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New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI) Following are the top stories at 9.30 PM NATION DEL105 ELECTIONS-COUNTING-LDALL CURTAIN RAISER Counting of votes for Gujarat, HP Assembly elections tomorrow; BJP eyeing new records, Cong, AAP keep fingers crossed Ahmedabad/Shimla: The BJP is eyeing a record seventh straight term in Gujarat and also hoping to buck the anti-incumbency trend in Himachal Pradesh witnessed for nearly four decades as the stage is set for counting of votes on Thursday for the Assembly elections in the two states.
DEL96 LDALL MCD AAP wrests MCD, ends 15-year BJP rule New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday won the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections with 134 seats, ending the 15-year rule of the BJP in the civic body, an outcome that will further impact the ongoing power tussle between the two parties in the national capital.
DEL98 LSQ-RESERVATION No proposal to alter existing reservation scheme: Govt New Delhi: There is no proposal to alter the existing reservation scheme, the government said on Wednesday, a month after the Supreme Court upheld 10 per cent reservation for Economically Weaker Sections in admissions and government jobs.
DEL103 DEF-MALAYSIA-VISIT Vice Chief of Army Lt Gen Raju leaves for 3-day visit to Malaysia New Delhi: Vice Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen BS Raju on Wednesday left for Malaysia on a three-day visit to explore expansion of bilateral military cooperation on a host of strategic issues.
DEL95 MAMATA-LD PARL Centre "forcefully" pushing through bills; afraid for future of parliamentary democracy: Mamata New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hit out at the government on Wednesday alleging it was using its majority to "forcefully" push through bills in Parliament and expressed concerns over the future of parliamentary democracy.
BOM24 MH-BORDER ROW-MSRTC BUSES Border dispute: MSRTC partially suspends bus services to Karnataka Mumbai: Amid the simmering border row, Maharashtra"s state-run bus operator on Wednesday said it has suspended 382 bus services to Karnataka, of the total 1,156 services operated by it daily to the neighbouring state.
MDS16 KA-BORDER DISPUTE-2NDLD SITUATION Border row: Karnataka suspends bus services to Maharashtra owing to protests Belagavi (K"taka): The North West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC) on Wednesday suspended its services to Maharashtra after reports emerged of some buses being defaced and damaged in the regions bordering Belagavi district.
DEL99 DL-MCD-LD KEJRIWAL Need "blessings" of Centre, PM Modi to improve civic amenities, says Kejriwal after MCD poll win New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday thanked the people for AAP"s victory in the MCD polls and sought the cooperation of the BJP and the Congress as well as the "blessings" of the Centre and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to improve civic amenities here. DES66 DL-SISODIA-POACHING BJP trying to "poach" newly-elected AAP councillors, alleges Delhi Dy CM Sisodia New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday alleged that the BJP was trying to poach newly-elected AAP councillors and asserted that none of them will fall prey to their "game".
DES57 DL-MCD POLLS-VOTE SHARE MCD polls: Even in defeat, BJP vote share rises by 3 pc New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday lost the MCD polls to the AAP in a close contest, but managed to raise its vote share by 3 per cent as compared to 2017 civic body elections in the national capital.
DES47 DL-MCD POLLS-PATPARGANJ-SHAKURBASTI MCD polls: Wards in Jain, Sisodia"s Assembly constituencies swept by BJP New Delhi: The BJP swept three of the four wards in the Patparganj Assembly segment and all three in the Shakur Basti constituency held by senior AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain -- both targets of sustained attacks over corruption by the saffron party -- in the MCD elections.
MES7 KA-MCD-AAP After winning civic polls in Delhi, AAP looks to replicate performance in Bengaluru Bengaluru: Buoyed by the victory in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections, the Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday said it alone has the ability to defeat the BJP and hoped to get a similar response in the local body elections in Bengaluru whenever it is held.
DES52 RAIL-FREIGHT-TARGET Rlys achieves 1,000 MT milestone for FY 2022-23 New Delhi: The Indian Railways has achieved the yearly milestone in freight transportation by crossing the 1,000 million tons (MT) mark in this fiscal, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
DEL106 YATRA-RAHUL-RJ Raj govt fulfilled promise to waive farm loans, says Rahul during Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kota Kota (Raj): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday asserted that his party delivers on its promises and has waived loans of 22 lakh farmers in Rajasthan.
CAL14 BH-RESERVATION-REMARKS "Reservation" mocked inside Patna HC; Bihar politicos not impressed Patna: The political fraternity in Bihar on Wednesday strongly disapproved of the alleged denigration of a government employee inside the Patna High Court recently, with allusions to his having secured his job through "reservation".
MDS17 TL-KCR-MAKE IN INDIA KCR lambasts NDA govt over "Make in India" Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday attacked the NDA government at the Centre over its "Make in India," LIC disinvestment and other initiatives, alleging that no new industries have come but PSUs are allegedly being sold off.
BUSINESS DEL104 BIZ-INDIA-RUSSIA-OIL PRICE-CAP Russian oil price cap: India says concerned about stability, affordability New Delhi: Days after the EU agreed on a price cap on Russian seaborne oil, India on Wednesday said the impact of the move was unclear and it was concerned about the stability and affordability of the energy markets.
FOREIGN FGN54 TIME-LIST-ZELENSKYY Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is TIME"s Person of the Year 2022 New York: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and "the spirit of Ukraine" have been declared as TIME"s "Person of the Year" 2022 on Wednesday.
By Yoshita Singh FGN59 BANGLA-VIOLENCE One dead as police, BNP supporters clash in Bangladesh ahead of party"s planned rally Dhaka: At least one person was killed and several others injured on Wednesday when police clashed with angry activists of Bangladesh"s main opposition party BNP, amid speculation about a political show off during the party"s planned grand rally in Dhaka on Saturday.
By Anisur Rahman FGN53 PAK-SC-JOURNALIST Pak court orders govt to set up new team to probe killing of journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya Islamabad: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the government to set up a new team of investigators to probe the killing of senior journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya even as a media report claimed that the killing was a planned assassination.
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