Defeat  

Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu, indirectly attacked the Centre for the poll schedule and said that the BJP wanted to defeat the TDP by providing less time for Lok Sabha polls.

Rahul Gandhi has asked several seniors of his party – from Manmohan Singh to BK Hariprasad- to contest the Lok Sabha polls. This move is seen as a clear sign of discomfort and a sign of losing the plot, says BJP.

After a defeat in Ballari which witnessed the ouster of BJP candidate J Shantha in November in the by-election, the BJP seems to be ready to snatch the seat from Congress- JD(S) alliance. The BJP reportedly is planning to field Suresh Babu, former MLA from Kampli against Congress in May 2019.
 

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said that if the Congress was serious about defeating the BJP, it should support the SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh.

Fronted by Ranveer Singh, the film will chronicle India's win under Kapil Dev's captainship, when the Men in Blue defeated West Indies in the final to clinch their first-ever World Cup trophy in 1983.

The Congress had joined hands with Chandrababu Naidu's TDP to fight the Assembly elections in Telangana that had resulted in a humiliating defeat
 

Jaganmohan is all set to take on Chandrababu Naidu and the TRS that defeated the TDP-Congress alliance in Telangana with a massive mark. It looks like good news for YSRP in Andhra Pradesh

Emraan Hashmi had also co-written a book titled The Kiss of Life: How A Superhero and My Son Defeated Cancer. The book chronicled his son's struggle with the dreaded disease.

With the year drawing to a close, let us turn the pages backward and look at instances when our favourite teams from different sports bit the dust