Mugabe stumbles breaks fall in India

President Robert Mugabe yesterday almost fell over backwards as he tried to climb onto a one-step dais, with Indian Premier Narendra Modi and some aides rushing to his rescue in New Delhi.

It would have been the second time 91 year old Mugabe would have fallen in public after his tumble at Harare International Airport early this year.

Last month he shocked the world after he read the wrong speech while officially opening the Third Session of the Eighth Parliament.

Some opposition groups have demanded that Mugabe steps down on account of his age.