UDF comeback in Kerala local body polls, Trump threatens tariffs on rice, India-Mexico trade: The week in top charts

(1) Kerala local body polls: Congress-led UDF makes a comeback Kerala’s local body polls for district panchayats, gram panchayats, municipalities and corporations concluded on Saturday last week (December 13), giving major wins for the Congress-led United Democratic Front. The UDF won four of the six corporations, 54 of the 87 municipalities, seven of 14 district panchayats and 505 of the 941 gram panchayats The National Democratic Front, led by the BJP, became the single largest alliance in the Thiruvananthapuram corporation for the first time this year by winning 50 of the 101 wards. The LDF had won 54 seats in…