Lok Sabha News Live Updates: Indian Rupee has been strong against every currency, says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Eknath Shinde, Devendra Fadnavis and Smriti Irani in Gujarat

Lok Sabha adjourned till 2 pm

JP Nadda in Gujarat

Shah Rukh Khan pays obeisance at Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in J&K

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan offered prayers at the revered shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi atop Trikuta hills in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said on Monday. Khan, dressed in complete black with hooded jacket, reached the shrine late Sunday night to pay his obeisance, the official said.

ONGC to invest Rs 2,150 cr on drilling 53 exploratory wells in Andhra Pradesh

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd proposes to drill 53 exploratory wells in Andhra Pradesh- 50 in Godavari on-Land PML (Petroleum Mining Lease) Block of KG Basin and three in CD-ONHP-2020/1 (OALP-Vi) Block Of Cuddapah basin with an investment outlay of Rs 2,150 crore. Andhra Pradesh State-Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) in a meeting held last month cleared two separate proposals put up by the ONGC for environmental clearance.

Maharashtra-Karnataka border row

“Day after tomorrow (December 14) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold a meeting with both states,” says Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai

Morgan Stanley plans to cut bankers’ bonuses in Asia by up to 50% for 2022

Reported Reuters quoting sources.

Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio arrives in Gandhinagar to attend the swearing-in ceremony of CM-designate Bhupendra Patel

“We’ve come here to celebrate the victory of Gujarat. In partnership, we are very much confident of winning polls (in Nagaland),” he says.

Gujarat cabinet

I am a very young MLA. I only believe in working for the party. BJP will decide who they want to keep in the cabinet. I will happily accept whatever responsibility the party decides to give me: BJP MLA Hardik Patel

The Indian rupee has been strong against every currency. Reserve Bank has used foreign exchange reserves that it has to intervene in the market to make sure that the Dollar-Rupee fluctuation does not go too much

– Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha

It is sad that some people in Parliament are jealous of country’s increasing economy. India has the fastest-growing economy but opposition has a problem with it. Everyone should be proud of India’s growth but some people take it as a joke

– Union FM Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha

OnePlus ties up with Reliance Jio for 5G

OnePlus has updated the majority of its existing portfolio of 5G smartphones with support for Reliance Jio’s standalone 5G network. Deepening the collaboration, OnePlus and Jio are offering cashback benefits to eligible users during the smartphone brand’s anniversary sale from December 18.

Samajwadi Party’s Dimple Yadav takes oath as Lok Sabha MP after getting elected from Mainpuri parliamentary seat

Rains likely over Tamil Nadu, schools in some districts closed

Chennai and several parts of Tamil Nadu received rain on Monday with the IMD forecasting more rainfall till December 15 owing to a cyclonic circulation and low pressure area likely to form in the Bay of Bengal around December 13. Schools in certain areas including in Tiruvallur and Uthukottai Taluks besides Kancheepuram district declared a holiday on Monday based on the forecast.

Churu coldest in Rajasthan with minimum of 5 degrees Celsius

Churu was the coldest place in Rajasthan where the mercury dipped to 5 degrees Celsius on Sunday night. The night temperatures were above normal in districts in the Jodhpur division while they were nearly normal in the rest of the divisions.

Maharashtra’s former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh granted bail by Bombay High Court in corruption case

Second Iranian detainee executed over alleged protest crime

Iran said Monday it executed a second prisoner detained and convicted amid nationwide protests challenging the country’s theocracy, airing footage on state television it claimed showed him stabbing two men to death and running away. The public hanging of Majidreza Rahnavard, less than a month after he allegedly carried out the fatal stabbings of two security officials, shows the speed at which Iran now carries out death sentences handed down for those detained in the demonstrations the government hopes to put down.

