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New Delhi, July 17 The Opposition will meet this afternoon at the residence of NCP chief Sharad Pawar here to finalise a candidate for the upcoming election to the office of the Vice-President of India. The ruling NDA on Saturday named West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar its candidate for the…

New Delhi, July 17 Opposition leaders have decides to field Margret Alva as their joint vice president candidate. NCP chief Sharad Pawar said Alva is unanimous choice of opposition parties. 17 opposition parties, including TMC, AAP and DMK are part of this decision. Alva is a five term MP and…

Lahore, July 17An Indian woman’s long-cherished dream of visiting her ancestral home in Rawalpindi materialised when Pakistan granted 90-year-old Reena Chhibber Varma a visa and she arrived here on Saturday via the Wagah-Attari border, 75 years after leaving the country at the time of Partition.Moist-eyed Varma, immediately after her arrival…

New Delhi, July 17 An Indigo flight was diverted to Karachi in Pakistan due to a “technical defect “, local news agencies reported on Sunday, the second such incident involving an unscheduled landing in less than two weeks. The flight was to fly to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates…

New Delhi/Karachi, July 17 Two international flights by Indian carriers—one of Indigo and other of Air India Express—were diverted from their routes in the last 24 hours following suspected snags. Air India Express’s Calicut-Dubai flight was diverted to Muscat on Saturday night after a burning smell was observed in cabin…

New Delhi, July 17 Nearly 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs will vote on Monday to elect the 15th President of India, with NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu having a clear edge over Opposition’s Yashwant Sinha as over 60 per cent votes are expected to be cast in her favour. The polling…

New Delhi, July 17 India and China will hold the 16th round of high-level military talks on Sunday with an aim to resolve the outstanding issues in remaining friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. The talks are scheduled to take place at the Chushul…

New Delhi, July 17 The 16th round of high-level military talks between India and China got under way 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 am at…

New Delhi, July 16Ahead of the monsoon session starting Monday, the BJP and Congress engaged in a war of words over PM Narendra Modi’s alleged implication in the 2002 Gujarat riots case.While the ruling dispensation alleged AICC chief Sonia Gandhi, through adviser Ahmed Patel, was the “driving force behind the…

New Delhi, July 16Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Saturday said it was sad that the country was witnessing a decline in the quality of legislative performance and laws were being passed without detailed deliberations and scrutiny.Undertrials need urgent attentionIn our criminal justice system, the process is the punishment….

New Delhi, July 16Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday came out in support of two Supreme Court judges who faced criticism for saying that suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma was responsible for the violence that followed her “irresponsible” comments on Prophet Mohammed.”Recently Justice (JB) Pardiwala and Justice Surya Kant…

Vishav Bharti Chandigarh, July 16 In calling Bhagat Singh a “terrorist”, is Sangrur MP Simranjit Singh Mann trying to cover up the “hurtful” act of his grandfather? It seems so as his maternal grandfather Arur Singh, then sarbarah (in-charge) of the Golden Temple, honoured General Reginald Dyer with a “siropa”…

Toronto, July 16Canada’s top homicide unit has released a footage showing a white car that it says was linked to the targeted killing of Ripudaman Singh Malik, the Sikh man acquitted in the tragic 1985 Air India Kanishka terrorist bombing case, and urged the public not to jump to conclusions…

New Delhi, July 16 The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’s nominee for the post of vice president, Jagdeep Dhankhar, described by the saffron party as a ‘kisan putra’ (son of farmer), has a lot more to his credit than just being someone always at odds with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata…