PATNA: RJD-Congress-Left Front Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) announced on Friday its seat-sharing formula for all 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, with Lalu Prasad‘s party getting the lion’s share of 26, Congress nine and Left parties five, reported.RJD‘s 26 seats are seven more than it had contested in 2019, when it drew a blank. Congress’s nine…
NEW DELHI: AAP leader and Delhi education minister Atishi, on Friday, said that the Enforcement Directorate is working as BJP’s political weapon and they want to get details of AAP’s Lok Sabha election strategy by accessing Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s phone. Addressing a press conference, Atishi alleged, “Yesterday in Rouse Avenue court during the…
GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the strategically-crucial Sela tunnel, the world’s longest twin-lane passageway near the China border at an elevation of 13,700 feet, reaffirming his intent to strengthen the infrastructure in the border regions. ‘India’s move to add more troops….’: Beijing reacts on additional Indian troops at LAC Stating that inaugurating…
NEW DELHI: Union communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday introduced the Telecommunications Bill, 2023 in the Lok Sabha. The bill seeks to replace the 138-year-old Indian Telegraph Act that governs the telecom sector. The Cabinet had cleared the bill in August.Here’s what the bill proposes:* The draft Telecommunications Bill has been introduced to create a…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha ethics committee meeting to adopt its draft report on the cash-for-query allegations against TMC MP Mahua Moitra has been postponed to November 9. It was scheduled to meet on November 7.The Lok Sabha secretariat, in a notice, did not cite any reason for rescheduling the meeting. The committee, headed by…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the women’s reservation bill with near-unanimous backing, setting it on course to be cleared by the Rajya Sabha possibly by Thursday evening.It was the first time that the women’s quota bill, the Constitution (128th Amendment) Bill in Parliament’s terminology, had been put to vote in the Lok…
NEW DELHI: In a big move for women’s empowerment, the Narendra Modi government is set to table a constitutional amendment bill in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday for reserving one-third of seats in Parliament and state legislatures across the country.The decision, pushed by the Prime Minister and cleared by the Union Cabinet at a meeting…
NEW DELHI: As it struggles to claw back the wealth it lost because of the allegations levelled by global short seller, Hindenberg, the Adani Group found itself caught in the intense political crossfire over the no-trust vote, with BJP and Congress accusing each other of favouring the conglomerate. After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi renewed his…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday accused TMC member Derek O’Brien of doing “theatrics” in the House to gain publicity during a heated debate on the Delhi services bill. Dhankhar’s outburst came after the TMC member refused to confine his speech to the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill,…
