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Passengers Need To Pay For Extra Luggage On Trains: Railway Minister
- Dec 17, 2025 17:51 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday that passengers need to pay charges for carrying luggage beyond the prescribed free allowance limits while travelling by train.
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Video: Passengers' Dramatic Escape As Van Rolls Down Slope Near Dalhousie
- Dec 17, 2025 17:51 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
A major accident was narrowly averted near Dalhousie in Himachal Pradesh when a tourist vehicle with passengers on board suddenly started rolling down a slope.
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Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed Ali Drives PM Modi Again, This Time To Airport
- Dec 17, 2025 17:49 pm IST
- Indo-Asian News Service
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday concluded his two-day visit to Ethiopia and departed for Oman for the third and final leg of his three-nation visit.
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After Admissions And Nursing, Madhya Pradesh's New Medical Education Scam
- Dec 17, 2025 17:43 pm IST
- Reported by: Anurag Dwary
Madhya Pradeshs medical education system appears to be trapped in a cycle of scandals and systemic failure, with paramedical education under scrutiny after medical admissions and the nursing scam.
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CNG, Domestic PNG Prices To Drop By Rs 2-3 Per Unit From January 1
- Dec 17, 2025 17:19 pm IST
- Asian News International
Consumers across India are set to benefit from reduced prices of Compressed Natural Gas and domestic Piped Natural Gas as the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board announced a tariff rationalisation that will come into effect from January 1.
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Aadhaar Database Remains Protected, Multi-Layered Tech Being Used: Ministry
- Dec 17, 2025 17:18 pm IST
- Asian News International
The government has implemented comprehensive measures to protect the personal data of Aadhaar number holders, and no breach of data has occurred from the central database to date.
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"Showing True Colours": Omar Abdullah Slams Nitish Kumar Over Hijab Video
- Dec 17, 2025 17:07 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday criticised his Bihar counterpart over the hijab incident and said that Nitish Kumar might be slowly revealing his true nature.
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"Imagine The Audacity": BJP's Amit Malviya Lights Up Parliament Vaping Row
- Dec 17, 2025 16:45 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
The 'smoking in Parliament' row blew up Wednesday after BJP leader Amit Malviya shared a 35-second video that showed, he claimed, Trinamool MP Kirti Azad vaping in the House.
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Key Suspect In Punjab Kabaddi Player's Murder Killed In Police Encounter
- Dec 17, 2025 16:39 pm IST
- Reported by: Gurpreet Singh Chhina
Two days after a 30-year-old kabaddi player was shot dead in the middle of a tournament in Punjab's Mohali, the main accused, Harwinder alias Middu, was killed in a police encounter.
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7.6% Voters Removed From West Bengal Draft Roll, 1.6 Crore Under Scanner
- Dec 17, 2025 16:36 pm IST
- Reported by: Sreyashi Dey
- Edited by: Srishti Kapoor
About 58 lakh voters, amounting to 7.6 per cent, were removed from the voter list because they have died, moved away, were absent or were registered more than once.
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'Md Salim Awasthi': CPM Leader, A Muslim, Becomes Brahmin In SIR Draft Roll
- Dec 17, 2025 16:35 pm IST
- Reported by: Sreyashi Dey
- Edited by: Saikat Kumar Bose
In an epic error during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists in West Bengal, CPM's state general secretary and former MP, Mohammed Salim, and his son, Atish Aziz, have been given a Brahmin last name -- Awasthi -- in the draft roll
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Blog | "It Was A Shell From My Tank": When A Father Met The Pak Soldier Who Killed His Son
- Dec 17, 2025 16:21 pm IST
- Rohit Khanna
"He stood like a rock before our Patton tanks," Brigadier Naser (retd) told Madan Lal Khetarpal, almost three decades after his son was killed in battle.
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"Why Can't 9 Tolls Be Shut Till Jan?" Supreme Court On Delhi Air Pollution
- Dec 17, 2025 16:07 pm IST
- Reported by: Nupur Dogra
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a sharp notice to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and came down heavily on the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) over the operation of toll plazas at key entry points to the national capital.
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"Only BS-4 And Above": Supreme Court Tweaks Order On Older Vehicles In Delhi
- Dec 17, 2025 16:03 pm IST
- Reported by: Nupur Dogra
- Edited by: Anindita Sanyal
Only vehicles with BS4 engines will be exempted from action if they are found running in Delhi, the Supreme Court said today, modifying its earlier order banning 10-year-old diesel-run vehicles and 15-year-old petrol-run vehicles from December 18.
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Aadhaar Has Several Levels Of Protection, No Data Breach So Far: Centre
- Dec 17, 2025 15:13 pm IST
- Indo-Asian News Service
There has been no breach of Aadhaar card holders' data from the Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI) database till date, Ministry of Electronics & IT said on Wednesday.
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Before Abdul Kalam, BJP Floated Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Name For President: Book
- Dec 17, 2025 15:07 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
Ashok Tandon, who served as Vajpayee's media advisor, related the episode in his book Atal Smaran, published by Prabhat Prakashan.
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"Voter List Clean-up Necessary": Bengal Governor Jabs Trinamool Before Poll
- Dec 17, 2025 15:06 pm IST
- Reported by: Himanshu Shekhar Mishra
A "clean up" of electoral rolls is necessary ahead of an Assembly election less than six months away, Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose told NDTV Wednesday in an exclusive interview.
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Delhi To Get Bharat Taxis On January 1, An Alternative To Ola, Uber, Rapido
- Dec 17, 2025 14:33 pm IST
- Reported by: Akhilesh Sharma
The Bharat Taxi app model will also be based on a driver-owned cooperative system, providing drivers with higher income and better working conditions.
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Bombay High Court Allows Activist Gautam Navlakha To Relocate To Delhi
- Dec 17, 2025 14:31 pm IST
- Reported by: Radhika Ramaswamy
In a development in the long-running Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday relaxed bail conditions for activist and accused Gautam Navlakha, permitting him to relocate from Mumbai to his home in Delhi.
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Rahul Gandhi's "Indian Manufacturing Declining" Remark In Germany Sparks Row
- Dec 17, 2025 14:24 pm IST
- Edited by: Anindita Sanyal
Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi visited the BMW Welt and the BMW Plant in Munich, Germany, this week.