The bill which was supposed to get placed in the Upper House was not tabled and lapsed with the session’s adjournment
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s portrait in Central Hall of Parliament on Feb 12
New Delhi, A life-size portrait of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be installed in the Central Hall of Parliament on February 12. Source said that President Ram Nath Kovind will unveil the portrait in the presence of Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Prime Minister Narendra[Read More…]
Former Bihar BJP MP Uday Singh quits party
Patna, A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former member of Parliament from Purnea district of Bihar, Uday Singh, resigned from the party on Friday. “I have resigned from the BJP,” Singh told the media here. “I had joined the BJP in 2004 under the leadership of Atal Bihari[Read More…]
RS adjourned till Wednesday, opposition refuses to leave
New Delhi, The Rajya Sabha was on Tuesday adjourned for the day even as the opposition members refused to leave the House and staged demonstration against the governments “unilateral” decision to extend the ongoing session till Wednesday. While the House was adjourned, opposition members refused to leave the House and[Read More…]
Sitharaman spoke for 2 hours, didn’t answer my 2 questions: Rahul on Rafale deal
New Delhi, After a day of heated debate on the controversial Rafale deal Parliament, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday again picked up the gauntlet and said that Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke for two hours and still did not answer the two questions posed by him on the Rafale[Read More…]
Interview: Women’s Reservation Bill is the path to ensure Gender Equality in India
Q1. What is the difference will the women’s reservation bill bring to the Indian legislative? Why is it essential? By passing Women’s Reservation Bill, India could achieve gender equality in the country’s highest decision-making bodies. Political parties will be committed to accepting nominations from more women candidates. This will give[Read More…]
Parliament winter session live updates: The Muslim Women Bill (Triple Talaq) 2018 passed in the Lok Sabha
7:10 PM The Muslim Women Bill (Triple Talaq) 2018 has been passed in the Lower House(Lok Sabha) 6:45 PM Voting begins in Lok Sabha for the Triple Talaq Bill 6:40 PM Congress and AIADMK walk out from the Lok Sabha 5:10 PM AIADMK Member of Parliament A. Anwhar Raajhaa called the[Read More…]
New Zealand to hold referendum on recreational marijuana use
Wellington, New Zealand will hold a referendum in 2020 to decide on the legalisation of recreational marijuana, Justice Minister Andrew Little announced on Tuesday, a week after Parliament gave the green light to its use for medicinal purposes. “We need to fine-tune some details, but we are informing the Election[Read More…]
Punjab Assembly passes the resolution for 33% women reservation
Chandigarh: Congress Party-led Punjab government has unanimously passed a resolution to provide 33% reservation to Women in Parliament and in the state assembly. Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh took to social media and confirmed the decision and tweeted about the state assembly resolution on Friday. Captain said, “Thankful to[Read More…]
Live updates: Parliament winter session Day 2
Live Updates: Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day: The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on Wednesday amid pandemonium by some members soon after it passed a bill in the post-lunch sitting. Lok Sabha adjourned for the day: Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourned the Lok Sabha for the day after it[Read More…]
Winter Session Live Updates: United opposition ready for face off with government
LIVE UPDATES: Lok Sabha adjourned for the day. PM Modi speaks ahead of Winter Session: “This session is important, many issues of public importance will be taken up. I have faith that all the members of the Parliament will respect this sentiment and move ahead. Our efforts are that discussions[Read More…]
Yashwant Sinha yet again compares Modi with Tughluq
Kolkata: Charging the Narendra Modi government with destroying and compromising all important institutions of democracy, including the Union Cabinet, Parliament, Supreme Court and the media, former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Sunday said the only way out for the country is to elect a new government in the coming[Read More…]
Kisan Mukti March Day 2 Live Updates: CM Arvind Kejriwal speaks at Parliament street
Live Updates 4:00 PM | CM Arvind Kejriwal speaks at Parliament street Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has arrived the Parliament Street to adress thousands of farmers. “BJP has forgotten its poll promises and just doing opposite of what they have said”, says CM Kejriwal. 3:35 PM | Congress chief Rahul[Read More…]
Kisan Mukti March: Delhi Police give permission to march to Parliament Street, says Yogendra Yadav
New Delhi: In the last moment Delhi Police has allowed the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) led Kisan Mukti March to hold the protest march on Friday morning 10 am from Ram Lila Ground to Parliament Street. Farmers, under the banner of All India Kisan Sangarsh Coordination Committee,[Read More…]
“Crop insurance schemes for farmers is a bigger scam than the Rafale scam”, says P Sainath
New Delhi: Noted agrarian expert P Sainath participated in the Kisan Mukti March led by All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) in New Delhi on Thursday. Speaking exclusively with Newsd P Sainath said, “The Crop Insurance Scheme (Fasal Bima Yojana) of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is a bigger[Read More…]
SAD stages march seeking justice for 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims
New Delhi: Hundreds of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) supporters on Saturday staged a protest march here demanding justice for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The march, led by SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal and Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, started from Gurdwara Pratapganj and ended outside Parliament Street[Read More…]
Sharad Yadav disqualification case: Jolt to JDU?
