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SC to examine challenge to CEC, ECs’ prosecution shield
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine a constitutional challenge to the law granting blanket permanent immunity from any criminal prosecution to the chief election commissioner (CEC) and election commissioners for any of their acts or decisions in discharge of their official duty even as it refused to stay the law.
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January 13, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Modi raises Ariha Shah issue during discussions with Merz
Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the issue of Ariha Shah, a five-year-old Indian girl placed in the care of German child services following allegations of abuse against her parents, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday and sought a speedy resolution of the matter.
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January 13, 2026
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Delhi HC denies lawyer protection from arrest
ACCUSED OF RAPE
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January 13, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
What's inside Golden Globes' ₹9 crore gift bag?
The Golden Globes 2026 gift bag was pure Hollywood fantasy, worth nearly $1 million (approx ₹9 crore).
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January 13, 2026
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META URGES OZ GOVT TO RETHINK SOCIAL MEDIA BAN FOR UNDER-16s
SYDNEY: Tech giant Meta urged Australia on Monday to rethink its world-first social media ban for under-I6s, while reporting that it has blocked more than 544,000 accounts under the new law.
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January 13, 2026
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Ready for war, says Iran as Prez Trump looks at strong options
US President Donald Trump said Iran govt wants to negotiate as activists said that the death toll in protests has gone up to 648
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January 13, 2026
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7 HELD IN PUNJAB AAP SARPANCH MURDER CASE
Punjab Police on Monday arrested seven people, including the two shooters, in connection with the January 4 murder of AAP-affiliated sarpanch Jarmal Singh of Valtoha village.
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January 13, 2026
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SIR notices to Nobel laureate, former Navy chief system-generated: Officials
Election Commission of India’s (ECI) notices issued to several public figures, including former navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash (retd), Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, and Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami, under the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls are “system-generated” and triggered by data inputs in the enumeration forms, poll panel officials have said.
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January 13, 2026
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Delhi panel approves proposal to reconstruct Assam Bhawan
The Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC) has approved the New Delhi Municipal Council's (NDMC) proposal for the demolition and reconstruction of Assam Bhawan on Sardar Patel Marg, and directed several changes related to parking, solar panels and art installation.
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January 13, 2026
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Plan to cut NCR pollution by 15-20% by 2027: Centre
UNION MINISTER MEETS CM } NEW ‘SOURCE’ STUDY LAUNCHED
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January 13, 2026
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Winter spectacle: Over 20K birds spotted amid local threats in city
{ OKHLA, SURAJPUR WETLANDS
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January 13, 2026
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Gzb man kills friend in hotel, stays overnight with her body
A 40-year-old man was arrested in Ghaziabad for allegedly murdering his 35-year-old female friend inside a hotel room after a violent argument and then spending the night in the room with her body, police said on Monday.
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January 13, 2026
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GREENLAND GOVT SAYS NO TO U.S. TAKEOVER 'UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE'
Greenland’s government on Monday said it could not accept a US takeover of the Arctic island under “any circumstance”, after US President Donald Trump said that the United States would take the territory “one way or the other”.
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January 13, 2026
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'I make it a point to visit a gurdwara and light a bonfire on Lohri'
For former Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu, Lohri is a festival of “gratitude, warmth, and staying close to my roots”.
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January 13, 2026
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PSLV-C62 deviates from flight path after anomaly
Isro’s PSLV-C62 rocket carrying 16 satellites, including a foreign Earth Observation payload, failed to place them in the intended orbit after encountering an “anomaly” in the critical third stage of the launch on Monday.
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January 13, 2026
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POLAVARAM LINK PROJECT: SUPREME COURT DISPOSES T’GANA’S PETITION
The Supreme Court on Monday termed as “prima facie not maintainable” the writ petition filed by the Telangana government seeking to restrain ‘Andhra Pradesh and its agencies from proceeding with preparatory and project-related activities for the Polavaram-Banaka-cherla/Nallamalasagar Link Project (PBLP/PNLP), observing that the dispute was more appropriately adjudicated through a suit involving all affected states.
