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On November 15, housing rights activist and rising star of the Brazilian left Guilherme Boulos made it into the runoff elections for the mayorship of São Paulo — the largest city in all the Americas and the financial center of Brazil. A member of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), Boulos ran alongside vice mayoral candidate Luiza Erundina, a veteran socialist who in the 1980s served as the first woman mayor of São Paulo.

Wall Street is ramping up the pressure on outgoing President Donald Trump to accept his defeat and halt his efforts to overturn the election results and cooperate with the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden.

There’s something royal sounding about Raosaheb Danve. For those who don’t know, he is Minister of State for Consumer Affairs in the Narendra Modi Government and an MP from Maharashtra. He’s one of the many BJP Union ministers who is neither seen nor heard in the normal rung of things unless it’s on the diktats of Prime Minister Narendra Modi or BJP president ‘these days’ JP Nadda. So, it was that a rather bewildered and perplexed bunch of Indians asked, “Raosaheb Danve, who?” when the rather invisible minister in the largely invisible Modi ministry turned crystal-gazer and Nostradamus combined! Much like Sanjay Raut, Rajya Sabha MP and Saamna editor-in-chief, Raosaheb Danve delivered an ultimatum.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A political blunder of the first order. That is the only way to describe the Kerala Police (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 hurriedly passed by the Kerala Government. It was an unkindest cut from a Left Government headed by a party that touts the delights of freedom of speech day in and day out.

During the 2011 assembly elections of Assam, Congress party thundered back to power with a strong majority by winning 78 seats. This was the third consecutive victory of the grand old party in the north-eastern state. The resounding success came at a time when the incumbent Congress state government was facing charges of corruption. The result came as a surprise to many including the then main opposition party, Assam Gana Parishad — as some exit polls had predicted that the regional party would perform better.

Goa: Hyderabad began their Hero Indian Super League campaign with a solitary goal win over Odisha, at the GMC Stadium in Goa on Monday.

New Delhi: Union sports minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday assured the Badminton Association of India (BAI) all help and support to hold prestigious Yonex Sunrise India Open Super series next year.

New Delhi: Moinuddin Amdani and Abhinav Tejan will represent India in — PES and Tekken7 — respectively at the 12th Esports World Championships Finals scheduled to take place in Eilat, Israel in February 2021.

Goa: Every now and then, in football, fans would find a player or a coach they were cheering on not so long ago wearing colours of the opposing team.

At first, I was tempted to call this piece, Banks, Babus and Bulls. But then I thought, nothing really changes, and films only confirm this. Especially in India.