Hamid Ansari gets second term as Vice President

New Delhi: On expected lines, UPA candidate Hamid Ansari on Tuesday won the race for Vice President for the second time, beating NDA candidate Jaswant Singh with a huge margin.

Ansari got 490 votes, where as Singh got only 238 votes. 736 of the 787 MPs in both Houses cast their votes. Out of 787, eight votes were invalid.

Voting for the Vice President began at 10 am and continued till 5 pm.

75-year-old Ansari, a career diplomat is the second Vice President to get the send term after late philosopher-statesman S Radhakrishnan.

The Vice President is elected by members of an electoral college consisting of Members of Both Houses of Parliament in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of single transferable vote.

Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha are also entitled to take part in the election.

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Indian origin girl killed, 36 others injured in US Megabus crash

 
LITCHFIELD, ILLINOIS: A 25-year-old passenger who died in the crash of a double-decker Megabus in Illinois was from India traveling to central Missouri.
Aditi R. Avhad was headed to Columbia, Missouri, when the bus slammed into an interstate bridge support pillar on Thursday. Dozens were sent to hospitals with injuries. It's not clear how many remained hospitalized early Friday.
Illinois State Trooper Brad Lemarr said he didn't know where Avhad was seated on the bus, which was traveling between Chicago and Kansas City. The city in which she lived was also not immediately known.
Some hospital officials said early Friday they still were treating patients, though none were reporting any of the injuries to be life-threatening.
Troopers had reported that 38 people were taken to hospitals for injuries.

Saina Nehwal loses in semis, still in race for bronze

india's Saina Nehwal went down to world champion Wang Yihan in the women's singles semi-finals of the London Olympics badminton event in London on Friday. The match lasted 42 min, the longest rally was 34 strokes. Saina, the first Indian shuttler to reach the Olympics

semi-finals, lost 13-21, 13-21 at the Wembley Arena. The fourth seed will now play for the bronze medal Saturday against the other losing semi-finalist.

In their previous five encounters, Saina had never been able to blow her away. The two last met in January this year at the Malaysian Open where Saina lost 15-21, 16-21. In two of the three encounters in 2011, Saina managed to stretch Wang to three sets but could never alter the end result.
With already 21 individual titles to her name, Wang is known in the badminton circuit for not giving an inch to her opponents. Nehwal has yet to figure how to unravel that particular riddle.
Saina was realistic about her chances in the semis without sounding overtly confident.
"It's very, very difficult as the Chinese are strong opponents. We will both be under the pressure of expectations but I am not thinking about all that."
 I was thinking too hard" said Saina Nehwal after she was beaten in straight games by world number one Wang Yihan in the women's singles semifinals at the London Olympics on Friday.

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