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Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu today resigned after he was chosen as the NDA's candidate for the vice presidential election.The BJP Parliamentary board, in a meeting today, picked Naidu for contesting the poll for vice president, the post he is almost certain to occupy.A source said Naidu has...
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India today termed as 'utterly baseless, malicious and mischievous' a report about casualties of Indian soldiers in Sikkim due to military action with another country.External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay also said that no cognisance should be taken of these reports by responsible...
23:06
Three terrorists were killed in Wani Hama village of Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday night.The operation is underway.Earlier gunshots were heard at Bulbul Nowgam and Brakpora areas of the district.Further details are awaited.Representative image.
22:06
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar will brief a parliamentary committee tomorrow on the issue of the Sino-India standoff at the border tri-junction with Bhutan, a panel member said.The member, who did not wish to be named, said the foreign secretary along with other senior officials will brief the...
21:11
Terrorists today attacked an army convoy at Bijbehara in the Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, an army official said, adding that a man was injured when the forces fired back.Security forces have cordoned off the area and launched an operation to track down the terrorists, the official...
20:11
NDA's vice presidential candidate Venkaiah Naidu meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah at the party headquarters.Praising Naidu, the PM tweeted:'I know Venkaiah Naidu Garu for years. Have always admired his hard work & tenacity. A fitting candidate for the office of...
19:47
NDA's vice presidential nominee Venkaiah Naidu will file his nomination tomorrow, Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah announced.Venkaiah ji has a lot of experience. All NDA allies have welcomed this decision, Shah said. -- ANI
19:43
JUST IN: Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah announces that Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu will be the vice presidential candidate of the National Democratic Alliance.
19:39
The meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party to finalise the vice presidential nominee has ended and the party will hold a press conference to announce the name shortly.Most reports pitch Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu as the likely candidate. However, in a statement given to NDTV, Naidu dismissed...
19:26
Close to 99 per cent voting in presidential poll, says Returning Officer Anup Mishra.Possibly the highest voter turnout. Nine to 10 states witnessed 100% voting, Mishra said.He said 714 MPs voted in Parliament.Meanwhile, in Uttar Pradesh, 402 of the 403 MLAs and three MPs exercised their...
19:12
Suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba Saleem Khan was on Monday arrested from the Mumbai Airport.A resident of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh, Khan was arrested as part of a joint operation carried out by the Mumbai Police and Uttar Pradesh's Anti-Terrorism Squad.According to reports, Khan was travelling to...
18:46
JUST IN: ED arrests a director of a Dubai-based firm in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper scam case
18:29
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are heading a meeting of the BJP to finalise a name for vice president. Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu, believed to be the front-runner, said before going into the meeting: I am not aspiring to become anything. Whatever the parliamentary board...
18:09
The government has restored a crucial senior-level post in the Sino-India border guarding force ITBP after three years, a development seen as strengthening the paramilitary in the wake of frequent military stand-offs between the two sides.RK Mishra on Monday took over as the new additional...
17:52
Supriya Sule @supriya_sule day of monsoon session, at #Parliament With my colleagues. NCP MP Sule with Hema Malini, Anupriya Patel, Meenakshi Lekhi, Kirron Kher and Kothapalli Geetha.
17:21
The Congress gives notice for tomorrow in the Rajya Sabha to discuss repeated incidents of lynching and atrocities unleashed on Dalits and minorities. The TMC also gives notice under Rule 267 in the Rajya Sabha for tomorrow to discuss Indo-China issue on a priority and suspend all other...
17:15
Ceasefire violations by Pakistan continue. In the Uri sector, Pakistan targets several posts. Indian Army retaliates.
17:11
Voting for the presidential poll ends. The results will be declared on July 20.
17:03
The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued guidelines to all states on how to welcome Prime Minister Modi during his domestic tours. The MHA said that no bouquet should be presented to the PM during his tours within India. At best, the PM may be given a single flower among with a khadi handkerchief...
