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A medical student died allegedly by suicide in Barmer district of Rajasthan on Monday. The deceased, a second-year student of the Barmer Medical College, was found hanging in her room on Monday evening. Police recovered a suicide note but the reasons are not clear yet. She was a resident of Khetri town of Jhunjhunu district. The body has been shifted to the mortuary of the district hospital.

Student groups from Nagaland hold candlelight vigil

National Executive Committee of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to meet in New Delhi tomorrow

ED summons actress Jacqueline Fernandez 

Congress appoints Ambika Soni as chairperson of Election Coordination Committee

O Panneerselvam, Edappadi K Palaniswami elected Coordinator, Joint Coordinator of AIADMK

15 people died while battling dengue in Delhi in 2021

President Ram Nath Kovind to visit Bangladesh from Dec 15 to Dec 17

A minor girl was kidnapped at gunpoint and raped by two youths living in her neighbourhood in the Gangoh police station area of the district. The class 10 student was kidnapped by a youth and his brother when she was mopping the outer courtyard of her house, Saharanpur Superintendent of Police (Rural) Atul Sharma said.

The youths took the girl to their house and rendered her unconscious by making her smell stupefying substance, the SP said, adding that the duo then raped the girl.

The girl returned home after she regained consciousness and told his family members about the incident following which the girl’s father lodged a complaint at the police station, Sharma said. The police subsequently got the girl medically examined and have launched a probe into the complaint. 

The Sikkim Assembly on Monday paid respects to three former legislators who died recently. As soon as the House convened for the fifth session of the 10th Assembly, Speaker L B Das informed the members that Sikkim has lost three eminent personalities - former Deputy Chief Minister P T Lucksom, former minister Thukchuk Lachungpa and Sukumar Pradhan, all former legislators.

The Speaker led the members in observing a two-minute silence as a mark of respect to the departed souls. Das adjourned the House till Tuesday given that the funeral ceremony of Thukchuk Lachungpa will be held later in the day. The obituary references shall be taken up on Tuesday, he said. 

The Trinamool Congress said on Monday that it would not be sending a delegation to Nagaland's Mon district, where 14 civilians were killed by security forces, due to prohibitory orders in the area at present.

A five-member delegation of the party was scheduled to visit the trouble-torn area to meet the families of those killed in a botched anti-insurgency operation over the weekend.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has demanded a thorough investigation into the killings of the civilians by the security forces.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Russian Defence Minister General Sergey Shoigu sign agreements between India and Russia.

External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov bumped elbows as they meet in New Delhi today. 

Myanmar court jails ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for four years for inciting dissent against the military and breaching Covid rules. 

A special control room in the district magistrate office has been formed to keep a vigil on any development in the state in view of the 29th anniversary of the demolition of Babri mosque today. All field formations have been put on high alert to maintain absolute peace in the state.

150 companies of PAC along with several companies of central forces have been deployed in the state. Prohibitory orders under section 144 of the CrPC are already in place in Mathura. 

While the Ayodhya temple town and the district has been divided in multiple security zones and forces have been deployed at sensitive points.

Read to know more | Babri demolition anniversary: Heavy security in Ayodhya, Mathura and across UP

Union Home Minister Amit Shah to give a statement on the Nagaland firing incident in both the Houses of the Parliament today.

The Nagaland government has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the 13 people killed in firing by security forces in Mon district. The state government also decided to set up a High-Level Special Investigation Team (SIT) led by an IGP level officer to probe the incident that took place on Saturday evening, according to an official statement. 

Thirteen civilians were killed and 11 others injured by security forces in two consecutive incidents of firing, the first of which was possibly a case of mistaken identity.

Several areas in Uttarakhand have reported heavy snowfall. 

A white blanket of thick fresh snow covered the area and has left people mesmerized. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin Putin will arrive in New Delhi today for the 21st India-Russia Annual Summit. This will be the first face-to-face meeting between Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after their meeting on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in November 2019.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu were scheduled to arrive on Sunday night.

During the summit, the two leaders will review the state and prospects of bilateral relations between India and Russia and will discuss ways to further strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries.

India is the fourth most powerful country in Asia, as per the Lowy Institute Asia Power Index 2021.

The annual Asia Power Index -- launched by the Lowy Institute in 2018 -- measures resources and influence to rank the relative power of states in Asia. The project maps out the existing distribution of power as it stands today, and tracks shifts in the balance of power over time.

India is ranked as a middle power in Asia. As the fourth most powerful country in Asia, India again falls short of the major power threshold in 2021. Its overall score declined by two points compared to 2020. India is one of eighteen countries in the region to trend downward in its overall score in 2021, the report said.