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The Morning Standard
Rupee slumps to 90-mark; falls 5.35% against dollar in 2025
RUPEE continues to depreciate as it breach psychologically sensitive 90-mark during the day’s trade before closing at 89.87 on Tuesday
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
3rd indigenous N-sub to be commissioned soon
INDIA is preparing to strengthen the naval arm of its nuclear triad, with Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi announcing on Tuesday that the third indigenous nuclear-powered submarine, INS Aridaman, is in “final stages of trials” and “will be commissioned soon”.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Trade licence to merge with property tax
MCD has fixed trade licence fee at 15% of applicable property tax in a major boost to ease of doing business
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Siddu, DKS send ball to Delhi court
K’taka CM hints opinions of Sonia & Rahul will guide the decision for change in top post
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
RBI retains SBI, HDFC, ICICI as D-SIBs in '25
THE RBI has retained State Bank of India, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank — the nation’s largest three lenders — in the 2025 list of domestic systemically important banks (D-SIBs) or too-big-to-fail-lenders — a classification that demands core higher capital allocation in according with their risk-weighted assets.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Putin visit to spur trade, mobility, defence relations
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin's visit to India on December 4-5, his first in four years, will anchor a renewed push to accelerate India-Russia economic cooperation with a series of deals spanning trade, health care, mobility, media and economic cooperation set to be signed.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Counting for bypolls in 12 MCD wards today, arrangements in place
AS the counting of votes for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) bypolls is scheduled on Wednesday, the State Election Commission (SEC) has put in place all necessary arrangements at all counting stations.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
NOVEMBER A BLIP ON GST TREND, CONSIDER SIN TAX ON JUNK FOOD
GOODS and services tax collections are a good barometer of the Indian economy. It is also the foundation of the government’s capital expenditure.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Jansen is going to be elite all-rounder: Kallis
ON Sunday night, Marco Jansen almost took South Africa across the line against India, smashing a 39-ball 70 in the chase of 350. His knock comes after a stellar show in the Test series where India were handed a 0-2 defeat by South Africa for the first time in 25 years. For someone who was a net bowler when Virat Kohli’s Test team visited South Africa in 2018, Jansen has made a meteoric rise as an all-rounder this year.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
AN OPENING TO BRIDGE THE GULF
“Wars are not fought with weapons, but with knowledge and understanding.” —Ferdowsi, Persian poet and writer
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Naidu unveils initiatives to make AP clean energy hub
CHIEF Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has unveiled a series of initiatives aimed at transforming the State into a hub for clean and efficient energy. Chairing a review meeting on the power sector at the State Secretariat on Tuesday, the Chief Minister emphasised renewable energy expansion, cost reduction, and consumer participation in electricity generation.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
State to launch two FIFA-AIFF academies
THE state government is set to unveil key sports collaborations at the Telangana Rising Global Summit at Bharat Future City on December 8 and 9, including two major football academies — India’s first Women’s FIFA-AIFF Football Academy in Telangana, only the second such centre in the world after Hong Kong, along with India’s second Men’s FIFA-AIFF Football Academy.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Israel says ‘findings’ handed over from Gaza are being tested as possible hostage remains
West Bank violence claims two, homes torn down
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
RETURN OF THE NATIVES IN MANIPUR
Rehabilitation of the displaced will be the first step towards a lasting peace. Casting aside the state's foisted binaries, all communities need to share their traumas to move past them
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Kremlin says S-400s, Su-57 high on agenda
INDIA and Russia must “be very careful in creating an architecture to secure our trade that brings mutual benefit,” Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, setting the tone for President Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to New Delhi beginning Thursday.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Student murder: Sexual abuse claims in letter
FIVE months after the murder of an 18-year-old Delhi University student, a letter from her possessions has brought to light serious allegations of prolonged sexual abuse by her cousin, prompting Delhi Police to register a fresh case under charges of rape, POCSO and criminal intimidation, an official said.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Reforms help DDA garner nearly ₹1.5K cr in plot e-auction: Officials
REFORMS initiated by Lt Governor V K Saxena have led to a major boost in the Delhi Development Authority’s revenues, with its latest round of e-auction of plots fetching over twice the reserve price, officials said on Tuesday.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Prada Group folds Versace into its fashion empire
$1.37 BILLION COUTURE DEAL
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Imran Khan ‘healthy but tortured’ in jail, says sister
PAKISTAN’s former prime minister Imran Khan’s health is “perfectly fine” but he is being subjected to “mental torture in solitary confinement”, his sister Dr Uzma Khan said on Tuesday after meeting him at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
THE LOSS OF AFRICA
THANKS to mankind, some of the planet’s biggest assets have slid over to the liabilities column. Scientists have found that between 2010 and 2017, African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Parliament Street protest: Court grants bail to 8 arrested over scuffle with cops
A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to eight protesters arrested in connection with a scuffle with police outside the Parliament Street Police Station.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Another rape complaint filed against Kerala Cong MLA
ANOTHER woman has accused Congress MLA Rahul Mamkoothathil, who is absconding after being booked for rape, of sexual assault.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Apollo plans to add 4,500 more beds in coming years: Suneeta Reddy
APOLLO Hospitals Enterprise Ltd (AHEL), the Chennai-based healthcare major, said it has identified the need to strengthen its presence in northern India and plans to add 4,500 beds over the next few years, taking its current capacity of 9,000 beds to 13,500. In an interaction with TNIE, Managing Director Suneeta Reddy said the group has reviewed its network and drawn up a focused strategy to build out its footprint in high-demand markets.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Can intruders be given red carpet welcome, SC asks on Rohingyas
ALSO IN TOP COURT
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
‘Disaster ready’ drive starts to prep schools for emergencies
THE Delhi government, in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), has launched the “Disaster-Ready Schools Campaign”.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
Farmers launch ‘Hug the Trees’ stir to save Devadari forests from mining
TO protect over 1,000 acres of forest land in Devadari Hills from mining activities, farmers from Narasingapura and Ranjithapura villages of Sandur taluk of Ballari district have been staging their own ‘Appiko Chaluvali’ (Hug the Trees) protest for the last one month.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
RESCUERS RACE AGAINST TIME AS TOLL CROSSES 1,300
EMERGENCY crews raced to reach survivors and recover more bodies Tuesday as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides surged past 1,300 in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, with nearly 900 people missing.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
City’s min temp to fall by 2-3 degrees Celsius in next 3 days
THE India Meteorological Department on Tuesday stated that the minimum temperature in the capital is likely to fall by about 2-3 degrees Celsius during the next three days. Additionally, cold wave conditions are expected to be witnessed in certain areas of Delhi on December 5.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
BSF goes hi-tech in Jammu to stop infiltration
THE Border Security Force (BSF) is installing Al-based anti-tunnelling technology in the Jammu sector to curb infiltration from across the border.
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December 03, 2025
The Morning Standard
‘Prolonged jail will make caricature of justice system’
DELHI Riots accused, and student activist Gulfisha Fatima told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that her prolonged incarceration—nearly six years without a trial—makes a “caricature of our criminal justice system” and amounts to “pretrial punishment”.
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