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Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan takes part in the Christmas celebration in New Delhi./Image courtesy VP India on X
Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan, on Thursday participated in a Christmas celebration organised by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) in New Delhi and extended warm greetings and best wishes to the Christian community ahead of the festival.According to an official release by the Vice...
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Newly-appointed BJP national working president Nitin Nabin (right) with party chief JP Nadda
Newly-appointed BJP national working president Nitin Nabin has resigned from the Nitish Kumar cabinet in Bihar, a notification by the state government said on Thursday.Nabin, who held key portfolios like road construction, and urban development and housing, was appointed to the party post on...
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India-Oman bilateral trade was about $10.5 billion (exports $4 billion and imports $6.54 billion) in 2024-25. While expressing satisfaction at bilateral trade crossing $10 billion and two-way investment flows moving forward, Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined that the Comprehensive...
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The government on Thursday introduced the VB-G RAM G Bill in the Rajya Sabha that seeks to replace the 20-year-old MGNREG Act amid protests from non-NDA parties demanding parliamentary committee scrutiny.The bill was taken up soon after it was passed by the Lok Sabha before lunch, even as...
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The Indian Army is supporting bridge restoration efforts to reconnect disrupted road networks across Sri Lanka and ease movement for communities affected by Cyclone Ditwah, officials said on Thursday. The bridge restoration is being done in the northern district of Kilinochchi, the Indian...
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A fast-track court in Surajpur in Gautam Buddh Nagar district on Thursday fixed December 23 for hearing arguments on the Uttar Pradesh government's move to withdraw the case against the accused in the 2015 mob lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri, a lawyer involved in the matter said.The state...
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The Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) on Thursday announced a full refund of ticket prices for spectators after the fourth T20 International between India and South Africa was abandoned due to fog in Lucknow. The match, scheduled to start at 7 pm, was eventually called off at 9:30 pm...
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A Jharkhand native died after being allegedly assaulted by a group of men who accused him of theft in Palakkad, the police said. The deceased was identified as Ramnarayan Bhayar (31), a native of Jharkhand, who was working as a labourer in the Walayar area. According to the police,...
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The TTD on Thursday said it will initiate legal action after some individuals from Tamil Nadu displayed flex banners carrying photographs of AIADMK leaders near the Lord Venkateswara Swamy temple, in violation of the temple body's rules.The move follows a video that surfaced showing two youth...
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The Odisha government has approved the construction of 235 new hostels for tribal and other backward class students, SC and ST Development Minister Nityanand Gond said on Thursday.Gond made the announcement while addressing the inaugural session of the three-day state-level Sargiful' festival,...
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The Supreme Court collegium on Thursday recommended to the Centre elevation of five judges as chief justices of different high courts across the country. The collegium headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant took the decision in a meeting held during the day. Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta of...
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Twenty-six Indians working in the Russian armed forces have reportedly died, while seven have been marked as missing by the Russian side, the government told Parliament on Thursday.In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh also...
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Three members of a family were electrocuted to death when they came in contact with a high-tension electric wire in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Thursday, officials said. The incident took place around 10 am at Malkoni village under the jurisdiction of Phakuli police station. The...
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The Enforcement Directorate has conducted searches against an Uttar Pradesh-based YouTuber and online influencer in a money laundering investigation linked to illegal online betting, officials said on Thursday. The federal probe agency raided nine premises including that of Anurag...
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A 40-year-old man was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants in the Tanda area in Hoshiarpur on Thursday evening, the police said. The deceased has been identified as Baljit Singh alias Billa, a resident of Kandhala Shekhan village, who ran a motorcycle repair shop near Rasulpur...
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Tamil Nadu government on Thursday launched a Marine Elite Force (MEF) for the Chennai coast to strengthen surveillance, enforcement, and marine conservation efforts, with an initial budget of Rs 96 lakh. The initiative, announced during the 202526 Budget Session of the state legislative...
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Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly on Thursday lodged a police complaint against the head of Kolkata-based Argentina football fan club', alleging that the individual made objectionable remarks against him, a senior officer said.Ganguly, in his complaint emailed to the Cyber Cell of the...
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A blanket of haze enveloped Delhi on Thursday, reducing visibility across the city as air pollution worsened, with the 24-hour average AQI in the 'very poor' category with a reading of 373, up from 334 a day earlier, according to official data.Out of 40 air quality monitoring stations in the...
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The rupee appreciated 12 paise against the US dollar on Thursday, despite the broad strength of the American currency in the overseas market on suspected intervention by the Reserve Bank of India. Forex traders said Brent crude oil prices hovering near $59 per barrel supported the domestic...
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SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellappally Natesan on Thursday expressed disappointment over the key NDA partner BDJS's poor performance in the recent local body elections. He questioned the value of the party's nearly 10-year association with the BJP and said that a section within BDJS was...
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The Delhi high court has ordered the reinstatement of a Border Security Force constable who was discharged from service on the grounds of being HIV positive in July 2017. A bench of justices C Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla was hearing the BSF personnel's plea for reinstatement in...
