It is finally official. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will run for President as the ruling UPA's candidate. His candidacy, ratified at a meeting of the Congress's allies at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 7 Race Course Road residence today, was announced by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Video courtesy: NDTV
15 June,2012 06:16 PM ISTIn an interview to NDTV in 2009, Pranab Mukherjee, had said, he is just a 'village boy'. Three years later, as the veteran Congress man is on the brink of becoming India's 13th President, we look at Mr Mukherjee's five-decade-long political journey. Video courtesy: NDTV
16 June,2012 09:14 AM ISTPresident Pranab Mukherjee is spending four days of Durga Puja at Mirati, his native village in West Bengal. He is the chief pujari at his home and locals are flocking to participate in celebrations presided over by the president of the country. Video courtesy: NDTV
22 October,2012 10:22 AM ISTPresident Pranab Mukherjee today signed the ordinance on sexual assault which was passed by the union cabinet on Friday. Women's rights groups had urged the President yesterday not to sign the ordinance, saying the cabinet had selectively accepted the recommendations of the Justice JS Verma commission. Video adapted from NDTV
04 February,2013 12:16 PM ISTPresident Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday remembered late Former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and said that he had a mighty mind. Remembering the old days, Mukherjee said that after 1977, Kalam was elected as the President of India unopposed.
28 July,2015 03:39 PM ISTCommemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Indo-Pak war, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday paid tribute at the Amar Jawan Jyoti.
28 August,2015 02:03 PM ISTPresident Pranab Mukherjee on Friday addressed teachers during 'Shiksha Sanvad' at Rajendra Prasad Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, a day ahead of the Teachers' Day.
04 September,2015 05:23 PM ISTPresident Pranab Mukherjee, during his visit to Jerusalem in Israel, said that India condemns all forms of terrorism. Mukherjee who reached Jerusalem on Tuesday (October 13) after visiting Jordan and Palestine
15 October,2015 11:50 AM IST
Former President Pranab Mukherjee, breathed his last on August 31. Tributes poured in from all across India after his demise. From Ajay Devgn, Lata Mangeshkar, Riteish Deshmukh to Shilpa Shetty & Raveena Tandon, Bollywood has paid their final tributes to him.
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