Hindustan Times News | 22nd March 2022 | 6 PM

HT Daily News Wrap

Akhilesh Yadav quits as Lok Sabha MP, submits his resignation to Lok Sabha speaker, 7 people charred to death, houses caught fire at Bogtui village, West Bengal, Half-century and all-round performance powered India a 110-run win over Bangladesh and other top news in this bulletin.
Akhilesh Yadav has quit as Lok Sabha MP after he won the assembly constituency of Karhal in the Uttar Pradesh state elections. This was the first assembly election the 48-year-old former UP chief minister had fought. He was a Lok Sabha MP from Azamgarh. With this, Akhilesh Yadav is expected to fill in the role of the leader of opposition in the UP state assembly. He submitted his resignation to Lok Sabha speaker Om Prakash Birla on Tuesday afternoon. Even as the G23 rebels are mounting pressure and offering suggestions, the Congress leadership is quietly but regularly exploring options and at least in one instance in the recent past discussed possible names who can play pivotal roles in reviving the party that has lost elections as well as talent in the past few years. At least seven people were charred to death when their houses caught fire at Bogtui village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Monday night hours after Bhadu Sheikh, the deputy chief of ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) controlled-Barshal gram panchayat, was killed in a bomb attack, police said. Sheikh was a resident of Bogtui. Pramod Sawant will take oath for a second straight term as Goa chief minister on March 28. The BJP on Monday said he will continue in his role, nearly 10 days after the election results in the coastal state where the party was able to win 20 of 40 seats. Of the four states the BJP won in this round of assembly elections, Goa was the only one where it could not reach the magic number. In Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur, the seats won by the BJP were comfortably above the halfway mark. Shefali Shah has revealed that she used to have a huge crush on Aamir Khan in her college days. The actor had also made her debut in an Aamir Khan-starrer movie. Shefali Shah had played the role of Mala Malhotra in Ram Gopal Varma’s 1995 film Rangeela, which also starred Urmila Matondkar and Jackie Shroff. Shefali only had a few scenes in the film, as she had left it after just four days of shooting because she felt her role was very different from what she was briefed. Yastika Bhatia’s gritty half-century and Sneh Rana’s all-round performance powered India a dominating 110-run win over Bangladesh and kept them in the hunt for a semifinal spot at the ICC Women’s World Cup on Tuesday. Opting to bat, India recovered from a mid-inning collapse to post a modest 229 for seven, riding on a responsible 80-ball 50 by Bhatia and a late flourish from Rana (27) and Pooja Vastrakar (30).