​From Amit Shah's rally in state-bound UP to mayhem in Bigg Boss house - top news headlines

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold a "Sarkar Banao, Adhikar Pao" (make government, get rights) rally in Lucknow. Being organized by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Nishad Party, the rally will be held at Ramabai Ambedkar Ground in Lucknow. Besides Shah, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Nishad Party chief Sanjay Nishad, state BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh will be present at the rally too.

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The Assembly Election in UP is just some months away and political parties are gearing up for the big electoral battle ahead. According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would meet BJP MPs from Uttar Pradesh today (December 17) over breakfast.  "Total 40 MPs are invited," a source said. (Pic: ANI)

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The last rites of Group Captain Varun Singh - who was the lone survivor of the Tamil Nadu chopper crash before he succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday (December 15) - will be performed today in Bhopal. The mortal remains of Singh were sent to Bhopal on Thursday from Bengaluru, where he was undergoing treatment at the hospital. (Pic: IANS)

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Virat Kohli’s eyeball-grabbing media conference has forced a shell-shocked Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) into a huddle as it explores its options on how to deal with the crisis while ensuring that the team is not distracted by off-field drama ahead of an important Test series. The Indian Test captain, during a press conference before departing to South Africa for a three-match series, said that he was never asked ‘not to quit T20 captaincy’, contrary to what BCCI president Sourav Ganguly had said to various media outlets.

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In a task where contestants had to play thieves and guards in the reality show Bigg Boss, all hell broke loose when Abhijit Bichukale told Devoleena Bhattacharjee "Tere liye kuch bhi karunga, lekin pappi chahiye mujhe (I will do anything for you, but I need a kiss).” He asks for a kiss more than once, which leaves Devoleena enraged and she asks him not to cross a line. But not just the duo, other inmates of the house get embroiled in the brawl with Shamita Shetty and Tejasswi Prakash locking horns over the matter.  

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