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The Centre will introduce a bill to amend 'The Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act 2019' in Lok Sabha next week, to integrate the Union Territory with its 'One Nation, One Election' initiative, a senior government official told NDTV. "The existing Union Territory Assembly will complete its full term and in case of premature dissolution of the assembly, mid-term election to be held for only the remaining period of 5 years. Centre is introducing a bill to this effect," a senior government official said. The official said this will allow the Centre to amend the law to integrate Jammu and Kashmir with the initiative. As per business scheduled in Lok Sabha on Monday, Union Law Minister Arjun Meghwal would introduce 'The Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill-2024' to make changes in the 'Government of Union Territories Act, 1963', the 'Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act', 1991 and the 'Jammu and Kashmir Reorgani...

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Former India opener turned cricket pundit Aakash Chopra has called out the selection process of Team India in the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia. The main point that Chopra put across was the chopping and changing of the lone spin-bowling all-rounder in the playing XI. Chopra remarked that India seem to be playing a different spinner every game, and remarked that had Kuldeep Yadav been a part of the squad, he would've been chosen in the fourth Test. In the third Test, experienced all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was brought in as the lone spinner in the India XI in place of Ravichandran Ashwin . Earlier, Washington Sundar had been picked as the lone spinner for the first Test in Perth, and despite India's victory, was dropped in favour of Ashwin. "It seems they want to play a new spinner in every Test match. Washi played in the first, Ashwin played in the second, and Jadeja is playing in the third. Kuldeep might have played in the fourth had he...

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw today launched an attack on the Congress government in Telangana over the arrest of superstar Allu Arjun in the stampede case during the screening of 'Pushpa 2: The Rule'. A woman had died in the stampede. Allu Arjun was granted interim bail by the Telangana High Court today. "Congress has no respect for the creative industry and the arrest of Allu Arjun proves it yet again," the Union Minister wrote on X. He said the unfortunate incident at Sandhya Theatre, where the woman was killed and her child was critically injured in the stampede due to fan frenzy, was a clear case of poor arrangement by the state and local administration. "Now, to deflect that blame, they are indulging in such publicity stunts," Mr Vaishnaw said. He said the Telangana government should instead help those affected by the stampede and punish those who made the arrangements that day, instead of continuously attacking film personalities. "It is ...

A group of tourists in Rajasthan's Ranthambore National Park is facing backlash online for recording a video of a tiger hunting a deer from an alarmingly close distance. The clip, posted on Instagram account Ranthambore National Park, shows tourists in safari jeeps witnessing the rare wildlife moment from a close range. It shows a group of safari-goers engrossed in recording the scene on their phone, while one individual takes a selfie as the tiger hunts in the background.  "During the safari, tourists experienced a rare and breathtaking moment - a tiger hunting a deer right in front of them. The sheer agility, strength, and precision of this majestic predator left them speechless. Such moments remind them of the beauty and brutality of the wild, where every moment is unpredictable. Truly an unforgettable experience," the caption of the post read. Take a look below:  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ranthambore Nat...

Switzerland has taken a unilateral stand after the Supreme Court of India's ruling in the Nestle case. It has revoked the 'Most Favoured Nation' or MFN status accorded to India under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement or DTAA treaty. Switzerland's move marks a significant shift in bilateral treaty dynamics and will result in a big impact on Indian companies operating in Switzerland as well as on Swiss investments in India. In its official statement on December 11, the Swiss finance department named the Supreme Court of India and cited its 2023 ruling as the reason for its decision to remove India's MFN status. In its order, the Supreme Court had said that the MFN clause between two nations does not apply automatically when a country joins the OECD, especially if the Indian government already had a prior tax treaty with that country before joining the grouping. The OECD or Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development was established in 1961 and is h...

