Author: Md Nasimuddin
The BJP’s parliamentary board on Sunday (December 14, 2025) notified the appointment of Bihar Minister and five-term MLA Nitin Nabin as the party’s national working president, ending months of suspense.
Aiden Markram helped South Africa avoid another unwanted batting record but it wasn’t enough to stop India winning a lopsided third Twenty20 match by seven wickets on Sunday.
South Africa beat India by 51 runs in the second T20I at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur in New Chandigarh on Thursday. The Aiden Markram-led South Africa hence squared the five-match T20I series 1-1 after the second game.
President Droupadi Murmu, who began her two-day visit to strife-hit Manipur on Thursday amid a shutdown called by a conglomerate of valley-based militants and appeals from several organisations to address the plight of those displaced by the ongoing conflict, said she was “aware of the pain” the people of the state have gone through following the “unfortunate violence”.
Deepavali, India’s festival of lights, was on Wednesday inscribed on the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
At the meeting of the high level committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to select the new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and commissioners, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi submitted a dissent note on the lack of representation in the list from the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC)s.
India thrashed South Africa by 101 runs as the visitors collapsed for a meagre 74 in the opening T20I at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Tuesday. India had earlier posted 175/6 thanks to a rescue act by Hardik Pandya.
In a dramatic rejection of the Union Government’s conditions to resume the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme in West Bengal after a three-year gap, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee publicly tore up the Centre’s note on the issue on Tuesday (December 9, 2025).
Congress Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “no longer the PM he once was”, questioning his confidence and policies in recent years. Addressing the Lok Sabha, Priyanka Gandhi fired shots at the BJP over their negligence of people’s problems.
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife, Navjot Kaur Sidhu, was suspended from the party on Monday (December 8, 2025) after she sparked a controversy by declaring that anyone with “₹500 crore” could become the Chief Minister. Mr. Sidhu is a former cricketer