The 2-day CII Partnership Summit opens in Visakhapatnam today. Organised in association with the Andhra Pradesh government, the summit will focus on achieving sustained economic growth in the present global economic order. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, several other Union ministers, state ministers, CEOs of companies and foreign delegates will participate in the inaugural session on Friday.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will kick off his three-day campaign for the Punjab Assembly elections today. It is widely anticipated that he would announce the party's chief ministerial candidate during the campaign.

Liquor baron Vijay Mallya has to appear before the Karnataka High Court today for framing of charges against him in a contempt of court case. The issue pertains to alleged violation of an “oral undertaking” he had given before the Bengaluru Bench of the Debt Recovery Tribunal in 2013 on not transferring, alienating or otherwise dealing with his assets. A Division Bench comprising Justice Jayant M Patel and Justice Aravind Kumar set the date for Mallya’s appearance as the Bench could not take up the case on January 19, on which day he was asked to appear in person, due to non-availability of one of the judges on the Bench.

Alok Kumar Verma, currently Delhi’s Police Commissioner, is likely to take over as Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation today. Verma, who was appointed as the next Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation on January 19, is a 1979 batch officer of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre.

A Jodhpur court will take up the blackbuck poaching case against Salman Khan and four others today. Salman Khan is facing trial in a case of poaching of the endangered black buck in Kankani village in Jodhpur and possession of illegal arms.

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