Republican Donald Trump has been elected as 45th President of the United States after winning 276 electoral votes.
Lawmakers were not going to be in town on that particular day, and would be in their constituencies preparing for the mid-term elections in November. Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa reports
The billionaire businessman beat his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States.
The Union Health ministry put the number of positive cases at 82, eight more since Thursday night, which includes the woman and a 76-year-old man from Karnataka who became the country's first coronavirus fatality besides 17 foreign nationals, Health Ministry officials said.
