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• The Conservatives have taken a string of former Labour strongholds, with the party forecast to win the general election with a comfortable majority.


• Jeremy Corbyn said it was a "very disappointing night" - and he would not lead Labour into the next election.


• Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has lost her seat to the Scottish National Party.


• The BBC is now forecasting the Tories will get a majority of 74, with Boris Johnson saying it was a "powerful mandate to get Brexit done".

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• Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Algerian capital, Algiers, to protest against presidential election.


• They briefly overran a polling station. An attempt by police to disperse the crowd failed.


• Two more voting centres were stormed in the Kabylie region, east of the capital.


• The vote follows the ousting of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was forced to resign in April.

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• The US Congress formally recognized the 1915-1917 murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians as genocide.


• The Senate's passage of the repeatedly stalled resolution is expected to anger Turkey, which denies there was a genocidal mass murder, insisting the Armenians died as a result of World War I.


• In passing the resolution, the United States joined 30 other countries recognizing Armenia's claim of genocide, which took place in the final years of the Ottoman empire that was centered in Istanbul.

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• European leaders will charge EU negotiator Michel Barnier with negotiating a close trade deal with Britain, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's apparent election win set the stage for an orderly Brexit.


• Some officials at the EU summit in Brussels expressed relief as exit polls arrived from across the Channel, predicting a workable parliamentary majority for the pro-Brexit premier.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday tried to allay concerns raised by northeast protesters on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, saying they can rest assured that all their rights will be protected under "Clause 6" of the Assam Accord-1985.


• "The central government and I are totally committed to constitutionally safeguard the political, linguistic, cultural and land rights of the Assamese people as per the spirit of Clause 6," he tweeted, even as protests against the controversial legislation mounted across the country's Northeast's region with Assam's Guwahati as its epicenter. By evening, two protesters had been killed in police firing.

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• Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may cancel his visit to India for an annual summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that was to be held in Guwahati over the weekend against the backdrop of violent protests in Assam’s main city over changes to the country’s citizenship law, news agency Reuters has said, quoting Japan’s Jiji Press.


• Protests had broken out in parts of the north-eastern states this week as Parliament debated changes to the citizenship law that would let immigrants of faiths others than Islam from three neighboring countries to gain Indian citizenship.

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• In those days, the Opposition was up in arms over alleged nepotism in the allocation of petrol pump dealerships.


• Almost every day, the House would be adjourned within a few minutes after the start. On that fateful day in the winter session of Parliament, the Lok Sabha got adjourned and I came out of Gate 1 (the main gate opposite the statue of Mahatma Gandhi) to go to the Rail Bhawan for some work.


• I suddenly heard sounds as if someone had burst crackers. Since I have never seen how bullets are fired in real life, I didn’t have the slightest inkling that guns are being fired. But as the sound was coming from my right side, I turned towards that side.


• The first visual I saw was a gardener, who was giving water to plants, suddenly slumped to the ground. Within a few seconds, security personnel clad in combat fatigue also fell down. I was so surprised that I didn’t move.

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• President Ram Nath Kovind gave his nod to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, turning it into an Act.


• The Act comes into effect with its publication in the official gazette on Thursday, according to a government notification.


• In keeping with the Act, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan till December 31, 2014, and have faced religious persecution there will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship.

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• The counsel for the convicts of the gang-rape, torture and killing of a young girl in Delhi seven years ago has said that until all the legal remedies are exhausted, the execution cannot take place.


• One of the Nirbhaya's convicts, Pawan Kumar Gupta, lodged in Mandoli jail in Delhi, was shifted to Tihar Jail recently, giving rise to the speculation that the convicts would be hanged on December 16.

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• The Jawaharlal Nehru University students boycotted the exams over the hostel fee hike issue, even as the School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies (SSIS) saw students appearing for their papers.


• Sources said exams were also held in the School of Engineering and the Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship.

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• Bank of Maharashtra has announced recruitment of Specialist Officers in scale II. There are 50 vacancies available.


• The online application process will begin on December 16 and conclude on December 31, 2019. The selection process involves personal interview for shortlisted candidates. Candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of their qualification, experience, suitability etc.

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• The Maharashtra government will take up concerns of the troubled Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank's depositors with the RBI in a couple of days, state minister Jayant Patil said.


• Mr. Patil, who earlier suggested that the PMC Bank be merged with the Maharashtra State Cooperative (MSC) Bank, said he was told that the linking of the two banks was not possible.


• "I will be speaking to a senior Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officer in a day or two to address the concerns of depositors.

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• The central government should consider creating a brand for the northeast to better leverage the potential of the region, the World Bank said.


• The ''brand northeast'' should be built on elements such as healthy living, environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and the service sector, a World Bank study has suggested.

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• The CBI carried out searches at 13 places in Mumbai and Lonavala after registering a case in a bank loan fraud worth Rs 568.52 crore by P&S Jewellery Limited, officials said.


• The CBI has pressed charges against the company and its directors --Paresh Shah, Sahil Pareh Shah, Viraj Chetan Shah -- and unidentified public servants and others under sections related to criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery under the Indian Penal Code among others, they said.

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• Australia and New Zealand launched a joint bid to host the 2023 Women's World Cup, which officials said would help supercharge female sport in the region.


• Governing body FIFA plans to increase the number of teams to 32 for the tournament from 24 at this year's event in France, and a two-country format would be able to better cope with the extra fixtures, they said.


• "Australia and New Zealand have a successful history of both staging and co-hosting major international sporting events," said Australian Sports Minister Richard Colbeck.

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• The world's biggest cricket stadium, with space for 110,000 spectators, is taking shape in India and is likely to host its first international match early next year.


• The new stadium in Ahmedabad, built at a cost of around $100 million, will seat more fans than Australia's Melbourne Cricket Ground which can accommodate around 100,000 spectators.


• According to reports, the Sardar Patel stadium is expected to host its first match in March with an exhibition game between an Asia XI and a World XI as the inaugural game.

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• The Gurugram- based startup program has created an application called ‘Zuri’ that won the Copernicus Masters Award also called Space Oscars, under the social Entrepreneurship category.


• The award was given by the Earth observation program managed by the European Commission (EU) in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA). The application was developed by Gurgaon-based startup Blue Sky Analytics.

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• Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would stand down as his party faced its worst electoral defeat in 84 years, but he did not set a date for his departure and added he would remain in charge during a period of reflection.


• An exit poll and early results showed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party were set for a resounding victory in Britain's election, allowing him to deliver Brexit on Jan. 31.