BJP Rajya Sabha MP Roopa Ganguly, party national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and two other leaders were today summoned by the CID for questioning in connection with the Jalpaiguri child trafficking case.
Ram Nath Kovind will be the first BJP leader to become President occupy the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the "spirit" of H1B visa with President Donald Trump during their recent meeting and made him agree on crucial contribution of the Indian skilled professionals to the US economy, External Affairs Minister Sushma
The Opposition today targeted the government over the lynchings, with the Congress accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "creating such an environment" and indulging in "double speak" on the issue.
The numbers of the Presidential election rolled out by EC reveal that the ‘battle of ideologies’ – something that the Congress christened the battle as – appears to be failing and has damaged its claims of a united opposition.
An emotional but poised Kovind said his election was a message to all those who were discharging their duties with honesty and integrity.
India's 14th president will take oath on July 25, when he will take over from veteran politician Pranab Mukherjee.
His wasn't the name that newspaper readers were familiar with or the face that television viewers knew. Today, Ram Nath Kovind walked away from that quiet past - and into the record books as India's president-elect.
Ram Nath Kovind was on Thursday elected as the 14th President of India, the Election Commission of India announced.
Kovind is expected to win the race for the top constitutional post given that the BJP and its allies have a majority in electoral college comprising Members of Parliament and members of legislative assemblies
Mayawati was required to give a fresh one-line resignation letter in accordance with the rules. Her earlier missive in three pages was considered a conditional offer which could not be accepted.
NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind received 60683 votes while opposition’s Meira Kumar got 22941 votes in Assam, Arunachal, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar.
Different airlines yesterday lifted the flying ban on TDP MP JC Diwakar Reddy after "urgent" notices from the court to the government and the aviation regulator DGCA on the lawmaker's plea against the action of domestic carriers.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said that while China is trying to change the status quo in the Doklam tri-junction area, India is well equipped to defend itself and doesn’t feel threatened in the least
"I have fought this elections with faith, belief and confidence in the ideology. I also believe in inner voice of conscience," Meira Kumar said.
The adjournment for the day was announced by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan soon after the House resumed business at noon for the Zero Hour after two consecutive adjournments forced by the opposition members who stormed the Well and raised slogans.
Sisodia will continue to look after education, finance and other departments.
The saffron brigade has lined up a fish festival, a music fest and two-month-long sports meets across the state to shore up its popularity among the masses.
President Election Results 2017 LIVE: Ram Nath Kovind beat Meira Kumar by over 3 lakh votes. In electoral college, Kovind bagged 7,02,044 votes whereas Kumar managed to secure only 3,67,314 votes.
The Minister said that farmers suicides could be checked only by increasing their income and the government was taking necessary steps, including increase in budgetary allocations to the agriculture sector.
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