NEW DELHI: NDA candidate C P Radhakrishnan was on Tuesday elected as the 15th Vice-President of India bagging 452 votes against the opposition candidate B Sudershan Reddy’s 300. Announcing the result, Rajya Sabha Secretary General and Returning Officer P C Mody said 767 MPs had cast their votes out of the total valid electors of…
MUMBAI: An unidentified man in naval uniform walked into Navy Nagar, the Navy’s residential area in Colaba where entry is restricted, convinced a junior sailor on sentry duty that he was sent to relieve him of his charge, and fled with an INSAS rifle and two magazines loaded with 40 live cartridges last Saturday.The security…
NEW DELHI: India has advised its citizens to “defer travel (to Nepal) until the situation has stabilised. Airlines including Indian carriers, have suspended flights as Kathmandu Airport (KTM) was closed on Tuesday afternoon when Gen Z protestors set fire nearby. A few flights between Indian cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru were able to operate…
HIRE Act proposes 25% tax on companies for hiring foreign workers. Amid MAGA talks of taxing companies for hiring foreign workers or banning them from hiring Indians, senator Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) has introduced the HIRE Act (Halting International Relocation of Employment), vowing protection of American workers from jobs getting outsourced by US companies. The Act,…
“Stop the ban on social media. Stop corruption, not social media,” chanted thousands of young protesters outside Nepal’s Parliament, waving red and blue national flags. The rally, dubbed the protest of Gen Z, broadly defined as those born between 1995 and 2010, was not only about the government’s sudden clampdown on 26 online platforms. It…
CP Radhakrishnan, Vice President of India NEW DELHI: Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan, the NDA nominee and Maharashtra Governor, was on Tuesday elected as the 15th Vice President of India after securing 452 first-preference votes. Opposition candidate Justice (retd.) B Sudershan Reddy polled 300 votes, secretary-general of Rajya Sabha and Returning Officer PC Mody announced.Mody said that…
CP Radhakrishnan (File photo) NEW DELHI: NDA nominee CP Radhakrishnan was on Tuesday elected as India’s 15th vice president, defeating opposition INDIA bloc candidate and former Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy.Radhakrishnan, currently serving as Maharashtra governor, will vacate the post to succeed Jagdeep Dhankhar, whose abrupt resignation on July 21 created the vacancy.The vice…
PUNE: A Chinchwad multiplex horror movie screening took a terrifying turn on Friday night when a man’s loud play-by-play commentary to his wife annoyed a techie seated nearby, eventually escalating into a physical fight that left the techie and his wife battered and bruised.The incident unfolded during the screening of ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’. Following…
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (File Photo) NEW DELHI: Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has approached the Delhi high court seeking protection of her personality rights and an injunction against the unauthorised use of her name, photographs and AI-generated pornographic content. On Tuesday, Justice Tejas Karia orally indicated that he would pass an ad-interim order cautioning the…
NEW DELHI: National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) candidate, CP Radhakrishnan, was elected as India’s 15th Vice President after securing 452 votes in Tuesday’s election. His rival, Justice B Sudershan Reddy of the INDIA bloc won 300 votes and 15 votes were deemed invalid.The contest, held in Parliament House in New Delhi, came just weeks after the…