Former Janata Dal-United leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sharad Yadav is likely to tip the scale in the disqualification case that the Delhi High Court is hearing. Yadav had registered a case with the Delhi High Court after he was debarred from JDU for making an announcement of his own[Read More…]
Parliament clears 20 bills in Monsoon session
The Monsoon session of Parliament saw 20 bills being passed by the two Houses, out of which 22 were introduced in the Lok Sabha and one in the Rajya Sabha, according to an official release. The 20 bills passed by the two Houses includes four bills related to Goods and Services Tax[Read More…]
Goa BJP calls Rahul Gandhi ‘loafer’ for winking in Parliament
Panaji: A Goa BJP spokesperson on Monday called Congress President Rahul Gandhi a loafer for winking in Parliament, a day after the state Congress chief called Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar a kathputli (puppet) for bowing to unreasonable demands of ruling coalition allies in the coastal state. Rahul Gandhi, who does[Read More…]
TDP MPs dressed fancy outside Parliament, demands special status to Andhra Pradesh
Telugu Desam Party PMs staged protest outside Parliament premises on Monday morning, July 23, demanding special status to Andhra Pradesh. The parliamentarians protested in front of Mahatma Gandhi Statue, dressed up in fancy attires, roaring slogans and not letting the parliament function. TDP MP Naramalli Sivaprasad dresses up as Annamayya,[Read More…]
No-confidence motion: Rahul Gandhi attacks PM Modi, then hugs him
Political battle lines drew deeper in the Lok Sabha monsoon session as Congress chief Rahul Gandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi government over a list of issues amid the no-confidence motion debate on Friday, July 20. While the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government was expected to have a[Read More…]
Tejashwi Yadav to bring no-confidence motion against Nitish govt
The keenly-watched debate over the no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi government is underway in the Lok Sabha. Amid the many debates running since morning over no-confidence motion, came the jaw-dropping remark from Bihar. RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav, indicating his move of contemplation over no-confidence motion against the NDA government in Bihar. “We are[Read More…]
AIADMK may not support no-confidence motion
The AIADMK with 37 members in the Lok Sabha on Thursday indicated that it might not support the opposition’s no-confidence motion against the BJP-led NDA government. AIADMK Joint Coordinator and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami told reporters in Salem that the no-confidence motion was moved by the Telugu Desam[Read More…]
Monsoon Session: Triple Talaq Bill, OBC Commission to be govt’s top agenda
New Delhi: Parliamentary affairs minister Ananth Kumar has called an all-party meeting on Tuesday for discussing the agenda for the monsoon session with them. Eyeing towards a “fruitful” monsoon session of Parliament, the Government has already reached out to the Opposition, assuring it to debate on any subject of their choice, two ruling[Read More…]
Parliament not immune to casting couch: Renuka Chowdhary
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Renuka Chowdhary on Tuesday raised many eyebrows by saying that “not just film industry and other work spaces, even Parliament is not immune to the casting couch”. Chaudhury also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for denigrating her as a woman in the past by indirectly referring[Read More…]