Prez polls

Along with other States and Union Territories, election to choose India’s 15th President was held at Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) complex Monday where 59 State legislators exercised their franchise.Talking to media persons after the voting, chief minister Neiphiu Rio...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday exuded confidence that NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu will comfortably win the election.Murmu visited Patna during the day and met NDA leaders, including legislators and parliamentarians from the state, seeking their support...

As many as 115 nominations were filed till Wednesday, the last day of filing of papers for the July 18 presidential election, and 87 of them remain for scrutiny, the Rajya Sabha Secretariat said.The scrutiny of the nominations would...

Former union minister Yashwant Sinha filed his nomination on Monday as the common opposition candidate against NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu for the July 18 presidential election, a contest described by his supporters as a “battle of ideologies”.The 84-year-old, accompanied...

The BJP-led NDA’s nominee Droupadi Murmu on Friday filed her nomination papers for the July 18 presidential election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi handing over the set of papers to Returning Officer P C Mody.Murmu was also accompanied by...

The BJP has constituted a 14-member ‘management team’, with Union Minister Gajendra Shekhawat as its convener, for coordinating with all its state units and allies for the presidential elections.BJP general secretaries Vinod Tawde and C T Ravi are the...