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January 13, 2026
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{ DIVERSITY & INCLUSION } Mattel adds ‘autistic Barbie’ to its doll line
WASHINGTON: Mattel has unveiled an autistic Barbie, the toy giant's latest offering aimed at allowing a broader range of children “to see themselves” in the iconic plastic doll.
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January 13, 2026
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26 booked for abetment, cheating
{ U'KHAND FARMER SUICIDE } %4-CR FAKE LAND DEAL
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January 13, 2026
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MINISTRY STATES NSG ACT RULES, LAYS DOWN CRITERIA FOR FEDERATIONS
Announcing a tiered eligibility criteria for the inclusion of Sportspersons of Outstanding Merit (SOM) in national federations, the sports ministry on Monday notified the rules for the implementation of the National Sports Governance Act.
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January 13, 2026
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Will not set aside stay on probe on Wankhede: HC
The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to set aside the Central Administrative Tribunal’s (CAT) order staying the departmental inquiry against Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Sameer Wankhede arising from allegations against him in connection with the 2021 Cordelia cruise raid.
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January 13, 2026
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Direct tax receipts climb up by 4.14%
Gross direct tax collections in the current financial year up to January 11 have seen a 4.14% annualised growth to about ₹21.5 lakh crore, driven by higher corporate tax revenues, according to the government data released on Monday.
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January 13, 2026
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SC ASKS K’TAKA TO HOLD B’LURU CIVIC POLLS BY JUNE 30
The Supreme Court on Monday fixed June 30 as the outer limit for completing elections to Bengaluru’s local bodies, directing the Karnataka government to adhere to a strict and non-extendable schedule for the long-pending civic polls.
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January 13, 2026
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Why courts need to be compassionate to strays
It is quite the irony that while Aloka— the Indian stray dog adopted by a band of Buddhists monks —is being cheered worldwide for walking thousands of miles in the US alongside the monks in their march for global peace, his counterparts in India are being subjected to cruelty by the very institutions that should protect them.
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January 13, 2026
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India in an ‘orderless world’ after collapse of post-WW2 system: MP
Congress MP Manish Tewari on Monday warned that the collapse of the post-World War II global order had pushed India into an “orderless world” where preserving strategic autonomy and internal cohesion will be the country’s biggest challenge, as he laid out the arguments of his new book A World Adrift.
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January 13, 2026
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Gurugram shivers at 0.6°C; coldest in nearly 5 decades
Residents of Gurugram awoke to a piercing and historic cold on Monday morning as the city's temperature plunged to a near-freezing 0.6 degrees Celsius (°C) - a low unmatched in nearly 50 years and one that made the city colder than several popular Himalayan hill stations.
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January 13, 2026
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4-YEAR-OLD GIRL, MISSING FOR 3 DAYS, FOUND DROWNED IN NW DELHI DRAIN
A four-year-old girl, who had been missing from her home for three days, was found drowned ina drain in northwest Delhi's Vidyapati Nagar on Monday.
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January 13, 2026
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ICC report sees no direct threat for B’desh in India
Any chance of the International Cricket Council (ICC) accepting Bangladesh's request to shift its T20 World Cup matches out of India to co-host Sri Lanka seemed to diminish on Monday.
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January 13, 2026
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I-PAC raids: ED moves SC seeking CBI probe against CM, top cops
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, the state’s director general of police and the Kolkata police commissioner, accusing them of obstructing a lawful money laundering probe, forcibly snatching digital devices and documents, and wrongfully confining ED officers during search operations at political consultancy firm I-PAC last week.
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January 13, 2026
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SOLAR PROJECTS IN ENDANGERED BIRDS' HABITATS GRANTED ADDITIONAL TIME
NEW DELHI: India’s clean energy ministry on Monday granted renewable energy developers extra time to commission projects delayed by a Supreme Court case on power transmission lines in habitats of the endangered Great Indian Bustard.
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January 13, 2026
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{ MAHARANI KAMSUNDARI DEVI } Last Maharani of erstwhile Darbhanga Raj dies at 93
Maharani Kamsundari Devi, the last surviving Maharani of the erstwhile Darbhanga Raj and widow of Maharajadhiraja Sir Kameshwar Singh, died in the early hours of Monday at Kalyani Niwas in Darbhanga.
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