Tag: Monsoon Session
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Congress wants 18-day monsoon session of Goa Assembly
The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in Goa on Monday demanded that the duration of state Assembly’s upcoming monsoon session be increased from 12 to 18 days. The party will urge Assembly Speaker Pramod Sawant to increase the working days of the session, beginning from July 19, CLP leader Chandrakant Kavlekar told reporters here. He was...
June 25, 2018 -
Delhi Assembly’s Monsoon session begins tomorrow
The Arvind Kejriwal government will re-introduce three bills in the Monsoon session.
August 7, 2017 -
GJM MLAs won’t attend monsoon session of Bengal Assembly
All the three Gorkha Janmukti Morcha MLAs have decided not to attend the monsoon session of the state Assembly which began on Friday, due to the indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling hills. "As the indefinite shutdown in the hills is on for the last 51 days, we have decided not to attend the ongoing session of...
August 4, 2017 -
Indian Army has domination over border with Pakistan: Jaitley
Jaitley said securing the border was a "continuous process" and there is not a task that is incomplete.
August 4, 2017 -
BJP, Left spar in Lok Sabha over Kerala killings
The Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed disruption and a brief adjournment following angry exchanges between the Left and BJP members over political killings in Kerala. Communist Party of India-Marxist's P Karunakaran took objection to the Kerala Chief Minister and the Secretary of his party's State Committee being named in the House. Immediately, Bharatiya Janata Party members...
August 3, 2017 -
Monsoon session of HP Assembly from 22 Aug
The Monsoon session of the state assembly is being convened from 22 August, state Vidhan Sabha Speaker Brij Behari Lal Butail said on Tuesday. Notification for the session has been issued. “The monsoon session will be held from 22 August to 25 August, 2017 and there will be 4 sittings during this session,” he said. The speaker said...
August 1, 2017 -
Agrarian crisis: Cong shedding crocodile tears, says govt
Congress staged a walkout, demanding loan waiver for farmers.
July 21, 2017 -
Lok Sabha adjourned briefly after opposition ruckus
The Lok Sabha was adjourned briefly on Thursday after the opposition parties created ruckus. Soon after the House met, the Congress-led opposition stood up and started shouting slogans. It was not clear what the issue was. The Congress leaders were seen mentioning some media reports. Amid the din, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan tried to conduct the...
July 20, 2017 -
Take nation into confidence on J-K, Congress tells govt
Critical of the government's handling of Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress on Wednesday demanded that it take the nation into confidence and spell out the steps being taken to bring normalcy in the state. Rejecting the government's claim that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir had improved, the party's senior spokespersons, Ghulam Nabi Azad and...
July 19, 2017 -
China ready to attack India, claims Mulayam in Lok Sabha
Samajwadi Party leader and former Defence Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday claimed that China was ready to attack India in collaboration with Pakistan and asked the government to reverse its stand on the Tibet issue and support its independence. Raising the matter in the Lok Sabha against the backdrop of tension between India and...
July 19, 2017 -
Opposition members’ protest over farmers forces LS adjournment
A united opposition on Wednesday forced the adjournment of the Lok Sabha proceedings for nearly an hour by storming the Well and raising slogans slamming the government for allegedly ignoring the well-being of farmers. As soon as the question hour was taken up, opposition members raised the issue of farmers. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar...
July 19, 2017 -
Government ready to debate on every issue: Ananth Kumar
Union minister Ananth Kumar on Wednesday requested the opposition parties to let Parliament function, saying the government is ready for positive discussions on every issues in the both the Houses. "We hope that both the Houses of Parliament functions properly," Kumar said after the Bharatiya Jananta Party's parliamentary party meeting, which was also attended by...
July 19, 2017 -
Cabinet reshuffle likely after Parliament’s monsoon session
The monsoon session of Parliament is slated to end on August 11.
July 18, 2017 -
PM hopes for ‘GST’ spirit in monsoon session
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed confidence that all members cutting across party lines would take part in discussions on issues in a spirit of GST or ‘growing stronger together’ during the monsoon session Parliament which began here on Monday. The Opposition is expected to grill the government on a wide range of issues including recent...
July 17, 2017 -
Modi urges all parties to make monsoon session fruitful
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday pointed at the importance of the monsoon session that will begin later during the day and urged all parties to work in the interest of the nation. "This monsoon session is very important in many ways as the country will elect its new President," Modi said after arriving at...
July 17, 2017 -
Monsoon session of Parliament likely to be stormy
The monsoon session of Parliament beginning from Monday is expected to be stormy with the Opposition parties all set to corner the government over a range of issues concerning national security, foreign policy and other domestic matters while the ruling alliance is gearing up to counter the onslaught on it. Eighteen Opposition parties, which have...
July 16, 2017 -
Secondary priority
That no specifics emerged from the much-trumpeted all-party meeting on Friday confirms suspicions that the intention was less on building national consensus on two critical issues facing the nation ~ the Sino-Indian stand-off at Doklam and the crumbling situation in the Kashmir Valley ~ and more on forestalling trouble on either “front” during the monsoon...
July 15, 2017