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Opposition sits connected overnight protestation successful Parliament against transition of VB-G RAM G Bill
Opposition leaders staged overnight protestation dharna successful Parliament analyzable connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) night, portion protesting against the transition of the VB-G RAM G Bill. Both Houses of Parliament passed the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, replacing the 20-year-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
Critically injured Bangladesh uprising person dies successful Singapore, Yunus urges citizens to support peace
Sharif Osman Hadi, a salient person of the July Uprising who was changeable past week, died connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) portion undergoing attraction astatine a Singapore infirmary aft warring for his beingness for six days. Hadi, besides a campaigner successful the scheduled February 12 wide elections, was changeable successful the caput by masked gunmen connected Friday arsenic helium initiated his predetermination run astatine cardinal Dhaka’s Bijoynagar area.
Rajya Sabha clears SHANTI Bill; unsafe and vendor-driven, alleges Opposition
With the Rajya Sabha besides clearing the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill connected Thursday (December 18, 2025), the Union Government said the Bill seeks to reduce the dependency connected fossil fuels and summation the capableness of India’s atomic vigor sector.
India faces its ‘greatest strategical challenge’ successful Bangladesh since 1971: Parliamentary committee connected outer affairs
The developments successful Bangladesh airs the “greatest strategical challenge” to India since the Liberation War of 1971, a Parliamentary sheet has said successful its report. The study of the Parliamentary Standing Committee connected External Affairs, chaired by Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor, has covered the turbulent India-Bangladesh narration of the past 2 years and said that Bangladesh is witnessing a “shift” and that New Delhi could extremity up losing the “strategic space” successful Dhaka without indispensable recalibration.
BMC election: BJP, Shiv Sena scope statement to combat 150 seats together
Mahayuti allies BJP and Shiv Sena person reached an knowing to jointly contention 150 of the 227 seats successful the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) canvass connected January 15, 2026, leaders of the 2 parties said connected Thursday. “We person unanimously arrived astatine a statement connected 150 seats. Discussion connected 77 seats is pending. We volition marque a determination successful the adjacent 2 days,” said Mumbai BJP president Ameet Satam aft holding a gathering implicit the seat-sharing statement with Maharashtra Industries Minister Uday Samant and different Shiv Sena leaders.
Congress Working Committee to conscionable connected December 27 to sermon MGNREGA
The Congress Working Committee, the party’s highest decision-making body, volition conscionable connected December 27 to deliberate connected the government’s determination to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with caller legislation, sources said connected Thursday (December 18, 2025).
Sahitya Akademi cancels awards announcement pursuing directive from Culture Ministry
Confusion prevailed connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) erstwhile the Sahitya Akademi was forced to cancel a property conference called by it to denote its yearly literate awards pursuing a directive from the Union Ministry of Culture. The property league was scheduled to beryllium held astatine 3 p.m. successful Delhi aft a gathering of the Executive Board of the literate body, which cleared the awardees.
NCST to probe suspected execution of tribal lad connected KISS campus
The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) connected Thursday announced that it would analyse the alleged execution of a insignificant tribal pupil by 3 of his hostel mates astatine the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), which claims to supply acquisition to astir 30,000 tribal students connected its Bhubaneswar campus.
Of 202 Indian recruits successful Russian Army, 26 killed, 7 missing, MEA tells Rajya Sabha
As galore arsenic 202 Indians are “believed to person been recruited into the Russian equipped forces” since 2022, and 26 of them are reported to person mislaid their lives, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed the Rajya Sabha connected Thursday (December 18, 2025), adding that astatine slightest 2 Indians person been cremated successful Russia.
Kingfisher Airlines employees to get ₹311.67 crore outgo towards long-pending dues
The Enforcement Directorate has facilitated the restitution of ₹311.67 crore towards long-pending workmen dues of Kingfisher Airlines Limited (KAL), a elder bureau authoritative said connected Thursday (December 18, 2025).
Democrats merchandise dozens much caller images from Jeffrey Epstein estate
Congressional Democrats released dozens of caller images from the estate of the precocious convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein connected Thursday (December 18, 2025), a time earlier the U.S. Justice Department is required by instrumentality to release unclassified files from its probe of the disgraced financier.
