This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Flora Swain.
It’s the 11th of January and here are the headlines.

The police told The Indian Express that Suchana Seth, the Bengaluru-based CEO arrested for allegedly killing her four-year-old son in a Goa hotel, had booked the room from 6th to 10th of January, but checked out earlier. According to police, at 9.10 pm on 7th of January, she told the staff of the service apartments in North Goa’s Candolim that she wanted to check-out since she had "urgent work in Bengaluru" and requested them to arrange a taxi. The FIR stated that she left at 12.30 am.

Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Pande today flagged that there have been infiltration attempts along the Line of Control, which the Army has foiled. He said that India is continuing to hold "talks at military and diplomatic levels to find resolution to balanced issues" in eastern Ladakh, where Indian and Chinese troops are locked in a standoff that began in 2020. Last week, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal had also stated that though China’s relationship with India was "not normal", the two sides have continued to hold talks.

The US government has objected to providing defence materials to Indian national Nikhil Gupta, detained on murder-for-hire charges in a foiled assassination attempt on a Khalistani extremist. The US government said it will provide the information only upon his appearance in a New York court and arraignment in the case. Gupta is cuurently being held in Prague and the US government is seeking his extradition to America.

Indore and Surat have been adjudged India’s cleanest cities as part of the Swachh Survekshan 2023 Awards given out by the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry. Navi Mumbai was named the third cleanest city in the country. Meanwhile, Maharashtra bagged the cleanest state award, followed by Madhya Pradesh.

The Karnataka Police arrested two people in connection with a case where an interfaith couple was attacked by a six-member gang during their stay at a hotel in Haveri. A police officer said that a Muslim married woman was having a consensual relationship with a Hindu man and the couple had checked into the hotel on 7th of January when they were assaulted. The woman along with her husband claimed that the accused later took her to an isolated place and gangraped her.

This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.