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Nine top financial changes in December 2023: December is a month when it is a good time to review one's finances as one step into the new year. Various financial changes will take place in December 2023, including a new timeline for IPOs, changes to lounge access on HDFC Bank's Regalia credit card, and the deadline for free updation of Aadhaar. However, there are a few money changes that may impact your wealth in the same month and we've got it decoded for you.

Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the Khalistani separatist and Indian-origin citizen of the US and Canada, is in the spotlight after the US law enforcement authorities on Wednesday announced the filing of a «murder-for-hire» charges against Indian national Nikhil Gupta in what they said was a «foiled plot to assassinate» Pannun in New York City allegedly supervised by an Indian government official. Pannun has been the most vocal proponent of Khalistan in recent years, holding Khalistani referendums in Western countries and announcing rewards to Indian SIkhs for writing Khalistani graffiti and hoisting Khalistani flags. A designated terrorist wanted in India in nearly two dozen cases related to terror and sedition, Pannun has emerged as the biggest figurehead of the Khalistani movement, threatening India and Hindus with impunity, even threatening obliquely to blow up Air India flights recently. Read More:'Matter of concern,' New Delhi says as US indictment names Indian on Khalistani Pannun's murder plot charges Pannun started out as an eccentric activist, who would file cases in American courts against visiting Indian politicians for their alleged role in the 1984 Sikh riots, and has now become the most reocgnised face of the global Khalistani movement. The beginning of Pannun “Children often bring pride to their village or towns, but Gurpatwant has besmirched its reputation with a tag of a terrorist's village and brought us shame,” Sarjan Singh, a resident of Pannun's ancestral village Khankot, on the outskirts of Amritsar in Punjab, had told TOI three years ago.

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi on Thursday said that the case against an individual that has been filed in a US court, allegedly linking him to an Indian official, is a ‘matter of concern’. As reported by ANI, Bagchi said, "As regards the case against an individual that has been filed in a US court, allegedly linking him to an Indian official, this is a matter of concern.

scuffle broke out at a polling booth in Jangaon Assembly Constituency in Telangana while voting was underway on Thursday. As per the reports, a contingent of police reached the spot and brought the situation under control. The scuffle reportedly broke out between workers of the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi, Congress and BJP. The purported video of the scuffle was caught on camera and shared on social media.

murder-for-hire charges for an attempt to kill Khalistani separatist and leader of banned Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) outfit Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil. The development comes just hours after India announced they have formed a high-level probe committee into security concerns shared by the US during the recently concluded bilateral meet. -- The US Justice Department has filed charges against an Indian national for an alleged plot to assassinate a US-based leader of the Sikh Separatist Movement and a citizen in New York.

Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) on Wednesday, November 29, notified of the upcoming interruption in water supply in some parts of Thane through Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation for 12 hours. Citing repair work and maintenance, TMC said the interruption would occur on December 1. "Urgent repair work will be undertaken at Katai Naka on Barvi Gravity Channel through Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation.

China and India will be granted visa-free entry to Malaysia for a duration of up to 30 days from December 1, as announced by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during a speech at the People's Justice Party congress on Sunday. The visa exemptions, confirmed by Malaysia's Home Affairs Ministry in a statement on Monday, will be in effect until December 31, 2024. As reported by PTI, China and India represent Malaysia's fourth and fifth-largest tourist markets.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Nikhil Gupta, 52, worked with the Indian government employee, whose responsibilities included security and intelligence, on the plot to assassinate the New York City resident who advocated for a Sikh sovereign state in northern India. Prosecutors did not name the Indian official or the target, although they did describe the latter as a U.S.

Narendra Modi urged the people of Telangana on Thursday to cast their votes in record numbers in the elections to the 119-member state Assembly. Voting began at 7 am at various polling booths across the state.

Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, the Red Cross and other authorities said. In a repeat of scenes over the past six days during a humanitarian pause in hostilities, the civilians were released to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and driven in vehicles to Israel. Two Russian citizens and four Thai citizens were released outside the framework of the agreement while the 10 Israeli citizens freed included five dual citizens, Ansari said. They were a Dutch dual citizen, who is also a minor, three German dual citizens and one U.S.

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An Indian national is facing murder-for-hire charges in a case of what American law enforcement are calling an attempt “to assassinate a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil,” with an alleged connection to an employee of the Indian government.

Indian national with conspiring to assassinate a U.S. citizen who advocated for a sovereign state for Sikhs, the U.S.

chief economic advisor, V Anantha Nageswaran, also pointing to the need for cities to provide clean air and open spaces. “Our cities have become health traps. We need to ensure that citizens and children are facilitated to undertake physical activity,” CEA Nageswaran said, speaking at a panel discussion at Leveraging Private Finance for Urban Infrastructure Development –Learnings from G20 Infrastructure Working Group (IWG) event in Delhi on Wednesday. The chief economic advisor also stressed the issue of land use conversion, also raised by the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. “The issue of land-use conversion has been plaguing us,” the CEA said, highlighting a need for simpler processes similar to what some states have instituted under business facilitation legislation.

Amrit Brikshya Andolan launched by the Government of Assam received fitting recognition, as the state created nine Guinness World Records in nine different categories. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma received the certificates from Guinness World Record Adjudicator Swapnil Dangarikar at a function held at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra here today. Sarma launched Amrit Brikshya Andolan and as a part of the drive a total of 1,11,17,781 seedling of commercially valuable tree species were planted across the State on a single day on 17 September, 2023. The entire exercise was carried out in Jan Bhagidaari model, through active involvement of the Self-Help Group Members, ASHA Workers, Anganwadi Workers, educational institutions, police personnel including VDP, tea garden workers, government officials and other citizens. During Amrit Brikshya Andolan started by the Department of Environment and Forests attempts were made to create Guinness World Records.

Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved that the central government will provide free grains to eligible citizens under the public distribution scheme for another five years. The centre's intention to extend the PM Garib Kalyan Yojana was mentioned by Prime Minister Modi himself during his election rallies earlier this month. During an election rally in Durg on November 4, Chhattisgarh the Prime Minister had made the announcement of the decision to extend the free ration scheme.

America First" agenda resonates with George Washington's vision, said Indian-American Republican presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy in a conversation with Darren Beattie in an exclusive interview. "I think something that's consistent with George Washington's vision." When Donald Trump spoke on "making sure that we look after the interests of citizens here at home rather than taking into account the interests of citizens in plural nations abroad, that was George Washington's 1796 farewell address in a nutshell. That's what MAGA and the America First movement is really about," said Ramaswamy in his interview with Revolver.news.

Karnataka High Court on Wednesday accepted a memo filed by the State Government withdrawing its consent to the CBI to probe Deputy CM DK Shivakumar in a disproportionate assets (DA) case. The court also allowed Shivakumar to withdraw his appeal challenging the investigation, citing the withdrawal of consent to the central agency.