Defeat  

It’s been 15 days since a rat-hole mine collapsed in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills, trapping 15 people underground. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced a Rs 4,500 crore financial assistance to Bhutan for its 12th five-year plan after holding wide-ranging talks with his Bhutanese counterpart Lotay Tshering. All this and more on MyNation in 100 seconds.

'The batsmen must step up collectively. I won't say individually whether someone needs to do that or not, but as a batting unit, we have to definitely put up a better performance,' Virat Kohli said. The Indian captain made it clear that neither his team's Adelaide victory nor the Perth defeat will have any bearing when Melbourne Test starts

Even just a few days earlier, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in an interview with the Washington Post said, “The ruling party [in India] has an anti-Muslim, anti-Pakistan approach"
 

Palakkad defeated the defending champions and 12-year consecutive winner Kozhikode this year. The Kerala School Kalolsavam (state youth festival) began on December 7 in Alappuzha. Kasaragod has been fixed as the venue for next year’s Kalolsavam.

Having been denied a Cabinet berth in the HD Kumaraswamy-led Congress-JD(S) coalition government, senior Congress leader R Roshan Baig aspires to contest the next year’s Lok Sabha election from Bengaluru Central. Baig recently hosted a Muslim convention in Bengaluru in which top Moulanas from Delhi were present. Baig is not the only aspirant, MLA Rizwan Arshad, Congress leader Saleem Ahmed are also aiming the seat.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a rally at Sikar in poll-bound Rajasthan said that the 'namdaars' of Congress, sensing defeat have started to insult Bharat Mata. He said he has shattered Rahul’s fatwa against 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'. All this and more on MyNation in 100 seconds. 

Raja Singh, who faces over 40 cases, mostly for "hate speeches", had defeated senior Congress leader and former minister M Mukesh Goud in the 2014 Assembly polls by an impressive margin of over 45,000 votes.