Football legend Pele is experiencing “a kind of depression” and barely leaves home anymore because health problems have left him unable to walk normally, his son said in an interview. “He’s pretty fragile in terms of his mobility… and that makes him suffer a kind of depression,” Edinho said of […]
Delhi Election Result 2020: AAP’s Bandana Kumari wins from Shalimar Bagh by around 800 votes
The Aam Aadmi Party’s Bandana Kumari on Tuesday won by around 800 votes against her nearest rival Rekha Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Shalimar Bagh assembly constituency, the Election Commission’s officials said. Bandana Kumari is the incumbent MLA in the constituency with 174,397 registered voters. In the 2015 […]
Delhi assembly election results 2020: Delhi Congress chief blames ‘politics of polarisation’ for debacle
Subhash Chopra, Delhi Congress chief on Tuesday blamed the “politics of polarisation by both BJP and AAP” for the drop in the party’s vote share in the 2020 Delhi Assembly election. “I take responsibility for the party’s performance. We will analyse the factors behind this. Reason for the drop in our vote […]
Delhi Poll Results Update: BJP’s Ravinder Singh Negileads against Dy CM Manish Sisodia
Delhi Poll Results Update: BJP’s Ravinder Singh Negi leads against Dy CM Manish Sisodia BJP’s Ravinder Singh Negi is leading against Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in Patparganj constituency of east Delhi by little less than 2000 votes, four hours after counting of votes for the 70-member Delhi assembly […]
Advance team of WHO experts arrives in China to probe coronavirus
An advance team of World Health Organization medical experts arrived in China on Monday to help investigate the coronavirus outbreak, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Tedros, who met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing last month, returned with an agreement on sending an international mission. It took nearly two […]
Arsenal’s Ozil hails Arteta impact despite early struggles
Arsenal have won just three matches since Mikel Arteta took over as manager in December but playmaker Mesut Ozil says the team have improved thanks to the Spaniard’s fresh tactical approach. Arsenal are 10th in the Premier League on 31 points, 10 behind fourth-placed Chelsea, but Ozil said the players […]
Delhi Election Results 2020: AAP set to win Delhi as BJP’s numbers get better
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) looked set to retain power in Delhi for the third term with a comfortable majority while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appeared to improve its performance in the national capital as counting of votes for the assembly elections was underway on Tuesday. According to trends […]
Delhi Assembly election results: Analysing BJP’s lead margins
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijender Gupta, the leader of the opposition in the outgoing Delhi assembly and one of the three leaders from the party who won the polls five years ago, was trailing by over 1,700 votes in the Rohini assembly segment, according to early trends on […]
National Institute of Financial Management to be renamed after Arun Jaitley
The Government of India (GoI) has decided to rename the National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM), Faridabad as Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management (AJNIFM). NIFM, Faridabad was set up in 1993 as a registered society under Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, GoI with the mandate to train […]
Ireland PM Leo Varadkar set to fade as Sinn Fein bids for power
The chances of Ireland Prime Minister Leo Varadkar heading the next government receded on Monday as Sinn Fein – long considered the political wing of the Irish Republic Army – won the largest of the first-preference votes following the February 8 election. The left-wing Sinn Fein, which shares power in […]
Delhi Poll Results: BJP’s Om Prakash Sharma leads from Vishwas Nagar
BJP’s Om Prakash Sharma is leading from Vishwas Nagar constituency in east Delhi by close to 4,000 votes against Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Deepak Singla. Sharma has polled around 30,000 votes according to the election commission data released at 12 pm while Singla had little over 25,000 votes. Gurcharan Singh […]
India boxers miss out on top trainer in Olympic year
When Sweden’s Armand Duplantis broke the pole vault record clearing 6.17m last week, an important member of his support staff had a link with Indian sport, having helped Indian boxers produce top performances in recent times. Rickard Nilsson, renowned strength and conditioning expert employed by the Swedish Olympic Committee for […]
Delhi Poll Results: BJP’s Jagdish Pradhan has a huge lead in Mustafabad, inches towards win
BJP’s sitting MLA from Mustafabad in the north east Delhi seat, Jagdish Pradhan had taken a huge lead over his nearest rival Haji Yunus of the Aam Aadmi Party by cornering close to 70 % of all popular votes cast in the constituency. While Pradhan had polled more than 40,000 […]
Delhi election result: AAP ministers in a tight contest in 3 seats
It was a tight contest for at least three Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ministers, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, revenue minister Kailash Gahlot and home minister Satyendar Jain, around 10.45am on Tuesday on the counting day, Election Commission website data showed. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal led with a decent margin […]
There is a gap, concedes BJP’s Manoj Tiwari but doesn’t lose hope
As Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party took a big lead over the Bharatiya Janata Party, Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari on Tuesday acknowledged the gap with its prime rival but underlined that he wasn’t losing hope yet. “There is still time,” Tiwari said, according to news agency ANI. ‘We are […]