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Some of the politically powerful Reddys of Andhra Pradesh have a grouse with fellow Reddy and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy who also faces anti-incumbency just like K Chandrashekar Rao of Telangana faced and lost. So, the YSR Congress Party is kind of vulnerable right now and the Congress is upbeat after its stupendous Telangana victory. Also, by June next year, Andhra Pradesh would be without a capital city of its own as its lease on Hyderabad, so to speak, will lapse by then and Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy will be blamed for sitting on this capital issue for a decade.

Since 1989, when the BJP adopted Hindutva as an ideology in the Palampur Resolution, it has consistently propagated it in elections. The RSS has significantly contributed to the evolution of Hindutva as the cultural identity of the nation. With the advent of Modi Politics in 2014, new economic policies, social welfare schemes, a shift in foreign policy, and the consolidation of strong cadre-based organizations have begun assimilating with this ideology. It is largely perceived as part and parcel of Hindutva Politics, even though many of them do not directly correlate with Hindutva ideology. Opposition Politics has started building on the opposite pole to counter Hindutva politics, which essentially encompasses the other policies of Modi. Thus, a bipolar Indian Politics has started embracing the Hard Hindutva narrative at different occasions and, of course, during elections.

The Patanjli has been in the news not just for advertising its products and misleading claims in the media but also for criticising modern scientific medicine. This went on to the extent that the Hon’ble Supreme Court had to reprimand the Patanjli on 21st November 2023, for continuing to publish misleading claims and advertisements against modern system of medicine. A petition was filed by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) challenging Patanjli’s outbursts. The Hon’ble Supreme Court warned the Patanjli to stop Misleading Advertisements, or will have to pay Rs 1 Crore Cost On Every Product Claiming False Cure.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma has denounced the governing African National Congress (ANC) and vowed to vote for a new political formation in next year’s general election. Mr Zuma, who led the ANC from 2007 to 2017, said on Saturday that he was backing the newly formed Umkhonto we Sizwe party, which is named after the ANC military wing that was disbanded after the liberation struggle ended in victory.

The India Wine Awards 2023, now in its fifth edition, recently concluded with an extravagant celebration of the finest wines in the country. Organized by the Sonal Holland Wine Academy in collaboration with ProWine, this prestigious event showcased 219 exceptional wines across various categories, carefully selected from an impressive list of 460 wine and sake nominations.

In a written reply on December 11, 2023 in the Lok Sabah during the current winter session, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment Rameshwar Teli claimed that unemployment rate in the country has a declining trend over the year, obviously to give a political message to the electorate in general, and the unemployed youth in particular that the government under PM Narendra Modi’s leadership is performing well on the unemployment front. However, only two days later it was found that 4 out of 6 breaching the parliament security on December 13, were actually distressed on account of unemployment, and one of the arrested woman claimed that she wanted to draw attention of the Modi government.

Congress having a massive rally in Nagpur to celebrate its foundation day on December 28 is unlikely to have any significant political or electoral bearing on the RSS. Congress was born in Bombay in 1885. But the party leadership chose Nagpur as the venue of celebration for obvious reason to send a message to RSS, which has its command centre there.

Speaking at a conference held at the Maldives President’s Office after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday (December 14, 2023), Maldives’ Under Secretary for Public Policy, Mohamed Firuzul, said that the archipelagic nation would not renew the earlier government’s agreement on the Third Joint Hydrographic Survey of Maldives’ waters signed with India on June 8, 2019.

The Indian stock market is looking like unstoppable, for now. The equity markets are scaling new heights and along with that, the investors are reaping riches. The BSE Sensex has increased by close to 1000 points in intra-day trading on Friday. The NSE index has climbed by close to 300 points.

The imposition of extra tariff on Chinese gold jewellery exports by the United States has helped the Indian jewellery export trade to dislodge the United Arab Emirates as the country’s leading export market. The tariff on Chinese jewellery has made Indian exporters more competitive on the one hand, while the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and the UAE introduced in 2022 has allowed 90 percent of Indian exports to the UAE duty-free, facilitating re-exports from the UAE to the US. Together these two factors have made the US Indian jewellery’s biggest export market.