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Sasikala, a close aide, and companion of the former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa will be released soon. Post-Jayalalithaa's demise in 2016 there was massive political turmoil within the ruling AIADMK until she was sent to jail in February 2017 for four years. Her jail term ends next month. Will she become a factor in the Tamil Nadu politics ahead of the Assembly elections in April-May? Some believe that she can play a role and others that she might bide her time but she has an interest in politics.

January 5, 2021, is the Georgia senate runoffs and if the Republicans lose “we’ll change America” is what Democratic senate minority leader Chuck Schumer promised a couple of months ago, soon after Joe Biden was declared winner by television networks on November 4. Since then, the Republicans are petrified, their “American way of life”, which is essentially the “Christian way of life”, will go for a toss, forever transformed.

It has been eight years since that woeful night of December 16, 2012, that shook the nation and the world when a para-medic was gang-raped in a moving Delhi bus. She later died of grievous injuries though she was given the best medical care.

Bambolim, Goa: Hyderabad put up a dominating show as they trounced Chennaiyin 4-1 in the Hero Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, Bambolim on Monday.

Fatorda, Goa: In their last two matches, Bengaluru suffered back-to-back defeats and for the first time in the history of the Hero Indian Super League,they failed to score in consecutive games and now face another tough test as they take on Mumbai City at the Fatorda Stadium on Tuesday.

Since both the Indian vaccines – Covaxin and Covishield – have now been officially approved for emergency use, the focus is on its distribution and prioritization, which are still being worked out as a ‘work in progress’ due to many inherent difficulties in India’s vaccine drive against COVID-19, monitoring the recipients of the vaccines, and also the future uncertainties relating to the pandemic itself. The known and unknown administrative issues may also crop up during the implementation of the drive requiring great alertness and quick response.

Jawaharlal Nehru’s tryst was with ‘Destiny’. With the ‘Midnight Hour’ and with ‘Redemption.’ There’s nothing to show in verses and stanzas if he had ever had a tryst with writing poetry. Maybe he must have quoted poetry to someone at some time, but there’s nothing in the public domain to write home about. India’s first Prime Minister preferred prose to poetry and in the process went on a Discovery of India!

In the current financial year, many companies suffered due to the lockdown following pandemic, but there are other companies which did normally and profits soared, but the figures show that despite high revenues, these companies cut wages of the workers taking advantage of the general panic situation and the workers anxiety to keep their jobs.

The anonymity provided to the donors by electoral bonds (EBs) is making it the preferred choice for big donors, including corporates. Over the past three years, State Bank of India (SBI), the official channel for selling these instruments, has sold EBs worth Rs 6,492.68 crore in 14 phases, shows an analysis by Commodore LokeshBatra (retd).

2020 has been a tumultuous year. Millions marched in the streets against police brutality and violence after the killing of George Floyd. They were tear-gassed, shot with rubber bullets and percussion grenades, and run over, among any number of other civil liberties abuses. Their demand was “Black Lives Matter!”