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Wrestler Pooja Gehlot wins bronze in women's 50kg at Commonwealth Games

Former President Ram Nath Kovind congratulates Jagdeep Dhankhar on winning Vice Presidential poll

He will be a wonderful Rajya Sabha chairman, an outstanding Vice President: Piyush Goyal on Jagdeep Dhankhar

Sirens warning of incoming Gaza rockets sound in Tel Aviv

Air raid sirens warning of rocket attacks from the Palestinian Gaza strip sounded in Israel's commercial hub Tel Aviv on Saturday, a Reuters witness said, as cross-border fighting spilled into a second day.

There were no immediate reports of casualties and at least three explosions, possibly caused by interceptions, were heard in the city.

NDA's Jagdeep Dhankhar duly elected to the Office of the Vice President of India

PM Narendra Modi meets Vice-President elect Jagdeep Dhankhar at his residence in Delhi

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulates Jagdeep Dhankhar on winning Vice Presidential poll

Margaret Alva, joint Opposition candidate for Vice Presidential poll, congratulates Jagdeep Dhankhar on his victory

Home Minister Amit Shah congratulates Jagdeep Dhankhar for winning Vice Presidential poll

97.93% of votes in Vice Presidential election valid

Indian boxer Nikhat Zareen beats England's Savannah Alifa in women's light flyweight semi-final

India reach table tennis mixed doubles finals at Commonwealth Games

India lose to Northern Ireland in lawn bowls men's fours final, win silver

Indian women's cricket team enters final of Commonwealth Games after beating England by four runs in semifinals

Russia calls for 'maximum restraint' in Gaza

Russia on Saturday called for maximum restraint in the Gaza Strip amid the worst escalation of violence since a war last year.

"We are observing with profound worry how events are evolving," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement, adding that Moscow was calling "on all the parties involved to show maximum restraint." - AFP.

Counting of votes in vice presidential election begins

CWG: Ravi Kumar Dahiya advances to Men's Freestyle 57 kg finals, after defeating Pakistan's Asad Ali by Technical Superiority (14-4)

Satyendar Jain's wife gets bail in money laundering case

Voting for Vice Presidential election concludes. Counting to start soon, results expected by 7 PM

India women's cricket team post 164/5 in 20 overs against England in the first semi-final in Edgbaston

14 Chinese aircraft crossed median line of Taiwan Strait on Saturday, Taiwan's defence ministry says

Avinash Mukund Sable bags silver medal in the men's 3000m steeplechase final at Commonwealth Games

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao to skip NITI Ayog meeting tomorrow; says it is 'not useful'

CWG: Amit Panghal advances to finals of Men's 51kg flyweight boxing with a score of 5-0, against Zambia's Patrick Chinyemba

Priyanka Goswami wins silver in women's 10K race final at Commonwealth Games

Over 100 pigs die due to suspected African swine fever in Jharkhand, alert sounded

With more than 100 pigs dead in Ranchi district since July 27 due to suspected swine fever, the Jharkhand animal husbandry department (AHD) has sounded the alert and asked the others to take precautionary measures, a government official said on Saturday.

Samples from affected pigs have been sent to the National Institute of High Security Animal Disease in Bhopal and Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Kolkata to diagnose the actual disease. - PTI.

Gaza's sole power plant shuts over lack of fuel

My party has supported NDA nominee Jagdeep Dhankhar in the polling to elect the next Vice President of India: Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal

Does it seem he's still in the party, in wake of his activities? Upendra Kushwaha on RCP Singh

He himself has taken a path where he has assumed that he's not in the party anymore: Upendra Kushwaha when asked if RCP Singh will be expelled from JD(U) in wake of his property issue and party's notice to him

VP Polls | Did you know? There are three persons – Radhakrishnan, M Hidayatullah and Sharma – who were the only ones who won unopposed.

Narayanan holds the record of getting the highest number of votes – 700 out of 701 votes polled in 1992? His opponent Kaka Joginder Singh alias Dharti Pakad got one vote and that is the lowest in the history of Vice Presidential polls.

