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Only four of 16 vice presidential elections were won without contestIndian vice presidential elections have seen both uncontested wins and multi-cornered fights. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan and Mohammad Hidayat...- CSK vs RCB Playing 11: From Kohli, Salt, Patidar to MS Dhoni, Dube, Rachin, who will make the cut today?As Chennai Super Kings prepare to face Royal Challengers Bengaluru, all eyes are on Shivam Dube, known for his prowess against RCB. With an...
- Congress invites proposals for Indira Gandhi Award for National for 2022, 2023The Congress has invited recommendations for the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for 2022 and 2023. Instituted in 1985, the aw...
- Droupadi Murmu to become 10th successive president to take oath on July 25Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, the sixth president of India, took oath on July 25, 1977. Since then successive presidents including Giani Zail Singh...
- What’s ‘presidential qualities’ got to do with becoming POROI?It would be cynical, but not incorrect to say that with the right boxes ticked, a letterbox could well be POROI, and then provided the righ...
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Teflon-coated politician who lived life on his own termsAn affable man with friends across all divides, Vajpayee was loved and admired even by adversaries.
- Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala not alone in giving 15 days to prove majorityIn 1996, when President Shankar Dayal Sharma invited Atal Bihari Vajpayee to win trust vote as BJP was the single largest party, he gave hi...
- It was a difficult task to paint Hamid Ansari, says artist Sanjay BhattacharyaBhattacharya is giving finishing touches to Ansari’s portrait, which will be a part of the gallery at the Parliament House.
- Government extends Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar's tenure by one yearThe Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the proposal for extension in service of Dr S Jaishankar (IFS 1977) for a period of furt...
- India’s emerging education hubs: A look at the best cities to study inBeyond the metros, Nagpur in Maharashtra and Kota in Rajasthan are success stories that have given these cities a space on the education ma...
- Senior BJP leader Arif Baig passes awayBaig, who was suffering from blood sugar, died at his home due to sudden heart failure around 9 AM, his younger son Noorul Hasan Baig told ...
- PM Narendra Modi, CJI TS Thakur display bonhomie at President 'At Home'After the national anthem was played, the President, whose term comes to an end next July, went around meeting the guests before taking his...
- Colonial 'mentality' hampering Hindi: General VK SinghThe MoS, External Affairs said that US is developed, as the country had discarded "imperialist practices" like "driving on the left side of...
- Mani Shankar Aiyar confirms Natwar Singh's claim, says Rahul Gandhi behind Sonia Gandhi's refusal of PM postAiyar echoed comments by Singh who had said that Rahul prevented his mother from accepting the top job for fear that she would be killed.
- President’s role crucial in choice of prime minister, if no party or alliance gets outright majorityPresident R Venkataraman and, following him, President Shankar Dayal Sharma, chose to call the leader of the single-largest party in the Lo...
- Mulayam Singh Yadav claims then President Shankar Dayal Sharma knew of Babri mosque demolitionHe said he tried a lot to talk to the government at the time but no one listened and on December 6, 1992, the masjid was razed.
- Ajmal Kasab's execution second fastest in the country?Ajmal Kasab's execution procedure is believed to be second quickest in the country after the case of Banswara-based Ramchandra alias Raoji.
- Gulzar nominated for Indira Gandhi Award for IntegrationCongress President Sonia Gandhi will give away the 27th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration to the 75-year-old lyricist and writer...
- Sharma, not Rao was Sonia’s PM choice, says NatwarThen VP Shankar Dayal Sharma was the first choice for PM in 1991.
- Elephants to be banished from all zoosIn fact, elephants will no longer be seen in any zoo or circus in the country after the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) issued a notice on Mond...
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