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Mumbai: The recent exemption of retail health insurance from the goods and services tax regime has helped reduce premiums. But that alone is not enough to drive growth as the industry continues to battle issues such as high medical inflation, inadequate coverage, differentiated healthcare and claims experience, insurers said in a panel discussion at Mint's BFSI Conclave 2025. "The premiums have come down by 18%. Does it mean that everyone is going to take insurance? No, that's not going to happ ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17: Lok Sabha, on Wednesday, passed the nuclear energy bill with Union minister Jitendra Singh asserting that it would help India achieve its target of 100 GW atomic energy generation by 2047. The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, which seeks to open the tightly-controlled civil nuclear sector for private participation, was passed by voice vote amid a walkout by the Opposition. Singh termed the bill a "milestone legisl ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: Another former official of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) was arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Wednesday in connection with the Sabarimala gold theft case. The SIT took into custody former administrative officer Sreekumar, during whose tenure gold from the Dwarapalaka sculptures was removed from the temple and later returned in 2019. His arrest followed the High Court's rejection of his anticipatory bail plea, after which he was questioned at the SIT ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): The Vande Bharat Express connecting Punjab's Ferozpur and Delhi will now stop at Barnala, Minister of State for Railways, Ravneet Singh Bittu announced on Wednesday. The Centre agreed to the demand raised by AAP MP Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer and local BJP leaders, adding a Vande Bharat stop in Barnala. "There is good news for Barnala. There was demand because the Vande Bharat train did not stop in Barnala. Even our BJP leaders and MP Meet Hayer told me to co ...Read More >
JAMMU, Dec 17: The Government of Jammu and Kashmir has constituted a high-level enquiry committee to probe the selection process of the J&K football team for participation in the 79th National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy 2025. As per Government Order No. 50-JK(YSS) of 2025 dated December 17 , the enquiry committee will examine the entire selection procedure to ascertain the factual position in a time-bound manner. The committee will be headed by Director General, Youth Services an ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 17: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed human rights activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad Maoist links case, to shift to his hometown in Delhi. The court, however, said that he will have to appear before the special NIA court for trial hearings as and when required. Weekly Police Appearance And Travel Restrictions A bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Shyam Chandak also directed Navlakha to appear every Saturday before the local police station in Delhi ...Read More >
Bhiwandi: Trade unions and workers' organisations staged a strong protest in Bhiwandi against the four labour codes introduced by the Centre and implemented by the state government, terming them "anti-worker" and a direct attack on hard-earned labour rights. CITU-Led Demonstration at Anand Dighe Chowk The protest was organised at late Anand Dighe Chowk under the leadership of Comrade Sunil Chavan, president of the CITU-affiliated Lal Bavta Powerloom Warper and Unorganised Workers' Organisation ...Read More >
Malavalli: President Droupadi Murmu has lauded JSS Mahavidyapeetha for being one of the prestigious educational institutions of the country and Suttur Mutt for making constant efforts for development in the fields of religion, health and economy. The President was addressing the gathering after formally inaugurating the six-day 1066th Jayanti celebrations of Adi Jagadguru of Suttur Mutt Sri Shivarathri Shivayogi Swamiji, at Shanti College grounds in the town yesterday. President Murmu said, th ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Rajasthan's team of Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Darshna Rathore delivered a steady performance to secure a gold medal in the Senior Skeet Mixed Team event at the 68th National Shooting Championship here at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range on Tuesday. They narrowly defeated Uttar Pradesh 45-43 in a tense gold medal showdown. Asian Champion Anantjeet and Darshna worked well together, with Anantjeet scoring 21 targets and Darshna 24, to beat the Uttar Pradesh te ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has attached two immovable properties of an accused involved in transnational human trafficking and cyber frauds, officials said on Wednesday. One flat in Maharashtra's Thane and a piece of land in Bihar's Siwan purchased by the wanted accused, Anand Kumar Singh, in his wife's name using money earned illegally from human trafficking activities have been attached, a statement issued by the NIA said. Singh, a Cambodia-based Indian n ...Read More >