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A Delhi court on Thursday sent Yasir Ahmad Dar, the ninth person arrested in the Red Fort blast case, to NIA custody till December 26. Special Judge Prashant Sharma allowed the plea of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) seeking custodial interrogation of the accused. Earlier in the...
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A five-year-old girl was mauled to death by a leopard in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, officials said on Thursday.The incident took place in the Srigufwara area of Bijbehara in the south Kashmir district on Wednesday night, they said.The big cat attacked the girl outside her home and...
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Maharashtra ex-chief minister Prithviraj Chavan/File image
The Bharatiya Janata Party JP on Thursday termed former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan's remarks on Operation Sindoor anti-national, and demanded that the Congress leadership apologise on behalf of the party leader for insulting the Indian Army. The BJP also demanded the...
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Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed lower for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday amid a muted trend in global markets and uncertainty over a trade deal with the US. Falling for the fourth day, the 30-share BSE Sensex shed 77.84 points or 0.09 percent to settle at 84,481.81 in...
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Nationalist Congress Party minister Manikrao Kokate has resigned from the Maharashtra Cabinet following a court verdict upholding his conviction and two-year jail term in a cheating and forgery case, NCP president and deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said on Thursday. In a statement in...
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India is third after China and the United States in the prevalence of cancer across the world, and the country is likely to have around 2 million cases by 2040, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.Responding to supplementaries...
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested another key accused in connection with the car bomb blast that killed 11 persons and injured several others near the historic Red Fort in Delhi last month, the agency said on Thursday. The ninth person to be arrested in the case has been...
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Transgender social activist Malem Thongam, who embarked on an over 2,300-km cycling expedition from New Delhi to Manipur to spread the message of peace, on Thursday safely crossed the Kangpokpi district in a security convoy amid a warning from a Kuki outfit. Malem Thongam, who belongs to the...
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Coast Guard personnel with arrested Bangladeshi nationals and boats./Courtesy Indian Coast Guard on X
Indian Coast Guard personnel have apprehended two Bangladeshi fishing boats with 35 crew members for illegally fishing inside India's Exclusive Economic Zone in the northern Bay of Bengal, officials said on Thursday. The presence of active fishing gear and approximately 500 kilograms of fish...
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Indian on Thursday resumed operations at its visa application centre in Dhaka, a day after closing it over escalated security concerns, but closed two other identical facilities in other parts of Bangladesh, officials and reports said. The Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) at...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said her government would rename its rural job guarantee programme after Mahatma Gandhi, slamming the BJP-led government at the Centre for seeking to replace the 20-year-old MNREGA with the VB-G RAM G scheme.Speaking at a business and industry conclave...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Thursday conferred with the Order of Oman, the Sultanate's uniquely distinct civilian honour, by Sultan Haitham bin Tarik for his contributions to strengthening bilateral ties. Prime Minister Modi received the award during his ongoing two-day visit to...
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The rollout of the state Benches of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT), the statutory body designed to resolve the indirect tax disputes, may get delayed beyond the December deadline as the necessary staff and infrastructure required for it is not yet ready, people familiar...
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In the lead-up to the India-AI Impact Summit scheduled for February 2026, the IndiaAI Mission under the ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity), in collaboration with UN Women India, has announced the launch of a compendium on gender-responsive AI solutions developed or...
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A court in Kochi on Thursday ordered the release of actor Dileep's passport following his acquittal in the 2017 actress assault case.Ernakulam District and Principal Sessions Court Judge Honey M Varghese passed the order on a petition filed by Dileep seeking the release of his passport after his...
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Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) member Sanjeev Sanyal on Thursday said he is not concerned about the rupee at all, arguing that even China and Japan witnessed exchange rate weaknesses during their high growth phases. Speaking at Times Network's India Economic...
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday vowed to strongly oppose the G RAM G bill, asserting that the proposed legislation will finish off the rural employment guarantee scheme completely. The Congress general secretary also asserted that the opposition is united on the...
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After the fourth T20I between India and South Africa was called off on Wednesday owing to poor visibility after a dense layer of smog engulfed the Ekana Stadium, the Uttar Pradesh government said that Lucknow's air quality index (AQI) stood at 174, indicating a moderate level of air...
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Actor-politician Vijay on Thursday launched a blistering attack against Tamil Nadu's ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, calling it an 'evil force,' repeating a term often used by the late All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam stalwarts M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa to target the Dravidian...
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As many as 27 flights of various airlines were cancelled and many more delayed at Delhi Airport on Thursday due to dense fog and subsequent drop in visibility, a DIAL official said. As of now, 27 flights are cancelled -- 16 departures and 11 arrivals -- at Delhi Airport due to dense...
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The Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Thursday after the passage of the G RAM G bill amid opposition uproar over its provisions. A discussion on air pollution in the Delhi National Capital Region was to be taken up later during the day. Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra...
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Delhi cabinet minister Parvesh Verma on Thursday launched a sharp attack on the previous Aam Aadmi Party government, alleging that it failed to carry out even basic civic works over the past decade, leaving the present administration to address long-pending issues ranging from garbage mountains...
