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1:22 PM

Cryptocurrency should be prohibited according to RBI, Sitharaman tells Lok Sabha

Cryptos became popular due to "rumours of high returns". Only the government and the RBI should be allowed to issue currency: Sitharaman.

1:18 PM

Monsoon Session: Cryptocurrency poses risk to Indian economy, FM tells Lok Sabha

Cryptocurrency poses risk to Indian economy according to the Reserve Bank of India, Finance Minister tells Nirmala Sitharaman tells Lok Sabha

1:09 PM

Not even in my dreams did I think that a common man like me would be given such an opportunity: Dhankar

12:14 PM

Jagdeep Dhankhar arrives at the Parliament Library Building to file his nomination

12:06 PM

Lok Sabha adjourned till 2 pm

Lok Sabha has been anjourned till 2 pm to fecilitate the MPs to vote for the ongoing presidential elections

11:03 AM

CM Jagan casts first vote in AP in presidential poll

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy cast the first vote as polling process for the presidential election got underway at 10 am in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Monday.

 

Speaker Tammineni Sitaram was the next to exercise his franchise. Several ministers then cast their votes. The ruling YSR Congress pledged its support to the NDA's presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu. 

11:03 AM

Presidential polls: Voting starts at Uttar Pradesh Assembly

Voting for the presidential elections commenced at the Uttar Pradesh Assembly's Tilak Hall on Monday morning.

 

The voting will continue till 5.00 pm, a senior official said.

 

Brij Bhushan Dubey, the returning officer for the elections in Uttar Pradesh, said all legislators were informed and told what precautions they have to take. The MLAs will have to use a special pen given by the Election Commission of India to vote, he said.

 

Three polling booths have been set up. Two ballot boxes, which have come from Delhi, will be sent back to the national capital after voting is completed on July 18, Dubey said.

11:02 AM

Prez polls: Some Cong MLAs will vote as per their conscience, says Maha BJP chief

Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Monday said he was sure that some of the Congress MLAs who remained absent during the Eknath Shinde government's trust vote will vote as per their conscience in favour of National Democratic Alliance's presidential poll candidate Droupadi Murmu.

 

Speaking to reporters in the Maharashtra Vidhan Bhavan premises where voting was underway for the presidential election, Patil said the Congress cannot even guard its own MLAs.

11:02 AM

Voting underway in Karnataka for Presidential election

Voting is underway at 'Vidhan Soudha' here for the Presidential election where the NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu is pitted against joint opposition pick Yashwant Sinha.

 

There are 28 Lok Sabha members in Karnataka comprising 25 from BJP, one each from Janata Dal and Congress and an independent member. The state has 11 Rajya Sabha members -- five each from BJP and Congress, and one from JD(S) (former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda).

9:24 AM

2 Army personnel killed in accidental grenade blast along LOC in Poonch

Two army officers were killed in an accidental grenade blast along the Line of Control in the Mendhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch, Defence Public Relations Office informed on Monday. During the treatment, one army officer and one Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) succumbed to their injuries.

9:23 AM

India logs 16,935 new cases

India logs 16,935 new cases, 51 deaths in 24 hours. Caseload at 43,767,534.