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India and China failed to make any breakthrough in resolving outstanding issues on the remaining friction points in eastern Ladakh at the 16th round of military talks on Sunday, but agreed to maintain dialogue to arrive at a mutually acceptable resolution at the earliest.A day after the nearly...
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Legendary ghazal singer Bhupinder Singh died on Monday due to suspected colon cancer and COVID-19-related complications at a Mumbai hospital, his wife Mitali Singh said. He was 82.Singh was best known for songs such as 'Duniya Chhute Yaar Na Chhute' (Dharam Kanta), 'Thodi Si Zameen Thoda Aasman'...
22:08
Aniket Govind Mandavgane, currently posted as Director in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been posted as Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) for a period of three years.He is a 2009 batch IFS officer.
21:57
After India reported two monkeypox cases, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday reviewed the functioning of health screening of international travellers arriving in India at airports and ports.The meeting was attended by Airport and Port Health Officers (APHOs/PHOs) and...
21:12
Allu Arjun in 'Pushpa'
Pan-India mega star Allu Arjun, who starred in blockbuster Pushpa, will lead the annual India Day Parade in New York next month organised by a leading Indian diaspora organisation as India marks the 75th year of Independence. The Federation of Indian Associations - New York, New Jersey and...
20:38
Rahstriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday claimed that senior Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nityanand Rai had expressed a desire to jump ship before his induction into the Union Council of Ministers.The remark evoked predictable outrage from the Union Minister of State for Home's...
20:11
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested eight people, including the suspected mastermind and paper solvers, allegedly impersonating real candidates to help them in the NEET examination for undergraduate medical courses, officials said.The agency received inputs that several people had...
19:52
At least 12 of 19 MPs of Shiv Sena will form a separate group in the Lok Sabha and meet Speaker Om Birla to submit a formal letter, a Shiv Sena MP from Maharashtra claimed on Monday.The move comes weeks after the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena witnessed a vertical split with 40 of the MLAs...
19:34
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is down with Covid-19 infection after her return from Bali, Indonesia, where she attended G20 the finance ministers' meeting. Sitharaman, who returned from Bali on Sunday, cast her vote on Monday in the presidential election wearing a full PPE...
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Voting for the presidential poll ended on Monday with the 98.90 per cent of the electors permitted to vote in the parliament house exercising their franchise, Returning Officer P C Mody said.Briefing reporters after the voting, Mody said out of 736 electors comprising 727 MPs and nine MLAs...
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Voting in the election for the post of President of India is over at Parliament.Presidential poll conducted peacefully, cordially everywhere; total turnout at Parliament was 99.18 per cent, Chief Returning Officer P C Mody said. -- PTI/ANI
17:15
England all-rounder Ben Stokes announces retirement from ODI cricket.'I will play my last game for England in ODI cricket tomorrow in Durham. I have decided to retire from this format,' tweeted Stokes.
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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday informed the Lok Sabha that a few states including Telangana have sought a five-year extension for the compensation paid to them for revenue shortfall due to GST implementation. As per section 18 of the Constitution (One Hundred and First...
16:29
Chhattisgarh Minister TS Singhdeo resigns from the post of state's Panchayat & Rural Development Minister. I will continue to loyally discharge the rest of the responsibilities given to me. I had started to feel that I couldn't work according to public. So I decided to resign and I wrote to...
16:25
BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Monday criticised imposing GST on packaged food items such as milk, curd and rice, saying this will hurt people already struggling with record-breaking unemployment. A 5 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) has kicked in on pre-packaged and labelled food items...
16:15
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi casts his vote for the Presidential elections.
16:12
The rupee slid to the psychologically low level of 80 in intra day trade before settling down by 15 paise at 79.97 (provisional) against the US currency on Monday due to a surge in crude oil prices and unrelenting foreign fund outflows. At the interbank forex market, the local unit...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee arrives at the State Assembly in Kolkata to cast her vote for the Presidential elections.
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A 31-year-old man who arrived in Kerala last week from Dubai has tested positive for monkeypox, state Health Minister Veena George said on Monday. This is the second case of monkeypox in the state as well as the country. The minister said the patient, who arrived in Kerala on July...
15:57
The Supreme Court to hear Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair's plea seeking to quash five FIRs lodged against him in Uttar Pradesh on July 20. In the meantime, no precipitative steps be taken against Zubair in connection with five FIRs in UP, the SC said.
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Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao casts his vote for the prez polls in Hyderabad.
15:22
Mallikarjun Kharge votes in the Presidential polls. Sonia Gandhi leaves Parliament after voting.
15:18
Congress MP Sonia Gandhi arrive in Parliament to cast their votes for the Presidential elections. Shashi Tharoor and Digvijaya Singh also votes.
15:05
The Supreme Court Monday said that it would hear Alt News co-founder Mohd Zubair's plea today itself seeking to quash six FIRs lodged against him in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly outraging religious feelings. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna said that it would take up...
14:39
Ramdas Kadam resigns as Shiv Sena leader. He was in the Uddhav Thackeray faction.
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A bombed out school in Khakiv
The recent depreciation in the value of the Indian rupee against the US dollar is due to global factors like the Russia-Ukraine conflict, soaring crude oil prices, and tightening of global financial conditions, the government said in the Lok Sabha on Monday. In reply to a starred question...
