BJP’s Sunny Deol among 9 MPs who skipped voting
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...
Ramdas Kadam resigns as Sena leader
Ramdas Kadam resigns as Shiv Sena leader. He was in the Uddhav Thackeray...
Vote me, vote for democracy, says Yashwant Sinha
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...
12 dead as bus falls into Narmada river in MP
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...
LS adjourned till 2 pm to allow MPs to vote
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...
Presidential poll: Maha CM Shinde, DyCM Fadnavis cast vote
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...
Dr Manmohan Singh votes
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...
Voting begins to elect India’s 15th Prez; PM, CMs, MPs vote
Voting for the presidential election in which National Democratic Alliance candidate Droupadi Murmu is pitted against joint opposition pick Yashwant Sinha began on Monday. Polling began at 10 am and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first to cast his...
Army captain, JCO killed in accidental blast in J-K
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...
Monsoon Session of Parliament begins today
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...
Voting begins to elect 15th 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 Opposition's Yashwant Sinha as over 60 per cent votes are expected...
Eknath Shinde government renames Aurangabad, Osmanabad again
The Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra on Saturday gave cabinet approval to rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad cities as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv respectively. The decision to rename these cities was taken in the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government's last...
New bill includes digital media in press registration law’s ambit
The Centre plans to introduce a Bill to replace the 155-year-old 'Press and Registration of Books Act' with a simplified version that decriminalises various provisions and brings digital media under its ambit. The Centre has also listed 24 bills, including the...
What is in the name, Aurangabad to Sambhaji Nagar to Aurangabad
There is an old saying what is in the name. This question is now valid after the outgoing MVA government hurriedly changed the names of two cities, Aurangabad and Pune in its last Cabinet Meeting held on June 29 when...
Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project gets all clearance from Maha Govt
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Government has given all the clearances for expediting the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Thursday. The development comes barely a fortnight after the change in government in the state. The previous Maha...
Rain fury kills 4 more in Maha, toll rises to 99
Four more people have died in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra, taking the toll in the current monsoon season to 99, said the state disaster management department in a report on Thursday. These deaths -- all from Gondia district in eastern...
Relief to people of Maharashtra as Petrol-Diesel prices cut
In a first major decision of the newly installed government, the Cabinet today with Eknath Shinde as Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis as Deputy Chief Minister, has decided to reduce the Petrol and Diesel prices by Rs five and three...
Fooling people: Shinde Govt cuts petrol price by Rs 5, but increases electricity bills by 20%
Nagpur: The Eknath Shinde Government, it seems, taking the people of Maharashtra for a costly ride. Does the Shinde Government think citizens are fools? On one hand, the State Government on Thursday, July 14, reduced petrol price by Rs 5...
Maha CM and DyCM monitoring flood situation at war foot level
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis have launched flood management and rescue operations on a war footing. Though not new the State has been receiving excess rainfall every year and rivers and rivulets are flowing...
Sena chose Murmu as tribal candidate: NCP
The Shiv Sena apparently supported Droupadi Murmu for the Presidential polls because she is a tribal and not as a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader said. The Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress are...
Webb telescope detects water on distant planet
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected signs of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere of a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star over a thousand light years away, the US space...
