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New Delhi: The NDA's presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu Thursday crossed the 50 per cent mark after the third round of counting to emerge victorious in the poll over her rival Yashwant Sinha. An official announcement on her win is expected after all votes are counted...

New Delhi: The NDA's presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu is leading with 540 of the 748 votes of the MPs, while Opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha has received 208 votes after the first round of counting, Returning Officer P C Mody said Thursday. Votes of 15 MPs...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate Thursday recorded the statement of Congress president Sonia Gandhi for two hours in the National Herald money laundering case and ended the session for the day on her request as she is recovering from Covid, officials said. Gandhi, 75, arrived...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Wednesday granted interim bail to Alt News Co-founder Mohammad Zubair in all the FIRs lodged in Uttar Pradesh against him concerning his alleged derogatory tweets saying it finds no reason or justification for the deprivation of his liberty to persist any...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday granted suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma protection from coercive action in connection with FIRs/complaints filed against her in several states over her remarks on the Prophet made during a TV debate show. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and...

Cairo: At least 22 people were killed and 33 injured in a car crash Tuesday near Egypt's southern province of Minya, authorities said. The crash took place in the early morning when a passenger bus hit a stopped trailer truck on a highway linking the...

Colombo: Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe declared a nationwide state of emergency with effect from Monday. Acting President Wickremesinghe declared the emergency in the interests of public security, the protection of public order and the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life...

New Delhi: The 16th round of high-level military talks between India and China got underway on Sunday with a focus on resolving outstanding issues in the remaining friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. The talks began at around 9:30...

Kolkata: Jagdeep Dhankhar, whose candidature as NDA's vice presidential candidate was announced Saturday, has been in the limelight since becoming governor of West Bengal in July, 2019 over frequent run-ins with the Mamata Banerjee government. A lawyer by profession, Jagdeep Dhankhar forayed into politics in...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is geared up to begin administering the COVID-19 booster doses to people in the age group of 18 to 59 years from Friday and chief secretary SC Mohapatra has asked officials to launch a drive in colleges and higher educational institutions across the...