- The trophy tour of the 2023 Men’s FIH Hockey World Cup (WC) was kick-started Monday with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik handing over the trophy to Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey.
- Exit polls Monday predicted a big majority for the BJP in Gujarat and a dead heat in Himachal Pradesh where most pollsters gave an edge to the ruling party over the Congress.
- Asserting the purpose of charity should not be conversion, the Supreme Court reaffirmed Monday that forced religious conversion is a ‘serious issue’ and against the Constitution.
- More than 80 per cent of 2.57 lakh voters Monday exercised their franchise till 6pm in the bypoll to Padampur Assembly constituency amid tight security, an Election Commission official said.
- The state government has decided to provide rice to the hostels run by Scheduled Tribe (ST) & Scheduled Caste (SC) Development department at their doorstep.
- The Supreme Court Monday granted three weeks to the registries of 25 High Courts, including Orissa, to file their replies to the plea seeking setting up of online RTI (Right to Information) portals.
- Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Monday attended the G20 preparatory meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Rashtrapati Bhawan to solicit suggestions for the G20 summit in 2023.
- The cyber fraudsters siphoned off Rs.1, 17, 91,081 from the bank accounts of the 340 victims in Capital city last month. As many as 365 victims of cyber fraud from across the state have contacted the cyber crime help desk of the city seeking help during November 2022.
- The Water Resources department will take up upgrading and beautification work at the tourist site at an expense of `2 crore. It will be done to attract more tourists to the waterfall. As part of this development, the beautification work in the periphery of Sanamachhakandana dam will also be taken up.
- Farooq Abdullah was Monday re-elected unopposed the president of the National Conference (NC), barely a fortnight after the 85-year-old leader announced he would not run for another term.
- Doctors in Singapore successfully transplanted the kidney of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday, his son and Bihar's Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav said.
- China’s former president Jiang Zemin was cremated in Beijing Monday in the presence of the top leaders of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) including President Xi Jinping. He was the President and General Secretary of the CPC from 1989 to 2002.
- Ukraine said Russia had destroyed homes in the south and knocked out power in the north in a new round of missile attacks Monday as the West tried to limit Moscow's ability to finance its invasion by imposing a price cap on Russian seaborne oil.
- Dominique Lapierre, the bestselling French author well-known in India for his ode to the city of Kolkata titled ‘The City of Joy', has died aged 91, his wife has confirmed.
- Billionaire Gautam Adani’s conglomerate Monday raised its stake in New Delhi Television Ltd to more than 37% through an open offer, making it the biggest shareholder of one of the country’s most popular news networks.
- Ahead of the Union Budget 2023-24, 51 eminent economists have written to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and demanded an increase in social security pensions and an adequate provision for maternity benefits.
- The opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) announced a massive protest march in Mumbai on December 17 against the Eknath Shinde government for insulting Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute.
- After three exit polls on Monday predicted a clear win for the AAP in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi polls, the party said that the people have voted for the good work done by it while the BJP said it will do much better than the predictions.
- Film producer Jaison Joseph was found dead in his apartment near Panampilly Nagar here on Monday, police said. He was 44.
- Janata Dal (United) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh, better known as Lalan Singh, was elected unopposed for a fresh three-year term at the helm of the regional party.
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