The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a woman can file a sexual-harassment complaint with the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) of her own workplace even if the accused is not employed there.

The judgment was delivered by a bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi, who dismissed an appeal filed by an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer accused of sexually harassing an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in her New Delhi office.

The bench said the purpose of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) Act would be diluted if women were forced to approach the ICC of every respondent’s organisation for incidents involving third parties.

The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysuru, marked Bharatiya Bhasha Utsav-2025 with a programme centred on India’s linguistic diversity and the role of languages in national life, here on Thursday.

The CIIL said Bharatiya Bhasha Utsav was observed annually on the birth anniversary of Subramania Bharati, one of India’s nationalist poets and a social visionary, and the event held across the country, celebrates the idea of the Bharatiya Bhasha Parivar, a family of languages that evolved through centuries of mutual influences and coexistence.

The utsav renewed the collective engagement with Indian languages as a living instrument of thought, identity and national cohesion, according to the CIIL.

India will host the first Commonwealth Kho Kho Championship from March 9, 2026, to March 14, 2026, in which more than 24 Commonwealth Nations will participate.

The Commonwealth Sports has approved the sanctioning of the 2026 Commonwealth Kho Kho Championships to be held in India on the dates mentioned earlier.

The participating nations are the Commonwealth countries spread across five continents - Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas - ensuring an actual global participation. The Commonwealth is an association of 56 independent countries with a combined population of 2.7 billion.

State Bank of India (SBI) will take a 50 percent stake in a new company set up to fight digital payment frauds, after getting approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

The company, called Indian Digital Payment Intelligence Corporation (IDPIC), is registered as a Section 8 (not-for-profit) company under the Companies Act, 2013. It was incorporated on October 16, 2025. SBI is the initial subscriber and promoter.

According to SBI’s stock exchange filing, the bank will buy 1,00,00,000 (one crore) equity shares of IDPIC at a face value of Rs 10 per share, investing Rs 10 crore in cash. This will give SBI 50 percent of the paid-up share capital of the company.

IDPIC has an authorised share capital of Rs 500 crore and an initial paid-up capital of Rs 20 crore.

The acquisition of SBI’s stake is expected to be completed by December 15, 2025.

Bank of Baroda (BoB) on Wednesday said it has been recognised as ‘Best Bank in India’ at the “Bank of the Year Awards 2025 – Asia-Pacific“ by The Banker magazine, a Financial Times publication.

The magazine noted that BoB has improved customer experience by expanding the use of its phygital branches, which combine in-person and digital services for customers.

“Users can quickly obtain statements, generate income tax payment certificates and update the nominees named who can gain access to a bank account,” the magazine said on its website.

Sophie Kinsella, the author behind the bestselling Shopaholic series, has died at the age of 55 following an aggressive form of brain cancer diagnosed in 2022. The news, shared through a heartfelt statement on her social media accounts left fans devastated. The official statement reads, “She died peacefully, with her final days filled with her true loves: family and music and warmth and Christmas and joy."

Born Madeleine Sophie Wickham in London in 1969, the writer first made her mark under her real name with The Tennis Party, which she wrote at just 24 while she was working as a financial journalist. She went on to publish six novels as Madeleine Wickham before adopting the pen name Sophie Kinsella, under which she created one of literature’s most iconic modern heroines: Becky Bloomwood.

German automaking giant, BMW Group, on Tuesday, 9 December 2025, announced that the board of directors have appointed Milan Nedeljkovic as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company amid the automaker's electric vehicle (EV) bets to take on rivals like Tesla and other Chinese companies.

The automaker also announced that Nedeljković will assume his role, effective from 14 May 2026, succeeding Oliver Zipse, who has been serving in the role since 2019. After the upcoming board meeting in 2026, Oliver Zipse will leave the BMW board after completing the extended period beyond his retirement age, marking 35 years in the company.

“Milan Nedeljković will assume the role of Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG effective on 14 May 2026. The company’s Supervisory Board took this decision today,” according to a press release on Tuesday.

Mumbai’s long-stalled pagdi (cess buildings) redevelopment ecosystem is headed for a major overhaul, with the Maharashtra government planning a dedicated regulatory framework aimed at breaking the deadlock between tenants and landlords, accelerating construction, and potentially unlocking more than 13,000 long-stalled projects across some of the city’s most congested pockets.

Deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday told the legislative assembly that a dedicated set of rules would be introduced to “free Mumbai from the pagdi system”, ensure fair redevelopment, and protect the rights of both protected tenants and landlords. Pagdi or cess buildings—largely pre-1960 structures—have long been trapped in disputes.

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella together with Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, unveiled MahaCrimeOS AI – the country’s first AI-powered platform to fast-track cybercrime investigations. The platform designed to augment officers with AI tools that help them to resolve cases faster and more efficiently, combining human expertise with responsible innovation, has been developed by CyberEye, a partner independent software vendor (ISV) of Microsoft, with the Maharashtra Government’s Special Purpose Vehicle MARVEL, and Microsoft India Development Center (IDC). It is built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Microsoft Foundry.

While Nadella showcased a video illustrating how MahaCrime AI OS helped deliver justice to a cybercrime victim in Nagpur, CM Fadnavis, while addressing the media, said, “Our collaboration with Microsoft began with solving complex cybercrime challenges, but its potential is far greater.” MahaCrimeOS AI was launched on Friday, currently, it is live in 23 police stations across Nagpur, and it is proposed to be rolled out to all 1,100 police stations across the state.

The “Architects of AI” were named TIME magazine's person of the year for 2025 on Thursday (December 11, 2025).

The magazine cited 2025 as the year when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view" with no turning back.

“For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME 's 2025 Person of the Year,” TIME said in a social media post.