Bombay HC Chief Justice Dipankar Datta administered oath as Supreme Court judge by CJI D Y Chandrachud

Delhi airport congestion: Scindia visits T3 to inspect arrangements

Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday inspected the arrangements made at Terminal 3 of the Delhi airport to ease congestion. Scindia, who was accompanied by senior ministry officials, also interacted with security personnel and others at the airport, according to officials. In recent days, there have been complaints from passengers about long queues and waiting hours at the airport.

Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda gives Zero Hour notice in Rajya Sabha to raise the matter of “Medical Bond Policy”

No title can take away impact you’ve had on people: Kohli hails “GOAT” Ronaldo after Portugal’s WC exit

BJP leader Bhupendra Patel will take oath as the CM of Gujarat for a second consecutive time today, in the presence of PM Modi and CMs of BJP-led states

Around Rs 1.25 lakh crores of black money have been recovered by the Government: Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

Disproportionate assets worth Rs 4,600 crores were attached.

Air quality in the ‘Poor’ category in Mumbai, as per System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR)-India

Actor Jacqueline Fernandez arrives at Patiala House Court in Delhi to appear in connection with the Rs 200 crores money laundering case involving conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar

YSRCP MP V Vijayasai Reddy gives Zero Hour notice in Rajya Sabha over “rising incidents of blackmail and extortion by instant loan apps.”

Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia makes a surprise visit to Terminal 3 of Delhi International Airport amid complaints of congestion by passengers at the airport

PM Modi has a clear vision that the country should not go towards shortcut politics but good governance. PM has prepared a digital structure to make sure that good governance reaches every person in the country

– Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

SC grants anticipatory bail to Amazon Prime Video’s India head Aparna Purohit

BJP Parliamentary party meeting scheduled to be held tomorrow at Parliament Library Building in Delhi

Steady growth in Direct Tax collections

Net collection in FY 2022-23 is 24.26% higher than the net collection for the corresponding period of the preceding year.61.79% of Budget Estimates for FY 2022-23 already achieved.

Gearing up for Karnataka polls

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge calls a meeting of senior leaders of Karnataka today in the AICC office for a discussion on upcoming Assembly Polls in Karnataka after which Mallikarjun Kharge will also be meeting party leaders and workers.

Rupee falls 35 paise to 82.63 against US dollar in early trade

India reports single-day rise of 159 Covid infections; active case count declines by seven to 3,906: Union Health Ministry

Priyanka Gandhi, husband Robert Vadra join Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Rajasthan

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, her husband Robert Vadra and hundreds of women joined Rahul Gandhi as the Bharat Jodo Yatra resumed from the neighbouring Bundi district on Monday which is being observed as a day to spread the message of women empowerment. The march, which resumed around 6 am from the Tejaji Maharaj Mandi at Babai, is being called a daylong Nari Shakti Pad Yatra on Monday.

Corruption case: Bombay HC may decide ex-Maha minister Anil Deshmukh’s bail plea

The Bombay High Court is likely to pass an order on Monday on the bail plea of former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in a corruption case being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). A single bench of Justice M S Karnik had reserved the order on the plea last week after both sides completed their arguments.

Musk targets US Covid response lead Fauci in viral tweet

The Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022

Union Minister for Power and New & Renewable Energy, RK Singh to move ‘The Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022’ in the Rajya Sabha today to amend the Energy Conservation Act, 2001. The Lok Sabha has already passed the bill.

Oil rises on uncertainty over U.S. pipeline restart, Russian supplies

Oil prices rose more than 1% on Monday as a key pipeline supplying the United States stayed shut while Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to cut production in retaliation for a Western price cap on its exports. Brent crude futures were up 30 cents, or 0.4%, to $76.40 a barrel by 0300 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $71.53 a barrel, up 51 cents, or 0.7%.

