News Highlights: PM Modi expresses condolences to families of security personnel killed in terror attack in J&K

Injury scare for Rohit Sharma as he gets hit on hand during training, Priyank Panchal called in as cover ahead of South Africa tour. Farmers trained for the movement for a year. This physical training under all weather conditions has been completed now. They have succeeded in the training, can now work for the next 30-40 years: BKU leader Rakesh Tikait on farm movement

. Rights activist Irom Sharmila, who was on a 16-year hunger strike against Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, says the recent killing of civilians in firing by security forces in Nagaland should be an eye-opener to repeal controversial security law from the northeast.

. Two unidentified militants were killed on Monday in an encounter with security forces on the outskirts of the city, police said.

. The ozone count in central Kolkata was 60 per cent more than the safe levels, raising concerns about public health and the threat it poses to the iconic Victoria Memorial.

. "It was here that the realization of Lord Buddha appeared for the world in Sarnath. Manishi like Kabir Das appeared here for social reform. When there was a need to connect the society, it also became the centre of the power of devotion of Saint Raidas ji", Modi says in Varanasi

. "Earlier, the temple area which was in only 3,000 square feet has now become about 5 lakh square feet. Now 50 to 75 thousand devotees can come to the temple and temple complex. That is, first the darshan-bath of Mother Ganga, and from there directly vishwanath dham", says PM.

. Islamic seminary Darool Uloom Deoband has condemned the reported decision of Saudi Arabia to ban Islamic missionary movement Tablighi Jamaat after denouncing it as a "gateway of terrorism".

Chief Rector of the seminary, Maulana Abul Qasim Nomani, has asked Saudi Arabia to rethink its decision, saying otherwise a wrong message may be conveyed to Muslims.

This is for the first time that the Islamic seminary of Deoband has openly condemned the Saudi government.

The religious affairs ministry of Saudi Arabia had recently dubbed the Tablighi Jamaat as a gateway of terrorism and banned it.

. An 18-year-old graduate of an Orthodox school tried to blow himself up at a convent outside Moscow on Monday, wounding at least one teenager, the interior ministry said on Monday.

"An 18-year-old graduate of this educational institution entered the premises of the Orthodox gymnasium of the Vvedenskiy Vladychniy convent and blew himself up", the ministry said in a statement.

A 15-year-old was injured in the attack, which took place in the city of Serpukhov south of Moscow, the statement said.

According to preliminary information, the would-be bomber was not killed in the blast, it said.

. (RIA)

. Cold conditions prevailed in parts of Rajasthan with Churu recording the lowest temperature of 5.4 degrees Celsius in the state on Monday, the MeT department said.

Sikar recorded a minimum temperature of 5.6 degrees Celsius, followed by Alwar (5.7 degrees Celsius), Sangaria (6 degrees Celsius), Pilani (6.6 degrees Celsius), Eranpura Road (6.8 degrees Celsius), Nagaur (7.3 degrees Celsius) and Sriganganagar (7.6 degrees Celsius).

State capital Jaipur recorded a low of 10.7 degrees Celsius

. The Congress-led Opposition in Kerala has decided to play the waiting game in the ongoing tiff between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan over the functioning of universities in the state.

. (SVT media)

. The Kerala High Court has directed the state government to furnish details of all the criminal cases relating to MLAs and MPs which were withdrawn after September 16 last year with the reasons for the same.

The details have been sought by the high court pursuant to a direction by the Supreme Court to all the High Courts to examine the "legality, propriety and bonafides" of withdrawals made after September 16, 2020, in cases relating to former and sitting legislators.

. Virat Kohli led India from the front for five years as the team's limited-overs captain, said his successor Rohit Sharma, insisting that he enjoyed "each and every moment" that he played under the star batter.

In his interaction with 'bcci.tv', Rohit spoke about how the team under Kohli had a "great time". Kohli stepped down as T20 captain after the World Cup in the UAE and was subsequently replaced by Rohit as ODI skipper earlier this month.

. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh will launch five 'Jan Vishwas Yatras' from different places in the poll-bound state on December 19.

The sixth yatra will start on December 20.

Senior BJP leaders will flag off the yatras from Bijnor in western Uttar Pradesh, Mathura in Braj, Jhansi in Bundelkhand, Ambedkar Nagar and Ballia in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The sixth yatra will be launched from Ghazipur, also in eastern Uttar Pradesh.

. A migrant worker from Odisha died after inhaling poisonous fumes while cleaning an effluent storage tank at a fish oil production factory in Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu.

