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Nepali PM KP Sharma Oli defends signing Belt and Road Initiative agreement with China, claims there is no loan agreement

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Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli reiterated that no loan agreement has been made with northern neighbour China while signing the revised Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) pact.
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Indore: Samir Qureshi arrested over charges of love jihad, found to have 4 Aadhaar Cards including in Hindu name, photos of Hindu girls in...

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He was reportedly getting direction from Pakistan and Muslim countries to indulge in love jihad with Hindu girls.
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Muhammad becomes the most popular name given to baby boys in the UK for 2023, Mohammed and Mohammad also in top 100

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Top 100 most popular names for baby boys in the UK was released recently, and it shows that the most popular first name is Muhammad
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News Reports

PM Modi sends a high-level delegation to Vatican to witness ordination of Kerala’s Monsignor George Jacob Koovakad as cardinal by the Pope

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PM Narendra Modi is sending a high-level Indian delegation to participate in the ordination of Monsignor George Jacob Koovakad as a cardinal by the Pope in Vatican
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Gujarat: Kutch Police arrests a gang of 12 people looting businessmen by posing as ED officials

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Kutch Police came into action after the businessman filed a complaint. The police said that the gang included individuals from Ahmedabad, Gandhidham, and Bhuj, and was targeting key businessmen. 
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Devendra Fadnavis takes oath as new CM of Maharashtra with deputy CMs Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar

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Ending the long-drawn suspense over who would get the top job, Fadnavis, Shinde, and Pawar met Governor CP Radhakrishnan to stake their claim to form the Mahayuti government on Wednesday.
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AAP shares doctored video showing actor Pankaj Tripathi campaigning against BJP ahead of Delhi elections, deletes after slammed by netizens

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In the video shared by AAP, it is clear that on the phone held by Pankaj Tripathi, an image saying 'Vote for BJP' on a saffron background and with BJP logo was superimposed on the original video
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News Reports

Telangana: Locals raise Rs 3.75 crore to restore 1000-year-old Shiva temple after govt officials repeatedly deny their requests

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According to locals, couples who wish to have children are granted their wish after visiting the temple.
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News Reports

Children found living in toilets in Chhattisgarh’s residential school for tribals, minister angry over ‘allowing camera’

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A team led by the Assistant Commissioner Tribal Development Branch has been dispatched to probe the matter.
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News Reports

Kerala BJP Vice President criticises Assam govt for banning beef in public places, claims beef comes from buffaloes and bulls, not cows

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BJP Kerala Vice President Major Ravi took a jibe at the Assam CM for the beef ban in public places saying that beef is not cow
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Former IAS Anil Swarup publishes flawed analysis comparing GDP per capita with personal wealth, Sucheta Dalal amplifies the same, deletes post after backlash

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The flawed ‘analysis’ by Anil Swarup was amplified by veteran business journalist Sucheta Dalal who in an X post published on 4th December said, “Some perspective for those wearing saffron tinted glasses. Try thinking when you cheer a govt that kills faith in institutions/regulators (SEBI), makes it hard to reclaim your own money (@authorityiepf @socialepfo @RBI), extracts 18% GST on essentials!”
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As Muhammad Yunus and his govt accuse India of spreading propaganda, read how the interim govt is encouraging violence against Hindus in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh interim govt led by Md Yunus has been hell-bent on targeting India instead of controlling the anti-Hindu violence in the country.
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Crime

Bihar: Inspector Balal Khan demands sexual favors from a woman in need of help, threatens to send her to jail, video viral

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Patori Police DSP BK Medhavi meanwhile took cognizance of the event and said that a detailed investigation into the case would be conducted. She said that the office was unaware of the incident until the video appeared on social media.
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News Reports

BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi raises the issue of OCCRP targeting India in parliament, chairman Dhankhar says we can’t allow deep state to make us...

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As the opposition parties are stalling the parliament over an US court’s indictment of the Adani group, BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi in Rajya Sabha raise the matter of foreign govt funded organisations like OCCRP repeatedly targeting India
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Chhattisgarh HC commutes death sentence of man convicted of rape and murder of 7-year-old girl, says ‘convict belongs to backward community, reformation can’t be...