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Union Ministers Mansukh Mandaviya, Hardeep Singh Puri, Samajwadi Party's Mulayam Singh Yadav and NCP chief Sharad Pawar cast their votes for the Presidential polls in Delhi.The election of the President is held in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of single...
13:32
Search ops to locate the drone
As instances of drones entering Indian airspace continue to be reported from the border regions, the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday spotted yet another drone flying near the Samba International Border in Jammu and Kashmir. According to the latest input, the drone movement was detected...
12:57
Opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Monday said the presidential poll would decide the direction of the country as to whether democracy will remain or not, as he appealed to electors to listen to their inner voice and support him.Sinha has repeatedly urged lawmakers to vote with...
12:52
Jagdeep Dhankhar files his nomination for the Vice Presidential elections, as the candidate of NDA. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, HM Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, BJP national president JP Nadda and other BJP leaders present.
12:34
At least 12 passengers were killed after their bus heading towards Maharashtra fell into the Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district on Monday, a senior government official said. The Maharashtra Roadways bus was believed to be carrying 30 to 32 people, he said. The bus...
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Amit Shah votes
The Monsoon session of the Lok Sabha began on Monday with obituary references and new members taking oath, and was then adjourned till 2 pm so members could vote in the presidential poll. As the House met for the first time in the Monsoon session of Parliament, three MPs, including...
12:04
The Delhi High Court on Monday rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking to stop the operation of SpiceJet airline for allegedly flying its aircraft in breach of professional and safety obligations. The court cannot stay the operation of an airline on the basis of a PIL and...
11:37
Former Prime Minister of India and Congress MP Manmohan Singh leaves after casting his vote in the election being held for the post of President of India in Parliament.
11:37
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and other lawmakers from the state cast their vote here on Monday to elect India's 15th president. BJP MLA Ashish Shelar claimed that the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) presidential poll Droupadi Murmu will get...
11:27
Alt News co-founder Mohd Zubair on Monday sought an urgent listing of his plea in the Supreme Court seeking quashing of FIRs lodged against him in several districts of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly outraging religious feelings. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana took note of the...
11:09
Prime Minister Narendra Modi casts his vote in the 16th Presidential election, at the Parliament.
10:59
Sixteen wagons of a goods train derailed in Gujarat's Dahod district on Monday blocking the route, following which 29 trains were diverted and one was cancelled so far, Western Railway officials said. There was no report of any casualty in the incident which took place between Mangal...
10:46
Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel casts his vote in Gandhinagar in the election being held for the post of President of India.Nearly 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs will vote on Monday to elect the 15th President of India, with National Democratic Alliance candidate Droupadi Murmu having a clear edge over...
10:45
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik votes in the 16th Presidential election, at the State Assembly in Bhubaneswar.
10:43
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot casts his vote for the Presidential election, at the State Assembly in Jaipur.
10:40
Captain Anand and Naib Subhedar Bhagwan Singh lost their lives in a grenade blast that occurred while they were performing their duties on the Line of Control (LoC) in Mendhar Sector (J&K).
10:14
Nearly 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs will vote on Monday to elect the 15th President of India, with National Democratic Alliance candidate Droupadi Murmu having a clear edge over Opposition's Yashwant Sinha as over 60 per cent votes are expected to be cast in her favour. The polling will take...
10:11
As lawmakers from Maharashtra gear up to vote on Monday to elect the country's next president, there are concerns among the opposition parties over the possibility of cross-voting. MLAs and MPs form the electoral college to elect the President of India. The Nationalist...
09:57
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Parliament ahead of the monsoon session which begins today.This period is very important. It is the period of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. There is a special significance of 15th August and coming 25 years, when nation will celebrate 100 years of independence. It would...
09:43
The Monsoon Session of Parliament will begin on Monday with the election for the 15th President of India. During the session, the Centre is likely to announce 24 Bills including the Press Registration Periodicals Bill, 2022.While the Opposition has listed 16 issues that include; Federalism coming...
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An Army captain and a junior commissioned officer were killed in an accidental grenade blast along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, officials said on Monday. The Army personnel were on duty when the incident took place in the Mendhar sector of Poonch late on...
09:05
India on Sunday strongly pressed for early disengagement of troops from all the remaining friction points in eastern Ladakh at the 16th round of high-level military talks with China, which took place after a gap of over four months.In the discussions that lasted for around 12-and-a-half hours,...
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Four people, including a gunman, were killed on Sunday evening (local time) at an Indiana mall after a man opened fire in a food court, media reported citing police.In total, four people were killed and two were injured, Jim Ison, Chief of Greenwood Police Department said, The New York Times...
08:29
Five out of the total 11 Congress legislators in Goa, who were earlier shifted to Chennai by the party, returned to the state on Sunday - on the eve of the Presidential elections. The five MLAs were moved to the southern state on Friday evening, after the proceedings of the Goa...
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Ever wondered why electronic voting machines, used in four Lok Sabha elections and 127 assembly polls since 2004, are not deployed in polls to elect the President and Vice President of India, members of Rajya Sabha, and members of state legislative councils? The EVMs are based on a...
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