A 35-year-old immigrant worker from Kuwait murdered his relative for allegedly sexually abusing his minor daughter, said a police official on Thursday. Rajampet sub-divisional police officer N Sudhakar said Anjaneya Prasad arrived from Kuwait recently and beat his physically challenged relative P Anjaneyulu (59) to death with an iron rod for allegedly sexually abusing his daughter. "Anjaneya Prasad came to India in the first week of December and killed Anjaneyulu in the intervening night of December 6 and 7 when the latter was sleeping outside his home," N Sudhakar told PTI, about the incident which occurred at Obulavaripalli in Annamayya district. Following the murder, N Sudhakar said Prasad had returned to Kuwait and released a video message, confessing to having committed the crime as the police allegedly failed to take action over his daughter's complaint. Meanwhile, police registered a murder case against Prasad and are on the lookout for his arrest. (Except for...

Meta Platforms's social media offerings Instagram, Threads and Facebook, and messaging app WhatsApp were down for thousands of users across the globe on Wednesday, according to Downdetector.com. Facebook was down for more than 50,000 users while Instagram was down for more than 23,000 users, according to the outage tracking website. Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage could have affected a larger number of users. Several users thronged Twitter to post about the outage. While some had genuine queries about the outage, many gave it a hilarious spin by posting memes. everyone running to twitter to check if instagram is down #Metadown pic.twitter.com/Qbt3Wb5odv — बिलार 😾 (@chad_dad0) December 11, 2024 Me checking Twitter to confirm if instagram, facebook and whatsapp are down #instagramdown #facebookdown #whatsappdown #metadown pic.twitter.com/SbGp4uouPv — 𝕏 🧑‍💻 (@...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman termed the allegation of Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi against state-owned banks a  "misrepresentation of facts" and an "insult to the hardworking employees and to the citizens" who benefit from a cleaner, stronger banking system. Banking sector, especially Public Sector Banks (PSBs), have seen a remarkable turnaround under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, underlined the Finance Minister in a long post on X. Earlier today, Mr Gandhi, after meeting a delegation from the All India Banking Officers Confederation, accused the government of using public sector banks, the "lifelines of the masses", to prioritise profit over people and are thus unable to serve the public effectively. "Public Sector Banks are being forced to prioritise profit over people and are thus unable to serve the public effectively. With staff shortages and a toxic work environment, they are expected to reach unachievable target...

Facing relentless harassment after taking a loan of Rs 2,000 from an instant loan app, a 27-year-old died by suicide in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam just 47 days after he got married. Police officials said Narendra, who catches fish for a living, had been unable to go fishing a couple of months ago because of adverse weather conditions and decided to take a loan of Rs 2,000 from an instant loan app to tide him over. They said Narendra managed to pay back the principal amount but was hounded by people from the loan company, who wanted him to pay a big amount as interest.  When he said he could not afford to pay, people from the company allegedly harassed and abused him. They also blackmailed him and his wife, whom he had married on October 20, by morphing a nude photo and sharing it with his friends on WhatsApp. The officials said Narendra found it difficult to confide in anyone about the harassment and this led to him getting depressed. Unable to put up with the harassment and...

Union minister Nitin Gadkari, who has been handling the Road Transport portfolio for the third straight term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today said efforts are on to use garbage to build roads, which will also take care of the mounting garbage problems of the country's metro cities.  "Delhi has four mountains of municipal garbage. Now, we have used 80 lakh tons of municipal garbage in road construction," he told NDTV at the special Auto Conclave. Giving cases in point, he named a number of highways in western and northern India -- the Mumbai-Delhi Express highway, Ahmedabad-Vadodara highway, the Ahmedabad Dholera highway and also in roads in parts of Chandigarh, he added. The project to convert stubble into biofuel is also going ahead full steam, he said. This will also take care of the massive pollution issue, especially the haze that chokes north India every winter.   "We have 400 projects in the process for which 60 have already started and they are mak...

Anurag Kashyap's daughter Aaliyah Kashyap's pre-wedding festivities have started. Aaliyah, who got engaged to her boyfriend  Shane Gregoire last year, hosted a fun-filled haldi ceremony for friends and family members. The official photographer Four Fold Pictures shared some unseen pictures from the ceremony on its Instagram feed. In the pictures, the couple can be seen sharing mushy moments. They can be seen sharing a cosy kiss as well. The picture that has our heart is the one in which Anurag Kashyap can be seen holding his son-in-law (to be) Shane in an adorable way. The picture is clicked in gray scale. Aaliyah's BFFs Khushi Kapoor and Muskan Chanana feature in the pictures as well.  Take a look: View this post on Instagram A post shared by FOURFOLD PICTURES (@fourfoldpictures) Earlier, Anurag Kashyap also shared a picture from his daughter's Haldi ceremony. The soon-to-be-married couple was seen covered in flower peta...

