Daily Inshorts - 20 December 2025

Daily Inshorts - 20 December 2025

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David Walliams denies inappropriate behaviour after publisher drops him

Walliams is one of the UK's most successful children's authors, having sold more than 60 million books.

US carries out 'massive' strike against IS in Syria

The US says it struck dozens of targets across Syria in response to last week's deadly Islamic State attack on US forces there.

Rosenberg: Was Putin's response to my question about war in Europe an olive branch?

Russia's leader told our Russia editor that claims an attack on Europe was planned were "rubbish".

What's really going on with flu this winter?

We've been told we're facing an unprecedented superflu. Is it?

Australia was seen as a world leader in gun control - Bondi has exposed a more complicated reality

It introduced stricter gun laws after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, but some say they now need to be tightened further.

In Kolkata, a 2026 calendar that promotes not a business but a struggle for survival

Last year too, a calendar had been created, for the first time, with the help of colour pictures of trams taken in the 1960s by an unknown Australian enthusiast who had passed them on to Robert D’Andrea, a former Australian tram conductor

Voting begins in 23 municipal councils and nagar panchayats in Maharashtra

In the first phase, votes were cast for 263 municipal councils and nagar panchayats.

Rural indebtedness rising due to unregulated microfinance institutions: Brinda Karat

Leading a demonstration in front of Regional Office of the RBI, Ms. Karat said, “public sector banks are giving loans to MFIs at low interest rate. They are jacking up the interest without any cap on interest rate. The SHGs and individual women are taking loan at very high rate of interest.”

SRMIST signs MoU with NIFTEM

Both the institutions will facilitate student, faculty, and staff exchange programmes and internships

Congress, CPI(M) leaders in Bengal say ‘rising infiltrators’ narrative of BJP proved wrong after SIR draft list

CPI(M) State secretary Mohammad Salim added that many vulnerable people from tribal communities, women, rented accommodation holders, street dwellers stand a chance to be omitted in the SIR process due to lack of concrete documents and should be looked into.