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Germany to pitch Nato Arctic mission to ease Greenland rift

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January 12, 2026

Germany will propose setting up a joint Nato mission to monitor and protect security interests in the Arctic region in a bid to ease tensions with the US over its threats to annex Greenland, according to two people familiar with the government’s thinking.

- Bloomberg

Nato’s “Baltic Sentry” mission —kicked off a year ago to shield critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea — could serve as blueprint for a new “Arctic Sentry” mission, which would include Greenland, said the people, who declined to be identified discussing confidential plans.

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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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{ 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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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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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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Mahadev founder seeks Interpol notice’s removal

Ravi Uppal, co-founder of Mahadev Online Book App, who fled from the UAE last year and is untraceable, has asked the Commission for the Control of Interpol's Files (CCF) to remove the red notice against him, people familiar with the matter said.

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January 13, 2026

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AI DIGITISATION OF VOTER ROLLS LED TO MISMATCHES: MAMATA TO CEC

Digitisation of the 2002 SIR database using AI tools has resulted in large-scale mismatches, with several genuine voters categorised as “logical discrepancies”, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee told Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar ina letter on Monday.

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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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Designing trade policy for a brave new world

If the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of a new wave of globalisation, 2025 perhaps marked the end of that wave.

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January 13, 2026

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SC stays reinstatement of MP judge sacked for misbehaviour

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the reinstatement of'a Madhya Pradesh judge who was dismissed from service in 2019 for allegedly misbehaving with a woman co-passenger ina train while in an inebriated state, with the top court describing the case as “shocking”, “disgusting” and observing that “nothing less than termination” was warranted in such circumstances.

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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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