Mandya: Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H.D. Kumaraswamy and Agriculture and Mandya District Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy, the friends turned foes, shared the dais yesterday. However, the political bête noires, though seated next to each other, during the ceremonial photo-shoot with the President, during the inauguration of 1066th Jayanti celebrations of Adi Jagadguru of Suttur Mutt Sri Shivarathri Shivayogi Swamiji, chose to remain unfazed. They neither exchanged pleasantries nor ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major political development ahead of the early 2027 Assembly polls in Punjab, the Union government on Wednesday approved the stoppage of the Ferozepur-Delhi Vande Bharat Express in Barnala town, benefiting at least six districts that fall in the politically sensitive Malwa region. The stoppage will mainly benefit commuters of Barnala, Mansa, Malerkotla and Sangrur districts. Justifying the decision, Minister of State for Railways Ravneet Singh Bittu said ...Read More >
Lucknow, Dec 17 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday inspected preparations at the Rashtra Prena Sthal site, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 25. The site is dedicated to national icons Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. During his visit, Adityanath reviewed arrangements related to the inauguration programme, including parking and security, and issued necessary dir ...Read More >
Panaji, Dec 17 (PTI) A court in North Goa on Wednesday remanded Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra, co-owners of the 'Birch by Romeo Lane' nightclub, in police custody for five days. The brothers, who were brought to Goa from Delhi earlier in the day after being deported from Thailand in connection with the December 6 fire incident that killed 25 persons, were produced in the court after undergoing health check-ups twice at the District Hospital in North Goa. Judicial Magistrate First Class Mapusa Puja ...Read More >
Guwahati, Dec 17 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday handed over ex gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to the next of kin of 21 labourers from the state who were killed in a road accident in Arunachal Pradesh. A truck carrying 22 workers from Tinsukia district fell off a cliff on Hayuliang-Chaglagam Road in Anjaw district in the eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh on the night of December 8. All the victims were from Dhelaghat in Gillapukri Tea Estate. "Standing with families duri ...Read More >
Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh): Leopard sighting in Mayur Colony in Sanjit Naka -- Residents were panic gripped when a leopard entered an under-construction house on Wednesday morning. Acting swiftly, locals blocked the entrance gate of the house in which the leopard entered to prevent it from escaping. Locals informed the police control room and forest department. The forest department and police teams reached the spot and launched a coordinated rescue operation to rescue the leopard. The leopard ...Read More >
Delhi Pollution: BJP's Neoma Gupta Defends Govt As CM Rekha Gupta Faces 'AQI' Chants At Messi Event Sonal Mehrotra Kapoor anchors this special report on Delhi's severe air pollution crisis as the Air Quality Index (AQI) remains in the 'very poor' category. The coverage details the implementation of strict new measures, including the 'No PUC, No Fuel' policy, which denies fuel to any vehicle lacking a valid Pollution Under Control certificate, a rule enforced with cameras at petrol pumps. The re ...Read More >
Guwahati: Amid the row over anti-India rhetoric in Bangladesh, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma reminded that India was a nuclear power. In a video shared from the Assam CM's X handle, Sarma is being heard saying in Hindi: "Since the past one year, it is being discussed that northeast be separated from India and made a part of Bangladesh. But, India is a big country, it is a nuclear nation, fourth largest economy in the world. How will Bangladesh do this? It is wrong for them to even th ...Read More >
Srinagar- The Indian Army on Wednesday inducted tanks and artillery guns into the Kashmir Valley through a Military Special Train, marking a major logistics milestone and a significant boost to operational readiness along the northern borders. The Army, in a post on X, said that the induction was carried out as part of a validation exercise, during which tanks, artillery guns and dozers were successfully moved from the Jammu region to Anantnag, demonstrating enhanced mobility and logistics capa ...Read More >
