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President Vladimir Putin ordered the transfer of rights to managing Russia’s second-busiest airport from foreign shareholders that include Germany’s Fraport AG and the Qatari wealth fund by shifting their stakes into a new domestic entity. Shareholdings in the Cyprus-registered concession that runs St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport will be consolidated in a new Russian company under a decree published late Thursday. Existing investors, which also include a consortium with Abu Dhabi sovereign fund Mubadala Investment Co., will retain their stakes but won’t be able to vote because those rights will be held only by Russian shareholders in the new company.

The Lok Sabha erupted in excitement this morning as the Parliament’s Winter Session got underway, welcoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A day after the BJP won all three of the core states’ assembly elections, cries of “teesri bar Modi sarkar” reverberated across the Lok Sabha. Along with Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, and Nitin Gadkari, the prime minister was sat in the front row. Ahead of the nation’s elections in 2019, BJP members seated in rows behind him applauded and clapped in approval of his return to power for a third term.

Jeff Bezos, the former CEO of Amazon and the second richest man in the world, and his fiancée Lauren Sanchez seem to love many activities together, but there’s one activity that Sanchez doesn’t share with him: working out.Although the couple works out together frequently, she told Vogue that she would rather keep their routine private. Sanchez declared, “We cannot perform the same exercises.” “He and I are at very different levels. His strength in the gym is unmatched,” claims Jeff Bezos’ fiancée. She has already complimented him on his dedication to fitness. She posted vacation pictures of Bezos without a...

Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia, praised the Indian government for their effective rescue effort that freed 41 workers who were trapped in the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand. In a social media post, Mr. Albanese took delight in the work of Professor Arnold Dix, an Australian tunnelling expert who led the two-week operation while overcoming numerous obstacles. Philip Green, the Australian High Commissioner to India, praised the rescue effort and called it a tremendous accomplishment.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared today that India is “on the verge of” totally defeating Maoist radicalism and that the Narendra Modi administration is “determined” to prevail in this conflict.He was speaking to Border Security Force (BSF) troopers during the paramilitary group’s 59th Raising Day festivities. On this day in 1965, the force, consisting of around 2.65 lakh personnel, was raised. According to Amit Shah, over the past ten years, there has been a 52% decrease in Maoist violence occurrences, a 70% decrease in deaths related to these incidents, and a 46% decrease in the number of afflicted districts....

In order to create international relations with Indian characteristics, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar emphasised the importance of bolstering Indian strategic culture and investing more energy in indigenous knowledge and traditions. He noted that the world is still largely ‘Western’ in terms of its intellectual concepts, traditions, and construct.Speaking here at the Symbiosis Institute in Pune on the subject of “India’s Strategic Culture: Addressing Global and Regional Challenges,” Mr. Jaishankar asked, “Is it not necessary that we actually devote more time, attention, and energies to look at our reservoir of culture, knowledge, history, and traditions?”

Main Atal Hoon, directed by Ravi Jadhav, stars Tripathi as the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a three-time prime minister who received the Bharat Ratna, the nation’s highest civilian accolade. Salim-Sulaiman is the composer of the soundtrack, and Rishi Virmani and Ravi Jadhav wrote the screenplay. The movie was originally supposed to come out in December 2023. Pankaj’s next film, Kadak Singh, will debut on the over-the-top platform Zee5 on December 8. Aside from that, he also has Metro In Dino, directed by Anurag Basu. Aditya Roy Kapur, Sara Ali Khan, Anupam Kher, Neena Gupta, Konkona Sen Sharma, Ali Fazal, and...

Rahul Gandhi, the head of the Congress, stated that certain politicians are “too smart” to hide their genuine wealth from the public eye and hence cannot be assessed by their modesty or less expensive watches. Mr. Gandhi stated that one may determine the genuine character of certain politicians by looking at their offspring during the Kozhikode, Kerala, book launch of a biography on the late Muslim League leader P. Seethi Haji. You are aware that the politicians I encounter are intelligent individuals. Politicians of today will only display the information they deem appropriate. “They occasionally show up to see me...

In a furious interview on Wednesday, billionaire Elon Musk ordered advertisers who had left his social networking platform X because to antisemitic content to “go f*** yourself.”His profanity-laced words came after a moment of repentance in a New York Times DealBook Summit interview, when he first said “I’m sorry” for a tweet on Nov. 15 that concurred with an anti-Jewish post on X. Musk has suffered a barrage of criticism since agreeing with a user who erroneously claimed Jewish people were inciting hatred against white people on November 15, claiming the user who mentioned the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory was...

A senior US State Department source said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not make peace in Ukraine until he knows the outcome of the November 2024 US election. This comes amid concerns that a likely victory for US President Donald Trump could undermine Western support for Kyiv.Trump, who is running for reelection in 2024 and is the leading Republican presidential contender, has been harshly critical of US assistance for Kyiv. According to a senior source briefing media following a NATO foreign ministers conference in Brussels, the alliance restated its support for Ukraine, despite the fact that a...