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Pandya makes winning return with fiery knock
Allrounder Hardik Pandya announced his injury comeback in style, hitting a 42-ball unbeaten 77 to steer Baroda to a seven-wicket win over Punjab in Elite Group C of the T20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy tie in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Nari shakti to vikas: Focus must shift to women-led progress
Gender equality and women's empowerment is the organising idea for our brighter todays and our transformed tomorrows. In this age of acceleration, we cannot afford to wait another century to achieve gender parity. The cardinal concept of nari shakti (women's power) and of women as devis (goddesses), which is India's civilisational gift to the world, must now move from symbolic reverence to practical power and take our virasat (tradition) of respect for women into a vikas (development) pathway of women-led sustainable development.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
FM calls for closer global cooperation
Nations need to work closely to deal with challenges to economic governance arising from the digitalization of the economy, the emergence of new financial products, and evolving structures of beneficial ownership, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
LS agrees to break debate deadlock
The government and the Opposition on Tuesday agreed to discuss the ongoing SIR (Special Intensive Revision) of electoral rolls in the Lok Sabha next week, preceded by a debate to mark 150 years of \"Vande Mataram\", signalling a breakthrough after two days of disruptions in Parliament's winter session.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Day after arrest, man held for kidnapping Rubaiyaa released
A special court in Jammu on Tuesday set free Shafat Ahmad Shangloo, a day after he was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBD) in connection with the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiyya Sayeed, the daughter of the then Union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Shraddha reveals twins' faces: Our tiny tornadoes are one
Shraddha Arya, best known for her role in television show, Kundali Bhagya, embraced motherhood for the first time in 2024 following her marriage in November 2021. It was a double blessing for Shraddha and her husband, Indian Navy officer Rahul Nagal, as they welcomed twins — a baby boy and a baby girl.
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December 03, 2025
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Pak parliament passes non-Muslim rights bill
Pakistan parliament on Tuesday passed a landmark bill to protect the rights of non-Muslims and establish a dedicated commission for minorities.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Users can delete Sanchar app, govt clarifies after row
Jyotiraditya Scindia, the minister of communications, said on Tuesday that the Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity app, which a previous directive to mobile phone makers said must be preinstalled on phones, can be deleted by users if they so wish.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Centre blocks 87 illegal loan lending apps
The Union government has informed the Parliament that the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has blocked 87 illegal loan lending applications under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Securing cellphones
Controversy over cybersecurity app brings issues of cyber fraud and privacy to the fore
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Climate crisis to AI: Challenges facing the future of humanity
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations. While there are numerous challenges that the world is facing, including serious questions relating to the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as a multilateral institution, it will be useful to recall the words of Dag Hammarskjéld, former UN Secretary General, who poignantly observed about the UN in 1954, “...it was not meant to take mankind to heaven but to save humanity from hell...”.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Prada finalises buy of rival Versace for $1.4 bn
The Prada Group closed the purchase of Milan fashion rival Versace in a $1.375 billion cash deal that puts the fashion house known for its sexy silhouettes under the same roof as Prada’s “ugly chic” aesthetic and Miu Miu's youth-driven appeal.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Can delete Sanchar app, Centre clarifies amid row
Jyotiraditya Scindia, the minister of communications, said on Tuesday that the Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity app, which a previous directive to mobile phone makers said must be preinstalled on phones, can be deleted by users if they so wish.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Race to provide aid as Asia floods toll 1,350+
Governments and aid groups in Indonesia and Sri Lanka worked Tuesday to rush aid to hundreds of thousands stranded by deadly flooding that has killed more than 1,350 people in four countries.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
{ TRUMP’S INVEST AMERICA INITIATIVE } $6.25BN PHILANTHROPIC PLEDGE Michael and Susan Dell to put $250 in A/Cs of 25mn US kids
WASHINGTON: Michael Dell and his wife Susan Dell will deposit $250 each in the investment accounts of 25 million American children, in a $6.25 billion philanthropic pledge as part of the Trump administration's Invest America initiative.
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December 03, 2025
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{ DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS } POPULATION HAS SHRUNK FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS China adds tax to condoms to boost births
China will impose a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and devices — including condoms — for the first time in three decades, its latest bid to reverse plunging birth rates that threaten to further slow its economy.
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December 03, 2025
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Homegrown blueprints for countering terrorism
The blast at Red Fort that injured scores and killed at least 12 persons, brought back terrorism to Delhi, which, since 2011, has been spared of any major terrorist strike.
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December 03, 2025
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SC allows Kerala to ask EC for SIR deadline extn
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Kerala government to approach the Election Commission of India (ECI) for seeking an extension of the deadline for submission of enumeration forms under the ongoing SIR in view of the ongoing local body elections.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Divorced Muslim woman has right to return of dower, dowry, says SC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a Muslim woman, who has been divorced, is legally entitled to recover cash, gold and other articles given to her or her husband by her parents at the time of marriage, delivering a verdict aimed at strengthening the financial security and dignity of divorced Muslim women.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
SC underlines requirement for firms to disclose material info
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a $30 lakh penalty imposed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and two of its senior compliance officers for failing to promptly disclose information regarding Facebook's 2020 investment in Jio Platforms, emphasising that market integrity demands transparency from major corporate players.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
SC REFUSES URGENT HEARING OF PLEA ‘ON ATTACK ON BLOs' IN BENGAL
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the state government is capable of examining the allegations of attack on booth level officers (BLOs) in ‘West Bengal as it turned downa request for urgent hearing on this matter during the ongoing hearing on the validity of special intensive revision (SIR) in Bihar.
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December 03, 2025
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Months after teen killed by stalker, diary reveals sexual abuse by relative
{ MOTHER'S DISCOVERY
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December 03, 2025
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SEBI set to overhaul MF, disclosure, broker rules
Board to discuss new rules, update outdated ones at December 17 meeting
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Diary of girl killed by stalker details assault by a relative
Five months after a Delhi University student was allegedly Killed by a stalker, her mother has found a diary among her belonging in which the 18-year-old allegedly detailed how a relative had sexually harassed her for six years when she was a minor. Police have registered a case in Jahangirpuri, where they are residents, based on the mother's complaint.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Goldy threatens Lawrence over associate’s murder
Gangster Goldy Brar has accused his former ally Lawrence Bishnoi of orchestrating the murder of a close confidante and warned him of retribution, according to an audio clip that went viral on social media.
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December 03, 2025
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Reimagining transport policy to check pollution
Delhi and the larger NCR must adopt a forward-looking, data-driven strategy to reduce transport emissions
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Putin, Modi to talk trade, defence ties during meet
Measures to insulate India-Russia trade from sanctions imposed by the US, an offer on small modular reactors for nuclear energy and deepening of defence cooperation will be on the agenda for the summit between President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week, a key aide to the Russian leader said on Tuesday.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
GOVT TO LAUNCH COOPERATIVE RIDE-HAILING APP
The government will soon launch India's first ride-hail-ing app, ‘Bharat Taxi’, based on a cooperative business model, Union home and cooperation minister AmitShah told Lok Sabha in awritten response on Tuesday.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
Imran is alive, angry and mentally tortured: Sister
LAHORE: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan is alive but subjected to “mental torture in solitary confinement”, his sister Dr Uzma Khan said on Tuesday after meeting him at Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail, Press Trust of India reported.
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December 03, 2025
Hindustan Times Lucknow
OPENAI DECLARES CHATGPT ‘CODE RED' OVER STIFF COMPETITION
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a company-wide “code red” as its ChatGPT technology faces stiff competition from other big tech rivals, especially Google, US media reported.
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