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President Droupadi Murmu grants assent to VB-G RAM G Bill
December 22, 2025 07:01 IST

The Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on December 16 and was passed, two days later, on December 18. In Rajya Sabha, it was passed on December 19.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with LoP in the Lok Sabha and party leader Rahul Gandhi. (PTI Photo)
December 22, 2025 13:20 IST

The total donations received by Congress is just a fraction of the Rs 6,088 crore the Bharatiya Janata Party received in 2024-25.

Big donors to electoral trusts: Tata to Mahindra, OP Jindal to L&T, Megha
December 22, 2025 14:05 IST

The top three trusts – Prudent Electoral Trust, Progressive Electoral Trust and New Democratic Electoral Trust – accounted for 98 per cent of all contributions.

bjp
December 22, 2025 13:32 IST

Ruling party's corpus is 4.5 times the total contributions to a dozen Opp parties

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said Sunday that there will be no relaxation for mining in Aravalli
December 22, 2025 03:34 IST

Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said that Aravalli ranges have been defined as the extent of 500m between two or more hills, and due to this definition, more than 90% of the it will be under protection.

chittagong
December 22, 2025 03:37 IST

The move came in the wake of unrest across the country following the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a leader of the protests that led to the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League government in 2024.

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December 21, 2025 08:17 IST

A state-level inquiry team constituted by the state government to probe how the five children with thalassemia contracted HIV during blood transfusions has found major lapses — from not maintaining records of donors to failure in conducting HIV tests properly.

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December 21, 2025 08:12 IST

The MGNREGS imprint can also be seen in the many water harvesting ponds, percolation tanks, and trenches around the village, which have helped bring groundwater levels up. Under various work heads, cement concrete roads have been laid.

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December 21, 2025 12:59 IST

BJP receives 82% of total Rs 3,811 crore in 2024-25, Congress less than 8%, others about 10%; 13 electoral trusts submit contribution reports to EC

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December 21, 2025 08:12 IST

Addressing a gathering in Taherpur over the phone, as his helicopter was unable to land due to low visibility, Modi also accused the TMC of opposing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to protect “infiltrators”.

sonia gandhi
December 21, 2025 11:42 IST

Opposition party believes it has a better chance of bringing other anti-BJP parties on board over this issue and that the BJP will be more vulnerable to a well-articulated critique on a livelihood issue.

India T20 World Cup squad Shubman Gill
December 21, 2025 09:13 IST

Gill had been battling for form of late and had gone 18 innings without a fifty in the format. The Indian Express understands that the two factors leading to Gill being left out were a) his strike rate in the Powerplay; and b) team combination and balance.

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December 21, 2025 07:37 IST

The SHO said a lesson should be taught to such parents for not imparting ‘achhe sanskar'. The boys belong to a minority community.

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December 20, 2025 13:53 IST

The gram panchayat under which Laghat falls has been recognised as one of the most affected by chitta menace in Himachal

A protest following overnight attacks and vandalism after the death of a prominent activist, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 19.
December 21, 2025 12:03 IST

The spark for the latest violence is the December 12 shooting of 32-year-old Sharif Osman Hadi who had participated in the movement against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leading to her ouster from office on August 5, 2024.

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December 21, 2025 08:24 IST

The CAG also found instances of skill certification by employers who do not merit classification as ‘Best-in-Class’, the report said.

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December 20, 2025 08:12 IST

Drawing a parallel with global pop culture, he said, “If kids in India are willing to learn Korean because of content, I believe the day will come when people outside India will want to learn Hindi because of our conversations and stories.”

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December 20, 2025 20:23 IST

On Monday, when The Indian Express visited these schools, the daily average AQI in Delhi was 427, making it one of the most polluted days of this pollution season.

No problem with Centre, except on statehood, but L-G interfering: Omar Abdullah
December 19, 2025 17:18 IST

Speaking at the Express Adda Wednesday, Omar Abdullah also spoke about his unease in using “the words Union Territory and Jammu-Kashmir in the same sentence”.

After 45-yr-old man’s lynching in Bihar, family struggles for answers
December 19, 2025 14:55 IST

Mohammad Athar Hussain sold clothes door to door for nearly 20 years in the area in Nawada where one evening of Dec 5 he was allegedly mistaken for a thief

MEIL COO Harpal Singh, who is in-charge of the Ratle project, said that they would report if they noticed any suspicious activity (Photo: RHCP India | Enhanced using AI).
December 19, 2025 08:59 IST

BJP Kishtwar MLA Shagun Parihar, who has raised questions about the workers hired for the project, said this “vindicated” her allegations.

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December 19, 2025 07:57 IST

Labour-intensive sectors to gain from zero-duty access on 98% of Oman’s tariff lines

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December 19, 2025 18:02 IST

In prescriptions that OPD patients at Lok Nayak showed The Indian Express over two days this week, pharmacy staff had crossed out several medicines or marked them as “not available”.

Hearing 12 petitions filed by women in live-in relationships who sought protection as they feared a threat to their lives, the HC ordered the police chiefs of the districts concerned to provide immediate protection if someone disturbs their peaceful living.
December 19, 2025 08:27 IST

Hearing the petitions by the women who feared a threat to their lives, the HC ordered police to provide immediate protection if someone disturbs their peaceful living.

Supreme court
December 19, 2025 02:15 IST

Ashok Rana has sought passive euthanasia for his son, Harish, who suffered head injuries in 2013, and has since been bedridden and dependent on an artificial support system

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