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Centre pre-publishes draught Rules for 4 Labour Codes
The Union Labour Ministry has pre-published the draught Rules for the four Labour Codes on the Ministry’s website and the nationalist has been fixed 45 days’ clip to respond to the rules. The rules specify workers, wages, types of employment, gratuity, bonus and societal information of workers, including gig workers. The rules mandate 48 hours of enactment per week and lays down the measures successful workplaces wherever women are moving successful nighttime shifts.
No 3rd enactment mediation during Operation Sindoor: authorities officials refute involution claims by China and U.S.
The authorities refuted a statement by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that China had “mediated” an extremity to the India-Pakistan struggle successful May, repeating its rejection of akin assertions by U.S. President Donald Trump implicit the year. Although the Ministry of External Affairs did not enactment retired a ceremonial effect to the code by Mr. Wang wherever helium had made the claim, officials said India’s presumption against immoderate “third-party mediation” has not changed.
Centre’s fiscal shortage 62% of afloat year’s people by end-November, higher than past year
The Centre’s fiscal shortage astatine the extremity of November 2025 stood astatine ₹9.77 lakh crore, which is 62.3% of the magnitude budgeted for the afloat fiscal twelvemonth 2025-26. Last year, astatine the aforesaid time, the fiscal shortage had stood astatine 52.5% of the budgeted amount. The crushed for this widening of the fiscal shortage astatine this constituent of clip is due to the fact that superior expenditure has grown importantly successful the April-November 2025 period, portion taxation revenues person lagged.
Khaleda Zia’s funeral: Jaishankar meets Tarique Rahman successful Dhaka, hands implicit PM Modi’s condolence letter
The passing of Bangladesh’s erstwhile Prime Minister Khaleda Zia leaves an “irreplaceable void” but her “vision and legacy” volition proceed to nurture India-Bangladesh relations, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi successful a missive that was handed implicit by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)’s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman successful Dhaka. This is the archetypal sojourn by Mr. Jaishankar to Dhaka since the interim authorities took complaint connected August 5, 2024. Foreign Affairs advisor of the government, Touhid Hossein was among those who met Mr. Jaishankar.
Tripura pupil death: SIT takes implicit probe; Dehradun constabulary accidental nary grounds truthful acold of radical abuse
Dehradun Police has constituted an SIT to analyse the sidesplitting of the Tripura pupil Anjel Chakma successful Dehradun, adjacent arsenic they said the probe truthful acold has recovered nary grounds of radical abuse. Police said the younker was assaulted aft tempers flared up erstwhile helium objected to immoderate “banter” among the attackers who had travel successful a radical to a liquor shop.
Telcos impeach Adani-run Navi Mumbai airdrome of blocking mobile infra, allege monopoly arrangements
Telecom companies are sparring with the Adani Group and person sought the Centre’s involution implicit the latter’s refusal to assistance “right of way” (RoW) astatine the recently opened Navi Mumbai airport for deploying infrastructure to supply cellular services to aerial travellers, alleging “monopolistic arrangements” by the airdrome relation which has deployed an in-building web and has sought from telcos “extortionary charges” that “undermine contention and user choice”.
Shah outlines BJP enactment program for Bengal polls, projects Dilip Ghosh arsenic cardinal face
Union Home Minister Amit Shah outlined an enactment program for the BJP’s West Bengal unit portion reviewing its preparedness for the Assembly polls owed aboriginal adjacent year. Addressing the party’s nationalist representatives, some past and present, Mr. Shah sought to task a unified front, portion indicating erstwhile authorities president Dilip Ghosh arsenic 1 of the main faces of the saffron campy for the elections.
Indore h2o contamination: Official dismissed, 2 others suspended arsenic decease toll rises to 10; probe sheet formed
An authoritative was dismissed from work and 2 others suspended adjacent arsenic the death toll climbed to 10 successful Indore city of Madhya Pradesh wherever much than 2,000 radical person fallen sick aft consuming contaminated h2o supplied by the municipal corporation, officials said. The deceased see a six-month-old child, who passed distant connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025), and six women. More than 100 radical from Indore’s Bhagirathpura country person been admitted to hospitals successful the past 1 week aft drinking h2o from a municipal proviso line.
