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Hindustan Times Delhi
City's chill deepens: Minimum drops to 5.8 C, AQI stays 'poor'
NEW DELHI: Wintry conditions deepened in the Capital on Thursday, with dense fog and chilly northwesterly winds working in tandem causing the temperature to fall and extend the cold spell, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Asked to prove identity: South Goa MP flays SIR, poll official clarifies
PANAJI: South Goa Congress MP, Viriato Fernandes, a former Navy Officer, who joined politics after retirement, said he was issued a notice by the Election Commission of India, to submit documents to prove his “identity” in order to retain his name in the electoral roll.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
12 suspended Cong councillors join BJP
Hours after the Congress suspended its 12 newly-elected councillors in Maharashtra for forging a post-poll alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Ambernath municipal council, they joined the ruling BJP in the presence of state party chief Ravindra Chavan and minister Ganesh Naik.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
German envoy meets defence secy ahead of Merz’s visit
German ambassador Philipp Ackermann met defence secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh on Thursday to discuss the co-production of defence equipment ahead of a visit by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Review stalled criminal trials, SC directs HC CJs
The top court ruling came while dealing with a dowry death casein Rajasthan.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Malaysia Open: Satwik and Chirag, Sindhu secure quarter-final spots
Star shuttler PV Sindhu produced an impressive performance, defeating Japan's Tomoka Miyazaki to book her spot in the women's singles quarterfinals but India’s challenge ended in men's singles at the Malaysia Open here on Thursday.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
IF EVIDENCE WAS OMITTED, WON'T GO INTO OTHER ARGUMENTS: SC TO WANGCHUK
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday told jailed climate activist Sonam Wangchuk that if it is satisfied that the material that formed the basis for his detention was suppressed by the authorities, it may not need to examine other grounds challenging his arrest over violent protests in Ladakh last year, which claimed four people and injured several others.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
ROW AFTER TEST LISTS ‘RAM’ AS DOG NAME OPTIONS
MAHASAMUND: A multiple choice question on the name of a dog in an English test paper in government schools in Chhattisgarh’s Mahasamund district has triggered controversy and protests after ‘Ram’ was listed as one of the options.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
INDIA, CAMBODIA OFFICIALS MEET ON INDO-CHINA CYBER SLAVERY FARMS
Amid concerns over the rising trend of cybercriminals functioning from cyber slavery farms operational in Indochina countries, officials of India and Cambodia held a meeting on “areas of future cooperation and mutual interest” on the issue.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Delhi Traffic Police begin planning route, parking plans for AI summit
PARKING AREAS NEAR BHARAT MANDAPAM, AND ALTERNATE ROUTE FOR DELEGATES WERE DISCUSSED, OFFICIALS SAID
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
SC sets aside Andhra HC order, revives graft cases
CALLS RULING ‘TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE’
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
B'DESH CONFIRMS VISA SERVICES SUSPENDED IN SOME INDIAN CITIES
Bangladesh's interim government on Thursday said it has asked its key missions in India, including at New Delhi, to suspend visa services over security concerns.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
India’s economy likely grew 7.4% in 2025, UN report says
India’s economy is estimated to have grown 7.4% in calendar year 2025 and is expected to expand by 6.6% in 2026, supported by resilient consumption and strong public investment that should largely offset the adverse impact of higher US tariffs, according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2026 report by the United Nations’ department of economic and social affairs.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Business piles up as House witnesses 4th day of chaos
Even as legislative business continued to pile up, the Winter Session of the Delhi Assembly descended further into disarray on the fourth day, with nonstop sloganeering, MLAs rushing into the Well of the House and repeated adjournments leaving proceedings paralysed for much of the day.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
SHAH: INCREASE VIGILANCE IN J&K TO SUSTAIN GAINS AFTER ARTICLE 370
Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday urged all security agencies in Jammu & Kashmir to stay vigilant and work in close coordination to ensure that the gains made since the abrogation of Article 370 are sustained for a terror-free region.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
B’DESH SENDS ANOTHER LETTER TO ICC ASKING FOR VENUE CHANGE
