Tag: Lok Sabha
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Voting for bypolls in 51 assembly, 2 Lok Sabha seats across 17 states, 1 UT begins
The BJP and its allies had nearly 30 of these assembly seats, while the Congress had won 12 and the rest were with regional parties.
October 21, 2019 -
Forward Bloc to join Congress in its stir against BJP, TMC
The misrule of the two parties in the Center and the state has aggravated people’s misery and the issue had influenced his party’s thinking, a senior Forward Bloc leader said.
September 29, 2019 -
Speaker Om Birla nominates Shashi Tharoor for House panel on external affairs
Tharoor, who is an elected member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram, is presently chairing the panel on information and technology.
September 26, 2019 -
Mamata Banerjee likely to meet Narendra Modi on Wednesday
“An appointment was sought by the chief minister's office last week for an appointment from Modi's office for the meeting,” an official said.
September 17, 2019 -
Despite Lok Sabha panel warning 82 former MPs yet to vacate bungalows
On August 19, the Lok Sabha Housing Committee headed by CR Patil had ordered around 200 ex-MPs, who did not vacate their bungalows, to give up the facility within a week and disconnect their power, water and cooking gas connections within three days.
September 15, 2019 -
CBI summons Sovan Chatterjee, Subhendu Adhikary again
The agency which is on an overdrive to conclude the probe in the Narada pay-off scam and file chargesheet against the 13 accused against whom the FIR had been lodged by the agency had summoned 10 accused out of the 13 to record their voice samples.
September 10, 2019 -
Mamata Banerjee asks ministers to not take Puja leave
In a bid to reach out to the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) communities of the state, the Trinamul Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee has asked party MLAs to submit names of five SC and ST members from their respective constituencies.
September 3, 2019 -
Varanasi: Muslim women send rakhis to elder brother Modi
The women sent hand-made 'rakhis' to Modi and called him their elder brother who protected them from the evil practice of triple talaq.
August 11, 2019 -
‘Can marry fair Kashmiri women now’: BJP leader stokes row after Article 370 scrapped
Article 370 grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and limits Parliament’s power to make laws concerning the state.
August 7, 2019 -
Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill 2019 passed in LS, state to be bifurcated
Home Minister Amit Shah, while replying to the debate on Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha, said as Article 370 stops Jammu and Kashmir to associating with India, it should be abolished.
August 6, 2019 -
‘Under house arrest’, claims Farooq Abdullah after Amit Shah says NC leader ‘at home out of free will’
Abdullah, who was also a former Jammu and Kashmir CM, made an appearance before the media in Srinagar a day after Article 370 was scrapped by the Government.
August 6, 2019 -
Abrogation of Article 370: ‘Not a political move’, Amit Shah hits back at Cong, asserts ‘J-K includes PoK’
The Congress, which has stood firmly against the repealing of the article questioned the procedure and laws used to scrap Article 370.
August 6, 2019 -
Abrogation of Article 370, J-K Reorganisation Bill to be moved in Lok Sabha today
In an unprecedented move, the Centre has scrapped Article 370 of the Indian Constitution which gives autonomous status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
August 6, 2019 -
Lok Sabha passes Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill
Going by the bill, a person would have the right to choose to be identified as a man, woman or transgender, irrespective of sex reassignment surgery and hormonal therapy.
August 5, 2019 -
Lok Sabha passes Jallianwala Bagh Bill amid Congress walkout
Lok Sabha on Friday passed ‘The Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (amendment) Bill’, which seeks to remove the Congress president as a trustee, amid vociferous protests from the party members who later walked out. Piloting the bill, Culture Minister Prahlad Patel asserted that national memorials cannot be “political memorials” and they should be kept away from …
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August 2, 2019 -
Bugs in the MSP bill
The proposed law to ensure minimum support price to farmers may aggravate and not alleviate agrarian distress, says SATYAJIT PATTANAYAK
August 2, 2019 -
OPDs to remain shut today as IMA calls for nationwide protest against Medical Bill
The protesting doctors have alleged that Section 32 of the proposed NMC Bill will intensify quackery by rural medical practitioners, private medical practitioners and others.
July 31, 2019