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Congress leader Pradnya Satav on Thursday tendered her resignation as a Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) of Maharashtra. Her term was scheduled to end in 2030.Satav, the wife of late Rajiv Satav, a Congressman and close confidant of Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, is...
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The Supreme Court has objected to the growing trend of judges passing so many orders just before they retire, equating it to a batter hitting sixes in the final overs of a match. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant was hearing a plea of a Madhya Pradesh principal...
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IndiGo Chief Executive Officer Pieter Elbers on Thursday said the airline's focus now is on three things -- resilience, root-cause analysis, and rebuilding, after the domestic carrier inconvenienced and caused hardship to lakhs of passengers across airports by cancelling thousands of flights...
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With photographs of Mahatma Gandhi in hand, several opposition MPs on Thursday took out a protest march inside the Parliament House complex against the government's G RAM G bill and demanded its withdrawal. Behind a huge banner that had 'Mahatma Gandhi NREGA' written on it, they...
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A 19-year-old Rohingya man was stabbed to death allegedly by another Rohingya following a drunken brawl here, police said on Thursday.The victim was attacked by a knife by the suspect who stabbed him 19 times at their camp in Balapur at around 1.30 AM on December 17 resulting in his instant...
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The Centre's incentives must be directed at electric vehicles (EVs) rather than hybrid cars, as the latter fundamentally depend on fossil fuels and continue to emit tailpipe pollutants unlike 'true zero-emission vehicles', a parliamentary standing committee stated in a report tabled in the Rajya...
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HDFC Bank, the countrys largest private sector lender, has lowered its fixed deposit rates for deposits below Rs 3 crore, effective December 17. The bank has reduced its peak deposit rate by 15 basis points from 6.6 per cent to 6.45 per cent for the 18 months to less than 21 months...
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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has ordered all state regulators to sensitise all hotels, restaurants, and pubs along with the restaurant associations to ensure that adulterated items such as paneer and khoya are not used in food preparations, according to sources in the...
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An Air India Express flight from Jeddah to Kozhikode with 160 passengers carried out an emergency landing at the Cochin International Airport in Kochi on Thursday due to issues involving its landing gear and tyre failure, an official said.The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), in a...
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The Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) in West Bengal will begin issuing notices for hearing from Thursday, marking the next phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), an official said.He said that at the initial stage, hearing notices are likely to be issued to around 32 lakh unmapped...
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Dense fog enveloped large parts of Delhi-NCR on Thursday morning, significantly reducing visibility and disrupting traffic across the region. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), dense fog conditions prevailed over the city based on the 6 am observation. Visibility...
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The Mumbai police have seized a Lamborghini car after its driver was found running it at a breakneck speed of 252 kilometres per hour on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in the city, officials have said.The incident took place on December 12, and a case has been registered against the car driver, who is...
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Security agencies and forest officials have initiated an inquiry after a Chinese-made GPS tracking device was found attached to a seagull near the coastal belt of Karwar in Uttara Kannada district, close to a sensitive naval zone. Officials, however, said that preliminary findings point to...
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Noted sculptor Ram Sutar, known for designing the world's tallest statue -- Statue of Unity -- in Gujarat, passed away late on Wednesday night at his Noida residence, his son said. He was 100 and ailing with age-related illnesses. It is with profound grief that we inform you of...
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Air quality in Dehradun has deteriorated over the past two days, slipping into the 'poor' category and raising concerns. Professor Vijay Sridhar, head of the pollution monitoring centre at Doon University, said the city's real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) on Wednesday stood at 267, while...
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A 45-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping multiple girls in Mumbai after mixing sedative pills in their soft drinks and later making their obscene videos, a police official said on Wednesday. According to the Kurar police station official, the accused, identified as...
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The Indian pageant and fashion fraternity is mourning the passing away of Meher Castelino, the country's first Femina Miss India and a celebrated fashion journalist. A pioneer in the fashion industry, she paved the way for generations of Indian women to step into the public eye with...
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The ban on entry of non-Delhi private vehicles below BS-VI standards and the enforcement of the 'No PUC, No Fuel' rule came into force in the national capital on Thursday, as authorities stepped up measures to tackle worsening air pollution. Fuel pumps are not dispensing fuel to...
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In a significant judgment, the Gujarat high court on Wednesday rejected nearly 150 petitions from Muslim Waqf institutions seeking exemption from payment of fees to the State Waqf Tribunal to access a court of law. Justice JC Doshi dismissed the petitions, many of which involved contested...
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A fire erupted outside a tunnel on the Coastal Road in south Mumbai on Wednesday evening, but no injuries were reported, civic officials said. The blaze outside the tunnel at Marine Lines opposite the Police Gymkhana was reported to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) at 7.12 pm, they...
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RAF personnel and cops stop angry fans vandalising the Salt Lake Stadium./ANI Photo
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the West Bengal government on Wednesday began its investigation into the vandalism at Argentine football star Lionel Messi's event at the Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata last week, an official said. The team, comprising senior IPS officers...
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