Highlights: On outgoing Vice President Naidu, Cong's Jairam Ramesh says ‘good man exits’

Congress MP from Karnataka Jairam Ramesh on Saturday left a heartfelt parting note for outgoing Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, soon after the BJP-led NDA announced West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar's name for the second-constitutional job in the polls slated to be held on August 6. “A good man exits,” Ramesh tweeted. Read more.

West Bengal logs highest jump in active Covid cases in India and also the second highest death toll in the last 24 hours, triggering the TMC-led state government to put all districts on alert on Saturday. The state's active Covid tally went up by 1,187 in the last 24 hours, and is currently at 30,043. Of 31 fatalities in the country, Bengal accounted for five, trailing Maharashtra that registered 10 deaths, according to the Union health ministry bulletin.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday extended support of his party Janata Dal (United) to NDA's vice presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar.

BJP national president JP Nadda announced on Friday that Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will be the party-led NDA's Vice Presidential candidate for the upcoming polls.

Delhi Police has begun using the image of Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor's character ‘Poo’ from hit movie Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam in traffic signals to stop people from jumping red lights, news agency ANI reported.

The CISCE said in an official notification on Saturday that the ICSE (class 10) result will be declared at 5pm tomorrow (Sunday - July 17).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the BJP's parliamentary board meeting at the party's headquarters in Delhi. He meets party's national president JP Nadda.

Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair's bail plea in fact-check case rejected by UP's Lakhimpur Kheri court. Read more.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla arrives for the all-party meeting he had called for today ahead of the commencement of Parliament Monsoon session on Monday. Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, and Union minister and BJP MP Pralhad Joshi, among others, were pictured arriving for the meet as well. Birla will brief them on the preparations related to the Session. Read more.

Following the wall collapse in Delhi's Alipur region on Friday that claimed the lives of two people and at least nine others, MCD has suspended two officials concerned - a junior engineer and an assistant engineer. An inquiry into the matter has also been launched.

PM Modi plants sapling at site of Bundelkhand Expressway inauguration in UP's Jalaun.

"AAP will support Opposition's Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha. We respect Droupadi Murmu but we will vote for Yashwant Sinha," says AAP MP Sanjay Singh.

The expressway will ensure seamless connectivity & further economic progress in region, says PM Modi.

PM Modi inaugurates Bundelkhand Expressway, at Jalaun in Uttar Pradesh.

The Israeli military attacked what it said was a Hamas military site in the Gaza Strip early Saturday in response to a pair of rocket attacks overnight.

Delhi: 4 minor boys apprehended for firing at a man in Jahangirpuri on 15th July. The man has been hospitalised.

PM Modi landed in Kanpur where CM Yogi Adityanath and other dignitaries welcomed him. He is on the way to Jalaun to inaugurate the Bundelkhand Expressway.

Senior Shiromani Akali Dal leader and former Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon passes away, tweets party president Sukhbir Singh Badal.

Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha cancels Mumbai visit after Shiv Sena backs Droupadi Murmu.

India logs 20,044 new Covid cases, 56 deaths in last 24 hours.

Organ donation by a brain-dead woman saved the lives of five people, including two Army soldiers in the Command Hospital Southern Command (CHSC) in Maharashtra's Pune. The woman was brought to CHSC Pune in the last stages of her life following an unfortunate event, news agency ANI reported early Saturday. Read more

NDRF conducted a joint mock drill with the Madurai Division of Southern Railway to provide quick relief to victims in the event of a train accident in Madurai's Koodal Nagar Railway Station.

As Rishi Sunak took part in his first in the first television debate to pitch for the UK PM post, he got roasted on Twitter after viewers pointed out that there was a spelling mistake on Rishi Sunak's campaign banner. Read more

The United states and Saudi Arabia agreed on the importance of stopping Iran from "acquiring a nuclear weapon", during a visit by US president Joe Biden.

Tesla chief Elon Musk asked a Delaware court Friday to reject a bid by Twitter to put their $44 billion merger lawsuit on trial in September, and asked to delay it until next year.