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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.
3 min |
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.
1 min |
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.
1 min |
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.
1 min |
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.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
WHEN ALL ABOARD ARE FLYING BLIND
THE IndiGo turbulence has again brought the issues of corporate governance and marquee boards into public discourse. This article, however, is not about the airline.
3 min |
December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
B’DESH ENVOY SUMMONED AMID WORRY OVER MISSION'S SECURITY
INDIA on Wednesday summoned Bangladesh's High Commissioner Riaz Hamidullah and lodged a strong protest over what it described as plans by extremist elements to create a security situation around the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
BEHIND BARS, BUT NOT BARRED FROM FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
Two Supreme Court judgements this year extended the rights of the disabled in prison. Such intervention is essential in a country where jail before trial or conviction is routine
4 min |
December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
14% drop in fire-related calls, decline in death toll this year
THE Delhi fire services have received more than 17,000 fire-related calls this year till November, around 14 per cent less than last year during the same corresponding period.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
NEW EDUCATION BILL: CENTRALISED AUTHORITY IN CONCURRENT SUBJECT
\"THE Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhikshan Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha and referred to a parliamentary committee, is being presented as a much-needed corrective to India's fragmented higher-education regulatory framework.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
SC tweaks Aug 12 order, allows only BS-IV and above vehicles
IN view of the worsening air quality in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Court on Wednesday modified its August 12 order that had stayed coercive action against diesel vehicles older than 10 and petrol vehicles older than 15 years.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
Maximum money for zero seat: Cong story in Delhi polls
OUT of ₹93.38 crore spent by the three major political parties BJP, Congress, AAP during the Delhi Assembly elections this February, the Congress incurred the maximum expenditure of 40.13 crore.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
Report flags China tapping US nuke data to aid military
CHINA is exploiting partnerships with US researchers funded by the Department of Energy to provide the Chinese military with access to sensitive nuclear technology and other innovations with economic and national security applications, according to a congressional report published on Wednesday.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
Oppn mounts attack on govt over G-Ram-G bill, says rights will be diluted
MOUNTING a sharp attack on the proposed legislation to replace MGNREGA, the Opposition parties on Wednesday accused the government of weakening the rights-based welfare scheme and for attempting to erase Mahatma Gandhi's legacy.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
Britain to rejoin EU's Erasmus student programme
BRITAIN will rejoin the European Union's flagship Erasmus student-exchange programme, it was announced on Wednesday, in a major step for efforts to reset the UK's post-Brexit relations with the 27-nation bloc.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
32 high-capacity machines to clean drains polluting Yamuna
IN a major push to clean the Yamuna, the Delhi government has approved the deployment of 32 high-capacity, modern cleaning machines to prevent untreated sludge, silt and solid waste from entering the river through the capital's drains.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
8 staff arrested for hiding strangulation death of minor boy in KISS school
IN a surprising twist to the suspicious death of the 14-year-old tribal student of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), police on Wednesday said the minor was strangulated by three fellow inmates in the hostel.
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December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
South Africa raids US-run refugee centre, arrests seven Kenyan staff
SOUTH African immigration authorities raided a United States refugee processing center in Johannesburg and seven Kenyans working there illegally were arrested and given deportation orders, South Africa's Home Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday, as the US called the action \"unacceptable.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
Relief as Canada changes rules for citizenship
A new Canadian law could bring relief to families, including many of Indian origin, living abroad.
1 min |
December 18, 2025
The Morning Standard
Putin signals tougher military action if Kyiv talks fail
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin warned on Wednesday that Moscow will seek to extend its gains in Ukraine if Kyiv and its Western allies reject the Kremlin's demands in peace talks.
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