Panaji (Goa) [India], December 17 (ANI): MH-60R helicopters were used during Operation Sindoor, and they "did what they were supposed to do," Indian Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi said on Wednesday, following the commissioning of the second squadron to operate the helicopter. Speaking exclusively with ANI about the operations of MH-60R, the Indian Navy Chief said, "Operation Sindoor is still on. Therefore, any operational details about the performance of platforms are not in order. Suffic ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 17 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee will address a mega meeting of the party's booth-level agents (BLAs) here on Monday to chart its voter-list strategy for the second phase of the SIR, with over 58 lakh names struck off the state's draft electoral rolls, party sources said. Amid mounting political unease over the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the meeting scheduled at Netaji Indoor Stadium here is aimed at strengthening the ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Dec 17 (PTI) More than 85 per cent of eligible voters exercised their franchise in the final phase of gram panchayat elections in Telangana on Wednesday, the SEC said. The elections were held peacefully, and counting of votes was underway, officials said. Of the 50,56,344 eligible voters, 43,37,024 cast their votes, recording a turnout of 85.77 per cent, the State Election Commission said. Polling was conducted in 3,752 gram panchayats for 28,410 ward member seats. "The elections ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 17 (PTI) The Maharashtra Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to expand the scope of a government resolution to cover prevention and removal of encroachments at state-protected monuments on lines of similar action taken against illegal structures at forts. The proposal was cleared at the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. The scope of an earlier government resolution (GR) dated January 20, related to removal of encroachments at forts, has been expanded ...Read More >
Srinagar: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah hit out at his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar, calling his act of removing the veil of a Muslim woman in full public glare 'shameful', saying this incident shows Kumar's real face, who was once seen as a secular leader. He, however, blamed the former chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti for setting the precedent of lifting the burqa of a woman in elections. "We have seen such incidents earlier as well here. During my ele ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) A Bill replacing the 20-year-old MNREGA and seeking to guarantee rural jobs for 125 days every year came up for discussion in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, with Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan asserting that the measure will not only ensure employment but also fulfil Mahatma Gandhi's dream of making villages self-reliant. Moving the Bill for consideration and passage, Chouhan, the Union Rural Development Minister, said the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevi ...Read More >
New Delhi: Faced with the pollution crisis in Delhi, state Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Wednesday said his government was mulling radical solutions like a car pooling policy and the repairing of potholes across the national capital at a "war footing", measures that will likely have cascading impacts on residents and commuters. Speaking at a press conference in the Secretariat for the second consecutive day, Sirsa, while sharing details of the government's plans to tackle the cu ...Read More >
Malavalli: Even as the verbal duel between Mandya District in-Charge Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy and Union Minister for Steel and Heavy Industries H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK), who represents Mandya Constituency in the Lok Sabha, over establishment of Industries in Mandya continues, N. Cheluvarayaswamy has asked H.D. Kumaraswamy to apply to KIADB (Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board) for allotment of land, mentioning the area required. Speaking to press persons at Travellers Bungalow in Mal ...Read More >
LUCKNOW: Following the Yamuna Expressway accident, which claimed 13 lives in the Mathura stretch, UP CM Yogi Adityanath reviewed expressway safety with NHAI and state highway officials on Wednesday. He ordered stricter measures to avert any such incident in future under foggy conditions. CM directed the authorities concerned to increase patrolling, field inspections, deployment of teams at all black spots, installation of reflectors, and 24×7 availability of cranes and ambulances on expressway ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: Telangana Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar on Wednesday dismissed the disqualification petitions filed against five of the 10 BRS MLAs, who had allegedly switched over to the ruling Congress. Describing the Speaker's decision as a "cruel joke" in democracy, BRS working president KT Rama Rao said they would challenge it in the court of law. The Speaker had earlier issued notices to 10 MLAs as petitions were filed against them by the opposition party. Eight among the 10 MLAs had submitted ...Read More >
Agra: Thirteen people were charred to death and more than 100 suffered injuries in a deadly pile-up involving 18-19 vehicles - including eight passenger buses, cars and SUVs - on the Yamuna Expressway in UP's Mathura district early Tuesday.The accident was reported around 3.40am near milestone 127 under Baldeo police station. Sources said a car and a bus first collided, and as these two vehicles stopped on the road, others coming from the Agra side and heading towards Noida started piling up one ...Read More >
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