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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday lost out on one of the biggest prestige battles for him. Unable to match up to the silent KCR wave in Telangana, the Mahakutami, an alliance that Naidu scripted, lost what could have been the stepping stone to an anti-BJP allied force. While the alliance’s campaigning was relentless, enough to unsettle KCR, Naidu still could not pull off a win. And now, Naidu has to fight yet another battle to stay relevant. What's next for Naidu? Probably, a very rocky road.
Three-time Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief minister in Chhattisgarh, Raman Singh’s record run is all set to come to an end. Singh has, electorally, been the most successful BJP CM holding fort for the party for 15 consecutive years in Chhattisgarh. If electoral politics were about pure arithmetic, Raman Singh would have won the Chhattisgarh elections hands down. But that was not to be. The formation of the third front in Chhattisgarh with Ajit Jogi and Mayawati joining hands was widely expected to dent the Congress’s prospects in the tribal state. However, the Congress seems to have made up for this deficit by aggressively poaching on the BJP’s traditional backward votes in the state.In other news,
Former finance secretary and current member of the finance commission Shaktikanta Das has been appointed the new Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor. This comes almost 24 hours after Urjit Patel on Monday resigned from his post on account of personal reasons, with immediate effect.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October at his country's Istanbul consulate, was on Tuesday named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" alongside several other journalists.
In an incident that has gone viral recently, a Zomato delivery man was caught on tape while he was hogging on some food before repackaging it and keeping it back in the delivery bag. The two-and-half minute video first surfaced on Facebook which shows the man wearing a red Zomato t-shirt as he pulls out a food box from his bag, takes a couple of bites and reseals it before leaving for his delivery location. Zomato has now responded to it following the online hate.
At least one person was killed and 10 people were wounded in a shooting near a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday, the local prefecture said. Police locked down the area and launched a hunt for the shooter, who fled the scene, the police sources said. They said the gunman had been identified.On Reel
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