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Thursday, December 18, 2025
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Topic: PTI

Mystery surrounds ‘abducted’ activist’s return after seven months

Army spokesperson denies involvement of military in elections and survey shows young citizens likely to vote for Imran Khan.

Imran Khan as prime minister would be bad news for Pakistan’s democracy

Imran Khan as prime minister would set back Pakistan by reversing progress towards civilian rule in a country long dominated by the army.

Days before Pakistan polls, Imran Khan’s party inducts US-designated terrorist

Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil is founder of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, blamed for the 1999 Kandahar hijacking.

In Lalu’s company Rahul will appreciate only fodder, not surgical strikes: Shah

The BJP chief said even with an economist as its PM, Congress left behind a fragile economy to be mended by the son of a tea vendor.

LGBTQ will not be ostracised once Sec 377 is declared unconstitutional: Supreme Court

The top court noted that discrimination against the LGBTQ community has also adversely impacted their mental health.

Not educating girls costs the world $30 trillion, or the GDP of a dozen Indias

According to the World Bank, on average, women with a secondary education earn almost twice as much as those with none. 

After agreeing to China project, Nepal links pact with India on Raxaul-Kathmandu rail link

The agreement is for a preliminary engineering-cum-traffic survey to build a railway link.

Nawaz Sharif attacked while entering controversial London apartment

Pakistan, China to monitor CPEC from space, and former minister blames India for terror rap.

Pakistan has just planted over a billion trees

The Billion Tree Tsunami reforestation project added 350,000 hectares of trees in three years in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The first woman advocate general of Pakistan Punjab removed after PTI raises a stink

Pakistan opener Ahmad Shahzad may have failed dope test and Imran Khan is contesting the rejection of his nomination papers.

On Camera

MGNREGA was democratic state-building. VB-GRAMG turns welfare back to mai-baapism

MGNREGA empowered citizens to engage the state on equal terms. VB-GRAMG recasts them as labharthis, who must prove eligibility to receive the largesse of a benevolent leader.

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.