body was found in a sonar scan of the search area in the Java Sea, an official said.

Officials hope the "black box" flight recorders will be near the object - close to where the tail was found.

The plane, carrying 162 people, was flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore when it vanished from radar in bad weather on 28 December.

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At the Vibrant Gujarat Summit, PM Modi said, "Friends! We are not merely making commitments and announcements. We are also backing them up with concrete action."

"I announced a financial inclusion programme. In four months we have opened more than 100 million bank accounts. We have put focus on building infrastructure through public and private investments. In order to execute the infrastructure plan a fast track PPP mechanism is being put in place."

In a pitch to CEOs across the world, the PM said, "We offer you the 3 Ds  -- democracy, demand and demography."

"Some people wonder why Modi hypes everything. This hype forces the government to work faster as well. We are working towards making India a global manufacturing hub. We want to concentrate on labour-intensive manufacturing," he said.     

Addressing the delegates at the summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "There is tremendous interest in India. Countries are coming forward to work with us. India is the world's largest growing exporter. India has many solutions to a single problem. We want to promote competitive and comparative federalism in the country." 

"We will have to change the way we have been approaching problems. Recession is often seen just in context of business and industry: Have we ever thought of recession as being the result of low per capita income in countries where a majority of global population lives? Have we ever thought of its solution in terms of enhancing common man's employability, income and purchasing power," he asked.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his address at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in Gandhinagar thanking the Secretary-General of the UN Ban Ki-Moon and President of World Bank Jim Yong (both present at the event) .   

"The response to the event has been outstanding. India has always believed the world is one big family. We're here as a family because someone's dream is dependent on someone's direction. Today more that 100 nations are under one roof. This is a meeting of hearts, aspirations and ideas. The ultimate objective is the welfare of all."          

Another suspected Indian Mujahideen operative has been arrested at the Mangaluru international airport before he was to board a Dubai-bound flight.

Riyaz, 32, who was residing at Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district, was picked up last night by Bengaluru police with the help of their counterpart in Mangaluru, police said today. He was held based on information provided by three suspected IM operatives who were arrested on January 8 at Bhatkal and Bengaluru. Riyaz had been taken to Bengaluru for interrogation, police said.

US Secretary of State John Kerry begins his address to delegates at the Vibrant Gujarat summit amid a rousing applause. "I fear we have reached that moment in an event where everything has been said but not everyone has said it. Modi has made the name of Gujarat synonymous with change and possibilities."

"The moment has never been more right to tap the incredible possibilities between our two shared countries.We can do more together, we must do more together and we must do it faster," he added.  "Obama and Modi both have unlikely stories of success." 

Condemning the Paris terror attack he said, "No act of terror can stop the march of freedom."  

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "visionary leader" during his address at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit today.

"India is on the cusp of major progress in reducing the number of people living in major poverty. India should be the leader in eliminating poverty; its a radical and unique opportunity over the next decade.I am excited to work with India on renewal power. India has potential to be leader in solar energy," he said.

"We predict India will be a bright spot in an otherwise mediocre economic environment," he added.

Image: US Secretary of State John Kerry with PM Narendra Modi at the Vibrant Gujarat summit. Photograph: PIB/Twitter 

Just in: A German newspaper has been attacked for reprinting cartoons of Charlie Hebdo, a Paris satirical weekly. No one has been hurt in the incident, reports BBC.

On Wednesday, two gunmen killed 12 during a firing on the French magazine. The attacked was followed by two hostage situations and the terror continued for three days.

Details awaited.

Image: A man holds the cover of Charlie Hebdo magazine during a protest in Paris. Photograph: Getty Images.

Speaking at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit. Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani said, "Gujarat maru home state che (Gujarat is my home state). Each Vibrant Gujarat Summit has been bigger success than previous one, I've been fortunate enough to attend each one of them.Make in India, Digital India programmes have energised India."

"We are proud to be a Gujarati company. We have invested in Gujarat time and again to convert a business vision into reality.Request every investor to follow our steps, invest in Gujarat and benefit themselves. Reliance will invest Rs. 100,000 crore in Gujarat."

Some 500 extra troops are being deployed around Paris after three days of terror in the French capital killed 17 people.