Highlights: Peru's Castillo says dissolving Congress, declares state of emergency, AFP reports

Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has dissolved Congress and declared a state of emergency, according to news agency AFP reports.

A bamboo scaffolding of an under-construction high-rise building in Mumbai collapsed injuring five people in the Lower Parel area, earlier today, ANI reported.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday visited Ayushman Bharat kiosk at AIIMS, New Delhi and the Patient biometric verification center, ANI reported.

With air pollution levels in Delhi coming down to the “poor” category from “very poor”, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) on Wednesday directed the lifting of GRAP-III restrictions from Delhi-NCR with immediate effect, allowing construction, demolition activities and BS-IV petrol and BS-III diesel vehicles now.

Time magazine named President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as "the spirit of Ukraine" as its 2022 person of the year on Wednesday, for the resistance the country has shown in the face of Russia's invasion, according to AFP reports.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to call a meeting of its key office bearers of Delhi on Wednesday evening at the BJP headquarters. A meeting of winning councillors of Delhi MCD Polls has also been called later, ANI reported citing BJP sources.

EAM Jaishankar winter session of Parliament address stressed that companies are not asked to buy Russian oil, but asked to buy what is the best option. “It depends on the market, it's a sensible policy to go where we get the best deal in the interest of the Indian people,” the minister said according to ANI reports.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday addressing winter session in Rajya Sabha said, “PM Modi voiced global sentiment in Samarkand when he said this is not an era of war. His statement was in the context of the Ukraine conflict where our advocacy of dialogue and diplomacy has been consistent & it has a larger resonance as well,”according to ANI reports.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday filed chargesheet against Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA and former president of West Bengal Board of Primary Education Manik Bhattacharya in the teachers' recruitment scam case, ANI reported.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) scripts history by crossing majority mark, 126 wards to win 2022 Municipal Corporation of Delhi(MCD) election.

Supreme Court asks Centre, RBI to produce files that went into decision making for demonetisation

An earthquake of magnitude 3.0 on the Richter scale rocked Katra in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. According to the National Center for Seismology, the location of the quake was 74 kilometres east-south-east of Katra and it occurred at 9.15 am.

The Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Wednesday launched an updated version of Supreme Court mobile app for Android users. The App will be available for iOS users soon. The new feature will allow lawyers, as well as government department to track the development in their cases.

RBI has hiked the repo rate for the fifth time in a row, by 35 bps to 6.25% with immediate effect. 

“Monetary Policy Committee meeting met on 5th,6th & 7th Dec, based on an assessment of macroeconomic situation & its outlook, MPC decided by a majority of 5 members out of 6 to increase policy reported by 35 basis points to 6.25% with immediate effect,” said RBI governor Shaktikanta Das.

Olympic medalist Mirabai Chanu bagged a silver medal in the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships at Colombia's Bogota. However, Chanu's wrist problem became an issue during overhead lift in her second clean-and-jerk attempt but recovered soon to finish with the best lift of 113 kg. This is her second Worlds medal including gold in the 2017 World Championships.

Voting is set to begin at 8 am for the crucial Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls with the BJP, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and the Congress locked in an intense battle to stake control of the civic body in the national capital that has an estimated budget of ₹15,000 crore. Read more

Efforts to rescue an eight-year-old boy, who fell in a 55-feet deep borewell in Mandavi village in Betul district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday evening, continued during the night and is currently underway.

Twitter Inc.’s deputy general counsel Jim Baker was pushed out of the company over his handling of information, Elon Musk said in a tweet.