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1.French Defence Minister Florence Parly on December 17 shared how ‘Make in India’ plays a key role in French Defence system. She said, “France truly understands the necessity of Indian content. We are fully committed to the 'Make in India' initiative. 'Make in India' has been a reality for French industry particularly for Defence equipment like submarines.”-dnaindia.com
2.The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has risen to 18 as the disaster agency warned Saturday of "severe damage" in the hardest-hit areas.More than 300,000 people fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Typhoon Rai ravaged the southern and central regions of the country, knocking out communications in many areas and toppling concrete power poles.-hindustantimes.com
3.A Russian diplomat on Friday said that the Taliban risk losing power in Afghanistan if they don’t form an inclusive government as promised during intra-Afghan peace talks in Doha before taking over the control of Kabul.-hindustantimes.com
4.The British government on Friday reported 93,045 new coronavirus cases, a third consecutive record daily tally, as the Omicron variant fuels a surge in infections across the country.The latest data brings the total number of infections during the pandemic to more than 11.1 million, while the UK also registered a further 111 deaths from the virus, taking the death toll to more than 147,000.-hindustantimes.com
5.In the past 24 hours, India reported 7,415 Covid-19 cases. Amid travel restrictions and stringent testing, the heavily mutated Omicron variant continues to spread like fire. On Friday, Italy, New York, and the UK reported the biggest one-day increase on record- 28,632; 21,027 and 93,045 fresh coronavirus cases, respectively.-news18.com
6.Avoid mass gatherings, non-essential travel: Govt Underlining that India faces a stage of "worry" with the onset of winters, officials said if daily cases in the United Kingdom and France are extrapolated in the context of India's population, they would mean 14-15 lakh The Centre recorded total 101 cases infected with the new SARS-COV2 variant Omicron from 11 states detected through genome sequencing.-Times of India
7.With temperatures steadily dropping in North India, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast cold wave to severe cold wave conditions over Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh, parts of Gujarat and north Rajasthan over the next five days.-dnaindia.com
8.Navi Mumbai: 16 students of Ghansoli school found Covid-19 positive, civic body begin contact tracing Meanwhile, the civic body has started the contact tracing of all those who came in contact with these students.-thefreepressjpurnal.com
9.After a tough two years, travel industry hopeful of recovery in 2022:With the rate of vaccination against COVID-19 rising in India and the country recovering from the second wave of the pandemic, tourism has been picking up in the last few months.People are already setting the trend of how they want to travel in the new year.-moneycontrol.com
10.Hospitality industry body FHRAI on Thursday again requested market regulator Sebi to suspend OYO's IPO process, citing non-disclosure of an investigation against the hotel chain for tax evasion, an allegation which the company has strongly denied. In a letter to the chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India, Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI) Secretary-General Jaison Chacko said, "-hospitalityworld.com
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