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• Ukraine and Russia have agreed to implement a "full and comprehensive" ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the end of 2019, after top-level talks.


• Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky met face to face in Paris.


• Five-and-a-half years of fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed rebels have cost 13,000 lives.

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• Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives were expected to unveil two articles of impeachment against Republican President Donald Trump, a senior Democratic aide said, setting the stage for a possible vote this week on impeachment.


• The House aide spoke on condition of anonymity and declined to give any details.

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• The Chinese government is taking further steps to remove foreign technology from state agencies and other organisations, a clear sign of determination for more independence amid escalating tensions with the US Beijing will likely replace as many as 20 million computers at government agencies with domestic products over the next three years, according to research from China Securities.


• More than 100 trial projects for domestic products were completed in July, the brokerage firm said. The Financial Times newspaper said the Communist Party's Central Office earlier this year ordered state offices and public institutions to shift away from foreign hardware and software.

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• The World Anti-Doping Agency banned Russia for four years from major global sporting events including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar over manipulated doping data, prompting an angry response from President Vladimir Putin.


• WADA's executive committee, meeting in Lausanne, handed Russia the "robust" four-year suspension after accusing Moscow of falsifying data from a doping testing laboratory that was handed over to investigators earlier this year.

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• The US Army is planning its biggest deployment of troops to Europe in 25 years, with 20,000 troops slated to take part in a massive force projection exercise at a time of increasingly adversarial relations with Russia.


• General Christopher Cavoli, the commander of US ground forces in Europe, said 20,000 US-based troops will deploy next year to Europe where they will join some 9,000 other US soldiers already stationed there.

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• The 11-hour shutdown called by an umbrella body of students' organisations in the northeast to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill began at 5 am today.


• The North East Students' Organisation (NESO), backed by other organisations and political parties, will observe the shutdown till 4 pm against the bill that was passed in the Lok Sabha.

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• Union Home Minister Amit Shah will move the Arms Amendment Bill for passage in Rajya Sabha, today. The Lok Sabha yesterday passed the bill that provides a maximum punishment of life imprisonment for manufacturing and carrying illegal arms, and which also seeks to rationalise and facilitate licensing procedures for the use of firearms by individuals.


• The proposed law is aimed at curbing crimes committed by using firearms, and to provide effective deterrence, Shah said.

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• Russian Federation Ambassador to India Nikolay Rishatovich Kudashev said his country was well-prepared to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Indian troops at the 75th anniversary of the “victory in the great patriotic war” parade in Moscow on May 9, 2020.


• Participating in the 72nd International Human Rights Day celebrations under the auspices of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment here, Kudashev said Russia wants to further elevate its cooperation with India to new heights in 2020 “which is an extraordinary year due to many reasons”.

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• India and Australia have almost concluded negotiations on an agreement for reciprocal access to military facilities for logistics support that is expected to be signed during Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s visit in January, people familiar with the matter said.


• The proposed Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA) figured in the third “2+2” or combined dialogue of the Indian and Australian foreign and defence secretaries in New Delhi on Monday, the people cited above said.

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• The Lok Sabha passed a bill providing a maximum punishment of life imprisonment for manufacturing and carrying illegal arms, and which also seeks to rationalise and facilitate licensing procedures for the use of firearms by individuals.


• The Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019, piloted by home minister Amit Shah, was passed by the Lok Sabha after rejecting several amendments moved by Opposition members.

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• The Himachal Pradesh government has received only one complaint against sub-standard school uniform, state Education Minister Suresh Bhardwaj informed the Assembly here.


• The Education Department received only one complaint regarding alleged sub-standard uniform through the CM helpline number and a probe was underway in this matter, Bhardwaj said in the House on the first day of the winter session.

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• National Testing Agency (NTA) is expected to release the result for IIFT MBA 2020 exam tomorrow. This was NTA's maiden year for conducting IIFT MBA exam.


• IIFT MBA entrance exam was conducted in computer-based mode on December 1. After the exam, NTA released the answer key for the exam and allowed students who took the exam to submit any objection on the preliminary answer key.

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• Yes Bank share price declined 5 percent in the early trade on December 10 on the back of the report stating that the Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was likely to withdraw the plan to invest in the private lender.


• He is expected to issue a formal letter to this effect on December 10 when the board of directors of Yes Bank meets to discuss the capital-raising plans, as per reports.

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• Public sector banks (PSBs) returned to profitability in 2019-20, posting an aggregate profit of Rs 3,221 crore in the first half ending September, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur said in Parliament.


• PSBs had posted huge losses in 2017-18 and 2018-19 financial years due to heavy provisioning for non-performing assets and other contingencies, according to the minister.

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• Enduring a rough patch since claiming the world championship gold, ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu would be eager to turn her fortunes around when she begins her title defence at the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals.


• Sindhu registered her career's biggest triumph at the World Championship in Basel, Switzerland in August, but since then the Indian has looked awfully out of form.

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• Arsenal caretaker manager Freddie Ljungberg believes a weight has been lifted off his players' shoulders after a three-goal blitz in nine second-half minutes beat West Ham 3-1 to end the Gunners' worst winless run in 42 years.


• Another miserable night for the Swede seemed in store when the visitors trailed at half-time to Angelo Ogbonna's deflected header.

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• The nominees for Best Actress (Drama) at the 77th Golden Globes include actresses Charlize Theron, Renee Zellweger, Cynthia Erivo, Scarlett Johansson and Saoirse Ronan.


• Moreover, actresses Beanie Feldstein, Emma Thompson, Ana de Armas, Awkwafina and Cate Blanchett have been nominated in Best Actress (Musical or Comedy) category.


• The Golden Globe Awards ceremony will air live on January 5, 2020.

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• Finland's new prime minister - about to become the world's youngest serving premier - will have a finance minister two years her junior in a new women-led coalition cabinet, party officials said.


• Sanna Marin, 34, from the dominant Social Democrats, was chosen by her party as the sole candidate for prime minister. Centre Party chief Katri Kulmuni, 32, will get the finance post when the new cabinet is officially nominated, party members said.