Team Mumbai Indians and Rohit Sharma won a record-extending 5th title of IPL 2020 by decimating Delhi Capitals by 5 wickets. In what turned out shortest final in the history of IPL, the powerhouse of T20 cricket needed just 18.4 overs to gun down a target of 157 , in terms of the overs played Led by captain Rohit Sharma’s 68 and a terrific Trent Boult, Mumbai Indians used all their experience of having featured in 5 previous IPL finals to good effect against Shreyas Iyer’s men. Rohit Sharma had not been in the best of forms, marred by injury…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said every person from the rural areas to cities of Bihar has believed and trusted in my only mantra of sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas. Moreover the people of Bihar wanted development and thus they wanted BJP-Nitish Kumar to come to power. The results of these elections are a proof. Due to Covid-norms, the counting went slow and the results of election only after 3 am. As results of the assembly election continued to trickle in, showing the ruling NDA leading in 122 seats and the opposition alliance in 113 seats. The NDA reached…
Nitish Kumar- led NDA was back in power in Bihar on Wednesday with a majority.The ruling coalition won 125 seats in the 243-member State Assembly against 110 clinched by the Opposition Grand Alliance to pave the way for a fourth successive term for Mr. Kumar in office but with diminished clout following a debilitating slide in the number of JD(U) lawmakers that came down to 43 from 71 in 2015. Mr. Kumar was then a partner in the Grand Alliance which included Lalu Prasad’s RJD and the Congress. RJD with Tejashwi Yadav emerged as the single largest party with 75…
In Gujarat, the Bharatiya Janata Party won all the eight Assembly seats for which by-elections were held on November 3. The BJP not only won all the seats, but also registered victories with significant margins, barring in one seat, over their Congress rivals. Except Morbi, all other seats registered winning margins of 17,000 to 20,000 votes. The results of Morbi and Karjan have been officially declared by the Election Commission, whereas other announcements are awaited as counting is still believed to be in progress some segments. The by-elections were held owing to Congress legislators’ resignations prior to the Rajya Sabha…
Trailblazers skipper Smriti Mandhana said not knowing once they would get to play next gave them extra motivation to “give their all” within the Women’s T20 Challenge final against Supernovas here on Monday. The Indian players returned to action after a six-month break thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and with the planet still browsing the health crisis, their playing future remains uncertain. “I just told the women that these are the last 20 overs of the tournament. due to the COVID-19 situation we do not know when we’ll begin next, so we wanted to offer it our all,” Mandhana said…
Counting of votes for the Bihar assembly elections will take longer than usual and continue till late within the night due to 63 per cent increase within the number of EVMs, the committee said on Monday. Briefing reporters within the capital because the counting progressed in Bihar, EC officials said over 1 crore votes were counted till around 1.30 pm out of nearly 4.16 crore votes polled within the three-phase elections. The official said the counting has been “glitch-free” thus far. To ensure social distancing norms put in situ thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Commission had increased the amount…
The ruling party has already attained a simple majority in the 230-member House as the BJP wins nine out of the 28 Assembly seats in bypolls in Madhya Pradesh so far on Tuesday. The BJP has a lead of 19 out of the 28 Assembly constituencies for which by-elections were held while the Congress is ahead in nine seats, according to the trends of counting on Tuesday. Madhya Pradesh health minister Dr Prabhuram Choudhary won from Sanchi in the state by 63,809 votes, defeating the Congress’s Madanlal Choudhary, an official said. Another minister, senior tribal leader Bisahulal Singh, won from Anuppur with…
RJD-led Mahagathbandhan, with Tejashwi Yadav as its chief ministerial candidate, has gained early leads over the Nitish Kumar-led NDA. Counting of votes across 55 counting centres in Bihar begun at 8 am today. The mandate on a fierce campaign and 15 years of Nitish Kumar rule will be out today. Will the Tejashwi Yadav-led Mahagathbandhan make it to the government like the exit polls have predicted or will Nitish Kumar prove them all wrong and get elected for a fourth term as the Bihar chief minister. The fate of 3,558 candidates who contested in the Bihar Assembly Election 2020 will…
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in 17 seats in Madhya Pradesh while Congress in 10 seats. The BJP in Madhya Pradesh represented by Jyotiraditya Scindia, took a lead in the Madhya Pradesh bypolls as votes were counted in 56 assembly seats across a dozen states. The contests in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh are the most absorbing. Half the vacant seats are in Madhya Pradesh, where the result will be viewed by many as a comment on Jyotiraditya Scindia and the clout he wields since he quit the Congress in March and crossed over to the BJP. Seven…
Telugu film actor and former union minister K Chiranjeevi on Monday said he had tested positive for Covid-19 and is asymptomatic. The actor requested all those who came in contact with him during the past five days to undergo coronavirus test. Telugu film actor and former union minister K Chiranjeevi on Monday said he had tested positive for Covid-19 and is asymptomatic. He said on his Twitter page that he took a test before resuming shoot of his upcoming movie ‘Acharya.’ “Took a test for Covid before resuming Acharya shoot as a protocol and unfortunately tested positive. I am asymptomatic…