Breaking news, December 11 | HIGHLIGHTS

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will inaugurate the India Global Forum UAE 2022 that gets underway here on Monday. It is a gala five-day event that will bring together leading political, business and cultural personalities from India, the UAE and across the world.

A 15-year-old boy who was allegedly scavenging under a bridge died after a heavy iron piece fell on his head from above on Sunday, police said. The incident took place in the morning near Thokar No 18 Pushta Road, they said, adding they got to know about the incident at 10.
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US Central Command forces conducted a successful helicopter raid in eastern Syria at 2:57 a.m. local time on December 11, killing two ISIS officials including Anas, an ISIS Syria Province Official who was involved in the group’s deadly plotting and facilitation operations in eastern Syria. 

A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook southern Mexico Sunday morning, sending nervous residents of the capital into the street. The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake's epicentre was 2½ miles (4 kilometers) northwest of Corral Falso in the southern state of Guerrero.

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee will embark on a two-day visit to Meghalaya from Monday, party leaders said. Banerjee will address a TMC workers' convention at the State Central Library here on Tuesday, a senior party leader told PTI.

Many passengers continued to experience long waiting hours at the Delhi airport on Sunday. Some passengers took to social media and also shared pictures of crowd at Terminal 3 (T3) of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here.

Many passengers continued to experience long waiting hours at the Delhi airport on Sunday. Some passengers took to social media and also shared pictures of crowd at Terminal 3 (T3) of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here.

Senior BJP leaders, including Home Minister Amit Shah and its national president J P Nadda, held a meeting on Sunday with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha and other top party functionaries from the state as they prepare for the assembly polls due in February-March.

At least six Pakistani nationals were killed and 17 others injured on Sunday when Afghan border troops resorted to “unprovoked and indiscriminate fire” across the border into Balochistan’s Chaman district, the army said.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday rolled out a slew of projects worth Rs 894 crore in Majuli, the world's largest river island, an official release said. Sarma laid the foundation stone for improvement and upgradation of a road from Balichapori in Majuli to Bongalmara in Lakhimpur, including construction of two bridges over Luit and Subansiri rivers, it said.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) questioned Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter K. Kavitha in Delhi liquor scam case for more than seven hours at her residence in Hyderabad.

Vice president of JDU's Jammu and Kashmir unit Nigesh Kumar joined the BJP along with his supporters here on Sunday. Kumar and his supporters from Kathua district were welcomed into the party fold by senior leaders, including general secretaries Vibodh Gupta and Devinder Manyal besides former member of legislative council Sofi Yusuf here, a BJP spokesperson said.

As assembly elections in Karnataka are due in the next few months, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has called a meeting of the party's senior leaders from the state on Monday in New Delhi, to discuss the preparations and the strategy for the polls.

According to a party functionary, 14 leaders from the state, including Karnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar, and state Legislature Party leader Siddaramaiah, among others will be attending the meeting at the AICC office in the national capital.

Women and children are the main targets of “foreign-funded” religious conversion in the country and the Centre and state governments have failed to take appropriate steps to check it, the Supreme Court has been told.

In a written submission filed before a bench of Justices M R Shah and C T Ravikumar which is hearing a plea against religious conversions, PIL petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay referred to the legal vacuum on the issue and said this has led to the deployment of “unethical predatory conversion strategies” to convert socially and economically backward citizens.

Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said '"short-term politics not helping the country", the Shiv Sena (UBT) pointed fingers at the recently formed BJP- Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra. UBT questioned the manner in which the Bharatiya Janata Party formed a government with the faction led by Shinde in Maharashtra. 

Veteran Congress leader Shashi Tharoor hailed  External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar for India's abstention from the vote in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on a resolution that exempts humanitarian aid efforts from sanctions. Notably, the United Nations and Ireland tabled a sanctions carve-out on Saturday in order to exempt humanitarian efforts across the globe. 

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the All India Institute of Ayurveda at Dhargal in Goa. Modi arrived in the coastal state this afternoon to address the valedictory session of the 9th world Ayurveda Congress and Arogya Expo. 

Representatives from more than 50 countries took part in the Ayurveda Congress. The prime minister will later also inaugurate the first phase of the international airport at Mopa in the state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Phase-I of the Nagpur Metro rail project and took a ride on the train on Sunday. Also, he laid the foundation stone of Phase-II of the metro project in the city. The prime minister took a ride in the metro rail between Zero Mile Freedom Park and Khapri stations. Before boarding the train, he visited an exhibition on the project at the Zero Mile station.

Communications Ltd, the operator of India's largest digital payments provider Paytm, cannot use proceeds of its mega initial public offering (IPO) for the proposed repurchase of its own shares, as rules prohibit such a move, sources said, adding the firm will use its strong liquidity for the purpose. Paytm has a liquidity of Rs 9,182 crore, as per its last earnings report.

A team of UP Special Task Force (STF) STF has arrested a wanted criminal who was a member of a gang that had duped people of crores of rupees after promising to facilitate a bonus against their insurance policy, or a claim from a closed policy. The accused, identified as Vimal Kumar Gupta of Ghaziabad, was arrested from Moti Nagar in Delhi. Additional SP STF, Vishal Vikram Singh said the accused and his other aides posed themselves as officials of the IRDA, RBI, LIC and GBIC to trap the victims.

The AAP has divided Delhi into 12 zones and given the responsibility of three zones each to four senior leaders, who will coordinate with councillors of their zones, hold meetings and visit their areas to understand the problems faced by locals.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi resumed his Bharat Jodo Yatra from Baldevpura in Rajasthan's Bundi district on Sunday morning and will cover a distance of 13 km before leaving for Shimla to attend the oath-taking ceremony of his party government in Himachal Pradesh.  Gandhi will cover the remaining 9 km of Yatra in the district this evening, AICC General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said.

A 30-year-old woman received serious burn injuries as a two-storey house collapsed following a cylinder blast in suburban Vikhroli on Saturday evening, an official said. The incident took place in Surya Nagar locality in Vikhroli (West) around 7.10 pm.

Thousands gathered along the roads in Rajasthan's Bundi district on Saturday to welcome the Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra as the Rahul Gandhi-led march covered nearly 30 kilometres before halting for the night. Gandhi had resumed the 94th day of the march from Gudli village in Bundi in the morning, after a day's break on Friday to celebrate his mother Sonia Gandhi's birthday.

A vice president of the European Union's parliament was suspended from her duties on Saturday after being caught up in an investigation into influence peddling at the EU assembly allegedly involving officials from Qatar.

An explosion and fire in an apartment building on the Channel Island of Jersey killed at least three people and left several missing, police said Saturday.

A ten-month-old girl died after she was flung from a cab on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Maharashtra's Palghar district while her mother was allegedly molested on Saturday morning. The woman too was pushed out of the vehicle and sustained serious injuries, said a police official.