The following are PTI top stories at 2200 hours:
DEL61 2NDLDALL VP
New Delhi: NDA nominee M Venkaiah Naidu elected as India's next Vice President, receiving an overwhelming two- third votes against opposition candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
DEL16 ATTACK-2NDLD RAHUL
New Delhi: The Congress accuses the BJP and the RSS of being behind what it described as a "murderous attack" on Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat and claimed it was a "pre-planned" conspiracy.
DEL59 NITI-APPOINTMENT
New Delhi: Economist Dr Rajiv Kumar was tonight named as the new Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, five days after the incumbent Arvind Panagariya announced that he would quit to return to academics.
BOM9 GJ-ATTACK-RAHUL-LD ARREST
Ahmedabad: Police arrest a person for allegedly throwing a stone on the car of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in Banaskantha district when he was on a visit to the flood-hit areas of Gujarat.
DEL29 JK-LD ENCOUNTER
Srinagar: Security forces kill three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants in an encounter in Sopore area of north Kashmir, the police say.
MDS8 KL-MISHAP
Kozhikode: Six people includingthree children killed and more than 14 injured as ajeep collides with a bus while trying to overtake a caron the national highway near Thamarassery town here, police say.
DEL65 BI-GST-LD JAITLEY
New Delhi: The GST rates on textile job works like stitching and embroidery, and tractor parts cut, while e-way bill provisions relating to online pre-registration of goods before transportation relaxed.
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Bengaluru: Gujarat Congress legislators ventures out for the first time from a private resort on the city outskirts where they have been camping for about aweek and met the Karnataka Governor, besides visiting the state secretariat here.
DEL54 LD WEATHER
New Delhi: Heavy rains lash several parts of the country triggering landslides in Himachal Pradesh, where three persons died, while two deaths were reported from Uttarakhand.
FGN3 CHINA-SIKKIM-MEDIA
Beijing: China is planning a "small scale military operation" to "expel" Indian troops from the Doklam area "within two weeks", an article in a state-run daily here says. By K J M Varma
FGN14 SHARIF-LD SALARY
Islamabad: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asks how could he have filed income tax returns on a salary he never received from his son's company in Dubai, referring to the Supreme Court's grounds for his disqualification in the Panama Papers case. By Sajjad Hussain
FGN6 US-2NDLD CLIMATE
Washington/United Nations: The US informs the UN that it will withdraw from the historic 2015 Paris climate agreement but would still take part in negotiations to protect its own interests. By Lalit K Jha and Yoshita Singh.
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