Breaking Highlights: Manipur guv Ganesan gets additional charge of Bengal as Dhankhar resigns after VP nomination

President Ram Nath Kovind has accepted the resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar as Governor of West Bengal. Manipur Governor La. Ganesan appointed to discharge the functions of WB Governor, in addition to his own duties, until regular arrangements are made.

Delhi logs 498 new Covid cases, 1 more death. Positivity rate at 3.57 per cent.

National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu and Opposition’s joint pick Yashwant Sinha – the two candidates in the race for the Rashtrapati Bhavan – will go head-to-head on Monday as more than 4,000 MPs and MLAs will cast their votes to elect the 15th President of India.

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Tamil Nadu | All private nursery, matriculation & CBSE schools will remain closed tomorrow in the state to protest against the attack on Kaniyamoor Sakthi Matriculation School in Kallakurichi: KR Nandhakumar, State President, Tamil Nadu Private School Association

Opposition's Vice-Presidential candidate Margaret Alva to file her nomination papers at 11 am on 19th July.

In the mayoral elections held in 11 municipal corporations in Madhya Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged victorious at five places so far on Sunday evening, while the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) each bagged the post in two other cities.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday and sought permission to attend the World Cities Summit in Singapore.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government and the Centre locked horns over Kejriwal's proposed visit to Singapore to attend the global conference in Singapore.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Sunday cited he has "gloomy" information that there may be a suspected "foreign hand" behind the cloudbursts in some parts of the country, including the Godavari river basin which is in spate in the state.

> Maharashtra on Sunday reported 2,186 new coronavirus positive cases and three deaths linked to the infection, the health department said.

> With this, the caseload in the state rose to 80,19,391 and the death toll to 1,48,026.

> On Saturday, the state had reported 2,382 cases and eight fatalities.

> There are now 15,525 active cases of the infection in the state.

Supreme Court is likely to hear the bunch of petitions on the Maharashtra political crisis on July 20. A three-judge bench, led by the CJI, will hear the matter.

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Namma Clinics would be launched in 243 wards of Bengaluru next month to offer health services, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Sunday.

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NDA Vice-Presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar to file his nomination tomorrow (July 18) at 12pm.

Opposition's Vice Presidential candidate Margaret Alva tweets, "It is a privilege and an honour... I accept this nomination with great humility and thank the leaders of the opposition for the faith they’ve put in me."

Council For Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has announced the ICSE or class 10th result on Sunday, July 17. The result is available on the official website of CISCE at cisce.org.

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"We are all together in this election": Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut says after opposition parties name Margaret Alva as joint vice presidential candidate, reports news agency PTI.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has demanded the imposition of President's rule in Maharashtra till the constitution bench of the Supreme Court gives its verdict on the plea seeking disqualification of rebel Shiv Sena MLAs.

Margaret Alva will be the Opposition's joint candidate for Vice President, said NCP president Sharad Pawar on Sunday.

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Recently, the Congress filed disqualification petitions against Kamat and former leader of the opposition Michael Lobo after MLAs led by Kamat allegedly failed to garner the support of the stipulated two-thirds of the party’s legislative strength needed to join the BJP.

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The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an American citizen and the former lawyer of Jamal Khashoggi — the dissident Saudi journalist who was killed at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018 — to three years in prison on charges of money laundering and tax evasion.

The lawyer, U.S. citizen Asim Ghafoor, will be deported, the UAE’s state-run WAM news agency reported late Saturday, without saying when.

An all-party opposition meeting is underway at NCP chief Sharad Pawar's residence in Delhi. Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and others are present at the meeting.

As many as two people were killed and one was severely injured in a crude bomb explosion in the Manikchak area of the Malda district in West Bengal on Saturday.

"The deceased have been identified as the residents of Gopalpur area-- Sofikul Islam(32), Fajrul Sekh(37), while injured Alam Sekh (19) is undergoing treatment at the Malda Medical College and Hospital," Pradeep Kumar Yadav, Superintendent of Police, Malda told news agency PTI.

LJP president Chirag Paswan, son of the late Ram Vilas Paswan, attends the BJP-led NDA meeting on presidential poll preparation.

Opposition trying to belittle image of Parliament: Union minister Joshi on row over unparliamentary words.

Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari on Sunday said his force has received more than 7.5 lakh applications under the new scheme showcasing the youth's "keenness" to join the armed forces.

"We've received 7.5 lakh applications for it. This shows the keenness of the youth to join the armed forces and the Air Force in particular. The big challenge lies in finishing the selection process on time to start training as we had planned in December," the IAF chief told ANI.