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...
Voting Murmu doesn’t mean supporting BJP: Raut
After the Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray called a meeting in Mumbai on July 11 for presidential elections, party leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday confirmed that there were discussions about NDA's presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu at the meeting and said...
Presidential election 2017: Meira Kumar is Opposition candidate
New Delhi: The opposition on Thursday June 22, 2017 chose former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar, a Dalit, as its candidate for president against National Democratic Alliance's nominee Ram Nath Kovind. Kumar, a former diplomat and daughter of the late Dalit...
Hassan Rouhani wins Iran’s presidential election : State TV
Representational Pic Dubai/Beirut: Iran's state television has declared incumbent President Hassan Rouhani the winner of the country's presidential election, giving him a second four-year term. With nearly 40 million votes in Friday's hard-fought poll counted so far, Rouhani was leading the...