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The advanced weapons, sensors and avionics suite make the helicopter a versatile and capable asset for the Navy, offering enhanced capabilities to address conventional as well as asymmetric threats, they said The Indian Navy will commission its second MH-60R multi-role helicopter squadron, INAS 335 (Ospreys), on December 17 at INS Hansa in Goa, significantly strengthening its aviation and maritime combat capabilities. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi will be present at the commiss ...Read More >
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) - designated as a terror organisation by the United Nations - and The Resistance Front (TRF) have been charged with "planning, facilitating and executing" the attack. The TRF had initially said it was behind the attack but later denied its involvement. The 1,597-page chargesheet, filed on Monday in a special court in Jammu, names the militant groups and six others, three of whom were killed by security forces days after the attack. A man accused by NIA of ...Read More >
West Bengal State Sports Minister Aroop Biswas on Tuesday has resigned, amid ire against him from angry fans, and after the chaos during Messi's visit to Yuvabharati Stadium. West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar and Bidhannagar Police Commissioner Mukesh have also been show caused by the Chief Secretary's office. Major chaos and pandemonium followed during football superstar Lionel Messi's appearance in Kolkata's Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday, and probe by a high-powered committee was ordered by Chief M ...Read More >
The capital of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, is preparing for the inauguration of another memorial park, the Rashtriya Prerna Sthal, in the coming days. Spread over 65 acres, the Rashtriya Prerna Sthal houses 65-feet tall statues of three icons of the BJP and its forerunner Jana Sangh - former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Syama Prasad Mookerjee - which is likely to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 25, Vajpayee's birth anniversary. Advertiseme ...Read More >
T'puram: The police are examining whether legal action can be initiated against a parody song that went viral during the local body election campaign, following a complaint that it misused an Ayyappa devotional song and hurt religious sentiments.Thiruvabharana Patha Samrakshana Samithi, which filed the complaint, alleged that the sacred 'Pallikettu Sabarimalakku' was distorted for political messaging. The state police chief forwarded the complaint to the ADGP (law and order) to examine whether a ...Read More >
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said Mahayuti partners BJP and Shiv Sena will contest together in most municipal corporation elections on Jan 15. This includes Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan Dombivli. However, in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, the BJP and Shiv Sena will have friendly fights with the NCP.Speculations about all three Mahayuti partners going solo in the municipal corporation where each is dominant have now been laid to rest."We are trying to form a Mahayuti alliance in most ...Read More >
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) minister is expected to move the Bombay High Court to challenge the verdict in order to continue working as an elected representative. The Representation of the People Act, 1951, mandates disqualification for elected representatives sentenced to imprisonment for two years or more in a criminal case. Kokate, 68, had challenged the February judgment of a first-class magistrate court, which convicted him on charges of cheating and forgery in a case dating back ...Read More >
The committee would tour the State and elicit opinions and views from welfare associations, traders' associations, trade unions, farmers' associations, alliance partners and the general public The ruling DMK on Wednesday constituted a committee under the chairmanship of the party's Parliamentary Party leader, Kanimozhi, to prepare the manifesto for the Assembly election scheduled for next year. A press release issued by DMK general secretary Duraimurugan stated the committee would tour the Sta ...Read More >
A political controversy erupted after former Maharashtra Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan claimed India was "completely defeated" on the first day of Operation Sindoor. Speaking in Pune, Chavan alleged that during the half-hour aerial engagement on December 7, Indian aircraft were shot down, the Air Force was grounded, and no planes could safely take off from Gwalior, Bathinda, or Sirsa due to threats from Pakistan. He also stated that the operation involved only aeria ...Read More >
Vaishnaw was responding to questions raised by MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy. New Delhi: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday that passengers need to pay charges for carrying luggage beyond the prescribed free allowance limits while travelling by train. Vaishnaw was responding to questions raised by MP Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy, who sought to know whether Railways would implement baggage regulations for train passengers on the lines of practice being followed a ...Read More >
