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Vodafone Idea arm raises ₹3,300 cr through NCDs
TELECOM service provider Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Thursday announced it has raised ₹3,300 crore through issuance of unlisted, unrated, secured nonconvertible debentures (NCDs) by its subsidiary Vodafone Idea Telecom Infrastructure (VITIL).
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
FM tables Securities Markets Code Bill in LS
FINANCE Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Securities Markets Code (SMC) Bill in Lok Sabha on Thursday.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
SHO booked for bribe demand to pursue probe
THE Delhi Police has booked a station house officer (SHO) for demanding bribe to pursue an investigation in case, an official said on Thursday.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
FDI cap not only deterrent for foreign investments in insurance sector
DESPITE the government's push to allow 100% foreign investments in insurance sector through the Insurance Bill, 2025, experts caution that foreign capital may not flow in easily unless longstanding concerns around governance control, residency norms and regulatory hurdles are addressed.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Names of 16L MGNREGS workers out
ABOUT a month before the Centre introduced the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), official data shows that more than 16.3 lakh workers were removed from the scheme rolls in the preceding 36 days.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
W. Leavitt debuts in All for Love
ONE of the breakout stars of Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Whitney Leavitt will make her feature debut in All for Love, in which she will also serve as executive producer.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Top court to speak with parents before deciding on euthanasia of youth
THE Supreme Court on Thursday clarified that before taking any decision on a plea seeking passive euthanasia for a 32-year-old man who has remained in a vegetative state for the past 12 years, it wishes to meet his parents in person.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
People peeved, BJP MLAs urge CM to roll back salary hike
MOUNTING public backlash and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's displeasure over the threefold hike in legislators' salary and perks is likely to force a rollback of the decision.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Chouhan tears into Oppn over din in LS, calls 'conduct' by INDIA MPs a blot
UNION Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday flayed the Congress and other INDIA bloc parties for disrupting the Lok Sabha during the introduction of the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Probe into Odisha student death ordered
TROUBLE mounted for the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) after the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) ordered a detailed investigation into the alleged murder of a Class IX tribal student, while the Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) accused doctor of a private medical college of furnishing an incorrect death report.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
RCPL takes over TN food brand Udhaiyams
RELIANCE Consumer Products Ltd (RCPL), FMCG arm of Reliance Industries, on Thursday said it has acquired a majority stake in Tamil Nadu-based Udhaiyams Agro Foods.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
RESTORE INNER BALANCE
The invisible acid overload behind fatigue, weight gain, migraines, and lifestyle disease
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Mangesh gains Crore strength
From playing with mom in backyard to being bought by RCB for ₹5.20 cr: All-rounder's tale
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
OUSTED PM Oli re-elected as CPN-UML chairman for third term
OUSTED Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli was on Thursday elected as the CPN-UML's chairman for the third consecutive term with a two-thirds majority.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Beijing wakes up to rare 'very unhealthy' smog
DESPITE YEARS OF CLEAN -UP
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
15 declared ‘foreigners’, told to leave in 24 hours
Lodged at Goalpara dist camp, Nagaon cops to execute expulsion
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
SatChi win again to edge closer to knockouts
SATWIKSAIRAJ Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty maintained their winning touch and are now in pole position to enter the last-four stage of the ongoing BWF World Tour Finals in Hangzhou, China.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
U’khand youth forced to join Russia war, dies
A 30-year-old Uttarakhand man, who went to Russia on a student visa for higher studies, died after he was allegedly forced to join the Russian army for Ukraine war.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
ELOQUENT SILENCE OF CONSTITUTIONS
LUDWIG Wittgenstein famously concluded his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with the injunction: \"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.\"
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
Aggarwal sells more stake in Ola Electric
BHAVISH AGGARWAL, founder of Ola Electric Mobility, sold shares in his company for the third consecutive day on Thursday.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
CCI will launch probe into IndiGo for 'abusing its dominant position'
THE Competition Commission of India (CCI), a regulatory body under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, will probe the practices of India's largest domestic airline, IndiGo, to assess whether it has abused its dominant position in the aviation sector.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
HIV+ person falls under PwD category: HC
THE Delhi HC has held that an HIV positive person falls within the definition of \"person with disability\" and is entitled to protection against discrimination in employment.
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December 19, 2025
The Morning Standard
PLAYING IT BY EAR
French guitarist Yarol Poupaud made his Delhi debut this week, bringing to the stage material he has developed with Rajasthani folk musicians. He talks to TMS about life on the road, his band that defined French rock music, and why he will always be a performer.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
Lok Sabha clears nuclear bill amid Oppn walkout
THE Lok Sabha on Wednesday cleared the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill to open up the nuclear sector for private players.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
TELANGANA'S VISION 2047 MUST ENRICH ALL CITIZENS
THE Vision 2047 document unveiled on the final day of the Telangana Rising summit lays out a transformative blueprint for the state's future. Coinciding with the Congress government's two-year anniversary in office, the event broke the mould of conventional investment gatherings by focusing less on chasing capital and more on setting the wheels of economic metamorphosis in motion.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
Construction workers to get ₹10K aid
AMID worsening air quality and the enforcement of GRAP III and IV restrictions, the Delhi government on Wednesday announced a ₹10,000 assistance for construction workers affected by the ban on construction activities, while also mandating a maximum of 50% physical attendance in all government and private offices from Thursday.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
Munir in pickle as Don wants Pak troops in Gaza
PAKISTAN'S most powerful military chief in decades is facing a critical test of his newly consolidated authority as the US is pressing it to contribute troops to a proposed international stabilisation force in Gaza, a move analysts say could trigger strong domestic backlash, Reuters reported.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
Gunman in Bondi attack charged with 59 offences
Families gathered in Sydney as funerals began for the victims of the Beach massacre
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
Key accused in kabaddi player’s killing held in city
TWO days after a 30-year-old kabaddi player, Kanwar Digvijay Singh alias Rana Balachauria, was killed, the mastermind of the murder, Aishdeep Singh, was nabbed from Delhi's IGIA.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
HC pulls up govt for failing to regulate sale, transfer of used vehicles
THE Delhi High Court on Wednesday castigated the city government for its failure to regulate the sale and transfer of used vehicles, while stressing that a secondhand car was used to trigger the Red Fort blast on November 10.
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