Syria's rebel leader hailed a "historic" victory Sunday from a landmark Damascus mosque after his Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group headed a lightning offensive, snatching the capital from government control in less than two weeks. His speech came as Syria's president Bashar al-Assad fled  -- for Moscow according to Russian news agencies -- triggering celebrations across Syria and beyond at the end of his oppressive rule. "This victory, my brothers, is historic for the region," HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, now using his real name Ahmed al-Sharaa, said in a speech at the Umayyad Mosque. He also said the rebel takeover was also a victory "for the entire Islamic nation", in the video statement shared by rebels on Telegram. "Today, Syria is being purified," he said, adding that "this victory is born from the people who have languished in prison, and the mujahideen (fighters) broke their chains". He said that, under Assa...

Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and family have landed in Moscow and have been granted asylum, Russia state media reported today, hours after Islamist-led rebels took control of his country. "Assad and members of his family have arrived in Moscow," a Kremlin source told the TASS and Ria Novosti news agencies. "Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds," he added. from NDTV News- Special https://ift.tt/w9Zn3Ei

In a seismic moment for the Middle East, Islamist rebels in Syria announced President Bashar al-Assad's ouster on Sunday after seizing control of Damascus, forcing him to flee and ending his family's decades of rule after more than 13 years of civil war. The fall of Bashar al-Assad came as a major blow to the influence of Russia and Iran in the heart of the region, key allies who propped up the President during critical periods in the conflict. The end of the Assad family's five-decade rule in Syria is set to reshape the power balance in the region, with regional and global forces rising to fill the power vacuum left behind by the dramatic regime change. While the Western and Arab states, along with Israel, would try to curtail Iran's influence in Syria, it is unlikely for them to support a radical Islamist regime to replace Assad, according to a report by CNN. For Iran the fall of Syria could shatter its so-called Axis of Resistance, comprising allied states and mili...

In a bizarre and grisly tale of murder, a man was killed and his skull was used for alleged occult practices by four men in the hope of getting crores of rupees on the instructions of two "tantriks", who learnt "black magic from YouTube". The horror started to unfold when the Ghaziabad Police found a headless body of a man in the Tila Mod area of the city on June 22. He was later identified as Raju Kumar from Motihari in Bihar who used to do odd jobs in the city. After weeks of investigation, the police arrested two men - Dhananjay and Vikas - on August 15. Their interrogation led them to their roommate and an acquaintance of the victim - Vikas alias Parmatma - who allegedly planned the murder. During interrogation, the accused told police that an aide of Parmatma, Narendra, came in contact with Pawan and Pankaj, who claimed to be ' tantriks '. They allegedly told him that he could get around "Rs 50 crore" if he could arrange and worship a human ...

Shalini Passi has won the Breakout Celebrity of the Year award at the NDTV 'Indian of the Year Awards 2024'. Shalini received the award from her “inspiration” cinema icon Asha Parekh, and Savita Chhabra, the Founder, Board Advisor and CSR Head of Streax India. After getting the award, Shalini said that she couldn't stop looking at the veteran actress. She said, “I just can't stop looking at you.”  Shalini Passi added, “Asha Parekh ji has been a great inspiration to me. Not that I have achieved anything in the film world but like her looks, her grace, her dance, her hairdo, her eyeliner, her beauty and everything. I am absolutely obsessed with her. I must say that I have been sending your pictures to my makeup artist for the show and I will personally send you a few of my pictures.Some of my looks are inspired by you. And, it is such a coincidence that I admired you as a kid. And, now, I am getting this award. Right now, I am extremely emotional for this.” She was accom...

