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Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) President Fred Oldfield on Saturday reflected on legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar being honoured with Honorary Cricket Membership of MCC.

Manmohan Singh. President Droupadi Murmu, vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge as well as the Gandhis and a galaxy of leaders from across parties visited Singh's official residence to pay their respects.

Power Purchase Adjustment Charges (PPAC) have been sharply reduced in Delhi which will provide a relief to the city's consumers who can expect lower electricity bills now, officials said on Friday. Discom officials said the earlier (September) PPAC of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL) was 37.88 percent, BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) 37.75 percent and BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) 35.83 percent.

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Capitol riot, both the Republicans and the Democrats appear to be on the same page while agreeing on facilitating a smooth transfer of power to US President- elect Donald Trump, in spite of various Democrats viewing him as an insurrectionist, reported Politico.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON—They won, but barely. Republicans held on to control of the House of Representatives in November by one of the thinnest margins in the country’s history—even smaller than in the current Congress—a result that will have them walking a tightrope again for the next two years.

South Korea's leadership crisis will play out in the Constitutional Court, which will decide the fate of President Yoon Suk Yeol and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, both impeached and suspended from power over a short-lived martial law.

JSW Energy on Friday announced that its board has approved appointment of Feby Koshy as the Executive Vice President — Head of Thermal. His appointment is effective from December 30, JSW Energy said in an exchange filing.

Han Duck-soo, who was impeached on Friday as South Korea's acting president, is a career technocrat whose wide-ranging experience and reputation for rationality failed to shield him from growing political turmoil.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. We button up the astounding year with the scandal of 2024, which won’t take on its true size and historical significance until some time passes. Its facts—who did what, starting when, how it worked—will be fully reported not by journalists but by historians.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is walking an old tightrope into 2025: He is trying to avoid appearing confrontational with Donald Trump, even though some of his colleagues are signaling unease that the president-elect’s policies might rekindle inflationary pressures. The difficult balancing act was on full display over the last two months.

Manmohan Singh was one of those rare people who achieved greatness by dint of hard work and merit, and then found grander greatness thrust upon him. He became the Prime Minister, because the then Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, needed someone trustworthy and capable to occupy the position that was rightfully hers as leader of the majority group after the 2004 general elections but she deemed politic to renounce, for assorted reasons. He thus did not have direct authority from the people, but enjoyed delegated authority, granted by the political party that had won the largest number of seats.

Dr Manmohan Singh has sent a wave of mourning across the nation. Leaders from both ruling and opposition parties expressed grief over his demise and remembered his contributions.

 Zelman & Associates executive vice president Ivy Zelman discusses the hurdles of home affordability on 'Barron's Roundtable.'

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump says he told Canadian hockey legend Wayne Gretzky during a Christmas Day visit that he should run for prime minister of Canada.

US President Joe Biden is reportedly preparing to leave the White House with really minimal fanfare following a challenging year for the Democrats who lost to US President- elect Donald Trump in the US Presidential Elections 2024, reported The Hill.

Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashed Wednesday near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, killing 38 people and leaving 29 survivors, a Kazakh official said.Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbaev disclosed the figures while meeting with Azerbaijani officials, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.The Embraer 190 was en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus when it was diverted and attempted an emergency landing 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from Aktau, Azerbaijan Airlines said.Speaking at a news conference, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that it was too soon to speculate on the reasons behind the crash, but said that the weather had forced the plane to change from its planned course.“The information provided to me is that the plane changed its course between Baku and Grozny due to worsening weather conditions and headed to Aktau airport, where it crashed upon landing,” he said.Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said that preliminary information showed that the pilots diverted to Aktau after a bird strike led to an emergency on board.According to Kazakh officials, those aboard the plane included 42 Azerbaijani citizens, 16 Russian nationals, six Kazakhs and three Kyrgyzstan nationals. Azerbaijan’s prosecutor general’s office previously said that 32 of the 67 people on board had survived the crash, but told journalists that the number wasn’t final.

Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash on Christmas Day has sparked widespread speculation and investigations into its cause. The Embraer 190 flying from Baku to Grozny made an emergency landing attempt near the Kazak city of Aktau and a total of 38 persons died, 29 of them survived with some degree of injury. In the set of the latest theories, there are also those which hypothesize the airplane could have misintercepted or fallen victim to a Russian air defense weapon.