Maharashtra’s political scene is witnessing a replay of 2019. Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena claims a pre-election “deal” with the BJP, mirroring Uddhav Thackeray’s past assertions. Shinde’s camp alleges an agreement promising him the Chief Ministership if their alliance won. However, the BJP’s strong 132-seat win puts them in the driver’s seat, with their parliamentary board holding the final decision.

The Supreme Court bench was hearing a plea filed by a 73-year-old woman, on whom a male co-passenger allegedly urinated in an inebriated condition on board an Air India flight in November 2022

Discussion in the West about arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons is “absolutely irresponsible”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on November 26.The New York Times reported last week that some unidentified Western officials had suggested that U.S. President Joe Biden could give Ukraine nuclear weapons, though there were fears such a step would have serious implications.Peskov said the comments were only attributed to anonymous sources, and those making them do not feel “a shred of responsibility”. The West should listen carefully to Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said.Earlier, senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said that if the West supplied nuclear weapons to Ukraine then Moscow could consider such a transfer to be tantamount to an attack on Russia, providing grounds for a nuclear response. n18oc_world n18oc_crux