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| The stage is set for the vice presidential election today, with numbers in favour of ruling NDA candidate M Venkaiah Naidu. Naidu is pitted against opposition candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi in the election that will take place in Parliament House. Naidu was a key member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet before being pitted for the prestigious election. “The counting of votes will commence after polling and the results will be declared by 7pm,” Election Commission officials said quoting precedents. |
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| Three Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore town. The encounter was launched by a joint team of 179 Battalion CRPF, 52 Rashtriya Rifles and SOG Sopore on a specific intelligence at around 4.30am. “Ammunition and 3 AK-47 rifles were recovered from the slain terrorists,” a police official said. One police jawan was also injured in the encounter. |
| Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s cabinet also included the first Hindu minister in more than two decades. Darshan Lal would head coordination between four Pakistani provinces, a government official said. Lal, 65, is a practising doctor from Mirpur Mathelo town in Ghotki district of Sindh. In 2013, he was elected to the national assembly for the second time on PML-N ticket on a reserved seat for minorities. |
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| Overtaking Congress by one seat, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) became the largest party in the Rajya Sabha. The BJP’s strength has gone up to 58, with tribal leader Sampathiya Uikey being sworn in as member of the House of Elders on Thursday. Uikey has come to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh unopposed in a bypoll necessitated by the death of environment minister Anil Madhav Dave. |
| The Supreme Court sought response of the NIA on a plea of a Muslim man against annulment of his marriage with a Hindu woman. The man, through senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Indira Jaising, challenged the Kerala high court’s decision to annul his marriage by terming it as part of a bigger ‘love jihad’ conspiracy. He demanded that as a major, the 24-year-old woman had the right to decide whom to marry and which faith to follow. |
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