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As President Ram Nath Kovind's term comes to an end on July 24, MPs and MLAs from all around the nation are voting to choose the 15th President of India in Parliament House and state legislative assemblies. As a result of the backing of regional parties, it has been suggested that NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu has an advantage against Yashwant Sinha of the opposition. If this occurs, she would hold the top constitutional position for the first time as a woman from the tribal community.

There are several benefits and advantages that come with becoming president. A salary of Rs. 5 lakh would be paid to the president of India each month, along with other amenities like free housing and medical care. In 2017, the president's monthly remuneration increased from Rs. 1.5 lakh to Rs. 5 lakh.

The Russian Embassy in India has asked the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to intervene in the matter pertaining to the detention of a cargo ship carrying military cargo for the Indian Navy in Cochin in line with a Kerala High Court order Monday.

The Kerala High Court in its order asked the ship — MV MAIA-1 — anchored in Cochin port to be arrested until it pays dues to tune of $23,503 (approx. Rs 19 lakh) to an Estonian firm named Bunker Partner OU, headquartered in capital Tallinn.

“Russian Embassy in India is aware of the Russian cargo ship detention in the Indian port of Cochin, on board of which a military cargo for the Indian armed forces was delivered,” the Russian Embassy said in a media statement.

As foreign minister S Jaishankar at the all-party meet said that the speculation that India could go the same way as Sri Lanka is misplaced, AIMIM MP Asadudddin Owaisi asked then why the department of economic affairs made the presentation which, Owaisi said, was the politicisation of state's economic health.

The all-party meeting was convened on Tuesday in parliament where the finance minister made a presentation on the financial health of states drawing criticism from regional parties as at a meeting called to discuss the Sri Lanka crisis, the ministry officials spoke of the 'budgeted and non-budgeted borrowings' of some states. The government later clarified that the presentation was made to underscore bad consequences of fiscal imprudence and freebies. YSR Congress, TRS, TMC, DMK raised objections to the presentation at the meeting and said that those were 'unrelated issues'.

In what can be termed as a major jolt to Uddhav Thackeray, 14 out of 18 Shiv Sena MPs attended a virtual meeting with CM Eknath Shinde and extended their support to him.

Vinayak Raut, Gajanan Kirtikar, Arvind Sawant and Omraje Nimbalkar did not attend virtual meeting with CM.

Britain's former finance minister Rishi Sunak held onto his lead in the race to become Britain's next prime minister on Monday as another hopeful was knocked out, leaving four candidates in an increasingly bitter contest to replace Boris Johnson.

Sunak got 115 votes in the third ballot of Conservative lawmakers on Monday, ahead of former defence minister Penny Mordaunt on 82 and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on 71.