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday (December 17, 2025) came down heavily on the Opposition AIADMK's "silence" over the Centre altering and renaming the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) as the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission-Gramin (VBGRAMG). In a social media post, Mr. Stalin questioned: "What is the AIADMK's stand on VBGRAMG, which directly affects the rural poor?" He accused AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palanis ...Read More >
Kolkata: Four of the six officials associated with Satadru Dutta's firm, A Satadru Roy Initiative, which organised Lionel Messi's three-day India tour, appeared before Bidhannagar Police on Tuesday and recorded their statements. Police commissioner Mukesh said all six individuals were summoned. "Four officials turned up today, submitted their statements, and are cooperating with the investigation. The remaining two have sought time to appear before us. We will record their statements once they p ...Read More >
Hyderabad:Telangana Jagruthi leader K. Kavitha came under a bitter attack from the BRS on Tuesday with party MLC Thakkellapalli Ravinder Rao likening her to a "mangy dog", saying she was indulging in blackmail politics and was on the path to political suicide and stating that the "consequences" would not be good for her. Rao said Kavitha was being used by the Congress in the state and the BJP at the Centre to create a rift in the family of BRS president K. Chandrashekar Rao. "This is the only w ...Read More >
Polling for the third and final phase of gram panchayat elections in Telangana began on Wednesday. The polling began at 7 am and would conclude at 1 pm. The counting begins at 2 pm. Also read: Which are the countries facing travel ban from US? See full list A total of 12,652 Sarpanch candidates are in the fray, while 75,725 are contesting for ward member posts, officials said. As many as 53 lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the election at 36,483 polling stations. Also ...Read More >
More than 260 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in ethnic violence between Meiteis and Kuki-Zo groups since May 2023 Fresh tensions flared in the Torbung area along the Bishnupur-Churachandpur district of Manipur on Tuesday night. The development took place after cross-firing broke out between security forces and unidentified armed miscreants at around 8:30 pm, officials told Hindustan Times. They also said that at least one person was injured during the incident. However ...Read More >
A woman from Baramati in Pune district has allegedly been raped by three men in Maharashtra's Beed district after being promised a job, police said. The alleged incident took place six months ago, they said, adding that a case was registered a few days back in this connection against four persons, including a woman. The accused woman lured the victim under the pretext of getting her a job at an arts centre at Ambajogai in Beed district. However, after the victim arrived here, the woman and tw ...Read More >
The stage is all set for Assembly Speaker G. Prasad Kumar to announce his verdict on Wednesday (December 17, 2025) on the disqualification petitions pertaining to five of the 10 MLAs of the Bharat Rashtra Samiti who allegedly defected to the ruling Congress after winning on the BRS ticket. The Speaker has decided to announce the course of action into the petitions filed against MLAs Tellam Venkat Rao, Arekapudi Gandhi, Bandla Krishnamohan Reddy, T. Prakash Goud and Gudem Mahipal Reddy by the BR ...Read More >
Droupadi Murmu will inaugurate a public service commission conference on December 19 and address a Brahma Kumaris event on December 20.Source : X Hyderabad, Dec 17 (PTI) President Drouapdi Murmu on Wednesday arrived at the Rashtrapati Nilayam at Secunderabad here as part of her winter sojourn.Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma, Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and Telangana ministers along with senior officials received the President at the Air Force Station, Hakimpet. The Presid ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], December 15 (ANI): Telangana Jagruthi President Kalvakuntla Kavitha reiterated that achieving Samajika Telangana is her goal.She categorically announced that they will contest the 2029 elections. On Monday, she responded in detail to several questions posed by netizens on X under the hashtag #AskKavitha.According to the press release, netizens raised questions on her vision for Telangana, the future roadmap of Jagruthi and the failures of the Congress government, a ...Read More >
The 'ideological showdown' between the Rahul Gandhi-led Congress and Shashi Tharoor was analysed, in quite some detail, by an X user Sunday evening and prompted a brief response from the Thiruvananthapuram MP. In a dozen posts the X user - Civitas Sameer - framed the discord between the Congress and one of its seniormost leaders as a 'contrast between two ideological tendencies' and blamed the opposition party for its 'inability to choose, integrate, or execute either, coherently'. "Thank you f ...Read More >