It was only twice the losing candidate got more than half of votes polled by the winning candidates – defeated candidate Surjit Singh got 273 as against winner Krishan Kant who got 441 and Sushil Kumar Shinde bagging 305 against winner Bhairon Singh Shekhawat’s 454.

VP Polls: Did you know? Among the Vice Presidents, the first three – Dr S Radhakrishnan, Dr Zakir Husain and VV Giri – as well as R Venkaraman, Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma and K R Narayanan went on to become Presidents.

Radhakrishnan and M Hamid Ansari were the only two people to have two terms as Vice Presidents.

VP Polls: Voting under way

VP Polls: Opposition's Vice Presidential candidate Margaret Alva holds a conversation with Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal at the Parliament.

Union Health Secretary writes to Health Secretaries of Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu & Telangana on rising Covid-19 cases

LG suspends 11 officials, including ex-Delhi excise commissioner Arav Gopi Krishna, over lapses in implementing excise policy

Former Prime Minister and Congress MP Dr Manmohan Singh arrives at the Parliament to cast his vote for the Vice Presidential election.

VP poll: Union Ministers Jitendra Singh & Ashwini Vaishnaw, BJP chief whip Rakesh Singh, TRS MPs & YSRCP'S Raghu Rama Krishna Raju vote

PM Modi casts his vote for VP elections

TMC Parliamentary Party leader in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandyopadhyay writes to Sisir Adhikari, a TMC MP who is aligned with the BJP and facing disqualification petition, asking him to abstain from voting for Vice President election as decided by the party

Votes will be counted today itself and the next Vice-President will take the oath of office on August 11 – a day after the term of the incumbent Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu ends.

Voting for VP elections begins

Even before the first vote is cast on August 6, the winner of the Vice Presidential election is clear, if MPs vote as per their party affiliations

Dhankar, who quit as West Bengal Governor before filing the nominations, is likely to get 518 to 539 votes while his opponent may get 189 votes as Trinamool Congress with 36 MPs announced that it will abstain from voting after complaining that there was no proper consultation within the anti-BJP grouping on finalising the nominee.

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The Vice President is elected by an electoral college consisting of members of both Houses of Parliament, in accordance with the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote and voting in such election is by secret ballot

The Electoral College to elect a person to the office of the Vice President consists of all members of both Houses of Parliament.

The Vice President is not a member of either House of Parliament or of a House of a Legislature of any state.

If a member of either House of Parliament or of a House of a Legislature of any state is elected as Vice President, he is deemed to have vacated his seat in that House on the date he/she enters his office as Vice-President.

VP Polls: The voting will begin in Parliament House complex and MPs will cast their ballots.

Election for the Vice President scheduled to take place on Saturday will witness a fight between NDA nominee Jagdeep Dhankar and Opposition candidate Margaret Alva.

While the number jacks up in favour of the NDA candidate, Alva, a senior politician, has pitched for a conscious vote.

At least eight people were killed and 18 injured in a blast in Afghanistan's Kabul. Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed responsibility for the blast

Nepal | An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 occurred around belkotgadi of Nuwakot District at 5:26: National Earthquake Monitoring & Research Center

Fire breaks out at Wadia hospital in central Mumbai: civic officials

VP Polls: Jagdeep Dhankhar is the vice-presidential candidate of the ruling NDA, while the opposition, led by the Congress has chosen Margaret Alva as its candidate for the post

Israel strikes kill top Gaza militant, triggering rocket barrage

Israel pounded Gaza with air strikes on Saturday and a Palestinian militant group retaliated with a barrage of rocket fire, in the territory's worst escalation of violence since a war last year.

Health authorities in the enclave controlled by Hamas Islamists said 10 people have been killed by Israel's bombardment, including a five-year-old girl, with 79 others injured. Israel's army estimated that its operation has killed 15 militants.

The scale of China's military and political response to a visit to Taiwan by the top US lawmaker suggests the latest downturn in relations between the two superpowers could be deep and long-lasting, analysts say