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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The race for the Christian vote is well and truly on in the wake of the outcome of the local body elections, which saw the CPI-M-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) pulling off a spectacular victory in the teeth of adversity.

In January 2018, four senior judges of the Supreme Court, Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph – held an unprecedented press conference in the capital. At that time Dipak Misra was the Chief Justice of India, and the four judges highlighted mainly two problems afflicting the highest court of the country.

Year 2020 was in many ways upsetting for Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra’s Maha Vikas Aghadi Government. An appraisal of the year vis a vis UT takes us through a lot. They say that Uddhav Thackeray did not covet the Chief Minister’s post. If anything, Uddhav wanted son Aditya Thackeray to take the hot-seat. But that did not transpire and papa-Thackeray stepped up to the pedestal, the first Thackeray to take a constitutional post.

Goa: Chennaiyin and Mohun Bagan were left frustrated as they played out a goalless draw in the Hero Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, here on Tuesday.

Goa: It has been a mixed campaign for Hyderabad so far. Manuel Marquez's side was unbeaten after five games but now back-to-back defeats have seen them slip to eighth on the table of the Hero Indian Super League.

New Delhi: While the pandemic disrupted their on the field activities, the Indian women hockey players did a commendable job off the field by raising over Rs 20 Lakhs funds to feed 1000 families that were affected by the nationwide lockdowns.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath in May 2019 no one would have dreamt of many unexpected challenges he is facing today. Even otherwise, when he returned to power for the second time Modi inherited a long list of problems unresolved during his first term. No doubt BJP won more seats than in 2014 but he needed to fix the unfinished agenda in agriculture, economy, international relations, and internal social disharmony.

Much has been made of the fact that the long-awaited Brexit deal is the first in the “modern era” to erect barriers rather than dismantle them.

With home as the world, 2020 has been a bonanza for couch potatoes and others in India amidst a raging debate about large-screen or small. The year began with two exceptional films, big screen releases in last January and February, and exceptionally underplayed promotion-wise and review-wise, given the grapevine campaigns by patriarchal misogynists against them – that they were anti-men – Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak starring Deepika Padukone and Anubhav Sinha’s Thappad starring Taapsee Pannu.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is now quite vocal in opposing the three farm laws and has extended unequivocal support to the farmers agitation for the repeal of the acts. She had talks with the agitation leaders and send a delegation of Trinamool MPs to talk to them at Singhu border of Delhi.