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Economist Dr Rajiv Kumar was tonight named as the new vice chairman of NITI Aayog, five days after the incumbent Arvind Panagariya announced that he would quit to return to academics.The government also appointed Dr Vinod Paul, a pediatrician at the AIIMS, as a member of the NITI Aayog, an...
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The Enforcement Directorate today moved a Delhi court seeking quizzing of jailed INX media director Indrani Mukerjea in a money laundering case against her and others including Karti Chidambaram, son of former minister P Chidambaram.The ED, in its application moved before special judge Sunil...
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Vice President-elect M Venkaiah Naidu tweets:'With all humility, express gratitude to every MP who supported my candidature cutting across party lines.''I promise to uphold the Constitution and the high standards set by my esteemed predecessor.'Earlier, he told PTI, I am very humbled. I am also...
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The United States has informed the United Nations that it will withdraw from the historic 2015 Paris climate agreement but would still take part in negotiations to protect its own interests.The formal notification to the UN comes two months after President Donald Trump announced his intention to...
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First reactions on Venkaiah Naidu's victory in vice presidential election.I congratulate Venkaiah Naidu garu on his victory. I wish him all the best for his new office, said opposition candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi.I thank those who voted for me. I was expecting handsome performance by united...
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Out of 760 valid votes, Venkaiah Naidu got 516 votes and United Progressive Alliance's candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi got 244 votes.
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JUST IN: National Democratic Alliance candidate Venkaiah Naidu has won the vice presidential election defeating opposition candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi.The latest counting figures indicated that he got 516 votes out of the 771 votes polled.More details awaited. -- ANI
18:39
He may have not heard of Rakhi, but the women and girls of a remote Muslim-dominated village 'symbolically' named by an NGO after United States President Donald Trump will send him 1,001 sacred threads on the Hindu festival that celebrates the brother-sister bond.The gesture by the residents of...
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The last batch of 89 pilgrims today left for the cave shrine of Amarnath from Jammu to join the annual yatra which entered its last phase, officials said.The shrine is located at an altitude of 3,880-metre in south Kashmir Himalayas.All the 89 pilgrims present at the Bhagwati camp left in four...
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The voting for Vice Presidential Election has ended.Total 771 out of 785 votes polled,98.21 per cent poll percentage recorded.Counting will begin at 6 pm. -- ANI
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Nearly 97 per cent of the members of Parliament exercised their franchise till 3 pm in the vice presidential poll in New Delhi today.Assistant Returning Officer Mukul Pandey told reporters that 96.94 per cent (761 out of 785) members eligible to cast vote have exercised their franchise till 3...
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Vice Presidential election: 96.94 per cent polling till 3 pm, says Assistant Returning Officer Mukul Pandey.
15:49
Bharatiya Janata Party worker Jayesh Darji was on Saturday detained by police in Dhanera for attacking Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's convoy on Friday.Rahul's car was attacked on Friday when he was on his way to the helipad after visiting the flood-hit areas in Gujarat's Dhanera.Earlier...
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One person has been arrested in connection with attack on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's car in Dhanera town of Gujarat, Banaskantha Superintendent of Police said on Saturday.Meanwhile, the Congress held nationwide protests against the attack on Saturday.The Congress vice president said...
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More than 90 per cent votes in the vice presidential election had been cast by 1 pm, the assistant returning officer said today.According to Mukul Pandey, the assistant returning officer of the vice presidential polls, 713 of 785 electors had voted by 1 pm, recording 90.83 per cent voting.Earlier...
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The fourth episode of Game of Thrones season seven has landed online ahead of its Sunday premiere.The leak comes just days after HBO suffered a major cyberattack.However, according to a spokesperson from HBO, the leak was related to one of HBO's distribution partners, Star India, and had no...
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Rajya Sabha MP Rekha and Lok Sabha MP Dimple Yadav after casting their vote for vice presidential election at Parliament. -- ANI
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Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar votes in vice presidential election at Parliament house in New Delhi.Not only here but whenever voting takes place, every citizen should vote, he said. -- ANI
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The Congress on Saturday staged protests across the nation over attack on party vice president Rahul Gandhi's convoy in Gujarat on Friday.The Congress workers staged protests in Gujarat's Ahmedabad , Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh's capital Bhopal and Maharashtra's capital Mumbai.In...
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Gujarat Congress MLAs who are staying at a Bengaluru resort meet Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala at Raj Bhavan on Saturday.Senior Congress MLA Shaktisinh Gohil said Vajubhai has been a member of Gujarat assembly and he knows everyone.All 44 MLAs met him individually, Gohil...
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Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on way to cast his vote in the vice-presidential poll.
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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh casts his vote.
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From left, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, opposition vice-presidential nominee Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and others at Parliament house in New Delhi during the voting process for the vice-presidential election.
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Senior BJP leader L K Advani votes in vice presidential polls.
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Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today said the attack on his convoy in Gujarat was carried out by people from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.Gandhi yesterday faced protests in flood-hit Gujarat where alleged BJP supporters hurled a cement brick at his car and...
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China is planning a small scale military operation to expel Indian troops from the Doklam area within two weeks, an article in a state-run daily said today.India and China have been locked in a prolonged standoff in the area in the Sikkim sector since June 16 after Chinese troops began...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi casts his vote in the vice presidential election in New Delhi.
10:32
Voting has started for the vice presedentail election. The electoral college which elects the vice president, who is also the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, consists of elected and nominated members of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha.Members of Parliament will use special pens for marking...
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The Trump administration on Friday issued a stern warning to those behind the staggering number of leaks of classified information and said that it was reviewing policies affecting media subpoenas.The assertion came a day after The Washington Post posted highly classified transcripts of Trump's...
09:20
Nineteen mobile numbers in New Delhi have been put under surveillance after the CBI informed that they were procured using fake documents and were beingused for anti-national activities, the Delhi Police said.The CBI informed the Special Cell that 19 mobile phone numbers were activated using fake...
09:18
The United States has submitted its formal communication to the United Nations indicating that it will withdraw from the 2015 Paris Climate agreement as soon as possible, the US State Department has said.The communication is in line with the decision announced by President Donald Trump recently,...
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The election to decide India's 15th vice-president is being held today.M Venkaiah Naidu, the candidate of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance, is pitted against Gopal Krishna Gandhi of the Opposition United Progressive Alliance in the polls in which the elected and...
08:36
Days after announcing his support to a merit-based immigration system, President Donald Trump has said that migrants will not get welfare in the first five years after they arrive in the United States.You cannot get welfare for five years when you come into our country. You can't just come in,...
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Three Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists were killed in an encounter with Jammu and Kashmir police, Army and CRPF in Sopore on Saturday.Ammunition and 3 AK-47 rifles were recovered from the slain terrorists, ANI reported quoting police sources.One police jawan was also injured in the encounter.The...
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The Aadhaar number is not mandatory for booking rail tickets, the Centre told the Rajya Sabha on Friday.In a written reply in the Upper House of Parliament, Union Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain said as of now, his ministry had no plans to make the 12-digit unique identification...
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