Tag: President

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was re-elected unanimously as the President of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) at the party’s annual plenary that began at Kompally on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Friday. TRS electoral returning officer Nayini Narasimha Reddy, who is also the Home Minister, announced Rao’s election for the eighth consecutive time, […]

Tehran: Iran’s high legislative body, Guardian Council of Constitution, on Thursday disqualified the former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the upcoming elections while released the names of six other candidates. Earlier Ahmadinejad had said he would not stand, but he registered as a candidate last week. It was on the request of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali […]

Bhubaneswar: Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari, who is on a two-day visit to Odisha, offered prayers at Lingaraj Temple here on Thursday. Soon after her arrival, she was greeted by the temple priests at the 11th century Shiva shrine. She was escorted to the shrine where she spent over half an hour amid tight security. […]

Tehran: Iran’s former hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday got his name registered for the upcoming Iranian presidential election. While registering his name in Iran’s Interior Ministry, Ahmadinejad, expressed hope for victory. He vowed to serve the Iranians, and try hard for the establishment of “justice and freedom” if he was re-elected as President. Ahmadinejad was […]

New Delhi: The Finance Bill 2017 was passed by Parliament on Thursday with the Lok Sabha rejecting the amendments proposed by the Rajya Sabha. The Bill, being a Money Bill, will now go to the President for approval before becoming law. Since the Lok Sabha did not accept any of the recommendations of the Rajya […]

Berlin: Some 30,000 Kurds staged a protest in the German city of Frankfurt against Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the media reported on Sunday. Protesters on Saturday evening came from all over Germany ahead of Kurdish new year celebrations, the BBC reported. They called for democracy and a “No” vote in the April 16 Turkish referendum […]

Chandigarh: President Pranab Mukherjee has expressed the desire to adopt 50 more villages in Haryana to develop them as smart villages, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Friday. Khattar told the Haryana assembly on the last day of the budget session that the President, who had earlier adopted five villages in the state for […]

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday condoled the deaths in the Odisha hospital fire and prayed for the injured. “My heart and prayers are with bereaved families and injured in the massive hospital fire in Bhubaneshwar hospital,” Mukherjee said in a tweet. At least 19 persons were killed and over 100 injured in the […]

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent to the constitutional provision to provide 10-per cent reservation in government jobs and education to economically backward section in the general category. A notification issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice said on Saturday that the Constitution (103 Amendment) Act, 2019 has received the […]

Washington: The US and China are dealing the trade negotiations at the highest levels, President Donald Trump said, claiming that America’s steel industry has come “roaring back” following the last year’s tariff hikes. The Trump administration imposed heavy tariffs on imported steel and aluminium items in March last year, a move that sparked fears of […]

Moscow: A meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin will take place at this week’s G20 summit as planned, the Kremlin said Thursday, despite US threats to cancel over Moscow’s tensions with Ukraine. “Washington has confirmed the meeting,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. Peskov said the meeting in Argentina would start […]

  New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday night promulgated Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance that will allow the government to confiscate properties and assets of loan defaulters who flee the country. The president promulgated the Ordinance within hours of it being cleared by the Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Fugitive […]

New Delhi: India will continue to support Afghanistan in all possible ways, President Ram Nath Kovind said today. Welcoming Abdullah Abdullah — Chief Executive of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan– who had called on Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan here, the president said that India considers him a very close friend. Kovind said that India considers […]

Stockholm/New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee and the crown prince and princess of Sweden have escaped unharmed following a 15-car pile-up involving their motorcade in the Swedish town of Uppsala, Swedish media reports said. Rashtrapati Bhavan termed the reports “misleading” and said no one was hurt. In a tweet, the official @RashtrapatiBhvn handle posted: “Reports about […]

Washington: “Dad, husband, and 44th President of the United States.” With this message, US president Barack Obama has joined Twitter with his personal account. According to the New York Times, his first post from @POTUS twitter handle on Monday included a greeting -“Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really!” “Six years in, they’re finally giving me my […]