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Nadda: Nehru 'neglected' Vande Mataram
STRIKING a combative tone towards the Congress in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Union Health Minister JP Nadda accused first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of showing \"indifference and neglect\" towards Vande Mataram in the Constituent Assembly.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Rahul says no satisfactory reply on poll reforms
A day after the fierce face-off in Lok Sabha during a debate on 'electoral reforms', Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday claimed that Union Home Minister Amit Shah failed to give satisfactory answers to his queries and appeared to be 'under pressure'.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
IOC THUMBS UP 2028 Oly hockey qualification system approved
THE International Olympic Committee (IOC) has approved the qualification system for the women’s and men’s hockey events at the 2028 Los Angeles Games, the sport’s governing body FIH announced.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Washington under emergency as torrential rain triggers floods, fear
Governor says catastrophic flooding is likely, sends hundreds of troops to affected areas
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Smokes fly thick and fast as Thakur says Didi MPs vaping in complex
THE Lok Sabha witnessed uproar on Thursday after BJP MP Anurag Thakur accused an unnamed Trinamool Congress member of smoking an e-cigarette in the Lok Sabha premises.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
VIKSIT WOMEN FOR A VIKSIT BHARAT
WHEN the Government of India released a report titled Children in India 2025, one statistic stood out quietly but powerfully: at the secondary school level, girls are now marginally ahead of boys in enrolment.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
HC gives 3 days for Salman Khan rights protection
THE Delhi HC on Thursday directed several social media intermediaries to act within three days on actor Salman Khan’s complaint alleging unauthorised commercial use of his name, image, persona and AI-generated likeness.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Hamas proposes pause of armament; Israel reads it total arms freeze
ISRAEL said on Thursday Hamas \"will be disarmed\" as part of the US-sponsored peace plan for Gaza, after a top leader from the Palestinian Islamist movement suggested a weapons freeze.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Diary entries of Patel's daughter: A gift to Rajnath from Jairam
CONGRESS leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday handed Rajnath Singh a copy of the diary entries written by Vallabhbhai Patel's daughter, saying the records contained no reference supporting Singh's claim that Jawaharlal Nehru intended to rebuild the Babri Masjid with public funds.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
HIGH VALUATION DEAL PUTS OFF BROADCASTERS
THE International Cricket Council (ICC) and one of its broadcast partners, JioStar, continues to battle headwinds as the partners try to renegotiate the inflated $3bn deal for the right to show the sport’s biggest international events over a four-year cycle.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Former ISI chief gets 14 years in jail
PAKISTAN'S former spy chief Faiz Hameed was on Thursday sentenced to 14 years in jail by a military court, which found him guilty on multiple charges, including violating the Official Secrets Act and engaging in political activities.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Bonded by blood & sport: Tale of Azman sisters
WHEN Aira Azman played Australia’s Jessica Turnbull in the Squash World Cup, Aifa, her sister, was her loudest supporter in an otherwise quiet centre court at the Indian Squash Academy on Thursday.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Charging network, compact e-vans in EV policy 2.0 draft
THE Rekha Gupta-led Delhi government has prepared the draft of EV Policy 2.0 and is likely to release it after a high-level meeting on Friday.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
PASSAGE TO DUBAI: A GEOECONOMIC ARTERY OF INFLUENCE
India-UAE trade is booming. More Indian firms are using the West Asian country's duty-free zones as a launchpad to go global. People-to-people links remain strong as ever
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Citizen certs to 35 Hindus migrated from B’desh: Majhi
CHIEF Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Thursday issued Indian citizenship certificates to 35 refugees who had migrated from neighbouring countries and settled in Nabarangpur district.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Once a Maoist hotbed, olympics begins in Bastar
CHHATTISGARH Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Thursday inaugurated the three-day division-level annual Bastar Olympics at the Indira Priyadarshini Stadium in Jagdalpur, where athletes from the seven districts of the Bastar division presented an impressive march-past.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
CHILLING READS: THE BEST OF HORROR
AFTER watching The Ring at Rex Theatre in Ben-galuru, my friends and I were so terrified that we decided to sleep in the same room.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Time magazine anoints ‘Architects of AI’ as person of the year
THE \"Architects of AI\" were named
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Manchester City edge Real, Arsenal maintain perfect record
ERLING Haaland scored his 34th goal for club and country this season to give Manchester City a 2-1 win at Real Madrid on Wednesday as Arsenal maintained their perfect group stage record with a 3-0 victory at Club Brugge.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Falling rupee to make consumer goods costly
White good makers who depend on imported compressors, controllers are staring at input cost rise; auto industry also mulls price hike
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Fake IAS officer arrested after multi-state fraud exposed in Gorakhpur
A high-profile impostor who posed as an IAS officer for nearly three years was arrested in Gorakhpur on Tuesday, police said.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
THERE WILL BE PAINTING IN DARK TIMES
Aban Raza’s new canvases at a Delhi gallery recalls various geographies of struggle — from MKSS activism, the Maruti stir to Shaheen Bagh. They foreground the politics of assembly, but also the unglamorous intervals.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Finalise V-C candidates: SC to panel
Justice (retd) Sudhanshu Dhulia committee told to submit report in sealed cover by Dec 17
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
India accuses Pak of trade transit terror
AT a United Nations Security Council session on Wednesday, India's Ambassador, P Harish Parvathaneni, criticised actions he described as \"trade and transit terrorism\" in an oblique reference to Pakistan and urged the international community to uphold economic rights and security for Afghanistan, a landlocked nation.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
FIFA WC 2026: Amul to sponsor Argentina again
AMUL, the world’s largest dairy cooperative and India’s leading food brand, has extended its partnership with the Argentina Football Association (AFA) for another season, continuing as the Official Regional Sponsor of the reigning FIFA World Cup champions.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Cong leadership steps in to defuse Punjab situation
THE Congress high command has stepped in to defuse the political crisis triggered by former Punjab MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu's cash-for-CM post remark, with party leader Rahul Gandhi calling a meeting with AICC general secretary in-charge of Punjab affairs Bhupesh Baghel and other leaders later this week to discuss it.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Najafgarh drain to be 57-km highway
Govt to develop elevated road, two service roads on both banks in ₹454 cr revamp project
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
In a 1st, Bihar to conduct panchayat polls through EVMs, not ballot papers
FOR the first time, Bihar is set to conduct panchayat elections next year through electronic voting machines (EVMs), in a shift from traditional ballot papers.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Interim bail for Umar Khalid in 2020 riots case
A Delhi court on Thursday granted interim bail to former JNU scholar Umar Khalid, an accused in the alleged conspiracy behind the 2020 Delhi riots, allowing him to attend his sister's wedding later this month.
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December 12, 2025
The Morning Standard
Four arrested for trying to circulate demonetised currency worth ₹3.59 cr
THE Delhi Police has busted a racket and arrested four men for allegedly attempting to circulate invalid demonetised currency worth ₹3.59 crore.
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