" Neeche kar jhula (Bring down the ferris wheel)", shouted someone from the ground. " Arey Ram Ram (Ram Ram)", shrieked another as a chorus of concern and appeals went up. This scene played out at a fair in Uttar Pradesh when a 13-year-old girl was spotted dangling from a 60-foot high ferris wheel. After a few heart-stopping moments, and some quick thinking on the part of the operator, the teenager was safely rescued. The incident, which took place on Wednesday, was reported from Rakehti village in the Nighasan area of Lakhimpur Kheri, nearly 130 km from state capital Lucknow. As the swing suddenly started moving, she lost her balance and slipped out of her gondola. She was seen hanging on to an iron rod. Shrieks went up. She was stuck on it for a minute, before the operator managed to get the girl down. Sub District Magistrate Rajiv Nigam said that the girl, who has not been identified, is safe. The operators did not have the permission to run the giant fer...

A woman was being shifted from the operation theatre to the general room after she gave birth to a girl at a hospital in Meerut. Thirty-year-old Karishma was put on a stretcher and was taken downstairs, through a lift which fell after the belt snapped. She suffered serious injuries to her head and later died during treatment. The shocking incident took place today at the Capital Hospital in Meerut's Shastri Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. People stuck in the lift started shouting for help, leading to a commotion in the hospital. Some tried to open the elevator but failed until a team of technicians came to rescue them. The police said the injured woman was taken to a different hospital but later died due to the injuries. The doctors and the staff fled after angry relatives of the victim vandalised the hospital. A police post is located in front of the hospital and cops in a few minutes, bringing the situation under control. The baby girl has been kept in the nursery of another hospital...

Scientists have revealed the face of Saint Nicholas of Myra, the real-life bishop who inspired the concept of modern-day Santa Claus. According to the New York Post , the groundbreaking reconstruction comes 1,700 years after the saint's death and was possible by analysing data from his skull. Using advanced techniques, researchers managed to "forensically recreate" the face of Saint Nicholas of Myra, whose penchant for gift-giving prompted the legend of Father Christmas. In the images, shared on Instagram by the study's lead author, Cicero Moraes, the saint is depicted with a broad forehead, thin lips and a round nose. The 3D images reveal his face to be both "strong" and "gentle," Mr Moraes said, per the outlet .  Take a look at the images below:  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cicero Moraes (@cogitas3d) Saint Nicholas of Myra died in 343 AD - long before anyone could snap a photo. He...

A significant agreement was signed in Beijing today paving the way for China to make major inroads in Nepal. Seven years after an initial understanding for Kathmandu to be part of Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative or BRI, today's agreement lays the framework of how projects will be executed. Breaking tradition of making New Delhi a Nepalese prime minister's first port of call after election results, KP Sharma Oli chose to visit Beijing instead. He has been in China since Monday to work closely with Xi Jinping and finalise the deal. China and Nepal have "signed the framework for Belt and Road Cooperation today," Nepal's foreign office said in a post on X today, but shared no further details. Sources familiar with the agreement have said that today's deal means both countries will not plan and coordinate the details of each project. It also paves the way for China to fund these projects and how exactly each project would be financed by Beijing. The ...

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday declared emergency martial law sending shock waves across the country and accusing the opposition of being "anti-state forces intent on overthrowing the regime" amid parliamentary wrangling over a budget bill. It is the first time since 1980 that South Korea has declared martial law and while it has been considered authoritarian in the past, it's been democratic since. He cited the decision as necessary and to protect constitutional order and freedom. Here are the live updates of the situation in South Korea: from NDTV News- Special https://ift.tt/kmY1PIH

Indian entrepreneur Kuldeep Dhankar recently shared how he survived a car crash with the help of his Apple Watch. Taking to X, Mr Dhankar, the founder of Last9.io, shared a photo of his crashed car on a US highway and a police officer inspecting the accident site. In his post, he said that he got rear-ended by a car while he was in standstill traffic. He revealed that his Apple Watch immediately detected the crash and automatically called the cops. This prompt response from the device's crash detection feature and the California Highway Patrol played a vital role in ensuring Mr Dhankar's safety, allowing him to continue his journey with minimal delay.  "Got rear ended by a car while we were at standstill in traffic, on the I-5 yesterday. the car behind was probably a total loss. (we are perfectly safe) Apple watch detected that we were in a crash and auto called 911 and there was an officer on the scene with in minutes. we were able to leave in 30 minutes and got to our d...