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ALLU ARJUN ARRESTED

Actor Allu Arjun was arrested on Friday in connection with a stampede-like incident at Hyderabad's Sandhya Theatre that resulted in the death of a 35-year-old woman and left her nine-year-old child in critical condition.

When I got fame, I knew it wasn't because of me

Model-turned actor Rohman Shawl recently made his feature film debut with the Tamil project Amaran, and he is basking in the appreciation his role as the antagonist has brought him.

At the nets, Gill and Pant show they mean business

BRISBANE: There was a time when the eve of a match would mean that the venue would be a beehive of activity.

Malkeet Outplays Akshay, enter quarterfinals

IN THE FOURTH FRAME, MALKEET SEALED THE MATCH WITH AN OUTSTANDING BREAK OF 131 THE HIGHEST OF THE TOURNAMENT SO FAR.

History will see this as a pivotal moment: Carlsen

BENGALURU: Former world champion Magnus Carlsen believes that 18-year-old D Gukesh, being crowned youngest-ever undisputed world chess champion is a pivotal moment in chess and could potentially be the beginning of something interesting.

BCCI-PCB hybrid model may get ICC's nod today

THE BIGGEST CONCESSION THE BCCI IS LEARNT TO HAVE MADE IS TO AGREE FOR THE INDIAN TEAM TO TRAVEL TO COLOMBO FOR THE INDIA-PAKISTAN ENCOUNTER IN THE 2026 T20 WORLD CUP TOURNEY

CCPA pulls up 17 direct-selling cos

NEW DELHI: The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has issued notices to 17 direct-selling entities for allegedly violating the Consumer Protection (Direct Selling) Rules, 2021.

Top court rejects CCI's case transfer request

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday told the Competition Commission of India (CCI) that it cannot get any \"special treatment\" in petitions challenging its antitrust probe against e-commerce giants including Amazon and Flipkart transferred from various high courts to the top court, and granted it time till Monday (December 16) to take instructions on whether all matters could be bunched and heard together by the Karnataka High Court (HC).

Mkts stage biggest swing in 6 months

Market may have some more steam left until benchmarks hit resistance levels

Algo trading to open up for retail investors soon

Algorithmic trading, which has remained the preserve of large institutions, could soon be open to India's retail investors as well, with the market regulator proposing a framework with critical roles for brokers and stock exchanges.

Bajaj Fin scales back payments ambitions, shifts focus to AI

MUMBAI: Bajaj Finance Ltd, one of India's leading non-bank lenders, is scaling back its ambitions in the payments and credit card businesses as part of a revised five-year roadmap, BFL 3.0.

Directors' parade at Dish TV as investors spar with promoters

INVESTORS HAVE OUSTED A RECORD 25 DIRECTORS FROM THE DISH TV BOARD IN A LITTLE OVER THREE YEARS

Switzerland scraps MFN for India citing lack of reciprocity

NEW DELHI: Switzerland has suspended the most favoured nation (MFN) clause in a bilateral tax treaty with India following Indian Supreme Court's decision last year adding an extra procedural layer and making the applicability of the provision non-automatic, in a tax dispute involving Nestle SA.

Toying with words, hearts

In April 1947, while speaking to a creative-writing class at the University of Mississippi, American novelist William Faulkner, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, described his contemporary Ernest Hemingway in these words: \"He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary to see if it is properly used.\"

Ratan Tata: In a class of his own

While Thomas Mathew's admiration for his subject is evident, Ratan Tata: A Life also explores the challenges that the Tata Group faced

Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight to Moscow

DUBAI: Bashar al-Assad confided in almost no one about his plans to flee Syria as his reign collapsed.

US UNVEILS NEW $500MN MILITARY AID FOR UKRAINE

The United States on Thursday announced a new $500 million package of military aid for Ukraine, as Washington races to bolster Kyiv before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

France's Macron names centrist ally Bayrou as PM

PARIS: Veteran centrist figure, Francois Bayrou, became France's fourth prime minister in a year, on Friday, after President Emmanuel Macron named his longtime ally as the new head of government.

FBI did not send undercover operatives to join Jan 6 attack

WASHINGTON: A US Justice Department watchdog report released on Thursday debunked claims by far-right conspiracy theorists who falsely alleged that FBI operatives were secretly involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters.

2nd impeachment vote for Prez Yoon on edge

SEOUL: South Korea's opposition leader on Friday urged ruling party lawmakers to side with the \"people\" and impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, a day before a second parliamentary vote that appears on a knife edge.

Burning green: Health costs of landscape fires

The cascading effects of forest fires and stubble burning on human health and environment are severe

New York CEO killing suspect wasn't client

NEW YORK: The man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was not a client of the medical insurer and may have targeted it because of its size and influence, a senior police official said on Thursday.

A coming of age for Indian chess

D Gukesh's rise as the youngest world champion is a tale with two pieces - one of individual and family sacrifice, and the other of legend Viswanathan Anand's payback to Indian sport

Uniquely Indian traits that produce civic indifference

I often wish Richard Sennett, that great and inspiring writer on cities and civic life in the western world, had a chance to live in Bengaluru for a couple of months.

Oppn submits notice in RS to impeach HC judge

NEW DELHI: More than 55 Opposition lawmakers from the Rajya Sabha on Friday submitted a notice to the secretary general of the Upper House for the impeachment of Allahabad high court judge, Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav, over his controversial remarks at an event organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad last week.

Akhilesh hits out at ruling party for trying to 'spread disharmony'

NEW DELHI: Efforts are on to reduce minorities, especially Muslims, to second-grade citizens, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Friday and called for a caste census during the landmark debate on 75 years of the Constitution in the Lok Sabha.

TMC MP's comment draws BJP anger

NEW DELHI: A comment by Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra referring to late judge BH Loya in her speech in the Lok Sabha on Friday led to an uproar and prompted two short adjournments, a sharp response from Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju, and support from senior opposition members.

MINORITIES ARE TARGETED IN U.P.: IQRA IN LOK SABHA

Samajwadi Party lawmaker Iqra Choudhary on Friday expressed concern over the \"rising attacks on minorities\" in Uttar Pradesh, accusing the BJP-led government in the most-populous state over the land and order situation.

NDA allies slam Oppn 'hypocrisy'

NEW DELHI: Tearing into the Congress during a debate on the Constitution of India, Union panchayati raj minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh, alias Lalan Singh, on Friday said in the Lok Sabha that people who \"preyed on the Constitution cannot be its protectors\", accusing the grand old party of \"misusing\" the national document countless times.

It's Samvidhan, not Sangh ka Vidhan, says Priyanka

NEW DELHI: India's Constitution is not a set of rules dictated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Wayanad parliamentarian Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said in her first address in the Lok Sabha on Friday, adding that the Bharatiya Janata Party realized the Constitution cannot be changed after its loss of seats in the 2024 polls.