Former governor of West Bengal and a leading lawyer in Rajasthan, Dhankhar has been in politics for over 30 years. He will succeed V-P M. Venkaiah Naidu, whose term ends on 10 August.
17 Opposition leaders decided to field Alva, former governor of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, at a meeting in NCP leader Sharad Pawar's residence last Sunday.
The decision to nominate Dhankhar, who shares an acrimonious relationship with WB’s Mamata Banerjee government, was taken at BJP’s parliamentary board meeting.
As the Monsoon Session of Parliament draws near, murmurs regarding reshuffle in Union Cabinet has begun. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and JD(U)'s RCP Singh can gain big.
The notification for the election to decide the successor of M Venkaiah Naidu will be issued on 5 July and the last date for filing of nomination papers will be 19 July.
Officials of the Vice President Secretariat said that the personal Twitter handle of Naidu was inactive for a long time and Twitter's algorithm removed the blue badge.
In ‘Many A Happy Accident’, former vice-president and Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari writes about the time PM Modi told him, ‘You aren’t helping me’.
Addressing the All India Presiding Officers’ Conference at Kevadia, Gujarat, Naidu said the actions have resulted in 'avoidable blurring of contours demarcated by the Constitution'.
Douglas Emhoff, a 56-year-old Jewish entertainment lawyer, is the first male spouse of a US vice president. In August, he took a leave of absence to campaign alongside Harris.
Once acquired by IAF, the medium transport aircraft (MTA) will replace both AN-32s and IL-76s, it is learnt. The idea behind the revamp is to meet modern operational needs.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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