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One person was arrested on Tuesday on the charge of beheading a tribal woman following which a group clash erupted leading to damage of around 200 houses in a village in Odisha's Malkangiri district, officials said. The Odisha government on Tuesday extended internet service suspension across...
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A total of 40,789 passengers were affected due to the cancellation of 905 IndiGo flights between December 1 and December 8 at Mumbai airport, and another 2,66,567 travellers faced inordinate delays in the wake of massive disruptions in the airline's operations, MIAL said on Tuesday. IndiGo,...
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A man was arrested for allegedly vandalising idols and a 'havan kund' inside a temple in Hardoi, the police said on Tuesday. The incident took place at the Maa Govardhani temple located in Tikari village under Kachhauna Police Station limits, they said. The accused has been identified...
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Suspended Congress leader Navjot Kaur Sidhu (left)
Punjab Congress leader Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Tuesday served a legal notice on suspended party leader Navjot Kaur Sidhu, asking her to apologise for making defamatory remarks against him or face legal action. In the notice, Randhawa, who is also the party's in-charge for Rajasthan,...
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Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S (L) and Cognizant India CMD Rajesh Varrier (R) meet PM Narendra Modi./Courtesy Cognizant on X
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met the top leadership of Intel and Cognizant, and welcomed the partnership of the two global firms in India's technology sectors. Glad to have met Mr Lip-Bu Tan. India welcomes Intel's commitment to our semiconductor journey. I am sure Intel will have...
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Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara on Tuesday told the Assembly that the RSS took out 518 route marches across the state this year, and none of them led to any fights, riots or communal violence. An estimated 2.37 lakh swayamsevaks participated in these route marches, he said in a...
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Belgium's supreme court -- the Court of Cassation -- on Tuesday rejected the appeal of fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi challenging his extradition to India in connection with the alleged Rs 13000 crore fraud in Punjab National Bank, authorities in that country said. Responding to PTI,...
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Three people, one of them a child, were injured in a fire at a shoe-sole factory in Delhi's DSIIDC Industrial Area of Narela on Tuesday evening, the police said. They said a fire at a shoe factory was reported around 6.25 pm, and a team was rushed to the spot. The factory was already...
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan meets PM Narendra Modi/Image courtesy Lip-Bu Tan on X
US computer chip major Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on Tuesday said that the company is committed to support the government's India Semiconductor Mission, which aims to set up an active high-end electronic component ecosystem in the country. The statement from Tan followed his meeting with Prime...
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Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murthy, speaks in house during the ongoing winter session of Parliament/Sansad TV/ANI Photo
Rajya Sabha nominated MP Sudha Murty on Tuesday urged the government to make it compulsory to sing the national song 'Vande Mataram' in primary and high schools. Participating in a discussion commemorating the 150th anniversary of the song, Murty said: I am standing here not as an MP,...
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BJP MP Radha Mohan Das Agrawal speaks in Rajya Sabha./Sansad TV/ANI Video Grab
The debate on the 150th anniversary of 'Vande Mataram' witnessed a heated exchange between the BJP and Congress in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, with BJP member Radha Mohan Das challenging Congress MP Jairam Ramesh over historical claims about the national song. Das alleged that Pandit Vishnu...
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The hearing in a defamation case involving Congress MP Rahul Gandhi was deferred by a local MP/MLA court on Tuesday after the death of an advocate, officials said. The court has now fixed December 12 as the next date for hearing the matter. Rahul Gandhi's counsel, Kashi Prasad Shukla, said...
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The Madurai Bench of the Madras high court on Tuesday directed Tamil Nadu chief secretary and ADGP (law and order) to appear before the court through video conference on December 17 in the Thirupparankundram lamp lighting row case. The Union home secretary has been included as a party to the...
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Indian rice exporters on Tuesday said the US threat of imposing additional tariffs on Indian rice is not a major concern, asserting that demand remains steady and the export volumes to America are too small to significantly impact the sector. India Rice Exporter Federation President Prem...
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The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday arrested another key accused in connection with last month's Delhi bomb blast case. Dr Bilal Naseer Malla, a resident of Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir is the eighth accused to be arrested in the Delhi blast case. He was nabbed by an NIA team from...
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Maharashtra Forest Minister Ganesh Naik on Tuesday said he had asked forest officials to release goats in large numbers in forests to stop leopards from entering human settlements in search of prey. He was responding to a calling attention motion of NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad in the...
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Just In: The Centre has reduced IndiGo's flight schedule by 10 percent, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said on Tuesday. He said that the cut has been introduced to steady the airline's operations and bring down the high number of cancellations reported over the past few days....
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Streaming service JioHotstar on Friday announced that it will be investing Rs 4,000 crore over the next five years to strengthen South India's creative economy. The announcement was made during a star-studded event here attended by leading figures from the region's film and television...
