The Tamil Nadu Police arrested Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer Ankit Tiwari for allegedly demanding a bribe of around ₹20 lakh. The police caught Ankit red-handed while he was receiving the amount from a person in Dindigul.

Indian woman Anju, who went to Pakistan to marry her Facebook friend in July, returned home through Wagah Border to meet her two children from her first marriage.

After going to Pakistan, the 34-year-old had converted to Islam and changed her name to Fatima.

At the World Russian People's Council, President Putin urged Russian women to have more children, ideally up to eight, to combat the nation's falling birth rate.

Facing a shrinking workforce and economic issues, Putin's call supports large families.

🚀 🛰 South Korea launches its first spy satellite after rival North Korea did the same

Uttar Pradesh's Smita Srivastava has earned a Guinness World Record for the longest hair at 7'9", having not cut it since she was 14. It takes her 45 minutes to wash and detangle her hair twice weekly.

At the UNGA, Ruchira Kamboj, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, stated that the country stands with Palestine and urged peace amid the Israel-Hamas conflict.

She said, "India has always supported a negotiated two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine issue leading to the establishment of a sovereign, independent and viable State of Palestine living...side-by-side in peace with Israel"

Single biggest outcome of Exit Polls

98.5% Muslims voted against BJP

-via Flt lt Anoop Verma

Most viral selfie pic on social media

Home Minister Amit Shah has said India's two major borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh will be completely secured in the next two years, with work underway to plug gaps in about 60-km stretch along these two fronts.

Over 1,000 Rohingya have fled Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar camps for Indonesia this month, escaping worsening conditions and violence

Regional conflict in the Gaza Strip is impacting tourism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, causing a mass surge in booking cancellations.

Egypt's tourism, accounting for 15% of GDP, is facing a sharp drop in ticket sales, while Jordan reports a 50% drop in hotel bookings, and Lebanon's hotel occupancy plummets to 7%

'BAN ONLINE BETTING'

:CM Bhupesh Baghel writes ✍️ 📜 to PM Modi

India's fiscal deficit reached ₹8.04 lakh crore in the first seven months of the current financial year, 45% of the full-year estimate.

Net tax revenues were at ₹13.02 lakh crore, 55.9% of the annual target.

Government expenditure stood at 23.94 lakh crore, and capital expenditure was ₹5.47 lakh crore, over half of the yearly objective.

Eurecom researchers discovered new Bluetooth security flaws, allowing attackers to control connections across devices using versions 4.2 to 5.4, including devices launched after 2014.

Undertrial prisoners are being monitored using GPS trackers, violating their right to privacy and potentially turning the world into an open prison :Hamzah Patel writes

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that 97.26% of the ₹2000 banknotes in circulation have been withdrawn, bringing down the total value still in circulation to Rs.9,760 crore as of Nov 30, 2023.

Last night in Khan Younis, Gaza

Infosys Founder Narayana Murthy emphasized compassionate capitalism as the only solution for India's poverty, arguing that it combines free markets and entrepreneurship, not socialism or communism.