The polling for the 70-member Delhi Assembly got underway this morning, an election that saw the ruling AAP, opposition BJP and the Congress engaged in a bitterly fought high-octane campaign.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged Delhi voters to turn out in large numbers to exercise their franchise and create a “new voting record”. Voting for the 70-member Delhi Assembly is underway. The counting will be done on Tuesday.
Some of their bowling and fielding frailties exposed in the series-opener, India will aim for quick course correction when they take on a resurgent New Zealand in the second ODI here on Saturday.
India’s fielding hasn’t been particularly good in the ongoing series against New Zealand, coach R Sridhar said on Friday but refused to blame tight schedules for the “downward curve” despite conceding that hectic travelling is affecting the side’s practice plans.
The Indian women’s cricket team produced another listless batting performance to suffer a second successive loss in the T20 triangular series, going down to England by four wickets here on Friday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has unveiled a sweeping plan for the Amazon rainforest that would open indigenous lands to mining – a ”dream” for the far-right leader, but a ”nightmare” for environmentalists and tribal leaders. Bolsonaro proposed a new bill Wednesday that would allow mining, farming and hydroelectric power projects on formerly protected land in the world’s largest rainforest, saying: ”I hope this dream… comes true.”
Poverty in Britain has risen among workers despite the country’s lowest unemployment in 45 years, an organisation for social change said Friday, while urging the new government to take action.
India’s Ambassador-Designate to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Thursday presented his credentials to President Donald Trump in his Oval Office of the White House. Trump, during the Oval Office credentials ceremony, warmly welcomed Sandhu, a career foreign service official, back to Washington DC and wished him success in his responsibilities as India’s ambassador to the US.
The Supreme Court said it would hear the pleas against anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh next week as it did not want to “influence” the Delhi Assembly elections by hearing the matter today.