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hhattisgarh High Court overturned a man's death sentence for kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and murdering a seven-year-old child saying he can be reformed as he is from backward community
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‘Samajwadi Party MP Zia Ur Rehman Barq himself was driving the Scorpio that killed a man’: On victim family’s complain, Sambhal SP launches probe

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The deceased victim's father, Samar Pal, stated on Tuesday that the vehicle that hit his son had the "Samajwadi Party MP" symbol. Pal claimed that Zia ur Rehman Barq was driving this vehicle. He further alleged that the police did not probe Gaurav’s case properly.
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News Reports

Brian Thompson, CEO of USA’s biggest health insurance company UnitedHealth assasinated outside New York hotel

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The deceased had been staying at The Luxury Collection Hotel Manhattan Midtown, a Marriott facility on 54th Street. The police stated that the gunman arrived at the scene around five minutes before Thompson arrived outside the Hilton.
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Editor's picks

Sambhal temple-mosque dispute: Advocate Commission to submit survey report in sealed envelope by 8th December

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Advocate Commissioner Ramesh Singh Raghav said that the report is being prepared, it will be submitted in a sealed envelope in the court before time.
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Delhi police arrest AAP MLA Naresh Balyan in MCOCA case after he was granted bail in extortion case

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Delhi police on Wednesday arrested Delhi police in MCOCA case after he was granted bail in extortion case by the Rouse Avenue court.
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Reserve Bank of India raises UPI Lite wallet limit from ₹2,000 to ₹5,000, per transaction limit increased to ₹1,000

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The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday revised the wallet limit for the UPI Lite from Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000.
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Afghanistan: Taliban bans women from training to become midwives and nurses in latest diktat amid deteriorating health crisis

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In its latest dictate against women, the Taliban govt in Afghanistan has banned women from pursuing courses to become midwives and nurses
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Assam govt extends beef ban to hotels, restaurants and all other public places

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The Assam government on Wednesday expanded beef ban in the state, and imposed a ban on service beef in hotels, restaurants, public functions and other public places
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Two Moradabad jail officials suspended for allowing Samajwadi Party leaders to meet Sambhal violence accused

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The SP delegation, which included former Parliament member ST Hasan, Nawab Jaan Khan, and Chaudhary Samarpal Singh, visited the Moradabad jail to meet Sambhal violence accused
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News Reports

JeM chief Masood Azhar cites ‘dream’ by Taliban’s Haqqani to rally support for jihad in Kashmir, Haqqani dismisses it saying ‘no knowledge of any...

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Afghan Taliban's Sirajuddin Haqqani categorically denied having shared any 'dream' with Masood Azhar after latter's sensational claims made during a public event.
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Economy and Finance

Google to set up its fifth Safety Engineering Centre in Hyderabad, signs agreement with Telangana government

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Technology giant Google is all set to establish a Safety Engineering Centre (GSEC) in Hyderabad soon, which will be second in Asia and fifth one globally
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Sambhal violence: 33 accused have been sent to jail, 400 identified, says DM Rajendra Pensiya

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Sambhal Superintendent of Police (SP) KK Bishnoi reassured that the situation in the area is currently peaceful.
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Delhi HC dismisses PIL against Navjot Sidhu for saying that Ayurvedic diet helped his wife in recovering from stage-4 cancer, says nobody forced to...

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The Delhi High Court dismissed a PIL challenging the claims of Navjot Singh Sidhu that his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu recovered from stage 4 cancer with the help of an Ayurvedic diet plan
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2002 Mumbai Serial Blasts convict Saquib Nachan approaches Supreme Court against government declaring ISIS as terrorist organization

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Saquib Nachan was arrested in 2023 following his release from jail in 2017 after he was allegedly "disciplined."
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World

School bullies sneak into ICU to mock 12-year-old victim they pushed to hang herself, share photos

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Later in the year, bullies allegedly splashed water on the girl's clothes before throwing them away. After a series of verbal and physical attacks, things worsened when Kelaia got into an altercation with one of her bullies, prompting school administrators to suspend her rather than the bully.
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Traffic blockage, high drama at Gazipur border as Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka attempt to politicize Sambhal violence under the pretext of meeting victims’ families

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The Congress leaders are attempting to visit Sambhal amid restrictions barring the entry of outsiders to the area until December 10, which were imposed after violence erupted over a survey of the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid.
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Two Hindu brothers brutally killed by a Muslim family within six months in Delhi’s Naraina over a minor Muslim boy’s affair with a Hindu...

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A picture of Manoj's two children has surfaced, showing both the innocent children are looking at their father's funeral pyre with withered eyes.
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Devendra Fadnavis elected Leader of Maharashtra BJP Legislative Party

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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis was unanimously elected as Leader of Maharashtra BJP Legislative Party.
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Amritsar: Police detains Khalistani terrorist for attempted assassination of SAD’s Sukhbir Singh Badal at Golden Temple, investigation underway

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Khalistani terrorist Narain Singh Chaura attempted to assassinate Sukhbir Badal at the Golden Temple. Security thwarted the attack, raising Punjab law and order concerns.
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Bangladesh: Bail plea of ISKCON monk Chinmoy Krishna Das deferred as no lawyer came up to defend him due to threats from Islamist lawyers

