President Ram Nath Kovind

Girish Chandra Murmu takes charge as CAG

11:15 pm August 8, 2020

New Delhi: Girish Chandra Murmu on Saturday assumed charge as the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India, an official statement said. Murmu, the former Lt Governor of Jammu & Kashmir union territory, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan in the morning. At a ceremony […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Bimal Julka sworn in as CIC; Amita Pandove becomes IC

7:36 pm March 6, 2020

New Delhi: Information Commissioner Bimal Julka was appointed as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) on Friday, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office to Julka as CIC in the Central Information Commission at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, it said. Later, Julka administered the oath of […]

President arrives in Odisha on a 3-day visit

President prays for nation s happiness and prosperity at Baidyanath temple

8:43 pm February 29, 2020

Deoghar (Jharkhand): President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday offered puja at the Baidyanath temple in Deoghar and prayed for the happiness and prosperity of the nation, an official release said here. He was accompanied by Jharkhand Governor Droupadi Murmu inside the sanctum sanctorum, it said. Temple priests performed shodsopachar, a puja ritual, to the Jyotirling […]

President stresses on value-based education

5:22 pm February 29, 2020

Gumla (Jharkhand): President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday stressed on the importance of value-based education, saying the objective should be to make students good human beings. “A good human being can become a good doctor, a good leader, a good father, a good husband. If a daughter becomes a good human being, she can become […]

Mayawati seeks judicial probe into Delhi clashes

3:31 pm February 28, 2020

Lucknow: BSP President Mayawati on Friday wrote a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind, demanding a high-level judicial probe monitored by a Supreme Court judge into the violent clashes in Delhi. Stressing that the violence has “trampled” Delhi like during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Mayawati termed them as most serious and unfortunate and said they […]