India imposes three-year tariff connected immoderate alloy products aft ‘sudden, sharp’ summation successful imports
India has imposed a three-year import tariff of betwixt 11% and 12% connected some alloy products, according to a concern ministry bid published, arsenic the authorities aims to curb inexpensive shipments from China. The levy, locally known arsenic a safeguard duty, volition beryllium imposed astatine 12% successful the first twelvemonth followed by 11.5% successful the 2nd twelvemonth and past 11% successful the 3rd year.
Himachal whitethorn rotation retired regulated cannabis cultivation wrong months, says CM Sukhu
The Himachal Pradesh authorities is moving towards legalising and regulating cannabis cultivation, with projections indicating that a afloat developed model could make yearly revenues of ₹1,000 crore to ₹2,000 crore for the State. “We are moving connected finalising the modalities of the policy, including rules and regulations surrounding the hemp cultivation, keeping successful presumption the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, and the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Rules, 1989. I americium hopeful that successful a period oregon 2 it should beryllium ready, which would past beryllium approved by the State Cabinet,” Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu told The Hindu.
Army trains villagers successful precocious Doda arsenic anti-terror preparedness intensifies
Amid an accrued absorption connected violent enactment successful the Chenab Valley successful Jammu, the Army provided step-by-step grooming to section civilians who person volunteered to enactment arsenic Village Defence Guards (VDGs) to antagonistic imaginable panic attacks. Officials said 17 distant villages located successful the hilly Bhalessa country of Doda district, astatine an altitude of astir 7,705 feet, are being covered nether the grooming programme. The villagers are being trained successful the usage of high-calibre and self-loading rifles. Scores of men and women person enrolled arsenic VDGs successful the district.
Gig workers’ onslaught reveals intolerable moving conditions
On New Year’s eve, 1 of the astir lucrative days for app-based platforms, tens of thousands of level workers crossed India chose to log out. For workers who unrecorded disconnected regular earnings, enarthrosis debt, and person invested heavy successful vehicles, fuel, and phones, this determination is not simply symbolic. It is existential. When workers struggling to conscionable basal needs springiness up a peak-demand day, it signals 2 wide things: however intolerable moving conditions successful the level system person become, and however heroic their corporate enactment of absorption is. The onslaught signals the accomplishment of a conscious and organised level workforce with a caller committedness to instrumentality the combat for level regularisation head-on and prolong it successful pursuit of rights, information and dignity.
26/11 leader Sadanand Date appointed arsenic caller DGP of Maharashtra; to instrumentality complaint connected January 3
Sadanand Vasant Date, a soft-spoken yet pugnacious taskmaster and a decorated serviceman of the 26/11 panic attacks, was connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025) appointed arsenic the caller Director General of Maharashtra Police (DGP). A 1990 batch IPS officer, the 59-year-old Mr. Date volition win Rashmi Shukla, who retires connected January 3. He volition person a fixed tenure of 2 years arsenic the caput of the implicit 2 lakh beardown Maharashtra Police force.
Russia releases video footage to situation Kyiv implicit alleged drone attack
Russia’s Defence Ministry released video footage of what it said was a downed drone astatine a briefing intended to show Ukraine tried this week to onslaught a presidential residence and situation Kyiv’s denials that specified an onslaught took place. Kyiv says Moscow has produced nary grounds to enactment its allegations and that Russia invented the alleged onslaught to artifact advancement astatine talks connected ending the warfare successful Ukraine. Officials successful respective Western countries have formed uncertainty connected Russia’s mentation of events and questioned whether determination was immoderate attack.
Latest deep-sea hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 gets underway
A deep-sea hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 began successful the Indian Ocean, reviving efforts to lick 1 of aviation’s top mysteries much than a decennary aft the pitchy vanished with 239 radical connected board. Malaysia’s Transport Ministry said that a hunt vessel, the Armada 86 05, arrived astatine a designated hunt country with 2 autonomous underwater vehicles.
India’s go-to player Deepti goes connected apical of the satellite
Spin’s look changes often successful Indian women’s cricket. From Poonam Yadav to Vaishnavi Sharma, determination person been respective spinners that donned bluish implicit the past fewer years. But determination has been 1 agleam grin that has remained a constant. Deepti Sharma’s grin lit up the Greenfield Stadium connected Tuesday nighttime aft getting Sri Lanka’s Nilakshika Silva lbw. That was a important blow; the visitors’ pursuit was inactive precise overmuch connected astatine that signifier contempt the extremity of the large second-wicket basal betwixt Hasini Perera and Imesha Dulani.
