Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected as the vice-president this evening. Members of parliament of both houses voted to elect the next Vice-President in an election where NDA candidate Dhankhar was pitted against Opposition’s Margaret Alva. The BJP-led NDA candidate won the election comfortably with 528 votes against Ms Alva’s 182, the voting for which took place […]
Voting for electing the new Vice President began here on Saturday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the first to cast his vote. A long queue of MPs was seen well before the start of voting.As many as 543 of Lok Sabha MPs and 237 Rajya Sabha MPs, including the nominated members, constitute the electoral college for […]
Indian wrestler Sakshi Malik clinched country’s third medal in wrestling of the day at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham by defeating Ana Paula Godinez Gonzalez in the finals of women’s freestyle 62 kg category on Friday. The Canadian Gonzalez was dominating the match initially as she gained a 0-4 lead in the first […]
At least seven people have died and 15 others fallen ill, some of them losing their eyesight, in yet another suspected case of hooch tragedy in dry Bihar, officials said on Friday.According to Rajesh Meena, the District Magistrate of Saran, all cases have been reported from villages falling under the Maker police station area. “Prima […]
The Finance Ministry has said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will not apply on room rents of ‘sarais’ (inns) or properties managed by religious and charitable institutions. Certain ‘sarais’ managed by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) had on their own started collecting GST for rents up to Rs 1,000 per day after […]
Congress MPs, including Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh, were detained at Vijay Chowk here while they were staging a protest march to President House against inflation. A separate group of Congress leaders marching towards the Prime Minister’s house from the AICC headquarters was also detained. The Congress had announced a pan-India […]
India is witnessing the death of democracy, Rahul Gandhi said on Friday, slamming the central government yet again as Congress holds pan-India protests on inflation. “We are not allowed to speak in Parliament, we are arrested on the road, this is the condition of India today,” he told at a press briefing. “The government just […]
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday increased the policy repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.4 per cent, governor Shaktikanta Das announced. In simple words, repo rate is the interest charged by the Reserve Bank of India when commercial banks borrow from them by selling their securities to the central bank. “Real GDP […]
The government on Thursday informed in Parliament that airlines were free to restart and to start air services from any airport in the country depending on their operational and commercial viability.Akali Dal MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal raised a question as to whether the government proposed to restore flight services from Delhi-Bathinda by Alliance Air which […]
India ended its campaign in the weightlifting competitions in the 2022 Commonwealth Games with super heavyweight lifter Gurdeep Singh bagging a bronze medal in Men’s 109+ kg final.Gurdeep’s medal took India’s total medal count from weightlifting to 10 — three gold, three silver and four bronze — marginally better than that at Gold Coast in […]