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TopicJagdeep Dhankhar

Topic: Jagdeep Dhankhar

Democracy cannot be about disruption, disturbance, says Vice President Dhankhar at Jamia convocation

Addressing students at Jamia Millia Islamia, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said education is important for the growth of society & asked the youth to empower themselves.

Dhankhar pays tribute to SP Mookerjee in Jammu speech, says Ambedkar ‘declined to draft Article 370’

Region's integration into the national mainstream has paved way for investments, development & improved governance, the vice-president asserts.

Opposition skips meeting called by Dhankhar to end Parliament logjam. Govt cries ‘humiliation’

Union minister Piyush Goyal accuses Congress of humiliating Rajya Sabha chairman even as Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury attends another meeting on the matter convened by Lok Sabha Speaker.

Veep wants to bleep it all out & welcome to the G(ag)-20 Museum

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Counter ‘narratives trying to run down India story’, Dhankhar tells Information Service officers

V-P warns of 'sinister designs to set afloat a narrative by free fall of information'. Speech comes as I-T dept conducts survey at BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai.

V-P on WhatsApp DP: 2 held for seeking favours posing as Dhankhar in bid to buy petrol pump

22-yr-old Gagandeep Singh, a Jammu native living in Italy, wanted to buy a petrol pump in India. Ashwani Kumar helped him create a WhatsApp account to target govt officials, police say.

What Panjab University ex V-C Raj Kumar is accused of: ‘Recruitment scam, undue favours, nepotism’

Vice-President Dhankhar's office has accepted V-C's resignation. Scathing allegations made by senior BJP leader & ASG Satya Pal Jain and university's teachers' association PUTA.

Dhankhar fires another salvo at judiciary over NJAC — ‘history created in Parliament undone’

New Delhi: Continuing his tirade over the judiciary’s alleged overreach, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar Wednesday said that in a democratic society, "the basis" of...

This is what was happening in India when the collegium system was born in 1993

Why did the Supreme Court take control of the appointment of judges only in the early 1990s? Why did it not happen in the 1960s, 1970s, or even 1980s?

‘Comments on collegium not well taken’ — SC reminds govt that it is final ‘arbiter of law’

Remarks comes day after Dhankhar spoke about NJAC episode in Rajya Sabha. Collegium system is law of the land on appointment of judges, says a three-judge bench.

On Camera

How Nitish Kumar turned all rules of voter behaviour on their head

The conventional wisdom is that if a govt fails to improve the lot of the voters, it is punished. Kumar presided over an economic disaster for 20 years and was re-elected by a landslide.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.