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The Morning Standard
I will Not Shut Up... I'll Convince You'
Shefali Shah speaks with Puja Talwar about the latest season of Delhi Crime, and why playing a lead role in her early 50s is important to her
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December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
ASI plans more antiquities at Purana Qila collection
THE Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is working on an expansion plan for the country’s first Gallery of Confiscated and Retrieved Antiquities, established at Purana Qila in 2019.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
THE REPUBLIC, CAREFULLY EDITED
IN India, everything begins-and often ends with the name.
3 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
MP 1st state to have 2 metro services in a yr
MADHYA Pradesh’s Bhopal ended its long wait for the operationalisation of the metro rail project on Saturday evening with the flagging off of the first metro train on the approximately 7-km long and eight-station strong priority corridor.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
NEW BALANCE AS GILL DROPPED, KISHAN IN
IT was a story of two players.
2 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
BSNL blaze disrupts emergency services
A major fire broke out on the second floor of the seven-storey BSNL telephone exchange building on Anna Salai on Saturday, disrupting telecommunication services and affecting emergency helplines.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
A 13-year-old inventor blends science and history to create tornado detectors, eco-friendly batteries, and wound management solutions
3 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
5 convicted in '16 Bulandshahr gang-rape case
NEARLY a decade after a horrific crime of gang-rape and dacoity shook the nation, a Bulandshahr court convicted all the five accused in the case on Saturday.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Chest of Wonders
Pettagam is India's first private museum that is a nod to the endearing legacy of Chettinad jewellery
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
No formal complaint yet, say police in passenger’s assault at airport; AIX pilot removed
A passenger has alleged that he was physically assaulted by an off-duty Air India Express pilot at a security checkpoint in Delhi airport’s Terminal 1.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
A WHALE OF A DECISION
Girija Prasad Doley has turned fish farming into a sustainable livelihood model. Starting with borrowed money and a single pond, today he runs a project spanning pisciculture, agriculture and horticulture, says Prasanta Mazumdar
3 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
The Table Story
With the festive season in full swing, get your hosting game on point with the right tableware and serveware
2 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
22 weather stations in 'severe' zone, first cold wave day in city
DELHI continued to grapple with severe air pollution and dense fog on Saturday as well, with more than half of the city’s air quality monitoring stations recording alarming levels.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Urban Company receives ₹56 cr GST demand notice
URBAN Company Limited (formerly UrbanClap) has received a GST demand of over ₹56 crore, according to a regulatory filing made by the company to the stock exchanges on Saturday.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
US launches large-scale strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria
THE Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to “eliminate” Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two US troops and an American civilian interpreter almost a week ago.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
PMO plans to revamp PhD programmes, def research
AIMED at transforming the country’s doctoral research ecosystem and leveraging defence technology for civilian applications, the Prime Minister’s Office has issued directives to secretaries to reexamine selection of guides for doctoral degree and start the commercialisation of defence sector innovations, sources said on Saturday.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Malayalam actor, screenwriter and filmmaker Sreenivasan passes away
VETERAN Malayalam actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker Sreenivasan passed away on Saturday at the Tripunithura Taluk Hospital in Kochi.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Chelsea fight back to earn a point vs N’castle
CHELSEA saved Enzo Maresca from more awkward questions as they fought back from two goals down to rescue a 2-2 draw against Newcastle on Saturday.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Not Everything Beautiful Should be Possessed
There are two things I remember distinctively in my great grandmother’s house—a red oxide floor, gleaming like water, cool and unmarred by tile-style boundaries, and a squawking parakeet in a cage next to the kitchen.
2 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Zia’s condition more stable now: Doctor
BANGLADESH’S former prime minister Khaleda Zia is now “more stable”, with no deterioration in her condition, her personal doctor AZM Zahid Hossain has said.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
A Monumental Stage
At dusk, the Ellora Caves shift from monument to moment.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
AgustaWestland sentence term done, Christian Michel released in ED case
A Delhi court on Saturday ordered the release of Christian Michel James in a money laundering case linked to the alleged %3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam, noting that he has already spent the maximum seven-year jail term prescribed for the offence.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
SHANTI BILL OPENS DOOR FOR PVT PLAYERS IN NUCLEAR SECTOR
IN a bid to achieve clean energy goals and a target of 100 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2047, Parliament has just approved a Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill, 2025 (SHANTI Bill).
6 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Speeding Rajdhani mows down herd of seven elephants in Assam district
THE Sairang-New Delhi Rajdhani Express rammed into a herd of wild elephants in Assam in the early hours of Saturday, killing seven and injuring a calf in Assam’s Hojai district early Saturday.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Lt Col posted at defence ministry held for bribery
THE CBI on Saturday arrested Lt Col Deepak Kumar Sharma, a senior officer in the defence ministry, in a bribery case, the agency said.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Love, drugs and a chilling murder rock Gujarat town
INa plot straight out of acrime thriller, a minor girl allegedly drugged her father and orchestrated his killing with the help of her lover and his friend in Gujarat’s Vadodara district.
2 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Guv defends Nitish action in hijab row, doctor fails to report back at work
CONTRARY to the expectations, Ayush doctor Dr Nursat Parveen, who hit the national headlines after Bihar CM Nitish Kumar pulled down her hijab (veil) at an official function in Patna last week, did not join her job on Saturday.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Govt bulldozed MGNREGA, says Sonia Gandhi
ACCUSING the Narendra Modi government of bulldozing the MGNREGA, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday asserted that the party would fight against the “black law” that seeks to repeal the job guarantee scheme.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
No hosp transport, father forced to carry deceased child home in a bag
FAMILY members were forced to carry the body of their four-month-old child in a plastic bag after Jharkhand’s Chaibasa Sadar Hospital allegedly failed to provide transportation facilities after the infant boy’s death.
1 min |
December 21, 2025
The Morning Standard
Maha setback to MVA as Cong says will go it alone in BMC elections
IN a huge blow to Maha Vikas Aghadi, the Congress on Saturday announced to contest the Asia’s largest civic body — the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on its own.
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