New Delhi, The Rajya Sabha logjam was finally broken on Friday and an all-party meeting called by Chairman M. Hamid Ansari decided to work regularly from Monday, but the Goods and Services Tax bill will not be taken up in the current session. The meeting was called after protests over the Arunachal Pradesh assembly issue […]
New Delhi, Proceedings of the Rajya Sabha were again disrupted by the opposition Congress on Thursday over the crisis in Arunachal Pradesh, forcing two adjournments in the pre-lunch session. Soon after the house met at 12.37 p.m. after the first adjournment, Chairman Hamid Ansari tried to conduct question hour but Congress members started shouting slogans […]
New Delhi, Delhi’s ruling AAP on Thursday again accused Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of indulging in corruption in Delhi’s cricket body and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sack him. “A free and fair probe cannot be done as long as Jaitley remains in the post,” Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh told the media […]
Mumbai, The Shiv Sena on Tuesday said the Saudi Arabian women getting the right to contest and vote in civic elections for the first time in the history of the oil-rich kingdom is the dawn of a “women’s revolution”. The elections last weekend saw 979 women candidates out of a total of around 7,000 candidates, […]
New Delhi, Accusing the Congress of disrupting parliament proceedings for individual interests, the ruling Bharatiya Janata party on Tuesday issued a whip to its MPs to be present in both houses for the remainder of the winter session. “The Congress is responsible for disruptions in both houses of parliament and that too for an individual’s […]
Islamabad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif are likely to meet next month in Switzerland, the media reported. They will attend the 46th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos-Klosters. The three-day meeting will commence on January 20. New Delhi has shown its consent for participation by Modi […]
New Delhi, The Congress and Trinamool Congress members walked out from the Lok Sabha on Tuesday amid an uproar over the chopping of limbs of two Dalit men in Abohar district of Punjab. The Bharatiya Janata Party members protested when Speaker Sumitra Mahajan asked Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia to speak after the question hour. Referring […]
New Delhi, Opposition parties took on the government on Tuesday after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the CBI raided his office over corruption charges against his secretary. The CBI said it seized cash from the officer’s house while a furious Kejriwal dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi “a coward and a psychopath”. Targeting secretary Rajendra […]
New Delhi/Guwahati, The RSS and the BJP on Monday refuted the allegation by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi that he was stopped from entering a Satra — a Vaishnavite monastery — in Barpeta in Assam. In Guwahati, the BJP’s Assam unit came out with video footage showing that the Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi […]
New Delhi, Hutments won’t be razed any more in Delhi until rehabilitation plans are in place, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday, as the Delhi High Court pulled up the railways for the “inhuman” demolition of shanties that left a child dead and hundreds homeless in the winter chill. “It has been decided that […]