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Don launches ‘Gold Card’ for US citizenship wannabes
US President Donald Trump announced the launch of a million-dollar 'Gold Card' offering a pathway for immigrants to US citizenship, saying that it is a 'shame' that students from India and China have to go back to home countries.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
KIIT-KISS, FIVB Launch 'Kanya Kiran' Women's Volleyball Empowerment Initiative
The Kanya Kiran Women's Volleyball Empowerment Initiative, being billed as the 'Volleyball Mahakumbh', a joint programme by KIIT-KISS and the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), began today here.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
T'gana sees dip in cybercrime losses: Minister
IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu said a comprehensive roadmap for strengthening the state’s digital security architecture has been included in the ‘Telangana Rising Vision-2047’ document.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Bangladesh to hold its first election after mass uprising on February 12
BANGLADESH will hold national elections on February 12, 2026, the country's Election Commission announced Thursday, marking the country's first tryst with democratic renewal since last year's student-led uprising that toppled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and forced her into exile.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
100 booked, 40 detained as farm stir against ethanol unit steps up in Raj
FORTY people, including a Congress leader, were detained and over 100 others booked in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh district on Thursday, a day after a clash broke out between farmers and police during a protest over the construction of an ethanol factory in the district.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
India faces $131-bn deficit with 6 FTA partners
AS India is aggressively pursuing free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with several countries and regions, the country has a combined trade deficit of more than $131 billion with six of the 11 regions it is actively involved in negotiations, revealed the data from the Ministry of Commerce.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
IMPEACHMENT NOT THE RIGHT TOOL FOR JUDICIAL DISAGREEMENT
THROUGH an impeachment notice in the Lok Sabha against a high court judge over what essentially was a judicial disagreement in Tamil Nadu, the opposition INDIA bloc weaponised a sparingly-used constitutional tool to serve political ends.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Govt prohibits repeated road excavation
THE Delhi government on Thursday announced strict measures to curb pollution, directing all civic and utility agencies to follow a common framework and avoid repeated road digging.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Rangeela was a celebration of life'
HIRTY years may have passed, but the girl who danced into our hearts as Mili still lights up the screen with the same magnetic glow.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Ghazni era, southern and eastern dynasties in focus in NCERT Class VII book
THE Class VII Social Science Studies textbook (Part-2) released recently by the National Council of Educational Research and Technology (NCERT) places significant emphasis on the brutal regime of Mahmud of Ghazni.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Austria parliament approves ban on headscarves in schools
AUSTRIAN lawmakers on Thursday voted by a large majority in favour of a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under 14, a move rights groups and experts say is discriminatory and could deepen societal division.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Special accounts, tax incentives for corp bond investment: NITI Aayog
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
SC considers assisted death option for 31-year-old in vegetative state for 13 yrs
NOTING that the court cannot allow a 31-year-old man with 100 per cent disability, quadriplegia, and in a vegetative state for 13 years to continue suffering, the SC on Thursday directed AIIMS to constitute a secondary medical board to examine his condition and submit a report on whether life-sustaining treatment can be withdrawn under passive euthanasia.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
ACCESS FOR DISABLED MUST COVER ALL SPACES
HE Supreme Court's December 2 judgement on ensuring full accessibility for persons with disabilities inside prisons is far more than a routine legal directive.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Over 600 British Empire artefacts stolen from museum, say police
MORE than 600 items from a collection documenting the links between Britain and countries in the former British Empire were stolen from a UK museum in September, police said Thursday.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Maha debt moves up from ₹7.8L cr to 9.3L cr this year
WITH continuous high-interest borrowing and the tabling of over additional ₹75,000 crore supplementary demands in the ongoing Maharashtra Assembly, the cumulative debt burden of Maharashtra is projected to go up from ₹7.82 lakh crore in 2024-25 to ₹9.32 lakh crore by the end of the current financial year.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Fire dept issues strict safety advisory to hotels & clubs
THE Delhi Fire Services (DFS) on Thursday issued a comprehensive fire safety advisory for the upcoming festive season, directing all owners and occupiers of restaurants, hotels and clubs to strictly comply with evacuation plans, maintain clear exits and escape routes, keep their Fire Safety Certificates (FSC) valid, and ensure all firefighting equipment is fully functional.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Houseboat mishaps spark safety concerns in Kerala's tourism hubs
A series of houseboat accidents across Alappuzha and Kottayam districts has triggered concerns over tourist safety and exposed serious regulatory lapses in Kerala’s iconic backwater tourism sector.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Naidu okays ₹30K cr crucial projects
THE Andhra Pradesh Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu at the Secretariat on Thursday, approved a sweeping set of proposals across urban development, industries, energy, tourism, infrastructure and welfare sectors.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Nobel laureate says US helped her leave Venezuela
NOBEL Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado said on Thursday that the United States helped her get to Norway from hiding in Venezuela, expressing support for US military action against her country and vowing to return home.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Third time is the charm for defender Sharda
EVEN today, Ganga Prasad Tiwari, at 60, does not hesitate from taking up a part-time job of driving a private vehicle at night or working as a guard with a gun in his hands during weddings.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
City’s 13 districts become a reality Charging network, compact e-vans in EV policy 2.0 draft
With two extra districts, six sub-divisions, revenue and municipal boundaries align perfectly
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
EC pulls up officials for not setting up booths in pvt housing societies
Directs Bengal CEO to take action against DMs over delay in sending polling station proposals
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
SC asks Centre to amend disability law to include victims forced to have acid
THE Supreme Court, on Thursday, termed the accused in acidattack-related crimes as “threat to the society, civilians and even rule of law” and said that they needed to be curtailed with stringent measures.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Modi's 3-nation tour to Oman, Jordan & Ethiopia soon, trade deal expected
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a three-nation tour from December 15 to 18, with stops in Jordan, Ethiopia and Oman, a visit aimed at deepening India's strategic footprint across West Asia and Africa and sealing a major free trade agreement with Oman.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
₹ hits fresh low of 90.47/$; closes 0.4% down at 90.36
THE rupee, which has been the worst performing currency in Asia this year, has hit a fresh record low of 90.47 against dollar on Thursday, breaching 90-mark for second time within 10 days.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
MCD plans major push for new learning workbooks and digital classrooms
THE Municipal Corporation of Delhi's education department is planning to allocate a major share of the upcoming year’s budget towards introducing printed Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN)-based workbooks for primary classes, an official aware of the matter said.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Equity fund inflows surge 21% in Nov; SIPs fall marginally
AFTER several months of tepid inflows, investor interest in equity mutual funds saw a strong revival, pumping 21% more money into those schemes, pushing the industry’s assets under management closer to ₹81 lakh crore in November.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
AAP alleges MCD contractors dumping debris at landfill sites to siphon off funds
THE Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday alleged that contractors are siphoning off crores from the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) by dumping construction debris, instead of municipal waste, at landfill sites.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
42K bottles of foreign booze worth ₹10 cr seized in 'Theka Wine Shop'
A Haryana Police and excise department team raided a liquor shop in Gurugram and found 42,000 bottles of foreign alcohol allegedly smuggled into India, estimated to be worth ₹10 crore in the black market.
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