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The rupee pared its initial losses and settled for the day in the positive territory, up 17 paise at 89.88 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, as American currency and crude oil prices retreated from their elevated levels. Forex traders said the weakness of the US dollar in the...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella/Saumya Khandelwal/Reuters
Microsoft plans to invest $17.5 billion (around Rs 1.58 lakh crore) in India to help build infrastructure, skills, and sovereign capabilities needed for the country's AI future, CEO Satya Nadella said on social media platform X.To support the country's ambitions, Microsoft is committing $17.5B,...
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Stock markets closed lower for the second straight day on Tuesday, with benchmark BSE Sensex declining by 436 points as investors booked profit ahead of the US Federal Reserve's policy decision. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 436.41 points, or 0.51 per cent, to close at a nearly two-week...
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A Delhi court on Tuesday extended the NIA custody of Amir Rashid Ali, an accused in the Red Fort blast case, by seven days. On December 2, Amir was sent to a seven-day NIA custody. A Jammu and Kashmir resident accused of facilitating the Red Fort blast, Amir was arrested on November...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday tore up a note outlining new MGNREGA norms at a public meeting here, calling it a valueless and insulting diktat and vowing that the state would run its own work scheme without seeking Delhi's charity. Addressing a TMC rally at the Ras...
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Filmmaker Aditya Dhar's directorial Dhurandhar, headlined by Bollywood star Ranveer Singh, has earned Rs 130.80 crore nett at the domestic box office. The film released in theatres on December 5 and also features Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, Arjun Rampal, Sara Arjun, R Madhavan and Rakesh...
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The Goa police issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) against another set of owners of the fire-ravaged nightclub, Ajay Gupta and Surinder Kumar Khosla, a senior officer said on Tuesday. The LOC was issued against Gupta and Khosla, who is a British citizen, hours after 'Birch by Romeo Lane'...
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Pakistan's Punjab province police registered an FIR over the theft of two apples and a hand wash bottle from the chamber of a sessions court judge in Lahore city, police said on Tuesday. The FIR has been lodged at Lahore's Islampura police station on the complaint of the judge's...
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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh during a discussion in Parliament on the special electoral revision exercise, alleging that the organisation has long sought to dominate the country's institutional framework.Speaking in the Lok Sabha,...
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IndiGo airlines has stablised its operations nearly a week after Indian airports were engulfed in chaos due to hundreds of flight cancellations and delays across the country, with chief executive officer (CEO) of the airline, Pieter Elbers, apologising to the passengers in a new statement...
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A Delhi court on Tuesday sought response from senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and the police on a plea challenging a magistrate's order refusing a probe on the allegation that she was included in the electoral rolls three years before acquiring Indian citizenship in 1983. Special Judge...
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Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has ordered authorities to demolish the illegal 'Romeo Lane' beach shack at Vagator, owned by the fugitive owners of the fire-ravaged nightclub, after completing all formalities on Tuesday.This shack is the third property owned by Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra....
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Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan made it to the list of 67 Most Stylish People of 2025 released by the New York Times. The names of other celebrities included Sabrina Carpenter, Doechii, A$AP Rocky, Vivian Wilson, Nicole Scherzinger, Walton Goggins, Jennifer Lawrence, Shai...
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Bollywood filmmaker Vikram Bhatt and his wife, Shwetambari, were remanded to seven days' police custody by a local court in Udaipur on Tuesday in connection with an alleged fraud case exceeding Rs 30 crore. The couple, arrested from Mumbai on December 7, was brought to Udaipur by a...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday accused BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, of insulting Jawaharlal Nehru, as he said the decision to use only the first two stanzas of 'Vande Mataram' as the national song was collectively taken by leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and...
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Four people, including two minors, have been apprehended for stabbing an 18-year-old man to death in north Delhi after he resisted their attempt to snatch his mobile phone, police said on Tuesday. The stabbed victim, Aryan, was found on Swami Narayan Marg on the intervening night of...
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After days of bickering, the ruling allies BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena have decided to contest the elections to municipal corporations in Maharashtra including Mumbai and Thane as an alliance, Sena sources claimed on Tuesday. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister...
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The CBI has booked the son of industrialist Anil Ambani, Jai Anmol Anil Ambani, and Reliance Home Finance Ltd. (RHFL) in a case of alleged cheating in Union Bank of India that caused a loss of Rs 228 crore to the public bank, officials said on Tuesday. The CBI acted on a complaint from the...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday rejected the criticism that the discussion on 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram was politically motivated ahead of elections in West Bengal.Some people want to diminish its importance by trying to link it to Bengal polls, Shah said while speaking in Rajya...
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The Goa Police has approached the CBI for issuance of an Interpol Blue Notice against Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, the main accused and owners of the Goa nightclub where a massive blaze claimed 25 lives, after they fled the country, officials said Tuesday. Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav...
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The Karnataka high court on Tuesday stayed the state government's notification mandating one-day menstrual leave a month for working women.The November 9 notification made provision for one day paid menstrual leave per month to women employees aged between 18 and 52 years working in...