India is one of the leading countries in terms of economic growth, maybe even the leader. Its population will soon be bigger than any other country. India has vast diplomatic experience in settling various kinds of problems

– Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Yemen war has killed or maimed over 11,000 children: UN

More than 11,000 children are known to have been killed or maimed in Yemen’s civil war since it escalated nearly eight years ago, the United Nations said Monday. “The true toll of this conflict is likely to be far higher,” said the children’s agency UNICEF about the casualties of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

6 killed, 17 injured in ‘indiscriminate fire’ by Afghan forces in Baloch province: Pak Army

2 School students dead near Mumbai as bus returning from picnic overturns

China’s rules for “deepfakes” to take effect from Jan. 10

China’s new rules for content providers that alter facial and voice data will take effect from Jan. 10, its cyberspace regulator said, as it looks to more tightly scrutinize so-called “deepfake” technology and services. The regulations from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued late on Sunday provide for people to be protected from being impersonated without their consent by deepfakes – images that are virtually indistinguishable from the original, and easily used for manipulation or misinformation.

NASA capsule Orion splashes down after record-setting lunar voyage

NASA’s Orion space capsule splashed down safely in the Pacific on Sunday, completing the Artemis 1 mission — a more than 25-day journey around the Moon with an eye to returning humans there in just a few years. After racing through the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers) per hour, the uncrewed capsule floated down to the sea with the help of three large orange and white parachutes, as seen on NASA TV.

China reports 8,838 new COVID cases

China reported 8,838 new COVID-19 infections on Dec. 11, of which 2,240 were symptomatic and 6,598 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Monday. That is compared with 10,815 new cases a day earlier – 2,338 symptomatic and 8,477 asymptomatic infections, which China counts separately.

Democrat Bass takes charge as LA mayor amid homeless crisis

Karen Ruth Bass, a former physician assistant who shattered glass ceilings with her rise to a leadership post in the California legislature and later a prominent spot in Congress, took a ceremonial oath of office on Sunday as mayor of Los Angeles. A progressive Democrat, Bass becomes the first woman and second Black person to hold the city’s top job and will formally assume her duties Monday amid multiple crises in the nation’s second most populous city.

Bhupendra Patel to take oath as Gujarat Chief Minister today

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Bhupendra Patel will take oath as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a second straight term in Gandhinagar today in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other dignitaries, BJP leaders said on Sunday. Patel will be administered the oath as the 18th chief minister by Governor Acharya Devvrat at a function to be held at the Helipad Ground near the new Secretariat in Gandhinagar at 2 PM.

Four hit with corruption charges over EU lobbying scandal

Four people have been charged with being part of a criminal group, money laundering and corruption in connection with an investigation into suspected influence peddling by a Persian Gulf country at the European Union’s parliament, the Belgian federal prosecutors office said Sunday. The lobbying scandal, which allegedly involves Qatari officials, has already seen parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili relieved of her duties.

Pioneering Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes dies at 84

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84. Hughes died Dec. 1 in Tampa, Florida, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, said Maurice Sconiers of the Sconiers Funeral Home in Columbus, Georgia.

Paul Silas, 3-time NBA champion, longtime coach, dies at 79

Paul Silas, a member of three NBA championship teams as a player and LeBron James’ first coach in the league, has died, his family announced Sunday. He was 79. The family revealed the death through the Houston Rockets, for whom Silas’ son, Stephen, is a second-generation head coach.

Japanese company’s lander rockets toward moon with UAE rover

A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates’ first lunar rover and a toylike robot from Japan that’s designed to roll around up there in the gray dust. It will take nearly five months for the lander and its experiments to reach the moon.

UK trade minister in India to ‘kickstart’ new round of FTA talks

UK Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch arrives in New Delhi on Monday to “kickstart” the sixth round of free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations and hold bilateral talks with her Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal. The new round marks the first formal meeting between the India-UK negotiating teams since July and the first since Rishi Sunak took charge as British Prime Minister. His Trade Secretary will address both teams of senior negotiators ahead of the sixth round of formal negotiations, scheduled to take place throughout the week.