16:36
The cracks in the Trinamool Congress are wide open, as few of the party MLAs from Tripura voted for National Democratic Alliance candidate Ram Nath Kovind in the Presidential election, while others backed Opposition candidate Meira Kumar.TMC MLA Ashish Saha said they voted for Kovind as a mark of...
16:12
Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar has been given police protection amid protests against his film Indu Sarkar based on the Emergency.Bhandarkar will have two policemen in the day and two at night.The filmmaker has been facing Congress protests against the film, which is said to have characters inspired...
15:38
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's party the Trinamool Congress was the first opposition party to admit that Meira Kumar, the opposition's candidate for the presidential polls, will lose agains the NDA's nominee Ram Nath Kovind. Mamata said today the TMC voted for former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira...
15:08
Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah on Monday asserted that India lacks the power to take China-occupied Kashmir back from Beijing.In Ladakh, China has occupied the Aksai Chin. We shout about it, but do not have the power to take it back, Farooq said, adding that...
14:56
The search for more explosives at the Uttar Pradesh Assembly has ended up exposing a dirty secret: pan masala and gutkha sachets stuffed under the cushions and spit stains below the members' seats. State police's anti-terrorist squad has been combing the Assembly hall after the discovery of...
14:51
With India and China interacting over more than 3,000km of undefined frontier, friction is constant and that one day it would break back into border war has seemed inevitable. Two great Indian delusions have created this situation. Read more
14:31
Karnataka CM S Siddaramaiah on the transfer orders for DIG Police D Roopa to the Road safety & traffic department: It is an administrative process, it is not necessary to disclose everything to the media.D Roopa had spoken out against the alleged VIP treatment being given to AIADMK chief...
14:20
Mumbai: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis casts his vote in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the Presidential Poll 2017.
14:14
The Shiv Sena on Monday tore into the Congress for nominating Gopalkrishna Gandhi for the post of Vice-President of India and said the party needs to get their 'mental balance' checked after taking this decision.I just want to ask her that on what basis, the Congress has nominated Gopalkrishna...
14:11
Hundred per cent polling was recorded in the voting for the presidential election in Himachal with all 67 MLAs casting their vote. One seat is lying vacant in the 68-member House following death of Congress MLA Karan Singh. The ballot boxes would be sent to Chandigarh tomorrow morning and flown...
14:04
Amid reports of the Nationalist Congress Party voting for National Democratic Alliance's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind, party leader Praful Patel on Monday clarified that all their MPs and MLAs have voted for Opposition candidate Meira Kumar. Patel said NCP chief Sharad Pawar had...
13:47
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said they voted for Opposition candidate Meira Kumar for the post of the President.We have decided to support Meira Kumar. But a non-congress candidate would have been better for this post, Owaisi told ANI.Owaisi and...
13:34
China's military has conducted live-fire exercises in the remote mountainous Tibet region amid the ongoing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops at the Dokalam area in the Sikkim sector. The People's Liberation Army conducted the 11-hour long live-fire exercises in Southwest China's Tibet...
13:17
The Karnataka Deputy Inspector General of Police, D Roopa, who spoke out against the alleged VIP treatment being given to AIADMK chief Sasikala Natarajan in jail, has been shunted out.Roopa has now been posted as commissioner for road safety & traffic.Creating a political storm in Tamil Nadu,...
13:06
There is no rocket science involved in predicting that the ruling NDA's nominee Ram Nath Kovind would win the presidential poll, senior NCP leader Praful said today.Patel also expressed the hope that a candidate who could protect the Constitution would win the election.The NCP is backing the...
12:46
A woman was injured in the ceasefire violation by Pakistan along the LoC in Rajouri's Manjakote sector (J&K).
12:38
An Army jawan and a nine-year-old girl were killed as Pakistani troops shell areas along the LoC in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. Two more civilians have been injured. The army said soldier Muddasar Ahmed (pictured) was hit when mortar shells landed on his bunker at around 7.30 am. The...
