Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Tuesday said that the INDIA bloc will fight the Vice Presidential election together. He stated, "The INDIA bloc will fight the elections together. We have requested a conscious vote. The INDIA bloc and opposition parties will vote against the NDA candidate CP Radhakrishnan."

A heart-warming video shared by the Congress party on Monday showed Rahul Gandhi gifting a Indie puppy to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s granddaughter on her birthday.

Voting began for the vice presidential poll on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the first to cast his vote.

The Congress on Tuesday said that former vice president Jagdeep Dhankar has maintained an uncharacteristic silence for 50 days now and as the election for his successor gets underway, the nation continues to wait for him to speak out.

Gold prices jumped by Rs 458 to scale an all-time high of Rs 1,10,047 per 10 grams in the domestic futures market on Tuesday, tracking a rally in the global trend where the precious metal hit fresh peaks amid weakness in the US dollar following disappointing labour market data.

Ahead of the vice presidential poll, the Congress on Tuesday attacked YSRCP president Jagan Mohan Reddy for supporting NDA nominee C.P. Radhakrishnan and accused him of betrayal for not standing with democratic forces.

A four-storey building collapsed in north Delhi's Subzi Mandi area, with no report of injury to anyone as the MCD had already declared the structure unsafe, an official of the Delhi Fire Service (DFS) said, adding it was vacant at the time of the collapse.

A lawyer from Surat, who had been part of the Congress' legal team that represented MP Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case, allegedly died by suicide by jumping into a river here, police said on Monday.