Parliamentarians and legislators across the country voted on Monday to elect India's 15th president, choosing between opposition pick Yashwant Sinha and National Democratic Alliance nominee Droupadi Murmu who is favoured to win the battle to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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The country's total vaccination coverage has surpassed 6 crore on Sunday.
The BJP can't be sure if it should celebrate that the old rival is fading or worry that new ones are rising. Because the last thing the BJP wants to see is alternatives rising, if only to the Congress, observes Shekhar Gupta.
The depression formed over Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea would turn into a cyclonic storm in the next 24 hours and reach near the Gujarat coast on the morning of May 18, officials said.
A total of 8.58 lakh candidates had registered for the JEE-Mains exam for admission to engineering courses in IITs, NITs and Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) while only 74 per cent of them had appeared for the exam.
Gujarat reported 2,165 cases, Maharashtra 1,188, Uttar Pradesh 663, Madhya Pradesh 590, Haryana 339 and Andhra Pradesh 248 cases.
The India meteorological department has stated that day temperatures are likely to be above normal by 0.5 degree Celsius, reports Sanjeeb Mukherjee.
The country's textile industry is concentrated in a few pockets of Gujarat and Maharashtra in the west and Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in the south.
Each state has its own weak areas that need attention. Some states have already identified the gaps and sought the Centre's help. Vinay Umarji, Ishita Ayan Dutt, Samreen Ahmad and Sohini Das report.
The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 13,295 while 2,301 people have been cured and discharged.
'Non-separation of religion from politics is India's most daunting challenge'
Land pooling refers to amassing small land parcels for infra development and returning approximately 60% of the redeveloped land to the original owners
More than 1,600 people died due to extreme weather conditions across the country last year, with severe heat wave claiming the largest chunk of the total deaths at 40 per cent, followed by flooding and lightning.
The earlier resolution allowing these developers to charge higher power tariffs, now stands cancelled.
Experts believe the slowdown or the rupee depreciation has not been able to kill the spirit of the Gujarati traveller.
She claimed states were not consulted about it, a charge dismissed by the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the examination.
The National Investigation Agency has announced a reward of Rs four lakh on information leading to the arrest of absconding Indian Mujahideen terrorist Abdul Subhan Qureshi alias Touqeer.
Karnataka, Gujarat and Maharashtra are facing the worst drought in recent times, but the states should not play 'politics' by inflating their memoranda for central assistance, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Friday.
Talks are on with a German firm for disposal of toxic waste left at the Union Carbide plant in the aftermath of the 1984 disaster after Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra declined to allow its destruction in their territory, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday.
Last year, most state governments in the country upgraded their system of evaluating performance in the class 10 exam from ranking system to grades in order to equalise the boards and reduce stress on students. Do you think the new system has helped students?
It said it won't respond to the averment to prove its image.
ETV's bouquet consists of 11 regional channels and one Telugu news channel ETV2.
Perched in the hills of Darjeeling, the factory was set up in 1874, but has remained shut since 2001. Efforts to reopen the colonial era establishment are now on a war footing.
The CM recently instructed officials to prepare a roadmap for providing local jobs to about two million people, especially in the rural-based industries, such as khadi, dairy, and food processing units and MSMEs.
Europe still a favourite among Indians for summer, says survey.
Pahalgam, a tourist town in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir and a hill station recorded a minimum temperature of -12 degree celsius folowed by Gulmarg another tourist destination in the valley recording a minimum temperate of -10 degrees celsius.
According to state government sources in Gujarat, cotton sowing was only 9,339 hectares or 0.37% of the normal three-year average sowing in the first week of this month
'Who are these people on the streets?' 'They are youth and students who were hoodwinked, bluffed by Modi for the last seven years, with a promise of 2 crore jobs every year.' 'And Mamata sings the same tune.' 'But the youth can see that as long as there is Mamata or Modi, there is no hope.'
A suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist arrested in the capital was sent to 14 days judicial custody by a Delhi court on Wednesday.
Results show that the BJP has fared poorly in rural regions, underlining the need for the party to challenge issues like farm distress and unemployment.
'The government and railways are looking after us, but I just want to get home.'
RIL is aiming to revive its 350-odd outlets in Gujarat and Maharashtra by the end of April, followed by the rest of the country. The company may sell only these two products for some time. The company had closed all its 1,400-odd retail outlets through the country last year, after sales dropped drastically due to its inability to match the subsidised prices offered by state sector oil marketing companies.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to announce the names of its candidates for over 150 Lok Sabha seats on Thursday.
The plucking of dussehri, which will hit the shelves next week at 50% premium, started late this season, because of poor crop and adverse weather conditions, including hailstorms, in the orchards of Malihabad.
Young investors speak about their experience in the recent market crash. They, it seems, remain undaunted and want to put more money into stocks going ahead.
'Recently we held a video conference with a host (about 100) of US companies that want to move their base from China to Uttar Pradesh.'
The alliance combines capabilities of both the companies to offer a set of solutions comprising connectivity, computing, storage solutions, and other technology services and applications required by Indian businesses, and will span the broad Reliance Industries ecosystem, including its existing and new businesses.
The only reform that has been adopted was 'handbook for Disabled cricketers' which BCCI has released, which is point No. 8 as per first timeline.
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