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No Nehru papers missing from Teen Murti: Govt
IN a twist to the political sparring over “missing” papers of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the Union government on Friday told the Lok Sabha that no documents linked to Nehru were found to be missing from the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML) during its annual inspection.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
NCLT approves Vedanta’s demerger plan
Clearing Way
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Corbett leads tiger census with 550 cameras
INDIA launched its national Tiger Census on Sunday.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
AQI improves to 'very poor', fog to stay this week
AFTER three consecutive days in the 'severe' category, Delhi's air quality showed a marked improvement on Tuesday, with the average Air Quality Index (AQI) dropping to 354, placing it in the 'very poor' category.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Mathura fog tragedy: 13 dead, 43 hurt in Yamuna Expressway pile-up
ATLEAST thirteen people died of burns and 43 others sustained injuries after a massive vehicle pileup in dense fog on the Yamuna Expressway early Tuesday turned into an inferno, a police official said.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Andhra Waqf Board land bank swells to 81K acres
THE Andhra Pradesh Waqf Board (APWB) has added nearly 15,000 acres to its land bank, taking the total to 81,000 acres, following verification and extensive digitisation of records.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
A GAP BETWEEN LIFE & LOUDSPEAKER
A few months ago, the Election Commission issued me my first voter identity card.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Insurance Bill passed in LS; 100% FDI now a reality
THE Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws)
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Two brothers shot dead in NE Delhi over personal enmity
TWO brothers were shot dead early Tuesday allegedly by their cousin and his two associates in northeast Delhi's Jafrabad area, police said.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
DDA launches housing scheme for govt employees, offers discounts
THE Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has announced the launch of the DDA Karmayogi Awaas Yojana 2025, a special housing scheme for serving and retired employees of central and state governments, public sector undertakings, public sector banks, local bodies, autonomous bodies, and government universities.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
New project to strengthen NDMC's decentralised waste management plan
THE New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will be implementing a new initiative on waste management which will focus on creating decentralised solutions for wet waste processing, while also strengthening source segregation practices.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Revanth urges Sitharaman to exempt borrowings for state edu development
CHIEF Minister A Revanth Reddy has urged Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to exempt borrowings for education development in the state, including the construction of Young India Integrated Residential Schools (YIIRS), from the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) limits.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
China Eastern Airlines to start Delhi route, plans flying to Kolkata, Mum
DUE to robust demand for flights between China and India, China Eastern Airlines on Tuesday announced the commencement of daily nonstop flights between New Delhiand Shanghai from January 2, 2026.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Court directs DGCA to respond to pilot body's contempt plea on flight duty norms
THE Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought response of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on a plea by the Indian Pilots Guild seeking contempt action against authorities for allegedly not fully implementing the new flight duty time limitation norms approved by the court earlier this year.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Minister’s letter of resignation should come to me, not CM: Guv
WEST Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose said on Tuesday that he was yet to receive official correspondence from the Mamata government about Arup Biswas' regisnation.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Trump files $10 billion defamation suit against BBC
US President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a television documentary he claims was \"false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Large pvt firms ready to enter nuclear sector
Reliance, Adani Group, Tata Power and L&T likely among the early entrants as govt clears path for private sector
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
New edu bill doesn’t affect autonomy or powers of institutions, states: Pradhan
EDUCATION Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday stressed that the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adishtan Bill 2025 would neither impact the autonomy of institutions nor clip the powers of states in any way.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Luthra brothers misled authorities, say police
THEY had applied for anticipatory bail before a Delhi court, via their counsel, from Thailand.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
34 Maoists with total bounty of ₹84L surrender
A total of 34 Maoist cadres, carrying a cumulative award of ₹84 lakh, surrendered in an edgy district of Bijapur, about 400 km south of Raipur, on Tuesday.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
'Zero tolerance on terror': EAM to Israel minister
EXTERNAL Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday strongly condemned the terror attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach and said that India and Israel share a policy of “zero tolerance” towards terrorism.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Sebi board likely to clear 11 proposals, including revamp of mutual fund fees
THE board of the capital markets regulator — The Securities and Exchange Board of India — is likely to consider as many as 11 regulatory proposals, covering major overhauls of broker regulations, mutual fund expense structure, administration of exchanges and the introduction of a closing-auction session among others.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
EU envoys narrow gaps on frozen Russian assets plan
EUROPEAN Union envoys worked on Tuesday to narrow gaps on a plan to use billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets as collateral for a massive loan to cover Ukraine's economic and military needs over the next two years, ahead of a crunch summit of EU leaders later this week.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
City gears up to host over 5k global leaders, alumni at PAN IIT Summit
PAN IIT, the apex body representing alumni of all Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), on Tuesday announced the PAN IIT Global Leadership Summit 2026 (PAN IIT GLS 2026), scheduled for June 20-21, 2026, at the Yashobhoomi Convention Centre in New Delhi.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
AICC to decide candidates, plan campaign in '26 polls
Will directly monitor disbursal of poll funds to candidates in Kerala
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
4 thalassemic kids tested HIV+ in Satna district after blood transfusion
MAJOR negligence in blood transfusion has reportedly led to at least four Thalassemia affected children testing HIV-positive in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Bengal sports minister resigns over Messi mess
Considered close to CM, Arup Biswas to continue as power minister
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
‘Sustaining high growth gets harder as the base expands’
The '47 target of India becoming developed banks on nominal growth and exchange rates, says CEA V A Nageswaran at the 30th edition of Delhi Dialogues
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
Hikaru’s unusual route to Candidates
HIKARU Nakamura has had a pretty interesting month or so.
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December 17, 2025
The Morning Standard
India-China trade via Himachal from next June after MEA nod
WITH the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) granting political clearance to the Himachal government, the Indo-China border barter-based trade via the Land Customs Station (LCS) Namgia-Shipkila through the Shipki La strategic pass is set to resume from June next year after a six-year gap.
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