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Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers sweet to Ram Nath Kovind on being elected as the 14th President of India, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Kovind: India's new President

Only once in 70 years has India been able to agree universally on a President.

21 July 2017 12:06 AM IST

Rashtrapati Bhavan (Photo: File)

India gets 14th President today: List of achievements of previous...

The two Presidential nominees - NDA's Ram Nath Kovind and Opposition's Meira Kumar - were both from the Dalit community.

20 July 2017 4:31 PM IST

President of India Ram Nath Kovind.

Ram Nath Kovind defeats Kumar, becomes 14th President of India

Ram Nath Kovind succeeds Pranab Mukherjee whose Presidential term will end on July 24.

20 July 2017 4:15 PM IST

Ram Nath Kovind, NDAs candidate and the former Bihar governor, is contesting against the Oppositions joint candidate and former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar. (Photos: PTI)

Prez poll result: NDA's Ram Nath Kovind leads by over 37,000 votes

The votes would be counted on four separate tables and there would be eight rounds of counting.

20 July 2017 9:38 AM IST

Opposition Presidential candidate Meira Kumar and NDA Presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind. (Photo: File)

Meira Kumar vs Kovind: New President to be named today

The numbers are stacked in favour of the ruling coalition's nominee Ram Nath Kovind over the Opposition's candidate...

20 July 2017 3:48 AM IST

File image of Ram Nath Kovind and Meira Kumar. (Photo: PTI)

Kovind and Meira Kumar: The wood in the axe?

PM Modi's handpicked candidate for President is Ram Nath Kovind, a dalit gentleman who was governor of Bihar until...

20 July 2017 2:07 AM IST

Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Will the lot of dalits change with a dalit Prez?

Only the caste identity matters the identity that was supposed to have become irrelevant long ago.

19 July 2017 2:18 AM IST

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A first: PM, Prez, V-P all from the RSS stable

Ms Kumar and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi best summed up the reality by declaring it a contest of ideologies .

19 July 2017 12:52 AM IST

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses mediapersons at Nabanna on Tuesday. (Photo: Abhijit Mukherjee)

China interfering in state, thanks to BJP, says Mamata Banerjee

Ms Banerjee met Basirhat MLA Dipendu Biswas and is likely to have taken stock of the present situation in Basirhat.

18 July 2017 1:51 AM IST

Opposition presidential nominee Meira Kumar (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Prez poll war to uphold ideology of Gandhi: Meira Kumar

Launching her presidential campaign from Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat, Meira Kumar said she wishes that people of Gujarat...

30 Jun 2017 10:51 AM IST

Oppositions presidential candidate Meira Kumar at Parliament House in New Delhi with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, CPMs Sitaram Yechury, NCPs Sharad Pawar, former PM Manmohan Singh, other Opposition leaders and Congress chief ministers. Ms Kumar filed her nomination papers for the presidential contest on Wednesday. (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Meira Kumar files nomination for Prez poll

Kumar will launch her campaign from the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on June 30th.

29 Jun 2017 6:18 AM IST

NDA presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind met J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti, MPs, MLAs and MLCs of PDP and BJP (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Prez poll: PDP assures support to NDA nominee Kovind

The assurance of support was given to Ram Nath Kovind during a joint meeting with the MLAs of the PDP, the BJP and the...

28 Jun 2017 8:03 PM IST