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Chinmoy Krishna Das's associate at Sammilita Sanatani Jagaran Jote Swatantra Gauranga Das alleged that no lawyer represented the Hindu leader owing to threats from a "politically motivated lawyers' group".
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2,277 companies left Mamata Banerjee ruled West Bengal between 2019 to 2024, including 39 listed entities

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The information was disclosed in response to a question posed by BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya.
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Bangladesh: Hindu houses, temples vandalized in Doarabazar over alleged ‘blasphemous’ comment on Facebook

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Around 130 houses and 20 Hindu temples have been vandalized by the Islamist mob in Doarabazar, Sunamganj area of Bangladesh, many handles on social media reported. This is following an alleged blasphemous Facebook comment that locals claim caused insult to the Islam religion.
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Sambhal violence: Forensic team recovers cartridges made in Pakistan and USA, police investigating possible links to terrorism

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Sambhal violence: A Pakistan-made cartridge recovered from the site raises suspicions of foreign links. Police and SITs are investigating anti-national connections.
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Pappu Yadav’s own man threatened him to get his security upgraded; no link to Lawrence Bishnoi gang: Bihar Police

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As per Bihar Police, Pappu Yadav's close aide threatened him in order to get the MP's security upgraded.
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2000 Malpura Riots: Islam, Ishaq, and 6 others sentenced to life imprisonment for hacking farmer Hariram to death 24 years ago

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In another mudrer case, the special court acquitted five accused due to the absence of eyewitnesses.
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Jammu & Kashmir: Terrorist Junaid Ahmed Bhat, killed in encounter, was involved in killing of civilians, police says

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In its update, the Indian Army's Chinar Corps said," OP DACHHIGAM, One terrorist has been neutralised by the security forces in the ongoing Operation at upper reaches of Dachhigam Forest, Srinagar. Search Operation is in progress."
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‘Hindus safer under interim regime’: Bangladesh govt makes absurd claim amid ongoing persecution of Hindus, deny deliberate targeting of ISKCON

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Shafiqul Alam, the press secretary of the Muhammad Yunus government, claimed that Hindus are safer under the current administration as compared to they were under Sheikh Hasina's regime.
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News Reports

OCCRP, funded by George Soros and USAID, maligns foreign govts in the name of ‘investigative journalism’, had earlier targeted Adani Group: Details

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OCCRP co-founder Drew Sullivan has acknowledged that his independent 'network of journalists' could not have been created without funding from US government agencies.
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Canada’s national broadcaster accuses India of interfering in Canadian politics citing unfounded claims by a pro-Khalistani propaganda outlet

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Radio Canada claimed Indian consular officials meddled in Canadian politics, citing anti-India Baaz News Organisation. The report lacks evidence, fuelling mistrust in India-Canada relations.
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After hospital, Tripura hotel and restaurant association bans Bangladeshi citizens over Indian flag disrespect and Islamist atrocities against Hindus

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ATHROA general secretary Saikat Bandyopadhyay said that the decision was taken at an emergency meeting on Monday. "We are a secular country and have respect for all religions. Our national flag has been desecrated and minorities are facing oppression by a section of fundamentalists in Bangladesh.
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Bill Gates sparks outrage, calls India ‘a laboratory to test new ideas’, social media calls for stringent ethical standards against such minds

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Bill Gates' podcast with Reid Hoffman sparked outrage among Indians after he referred to India as a laboratory for testing ideas.
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Allahabad HC bench recuses from hearing Mohammed Zubair’s petition seeking protection from arrest over case by Ghaziabad police

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The supporters of Yati Narsinghanand filed a case against Mohammed Zubair over his post against the Hindu priest.
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Uber Shikara launched in Kashmir: How Asia’s first water transport service is a confluence of technology and tradition

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International taxi aggregator Uber has launched 'Uber Shikara' service in Kashmir, providing tourists to book shikara boats on an app to traverse the iconic Dal Lake for the breathtaking vistas it offers.
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Muhammad Yunus is responsible for mass killings, murder of Hindus and religious minorities: Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina

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Sheikh Hasina stated that further massacres would have occurred in Bangladesh if she had stayed.
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Jama Masjid Shamsi or Neelkanth Mahadev Temple in Badaun: After Sambhal’s mosque, another dispute, fast track court formed to hear the case

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Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Uttar Pradesh and center governments have been made parties in this case. The Places of Worship Act of 1991 will serve as the foundation for the court case.
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Newsweek mistakes parody account as Kash Patel’s father, quotes X post in report, quietly edits out the statement after netizens call out gaffe

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Adding to Newsweek’s embarrassment, the parody account thanked Newsweek for his message. “Thank you @Newsweek for amplifying my message - Hunter Biden was pardoned just in time before my son Kashu could prosecute him for his crimes.”
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