Two other Odisha natives are stated to critical and admitted at Ramanathapuram Government Medical college in the incident that occurred on Sunday.

Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) of Ramanathapuram, Sheikh Mansoor conducted a preliminary inquiry and stopped the operations of the company immediately.

. Chief Ministers of 12 BJP ruled states and nine Deputy Chief Ministers will attend a two-day conclave in Varanasi scheduled to begin on Monday

The inaugural session will be addressed by BJP chief JPNadda, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi will give the valedictory address.

According to BJP National Secretary Arun Singh, the 12 participating Chief Ministers are from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

. India on Monday reported7,350 new Covid-19 cases and202 deaths, according to Union Health Ministry data.

. Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Monday invited stand-up comedians Kunal Kamra and Munawar Faruqui to hold a programme at Bhopal in the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh after they were recently denied permission for shows in Bengaluru.

Faruqui was last month denied nod to hold a show at Bengaluru in Karnataka amid the protest by the Hindu right wing outfits. A few days later, Kamra, a vocal critic of the government, said his stand-up shows scheduled to be held in Bengaluru were cancelled after the organisers received threats.

. Karim Benzema and Marco Asensio inflicted the latest blow on Atlético Madrid's title defense after leading Real Madrid to a 2-0 win Sunday to keep their team comfortably at the top of the Spanish league.

Vinícius Júnior again proved to be the difference for Madrid, setting up Benzema and Asensio in each half of the Spanish capital derby.

Diego Simeone's Atlético entered the Santiago Bernabéu needing a win to rekindle its hopes of getting back in the title race, seven months after it beat out Madrid and Barcelona in a thrilling finish to the 2020-21 season.

But the commanding win by Carlo Ancelotti’s side opened a 13-point gap for Madrid over fourth-place Atlético. There is still more than half the season left, but the chances of Simeone’s team repeating as champion are fading fast.

. Two persons were killed and three others injured when a container truck hit a stationary car on Agra-Mumbai Road in Madhya Pradesh's Shajapur district, police said on Monday.

The accident took place around 8 pm on Sunday between Maksi town and Shajapur district headquarters, about 150 km from the state capital Bhopal, when the victims were going to Ujjain from Ashok Nagar, Maksi police station in-charge Gopal Singh Chouhan said.

Those traveling in the car were changing a punctured tyre on a roadside near an eatery when a container truck hit their vehicle, he said.

. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday he's sleeping soundly after becoming the first premier in nine years to inhabit the official residence, which is reputedly haunted by ghosts.

The prime piece of real estate in central Tokyo stood empty during the terms of Kishida's most recent predecessors, Yoshihide Suga and Shinzo Abe.

The residence was the site of a 1936 attempted coup, in which several senior officials including a finance minister were assassinated by young military officers.

For years, the ghosts of some of those who were involved in the incident were reported to have haunted its hallways, but Kishida said Monday he was feeling fresh after the first nights in his new digs.

"I slept soundly yesterday," he told reporters, who asked whether he had spotted any of the residence's famed spooks.

. Tamil NaduGovernorR N Ravi hasannounceda State-levelessaycompetiton for high school and college students tocommemoratethe 139th birth anniversary of Mahakavi Subramania Bharathiyar and 75th year of India'sIndependence, the Raj Bhavan said on Sunday. The idea behind the competition was to create awareness among the youth about contributions of Bharathiyar to the freedom movement and to help learn more about the legend from Tamil Nadu, a Raj Bhavan press release here said.

. The chief ministers of12BJP-ruled states willattenda two-dayconclaveinVaranasifrom Monday in which nine deputy chief ministers of the party will also participate to deliberate on a wide range of subjects relating to good governance.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will alsoattendthe event aimed at showcasing the best governance-related practices from the party-ruled states,BJPgeneral secretary Arun Singh said in a statement, asserting that theconclavewill provide chief ministers an "opportunity to learn and grow from others and highlight the good they are doing".

. Several organisations in Assam on Sunday paidtributesto the fiveagitatorswho were killed in theanti-CAAstirtwo years ago, andresolvedtoresumethe movement against the Act.

Memorial meetings were organised at the residence of Sam Stafford, one of theslainagitators, and a playground in Guwahati, with attendeesresolvingto once again intensify thestiragainst the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

News Highlights: PM Modi expresses condolences to families of security personnel killed in terror attack in J&K

PM Modi expresses condolences to families of security personnel killed in terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir

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