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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…

Indians also led the category for ‘removal in progress’, at 6,515 out of a total of 29,542, according to the Canadian Border Services Agency’s data. Canada has removed a record number of Indian nationals from the country this year, a figure that even surpasses the 2024 statistics. The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), in a year-end release, said that 2,831 Indians were removed from the country in 2025. In the first ten months of this year, the CBSA enforced the removal of 2,831 Indians, out of a total of 18,969. What’s the reason? The number of Indians’ removals has only…

CBI is “vehemently pursuing with Lyon headquartered Interpol to quickly issue blue notices against Luthras so that they don’t flee to some other country. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is looking to get blue notices issued against Delhi-based entrepreneurs Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, who fled to Phuket hours after a deadly nightclub fire in north Goa killed 25 people. The probe agency is “vehemently pursuing with Lyon headquartered Interpol to quickly issue blue notices against Luthras so that they don’t flee to some other country,” said in a report. CBI’s Global Operations Centre has located over 200 fugitives abroad…

Satya Nadella said that this was Microsoft’s “largest investment ever in Asia”, adding that this is meant to support India’s ambitions. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, thanking him for an “inspiring conversation on India’s AI opportunity”, and said that he is committing US$17.5 billion investment to help build and develop the country’s “AI first future”. Nadella said that Microsoft’s “largest investment ever in Asia” was aimed to help build the infrastructure, skills, and sovereign capabilities “needed for India’s AI first future”. In a post on X, the Microsoft boss wrote, “Thank you, PM@narendramodi ji, for…

Rahul Gandhi called for a debate on his press conferences, saying, “Amit Shah ji, I challenge you to have a debate on my three press conferences.” Union home minister Amit Shah and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi locked in one of their fiercest confrontations in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday as the debate on electoral reforms spilled into chaos. The atmosphere turned explosive when Gandhi cut into Shah’s address, saying, “I challenge you to have debate on my press conferences.” During the proceedings, Rahul Gandhi called for a discussion on his press conferences, saying, “Let us have a debate on…

While the Goa police have arrested five staff members and Ajay Gupta, a business partner of the Luthras, the Luthra brothers remained absconding. While firefighting operations were underway at the Goa nightclub post midnight on Sunday, the Luthra brothers, who owned the Birch by Romeo Lane, were planning their escape to Phuket in Thailand. The Goa Police, in a statement on Wednesday, said Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, the main accused in the case, booked their tickets at 1:17 am on Sunday, barely one and a half hours after the fire broke out at the North Goa nightclub. The first distress…