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Court sends Luthras to five-day police custody
A Goa court on Wednesday remanded nightclub owners Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra - accused in the December 6 fire at their restaurant Birch by Romeo Lane that killed 25 people-to five days' police custody, rejecting their plea for a mattress on medical grounds.
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Google Pay eyes credit ecosystem beyond payments
Google Pay has been distributing personal loans on behalf of its lending partners for several years and has now expanded its product suite to include credit cards.
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Threat to judge: SC stays remission in kidnap case
The Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained the Haryana government and the Punjab and Haryana High Court from releasing on remission the convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for a 2008 kidnapping for ransom, after the victim, now a serving judge in Delhi, complained of persistent and escalating threats from the convicts and their associates.
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Cram school: The benefit factor in a chess league
For some GMs, the Global Chess League can also double up as an idea factory
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
UK STRIKES DEAL WITH EU TO REJOIN ERASMUS STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMME
Britain is to rejoin the European Union's popular Erasmus student exchange programme almost five years after leaving the scheme following Brexit, a joint UK-EU statement said on Wednesday.
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Know whereabouts of Nehru papers, says govt amid speculation
FOLLOWING THE CLARIFICATION BY THE CULTURE MINISTER, CONG LEADER JAIRAM RAMESH ASKED WHETHER THE GOVT WILL ISSUE AN APOLOGY
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
SUPREME COURT ASKS CBI TO TAKE FINAL CALL ON INDIABULLS PROBE
The Supreme Court ‘on Wednesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take a final call for probing the dubious financial transactions involving Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited (IHFL, now Sammaan Capital) even as the Delhi Police claimed it has already registered a criminal case in this regard.
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
India tops world body's doping numbers again
With 260 Adverse Analytical Findings (AAFs) from over 7000 samples tested by National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) in 2024, India remains in the top tier of the global doping charts, a recent report from World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) has revealed.
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
FROM REELS TO REAL QUEUES: GEN Z IS MAKING ART EXHIBITIONS COOL AGAIN
An ongoing exhibition has captured the imagination of youngsters in the Capital in a way few art shows have in recent memory.
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
64 KILLED IN 45 BUS FIRES IN LAST 3 YEARS: CENTRE
The Union government on Wednesday said that at least 64 people lost their lives in 45 incidents of bus fires during operation in the last three years (till December 10).
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Warner Bros investors told to shun Paramount
Warner Bros. is telling shareholders to reject a takeover bid from Paramount Skydance, saying that a rival bid from Netflix will be better for customers.
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
Gunman charged with 59 offences including murder
Australian authorities charged the surviving gunman in Sydney Hanukkah attack that killed 15 with 59 offences, including murder and terrorism, Bloomberg reported.
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
America-first compass for new security strategy
The US's new National Security Strategy signals a “hands-off” approach towards matters that are not of American interests. All tools will be used to ensure the US's primacy remains intact
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
'Alcoholic's personality': Trump backs chief of staff after explosive interview
Who is Susie Wiles?
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
NCERT Class 7 book links Arthashastra to modern infra, UPI
A new Class 7 NCERT social science textbook released recently, has linked India's modern economic achievements with ancient thoughts to highlight how ideas first articulated in Kautilya's Arthashastra, believed to have been written in the 4th century BCE, continue to resonate in contemporary policy making.
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times Delhi
MPs from across parties chosen for top parliamentarian awards
Members of Parliament from across parties were honoured at the Lokmat Parliamentary Awards 2025, held at the New Maharashtra Sadan in New Delhi on Wednesday, while parallel discussions at the Lokmat National Conclave focused on elections, constitutional institutions and governance challenges.
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December 18, 2025
Hindustan Times
New labour code likely to shrink pay hikes next year
India Inc. is expected to roll out an average increment of 8.5-9.5% in the upcoming appraisal cycle, as companies calculate the impact of the new labour code and almost-stagnant inflation.
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
Spouses’ refusal to accommodate is mutual cruelty: SC
THE TOP COURT DISSOLVED THE MARRIAGE OF A COUPLE WHO HAVE LIVED SEPARATELY SINCE 2001
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
TCS's $1 billion mega deal ends two-year dry spell
Ten-year Telefónica UK pact marks revenue push at the cost of margins
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
'Conspiracy of malicious intent has been foiled,' says Congress
Hours after a Delhi court refused to take cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s allegations of money laundering in the National Herald case, the party claimed that \"the conspiracy of malicious intent for political revenge\" has been foiled.
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
RailTel and Starlink in discussions for satellite internet
RailTel Corp., a state-owned telecom infrastructure and connectivity provider, is in talks with Elon Musk's Starlink to offer retail broadband services to its users in remote areas using satellite internet, according to two officials aware of the matter.
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
CM checks on drain desilting, Barapullah Ph-3 flyover work
Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday inspected desilting work at the Sunehri drain in south Delhi and reviewed progress of the Barapullah Phase-3 flyover, officials said.
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
RUSSIA LONG-TERM THREAT TO PEACE IN EURO-ATLANTIC AREA: EU LEADERS
Russia is the most significant, direct and long-term threat to security, peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and Lithuania said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
Vedanta's proposed split of its India ops closer after NCLT nod
The National Company Law Tribunal allowed Vedanta Ltd to go ahead with a proposed demerger of its India operations into five separate entities, marking a key milestone in billionaire Anil Agarwal's two-year efforts to simplify and list the mining conglomerate's businesses.
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
40 bullets fired, 2 dead in illegal arms trade dispute
Two brothers were shot dead in a hail of gunfire in northeast Delhi's Chauhan Bangar early Tuesday morning, in what police said was a killing carried out by their cousin over a dispute rooted in the illegal arms trade.
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
ICICI PRU AMC IPO SUBSCRIBED 39 TIMES ON FINAL DAY OF BIDDING
The initial public offering (IPO) of ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company Ltd, an arm of the ICICI Bank, received 39.17 times subscription on the final day of bidding on Tuesday, led by heavy demand from institutional buyers.
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
MP govt withdraws Land Pooling Act
The Madhya Pradesh government has cancelled the Land Pooling Act in Ujjain after the Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), along with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs, announced a protest against the amendment order issued on November 17.
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
LS passes Bill to increase FDI to 100% in insurance
Enhancing foreign direct investment limit to 100% will enable global insurance companies to inject substantial capital directly without waiting for domestic partners, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday as the House passed the insurance bill seeking to remove a cap foreign investments along with the introduction of over a dozen key sectoral reforms.
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
Oz gunman had H'bad roots, left India 27 yrs ago
'Father, son inspired by IS, travelled to Philippines in Nov'
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December 17, 2025
Hindustan Times
Delhi HC defers hearing on Apple plea against CCI penalty rule
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday deferred the hearing in Apple Inc.'s challenge to India's revised competition law provisions that allow penalties to be calculated on a company's global turnover, pushing the matter to January 27, 2026.
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