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Congress MP Manish Tewari on Tuesday claimed that the Election Commission legally has no right to conduct the SIR and it must be stopped, as he asserted that many Opposition leaders as well as people now feel the need to raise questions over the poll body's neutrality. Initiating a...
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No airline, however large, will be permitted to cause hardship to passengers through planning failures and non-compliance with regulations, Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu said on Tuesday on the mass disruptions in IndiGo flight schedules. Making a statement in the Lok Sabha, Naidu...
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UK-based fintech Wise is rolling out a multi-currency prepaid foreign exchange card for users in India as the company doubles down on expanding its presence in the country's cross-border (CB) payments space.More than 75,000 users have joined the waitlist ahead of the full launch, said Taneia...
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The value of digital gold purchases through the unified payments interface (UPI) slowed down for the first time this year in November after the Securities and Exchange Board of India issued an advisory, cautioning investors.In November, the value of digital gold on UPI contracted 47 per cent to...
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A man from Tamil Nadu created a flutter when he attempted to gain entry to actor Vijay-led TVK rally in Puducherry on Tuesday carrying a handgun.He was however detained by the alert police who meticulously frisked all those entering the venue at the restricted rally at the Expo Ground (New Port)...
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Donations for the proposed Babri Masjid-style mosque announced by suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir in West Bengal's Murshidabad have reached nearly Rs 3 crore, the leader's aides claimed on Tuesday.Kabir laid the foundation stone of the mosque at Rejinagar in Murshidabad district on...
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Aviation safety regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Tuesday said it has reduced IndiGo's flight schedule by 5 per cent, following large-scale flight disruptions since December 1, 2025. The order to this effect was issued by the DGCA on Tuesday. The flights have...
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A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday carried out searches in the forest area in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir as part of its probe into the November 10 blast near the Red Fort in Delhi, officials said. They said the NIA sleuths, assisted by police and CRPF,...
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SEBI Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey and NSE MD & CEO Ashishkumar Chauhan at the launch of the 'Past Risk and Return Verification Agency' (PaRRVA), a global-first initiative introduced by SEBI, at the NSE in Mumbai, December 8, 2025. Photograph: ANI Photo
In a major move to boost transparency in Indias financial markets, the Securities and Exchange Board of India on Monday launched the Past Risk and Return Verification Agency (PaRRVA)- - a new verification mechanism designed to authenticate past performance claims made by regulated market...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was felicitated at a meeting of all MPs of the ruling NDA on Tuesday for the coalition's massive victory in the recent Bihar elections. Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and J P Nadda, who is also the BJP president, were among those present at the NDA...
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Delhi's air quality improved slightly on Tuesday, with the city recording an overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of 291 in the poor category at 9 am, according to the Central Pollution Control Board. The city's AQI on Monday morning stood at 318 in the very poor category, the CPCB data...
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IndiGo cancelled around 180 flights from Bengaluru and Hyderabad on Tuesday, as the disruption in the crisis-hit airline prolonged for the eighth consecutive day, sources said. IndiGo is not operating 58 flights to and from Hyderabad on Tuesday. Of these, 14 are arrivals and 44...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday greeted Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party in Parliament, on her birthday, wishing her good health. Birthday greetings to Sonia Gandhi Ji. May she be blessed with a long life and good health, Modi said in a post on X. Born on...
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IndiGo announced a significant operational rebound on Monday, confirming it will operate more than 1,800 flights across its network, marking a decisive turnaround after days of widespread disruption. In a press release, the airline said it has restored connectivity to all stations in its...
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Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu will address the Lok Sabha at 12 pm today on the ongoing IndiGo crisis, a day after he spoke on the same issue in the Rajya Sabha. The discussion comes amid continued delays and cancellations across IndiGo's network, leaving passengers stranded...
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The US is deeply committed to the Quad -- the grouping with India, Japan and Australia -- and will continue to build on that in the year to come, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said....we're also deeply committed to the Quad, the concept of in conjunction with Japan and India, the building...
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Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu on Monday said the government will curtail IndiGo's winter flight schedule and allocate them to other operators following the airline's recent large-scale operational disruptions. We will curtail IndiGo's routes. They are currently operating...
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The National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) on Monday said it will ramp up advisories to members on complying with fire safety standards, while also setting up a committee to look into the same. We issue advisories very regularly and are in the process of devising another one,...
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United States President Donald Trump has said that India should not be dumping rice into the US market and he will take care of it, while stressing that tariffs will solve the problem easily.Trump held a roundtable in the White House on Monday with representatives of the farming and agriculture...
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Veteran activist Dr Baba Adhav, a towering figure in Maharashtra's social and labour movements, passed away in Pune on Monday night following a prolonged illness, his aide said.During his decades-long activism, Adhav relentlessly fought for the rights of autorickshaw drivers, headloaders,...
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