Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina (Photos by AP) NEW DELHI: World No. 5 Elena Rybakina won the Australian Open title on Saturday as she defeated top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 scoreline. The victory was special for Rybakina, and it helped her avenge the painful loss she suffered in the 2023 final at…
File photo: Congress leader Bhai Jagtap NEW DELHI: A day after the Congress recorded its lowest-ever tally in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, factional fault lines resurfaced in the party’s Mumbai unit, with a senior leader demanding the resignation of city president Varsha Gaikwad on moral grounds.Gaikwad has come under pressure after the Congress…
NEW DELHI: Haryana, Maharashtra, Delhi — and now Bihar.What should have been a comeback moment for the Congress-led INDIA bloc instead turned into a rout.Bihar has delivered the harshest blow yet. With the Nitish Kumar–led NDA storming past the 200-seat mark and the Congress slipping to one of its most disappointing performances in the state,…
Flashback: On June 4, 2024, as the results started trickling in, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in shock. The party had set the ambitious “400 paar” target for itself in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the party failed to get a majority on its own for the first time since 2014.The scale of the…
US President Donald Trump (AP photo) TOI Correspondent from Washington: Donald Trump’s Republican Party got smoked in the first elections since he returned to power ten months ago, with Democrats convincingly winning the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey and a raft of local body polls, including in New York City, where Zohran Mamdani became…