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The matter was listed before a bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Shail Jain, justice Jain recused from hearing since her son works as a pilot in IndiGo. Delhi high court judge Shail Jain on Friday recused herself from hearing IndiGo’s petition seeking a refund of over ₹900 crore in customs duty paid on aircraft engines and parts re-imported into India after being repaired abroad. The matter was listed before a bench of justices Prathiba M Singh and Shail Jain, justice Jain recused from hearing since her son works as a pilot in IndiGo. “List before a bench of…

Ram Mohan Naidu cited Covid-19 pandemic, Prayagraj Mahakumbh, Pahalgam attack, and the recent IndiGo crises when the government stepped in to curb airfares. Civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu on Friday spoke in Parliament on the growth of aviation sector, its challenges, and the government’s role during airlines’ crises, including the recent IndiGo disruptions. While speaking on the subject of government’s measure to regulate airfare, Ram Mohan Naidu said the central government has the power to interfere and cap the fares in cases of “extraordinary circumstances”. The minister, while speaking in Lok Sabha, cited the examples of Covid-19 pandemic, Prayagraj…

Aditya Dhar’s directorial “Dhurandhar” has surpassed the ₹200 crore mark in India following its first run at the box office. As Ranveer Singh-starrer Dhurandhar continues to make box-office gains, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Iltija Mufti has heaped praises on the movie, saying she found the movies interesting and the casting was “perfection”. However, for Iltija, the daughter of PDP supremo and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, what stood out was the portrayal of women in the film, which she said “weren’t used as props for once.” “Much outrage over Dhurandhar but I quite liked the movie…

With the fresh directives, the total number of conditions imposed by the IMF has risen to 64 in over last one year. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reportedly slapped Pakistan with 11 new conditions over its $7 billion bailout programme to curb corruption, improve governance and identify leaks in government departments. The new condition comes a day after the IMF on Thursday released the $1.2 billion as part of its ongoing loans programmes aimed at building climate resilience in Pakistan. The new conditions have been imposed to reduce losses in power sector through private participation, end elite capture of…

The Goa nightclub fire spread within minutes, trapping several people inside the 300 square metres club. A deadly mix of illegal pyrotechnics, a highly flammable thatched roof, and glaring safety violations on storing alcohol may have caused the catastrophic fire that killed 25 people at Birch by Romeo Lane in Goa’s Arpora on Saturday night, according to investigators and eyewitnesses. The findings come even as Delhi-based entrepreneurs Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, co-promoters of the club, were detained in Thailand early Thursday – five days after they fled India barely 90 minutes after the blaze began. Chief minister Pramod Sawant confirmed…

Schedule for SIR of electoral rolls has been revised in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, MP, Chhattisgarh, UP and Andaman and Nicobar, according to ECI. The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday said it is revising Special Intensive Revision (SIR) dates in six states, including Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh. Schedule for SIR of electoral rolls has been revised in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar, according to the ECI press release. Revised SIR dates: -Tamil Nadu: Revised renumeration by 14.12.2025 (Sunday) and publication on 19.12.2025 (Friday) -Gujarat: Revised renumeration by 14.12.2025 (Sunday)…

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla assured action on BJP leader Anurag Thakur’s accusation of TMC MP smoking banned e-cigarettes in Parliament. Without taking names, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Anurag Thakur on Thursday accused a Trinamool Congress MP of smoking banned e-cigarettes in the Lok Sabha. On Anurag Thakur’s accusation, Speaker Om Birla assured action but not before disciplining him for questioning the Speaker of the House for asking a question. During the Question Hour of Parliament Winter Session, Thakur wondered whether e-cigarettes are allowed in the House while asking a supplementary. E-cigarettes were banned in the country a few years…

The US reaffirmed that visa applications will be denied if travel its intention is found to be childbirth in the United States to obtain citizenship. US on Thursday reiterated that tourist visa applications will be denied if officers believe the primary purpose of the travel is to give birth in the United States in a bid to obtain US citizenship for the child. This is not permitted, the US embassy in India wrote on X on Thursday. US President Donald Trump on January 20 signed an order to end birthright citizenship, which grants citizenship on everyone born on American soil.…

The incident took place on December 8, however, the matter surfaced after an injured person alerted the authorities on the Chaglagam border on Wednesday. At least 18 labourers were killed while one person survived after a truck carrying them skidded off a narrow mountain road and fell into a deep gorge near Metengliang in Arunachal Pradesh’s Anjaw district, officials said on Thursday. Anjaw superintendent of police (SP) Anurag Dwivedi said the group of 22 labourers had left Assam’s Tinsukia district on December 7 for Chaglagam, where they were engaged for construction work. When they failed to arrive by December 10,…

At least 25 people had died in a fire incident at a Goa nightclub owned by the Luthra brothers early this week.  A Delhi court on Thursday dismissed anticipatory bail of Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra, owners of the Goa nightclub where at least 25 people died in a fire incident on December 6, 2025. Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant saying that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Goa Police are working to ensure that the accused Luthra brothers are brought to India at the earliest. The duo has been detained in Thailand and the process to deport them…