Following are PTI's top stories

Following are PTI's top stories

at 2130 hours today:

DEL64 PREZ-2NDLD POLL

New Delhi: Close to 99 per cent voting has been recorded for electing India's next president, the returning officer for the poll announces, saying it was perhaps the highest-ever percentage.

DEL52 VP-NDA-NAIDU

New Delhi: Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu, a veteran BJP leader from Andhra Pradesh, will be NDA's vice presidential candidate, party president Amit Shah says.

DEL65 POL CABINET

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to go for a Cabinet expansion as senior minister M Venkaiah Naidu's almost certain election as the next vice president will leave two heavyweight portfolios without a Cabinet minister.
 

DEL53 POL-VP-GANDHI-LD RAUT

New Delhi: The opposition's vice presidential candidate Gopal Krishna Gandhi comes in for criticism from the Shiv Sena for having sought mercy for Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon, but the Congress defends the decision.

DEL67 SC-LD NOTES-NO MORE GRACE PERIOD

New Delhi: The Centre tells the Supreme Court that no more grace period will be granted for depositing the scrapped Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, saying the very object of demonetisation and elimination of black money will be defeated if a fresh window is given.

DEL63 JK-LD CEASEFIRE

Jammu/Srinagar: A nine-year-old girl and an Army jawan have been killed and four others injured in heavy firing and mortar shelling by Pakistani troops at various places along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, officials say.

DEL47 DEF-2NDLD DGMO

New Delhi: In a stern message conveyed by the top Army brass, India tells Pakistan that it reserves the right to retaliate appropriately against any incident of ceasefire violation along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir.

MDS13 KA-2ND LD SASIKALA

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government shunts out a top woman police official who brought to light alleged special treatment to AIADMK (Amma) leader V K Sasikala in prison and dragged her senior into a bribery row over the matter.

BOM20 GJ-RAINS-TOLL RISES

Ahmedabad: The death toll due to rains across Gujarat rises to 11 as two more persons die in the last 24 hours, officials of the State Emergency Operations Centre say.

CAL16 AS-FLOOD

Guwahati: Assam floods claim five more lives, even as the overall situation improves marginally with around 8 lakh people affected across 17 districts in the state.

FGN13 PAK-SHARIF-LDALL PANAMAGATE

Islamabad: Embattled Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif rejects as "farce" a probe panel's damning report that recommended filing of a corruption case against him and his family as the Supreme Court resumed the hearing of the high- voltage Panamagate graft case. By Sajjad Hussain

FGN11 CHINA-ARMY-3RDLD DRILL

Beijing: China's military says it has conducted live-fire exercises in the remote mountainous Tibet region to test its strike capability on plateaus, amid the standoff between Indian and Chinese troops in the Doklam area in the Sikkim sector.