12:34
Odisha CM Naveen Biju Patnaik casts his vote for the Presidential election at the Odisha Assembly. Polling began at 10 am and ends at 5 pm.
12:03
Union ministers Venkaiah Naidu and Nirmala Sitharaman in VP race, says ABP News. The Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentary board is slated to meet this evening to pick the vice-presidential candidate of the National Democratic Alliance.Opposition presidential candidate Meira Kumar and...
11:51
Andhra Pradesh CM NChandrababu Naidu cast his vote for the Presidential Poll in Amaravati.
11:40
The Election Commission has appointed 33 observers who are overseeing the conduct of the election. While two observers are present in Parliament House, one each is deployed in the respective state assemblies. The results will be declared on July 20 in New Delhi. The electorate, comprising elected...
11:31
Sensex hits life-time high of 32,131.92 in late morning trade; Nifty scales new peak of 9,920.30.
11:29
The Pakistan Army on Monday violated ceasefire along the Line of Control in Poonch's Balakote and Rajouri's Manjakote and Bhimber Gali sector.The Indian Army is strongly retaliating to it.On July 12, two soldiers were killed after Pakistan violated ceasefire in Kupwara sector of Jammu and...
11:26
Both houses of Parliament adjourned till tomorrow.
11:22
Lok Sabha adjourned till tomorrow after an obituary is read to former members and victims of the Amarnath terror attack.
11:16
Rehearsal for the swearing-in ceremony of the new President at Delhi's Vijay Chowk.
11:15
Presidential election 2017: MLAs queue up at Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly to cast their votes
10:55
MPs queue up in Parliament to vote in the Presidential poll.
10:40
So, PM Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah were the first to cast their vote in Parliament in the Presidential Polls being held today. Voting, which began at 10 am across the country, is underway simultaneously in all state assemblies as well as in the Parliament.Every elected legislator...
10:21
PM Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah cast their votes in Parliament for the Presidential polls. The voting will take place in room number 62 inside Parliament House. Across the country there are 32 polling stations with ballot papers in the state's official language and in English. For...
10:12
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today acknowledged that violence in the name of cow protection was tarnishing the image of the country and damaging the social fabric and asked political leaders to lend their support in fighting the menace. Read more
10:06
PM Narendra Modi addresses the media ahead of the Presidential Election. He said the country will get a new President and Vice President in this session and it was a crucial session for the country.Jaise varsha nai sugandh mitti mein bharti hai vaise hi monsoon satr GST ki safal varsha ke karan...
09:49
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah to cast their votes at 10 am in Parliament for the Presidential Poll.In Varanasi, BJP supporters perform 'hawan' for NDA's presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind's victory in the Presidential Poll to be held today. 4896 legislators will vote....
09:47
The Nationalist Congress Party on Monday said that the Presidential election is a fight between two different ideologies, and not between two persons.Talking to ANI, NCP leader Tariq Anwar said, I believe that this fight is not between two persons but between two ideologies. We will get to see...
09:33
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance government will be introducing 16 new Bills in Monsoon Session of the Parliament that is beginning on Monday.Thirty-four Bills are on the agenda of the government for the Monsoon Session that is likely to be a stormy affair over...
09:18
The monsoon session of the Parliament is to begin from today.The Opposition is likely to corner the government on the issue of China, Jammu and Kashmir and Darjeeling unrest, impact of Goods and Service Tax and other issues.Apart from this the Centre will also introduce 16 new bills in both the...
09:10
MPs and MLAs who vote to elect the next President on Monday have been barred from carrying their personal pens inside the voting chamber and will have to mark their ballot with a specially-designed marker, the Election Commission said.Following the ink controversy in the Rajya Sabha polls in...
09:02
Leaders of opposition parties to meet at 10 am today in the Parliament.
08:49
The elected representative of the Parliament and various state assemblies will vote to elect India's next President today.Ruling National Democratic Alliance candidate Ram Nath Kovind has locked horns with opposition candidate Meira Kumar in the race to the country's top constitutional...
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