Politics

The move comes after the Congress and other opposition parties decided to boycott the Rajya Sabha for the rest of the session unless the suspension of 8 MPs is revoked.

The meeting, called on the directions of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former party chief Rahul Gandhi, was attended by the general secretaries and state in-charges of the party and was supervised by the members of the special committee.

Last week, the Supreme Court stayed the implementation of the Maharashtra law which gives reservations in jobs and education to the Maratha community and referred petitions challenging it to a Constitution bench.

If the BSP fields its candidates on these eight assembly seats, it will turn this into an interesting multi-cornered contest with the BJP, SP and Congress also raring to go.

Maharashtra revenue minister and state Congress president Balasaheb Thorat said onion prices have collapsed due to the ban on export, and asserted that his party will fight against this "injustice" meted out to farmers.

Participating in a discussion on the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Bill, 2020, in the Lower House, members of the Congress, TMC, BJD, NCP, TRS, TDP and other parties pitched for the restoration of the funds.

After decades, today this 73-year-old man, Mahavir Prasad, a film producer, and music composer is all set to release his much-awaited biopic on Deendayal Upadhyaya on September 25.

The TMC MP was objecting to the Banking Regulation (Amendment ) Bill when he made the remarks targeting Sitharaman while referring to the stress in the economy.

Monsoon session of Parliament, which begins from September 14, will go on till October 1 and will have 18 sittings, including weekends. The government has listed 11 ordinances for passage and another 12 Bills for passage during the session.

Singh, who was admitted at AIIMS, Delhi, for about a week after developing post-Covid-19 complications, resigned from the primary membership of the party on Thursday and followed it up with an open letter, a day later, addressed to Prasad's arch rival and...

The Congress leader described as ";shameful" reports of the sale of stake in Life Insurance Corporation (LIC).

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi attacked the government over a media report which claimed that the unemployment rate has gone up in August as rural jobs dipped.

The release of Sasikala would be a development that the DMK, which has been lying in wait to come to power for close to a decade now, will use in order to strengthen its attack on the ruling AIADMK.

The Congress has stepped up its attack on the government after the country’s economy suffered its worst slump on record in April-June, with the GDP contracting by 23.9 per cent.

He was reacting to recent busting of a drug trafficking racket in Bengaluru by the Narcotics Control Bureau with the arrest of three people, including a woman recently, and its statement that the trio was supplying drugs to the singers and actors of Kanna...

A look at past parliamentary sessions when Question Hour was dropped, and the alternatives opposition lawmakers may have to hold the government accountable.