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Thursday formally sent a second communication to the ICC, explaining the specific security concerns about travelling to India for the T20 World Cup while reiterating its demand for a change of venue to Sri Lanka.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Green warrior, a lasting conservation legacy
Pioneering ecologist Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil, whose seminal report on the protection of the Western Ghats in 2011 warned against the pillaging of the environment and whose bottom-up approach to conservation prioritised marginalised communities in the battle against the climate crisis, died after a brief illness in Pune on Wednesday night.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
PM: AI models should reflect Indian context
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a roundtable meeting with a dozen Indian artificial intelligence (AI) startups on Thursday, ahead of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 scheduled for next month, and emphasised the need to ensure that Indian AI models are ethical, unbiased, transparent, and based on data privacy principles.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
I-PAC chief's wife alleges theft during ED raids, files complaint
AN ED OFFICIAL SAID SEARCHES WERE LINKED TO AN INVESTIGATION OF AN ILLEGAL COAL MINE RACKET IN WEST BENGAL
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Learning from Singapore to realise Viksit Bharat
To many Indians, Singapore represents the ideal of what successful development looks like.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Pauri victim’s father demands CBI probe
The father of the 19-year-old Pauri receptionist, who was murdered in 2022, wrote to Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday, seeking a CBI probe into the allegations that a “VIP” was involved in the case and demanded the probe should be monitored by a Supreme Court judge
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
cheap fare trap: Gang ran private bus for 2 months solely to loot passengers
{ A TICKET TO GET ROBBED } THREE ARRESTED
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Sharjeel: Had left stir before violence began
{ 2020 DELHI RIOTS HEARING } ANTI-CAA PROTESTS
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
DIARY ON FAMILY’S DAILY LIFE FOUND AT TRIPLE MURDER HOUSE: POLICE
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police have recovered a diary containing detailed daily entries on the family’s activities, meals and finances from the Laxmi Nagar house where a 25-year-old man allegedly killed his mother, sister and younger brother earlier this week.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Nature’s spokesperson, a scientist of the people
Madhav Gadgil called his memoirs A Walk Up the Hill. It aptly summed up his life — bold, unconventional, swimming against the tide.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Oppn’s motion had ‘cavalier, casual’ approach: RS official
The secretary general of the Rajya Sabha, PC Mody, criticised the Opposition MPs’ notice seeking removal of Allahabad high court judge, justice Yashwant Varma, as displaying a “casual and cavalier approach” to an “extremely serious matter”, flagging multiple legal, procedural and factual infirmities that rendered the motion “not in order” and “non est” (does not exist), parliamentary communications submitted to the Supreme Court, and accessed by HT, show.
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January 09, 2026
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INT’L CONFERENCE ON BEST VOTING PRACTICES TO BE HELD FROM JAN 21
The Election Commission of India on Thursday held a conference of chief electoral officers (CEOs) at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM) in New Delhi as preparations intensified for the India International Conference on Democracy and Election Management (IICDEM) scheduled later this month.
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January 09, 2026
Hindustan Times
Ex-CIA agent convicted of spying for Soviets dies
Aldrich Ames, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy who was sentenced to life in prison for selling secrets to Moscow, costing the lives of a dozen double agents, died on Monday in custody, US authorities said.
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January 08, 2026
Hindustan Times
US seizes 2 oil tankers linked to Venezuela, will selectively lift sanctions on its trade
WASHINGTON: The US seized two sanctioned oil tankers linked to Venezuela in back-to-back actions in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea, officials said on Wednesday, and is removing sanctions to enable the shipping and sale of oil from the South American country to markets worldwide.
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January 08, 2026
Hindustan Times
ANIL AGARWAL'S SON AGNIVESH DIES IN U.S. HOSPITAL
NEW DELHI: Agnivesh Agarwal, the eldest son of mining billionaire Anil Agarwal, died in a hospital in the US. He was 49.
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