Delhi Air Pollution: On the issue of air quality, the apex court orally remarked that steps taken so far by authorities to control pollution in Delhi-NCR have been a "total failure." Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up authorities over persistent civic and environmental challenges in the Delhi-NCR region, flagging both traffic congestion at toll plazas and rising air pollution as areas of serious concern. In a significant observation on traffic snarls, the apex court issued a notice to the Na ...Read More >
The incident occurred during a public function in Patna on December 15, 2025, where Nitish Kumar allegedly forcibly pulled down the hijab of a Muslim woman doctor. Owaiz Hussain S, an advocate based in Bengaluru, has submitted an official complaint to multiple authorities seeking registration of a Zero FIR and statutory action against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The complaint has been sent to the Director General of Police, Bengaluru City Police Commissioner, Karnataka State Commission ...Read More >
The NIA arrested Kamalkant Verma alias Uncle Ji, the 11th accused and linchpin of a multi-state illegal arms syndicate. Originating from Bihar, the arms were procured from Haryana and smuggled to UP and other parts of Northern India. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested the 11th accused working as a linchpin of a multi-state illegal arms and ammunition trafficking syndicate. These arms and ammunition, originating from Bihar, were spread across various parts of Northern India. A ...Read More >
PM Modi is in Oman for a 2-day visit marking 70 years of India-Oman ties. The trip's central focus is the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), a trade pact expected to double bilateral trade and boost energy and food security. In the third and final leg of his three-nation visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Oman on December 17-18. This trip, which marks 70 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties between India and Oman, focuses on strengthening business and s ...Read More >
Terming the court's decision a "moral and legal victory," Congress leaders accused the Centre of misusing investigative agencies to target political opponents. The Haryana unit of Congress Wednesday staged a protest outside the BJP state headquarters, Panchkamal, in Panchkula, following a Delhi court's refusal to take cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) chargesheet in the National Herald money laundering case. Terming the court's decision a "moral and legal victory," Congress lead ...Read More >
The Indian Army on Tuesday achieved a major logistics breakthrough by successfully inducting tanks, artillery guns and engineering equipment into the Kashmir Valley using a Special Military Train. The operation marked a significant boost to the Army's mobility, speed of response and operational readiness along India's northern frontiers. As part of a comprehensive validation exercise, heavy combat and support equipment including tanks, artillery guns and dozers were transported smoothly from th ...Read More >
Md Salim is a former MP and CPM's Bengal general secretary ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * Mohammed Salim and son Atish Aziz wrongly listed with Brahmin last name Awasthi in voter list * Atish Aziz highlighted the error on Facebook, sharing a photo of his voter details * Salim criticised the Election Commission for poor preparation and training during SIR Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode Kolkata: In an epic error during the Special ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Dy CM DK Shivakumar on Tuesday threw weight behind AICC leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi after a Delhi court refused to take cognizance in proceedings arising from a fresh FIR in the National Herald case. Both leaders, in separate posts on X, said the court has exposed illegality and mala fide intent of the Modi Government. The ED proceedings against the Gandhis had been held to be without jurisdiction, illegal, and unsustainable in law, Siddaram ...Read More >
Days after a devastating fire at an upscale nightclub in India's Goa state killed 25 people, the spotlight remains on the two brothers who co-owned the place. On Tuesday, Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra were deported to India from Thailand, where they fled hours after the incident on 7 December. A third partner in the nightclub, Ajay Gupta, was detained in Delhi last week. Until a few weeks ago, the brothers who grew up in Delhi, were not known beyond India's hospitality and nightlife circuit. Tho ...Read More >
Members of the Opposition BJP staged a walkout in the Karnataka Assembly on Wednesday, alleging that Women and Child Development Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar had misled the House by denying that the beneficiaries of the Gruha Lakshmi scheme had not been paid for February and March 2025. Leader of the Opposition R Ashoka sought clarification regarding Hebbalkar's reply made on December 12 to a question raised by BJP MLA Mahesh Tenginakai. Tenginakai highlighted that the dole of Rs 2,000 had not been ...Read More >
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