The BJP polled over 56 per cent of votes, more than the combined vote share of the Congress (22.5 per cent) and the AAP (18.1 per cent).
A protegee of Advani, she stood out due to her mass appeal, an ability most of the party's second generation leaders lacked, resulting in her being elected to the Lok Sabha four times.
Since you can't step out, virtual sessions held by fitness experts have come to the rescue.
In recognition of the award for Sharma, the Asia Society said the officer "has led the investigation and prosecution of several high-profile crimes in India, including the infamous Delhi gang rape case that earlier this year turned into a television series. She has transformed police work and the roles of policewomen in India."
Hours after the clemency plea of Vinay Kumar Sharma, 26, was dismissed by the President, Akshay Thakur, 31, a third death row convict, filed a mercy petition.
Rediff.com's Priyanka travels to the locality where the Delhi gang rape accused, including Ram Singh who committed suicide on Monday morning, resided. While residents of the South Delhi locality are in disblief over Ram Singh's suicide, fellow accused Vinay Sharma's mother is now worried for her son's life
Seeing the good recovery rate, authorities in the city have for now put on hold their plans to use stadiums as makeshift COVID-19 care facilities.
Check out the timeline in the Delhi gang rape case which shocked the nation's conscience.
Aazad reached Shaheen Bagh a day after his bail conditions were relaxed. Addressing a massive gathering, the Dalit leader said the CAA is a 'black law' that is dividing people on religious lines.
'...are the deep ruts and fissures in the rotting fabric of our cities and the incompetence of elected leaders and administrators,' notes Sunil Sethi.
Indian boxing star Vijender Singh remained an unstoppable force, clinching a Technical Knock-out over the more experienced Mike Snider on his debut in the US professional circuit, in Newark, on Saturday night.
One youth suspected to be involved in the Rs 5.25 crore heist in a South Delhi locality was on Saturday taken into custody, police sources said. Deepak, hailing from Haryana, was picked up for questioning from a South Delhi locality on Saturday afternoon after police claimed to have identified four suspects involved in the heist on Friday afternoon, sources said.
Four of the six accused in the gang-rape of a Delhi student live in Ravidas Camp slum in RK Puram area of South Delhi. Rediff.com's Priyanka visits the basti to get reactions from their family and neighbours.
Traffic was severely affected due to heavy rains.
A part of the land, measuring 532 square metres, was rented out to a transport company and he used the rest of it as an approach road to enter a transport godown, Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar said.
Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president Aishe Ghosh, who was injured in the violence at the university, was discharged from the AIIMS in New Delhi on Monday. Ghosh suffered head injuries in the violence that took place on the campus on Sunday.
Two students from Manipur were allegedly assaulted by care taker of their rented accommodation, and two others after an altercation at a south Delhi locality, police said on Tuesday.
'All governments disappointed us. Now we don't have faith in any of them'
On Sunday, too, a drizzle resulted in an increase in humidity, triggering a massive pollution spike.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan is expected to deliver its judgment on the pleas of Mukesh, 29, Pawan Gupta, 22, and Vinay Sharma, 23.
In its order, the high court was critical of the delay caused by the authorities in seeking issuance of death warrants for the convicts as also of the "delay tactics" adopted by the convicts.
The CJI said one of his relatives had earlier appeared on behalf of the victim's mother in the case and observed that it would be appropriate that some other bench hear the review plea at 10:30 am.
The apex court had on May 5, 2017 upheld the verdict of the Delhi high court and the trial court awarding capital punishment to four convicts - Mukesh, 29, Pawan Gupta, 22, Vinay Sharma, 23, and Akshay Kumar Singh, 31, -- in the sensational December 2012 case that related to gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedic student in Delhi.
Akshay moves SC, saying death penalty entails 'cold blooded killing'. The SC has already rejected review pleas of 3 other convicts.
A massive fire broke out in a slum cluster in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj area on Friday gutting 500 jhuggis.
In growing incidents of crime against women, a woman, 25, was allegedly gang-raped in a moving car in south Delhi.
Inside the coach, he interacted with some of the commuters and posed with them for pictures.
A Delhi court on Friday issued fresh death warrants for February 1, 6 am against the four convicts. Earlier in the day, President Ram Nath Kovind had rejected Mukesh's mercy plea.
Vajpayee's last rites will be performed at the Rashtriya Smriti Sthal in New Delhi at 4 pm on Friday.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana on Thursday refused to grant any relief to Akshay Kumar, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh and rejected the petition saying no valid ground has been brought to his notice to justify the stay of execution of death warrants scheduled on March 20 at 5:30 am.
Sunanda's mail and messages on social media should be taken as a "dying declaration", the police told the court, which reserved for June 5 its order on whether to summon Tharoor as an accused in the case.
Exit polls predict clean sweep for the BJP, rout for AAP.
Vijender Singh is determined to keep the record with a world title to boot as he enters the new decade donning multiple hats, including the one of an active politician "with strong opinions". The 34-year-old trailblazing boxer, who delivered India's first Olympic and men's world championship medals in boxing back in 2008 and 2009, has logged an enviable 12-0 record in the professional circuit, which he entered in 2015.
During the college festival, 'Reverie', around 6:30 pm on February 6, groups of unruly, drunk men mobbed the entrances of the college and forced their way in.
'Those who were not co-operating are co-operating now.' 'Now, our facilities are fit, our doctors are fit and we have a better protocol of how to do isolation, how to do the collection.'
Right from the great Muhammad Ali, who was an influential figure during the African-American Civil Rights Movement to Cte d'Ivoire footballer Didier Drogba, who had a major hand in bringing peace to his country, sports personalities across the world have always played huge roles in social and geopolitical movements. The scenario is no different in India, as a lot of sporting stars have taken the political plunge. Take a look at the sports personalities contesting in elections 2019.
With mosques shut, workers and daily wage workers are left to fend for themselves, underscoring once again the magnitude of the crisis of unemployment and poverty triggered by the lockdown, which began on March 25 to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Before jumping off the terrace, she had sent a message to her husband that she would kill herself, police said.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the bank will start working in the next two days, adding that the Aam Aadmi Party government will encourage those who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate their plasma.
A 3-judge bench would hear the plea, that has questioned
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