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At least 50 anxious people gathered near the village pond in Chotahi village, Samastipur district of Bihar. They had gathered to save their houses which were declared illegal as the area was developed as a green belt by the state government of Bihar under the project ‘Jal Jeevan Haryali’.

Never before in the history of our country, a Prime Minister had cast aspersion on the state’s chief minister as was done by Narendra Modi on Wednesday in Punjab. Modi on his return to Bhatinda airport after his aborted visit to Ferozepur had told a senior Punjab official, “Apne CM ko thanks kehna, ki mein Bhatinda airport tak zinda laut paaya.”

With Russian troops massing on Ukraine's borders, it's not only Ukrainians who worry about what President Vladimir Putin may have in store for them. It's Kazakhs too.

There are two top things about my profession. For me personally, a great benefit is being able to cover in person and even have access to great newsmakers whom I’d probably never have the opportunity to meet and even talk to if I weren’t a journalist. This ranges from seeing beauties such as Jennifer Lopez, Kerry Washington, and Rosario Dawson in the flesh, reporting on Nobel Laureates the Dalai Lama and Maria Ressa, and interviewing geniuses like directors Oliver Stone and Alex Gibney. At the top of this list of notables whom I’ve had the privilege, luck, and honor to encounter is Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died Dec. 26, 2021, prompting his homeland of South Africa to observe seven days of mourning.

Tamil feminist writer Ambai, Kannada biographer DS Nagabhushan, Telugu poet Coreti Venkanna and English author Namita Gokhale, among others, are this year’s winners of Sahitya Akademi Award. The Award was announced for literary works in 20 languages.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The confrontationist ambience between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government worsened with the Governor refusing to budge from his position.

BHOPAL: Year 2021 said good bye to Madhya Pradesh government on a bitter note. The bitter note gave a major setback when the BJP government was forced to repeal an ordinance promulgated by it to facilitate three-tier Panchayat elections. That decision was taken because the government reserved seats for OBC candidates. The Supreme Court ordered to postpone elections. And now the whole issue is being considered by the apex court. The court will also hear several petitions filed by stake holders.

Election is Uttar Pradesh is round the corner and our Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying his best to develop the state by inaugurating development projects worth thousands of crore. He seems to have risen from the slumber he was in only couple of months ago when election surveys have started prediction sharp fall in BJP’s electoral fortune, and it was only in the beginning of November 2021, Uttar Pradesh was ranked the big state with worst governance. Modi is also all out to end “cycle of corruption” in the state and had unleashed the central agencies against it that have been raiding continuously, just before the election.

With the omicron variant of coronavirus is spreading at unprecedented rates, creating new records for the intensity of infection, the oil market is seeing greater uncertainty as assessment of the market outlook is being constantly overridden by the fast pace of developments.

The year 2021 ended with a significant outcome of civic polls in Chandigarh where the Aam Admi Party (AAP) emerged as the single largest party pushing the ruling BJP to the second and the Congress to the third position. This was followed by a survey of Times Now projecting AAP as the single largest party in the new assembly in Punjab, followed by the Congress while the Akalis and the BJP-Amarinder combination will be far behind.