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

UP parties split to back Kovind in Prez polls

According to reports, two legislators from the Congress and three from the BSP are ready to vote in favour of the NDA...

5 July 2017 2:08 AM IST

Ram Nath Kovind gestures before the media after being elected as the 14th President of India, in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

14th President was always a frontbencher' in class

Coming from a humble background, Ram Nath Kovind, a dalit, is the youngest among seven siblings.

21 July 2017 3:37 AM IST

Ram Nath Kovind gestures before the media after being elected as the 14th President of India, in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

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The ability of the President to act independently is severely constrained by the Constitution.

21 July 2017 12:09 AM IST

President Pranab Mukherjee (Photo: PTI)

Amid NDA's silence, Opposition to intensify efforts for joint prez...

The term of Pranab Mukherjee ends on July 24 and the election has to take place before that.

21 May 2017 8:00 PM IST

Sharad Pawar rejected Sonia's offer to be presidential candidate: NCP

Pawar clearly informed Gandhi that she should consider somebody else's name, NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said.

18 May 2017 9:14 PM IST

West Bengal chief minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee after a meeting of the opposition leaders to discuss the strategy for the upcoming Presidential elections, in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Committee could be formed to select nominee: WB CM on prez poll

Mamata Banerjee, after attending Sonia Gandhi's lunch with 17 Opposition parties, said no names were discussed in the...

26 May 2017 8:02 PM IST

BJP president Amit Shah (Photo: PTI)

Won't back saffron presidential candidate: Congress

BJP president Amit Shah is due to meet Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray Sunday to try and win over the miffed ally.

16 Jun 2017 1:50 AM IST

Meira Kumar appeals to electoral college to vote for her

The electoral college for the presidential elections constitutes MPs of both Houses of Parliament and MLAs of State...

26 Jun 2017 1:18 AM IST

NDA Presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind along with Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar and MoS for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (Photo: PTI)

Kovind's Prez poll campaign begins in Lucknow today

Meanwhile, the Election Commission team took stock of the preparations and held a meeting with Vidhan Sabha officials on...

25 Jun 2017 12:51 AM IST

Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray. (Photo: PTI)

No blind support for NDA's Prez aspirant

Thackeray remained firm on two names for the President's post RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and scientist M.S. Swaminathan.

19 Jun 2017 1:31 AM IST