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The impressive win by the Mahagathbandhan in Jharkhand indeed sends a powerful political message, though it is a small state. This is the second state that the BJP has lost in the past six months after Maharashtra. The Modi-Shah duo will have to take a step back and reflect, as with the addition of Jharkhand, the non-BJP governments in the country now control more than 65 per cent of the population. Democracy indeed is a great leveller. No doubt the results show that the Modi magic is on the wane even though he had emerged so much stronger just six months ago with an impressive win in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

ON December 18 2019, the Supreme Court bench comprising Justices S Abdul Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna, has given a very concise and brief order which reads as follows-

Chennai: Bengaluru’s Karthik Muthusamy and Hyderabad’s Aditya Raja held on to their nerves to emerge on top in their respective categories in the finale of the JK Tyre FMSCI National Karting Championship Sodi Kart 4 Stroke at the ECR Speedway on the outskirts of Chennai.

New Delhi: AIBA World Youth Women's Boxing Championship gold medallist Ankushita Boro expressed that the Indian boxers, who will compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, are practicing well and have a good chance of performing well in the tournament.

Launching his campaign against the forces which are out to malign his image and create confusion about the Citizen act and NRC , especially the Congress, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually distanced himself from his protégé Amit Shah on this issue of enactment and implementation of NRC.

Even as the dust begins to settle in troubled Assam following the agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, palpable ethnic tensions remain between the two major communities—the Assamiyas and the Bengalis. Assam-based observers agree that at present, a delicate truce prevails, but simmering tensions and minor outbreaks of violence have not ended.

The indications that were available from the Haryana and Maharashtra election results about the BJP’s declining popularity have been substantiated by the Jharkhand outcome where the BJP has fallen behind the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-Congress-Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) combine.

Gone are the days of the multidimensional industrial house concept. And, so is the leadership of the Marwari business community. India's private sector industrial and business environment has seen a sea change in the last 50 years. Among the majors, the only survivor is the House of Tatas, still holding the top position. Till three decades after the country’s independence from the British rule, a group of 20 ruled the country’s business and industrial scene. It was almost like Japanese Keidanren or South Korean Chaebol. India’s 20 big industrial groups in the 1950s and 1960s were: Tata, Birla, Martin Burn, Sahu Jain, Bird Heilgers, Andrew Yule, Sriram, Mafatlal, Kasturbhai Lalbhai, JK Singhania, Walchand, Thapar, Bangur, Indra Singh, Seshasayee, Ramkrishna, Kirloskar, Mahindra, Sharpoorji and Wadia. Barring Tata, A V Birla group from the Birla clan and Mahindra none other exist in today’s list of leading business groups and enterprises.

A section of the Congress and the Indian Union Muslim League(IUML) have categorically rejected the ‘Mullappally line’ on joint struggles against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, has hit the streets again in her usual style of aggressive politics — which she often practiced during her stint as opposition leader of the state against the CPM-led Left Front government. This time her fiery attack is directed towards the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP dispensation. The reasons are the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 and the nationwide NRC, as said by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the floor of the Indian parliament. Although, NRC is still in the womb and the government is yet to announce it — with recent reports suggesting that it may be delayed.