NEW DELHI: Jagdambika Pal, a senior BJP Lok Sabha member, has been appointed the chairperson of the joint committee of Parliament that will examine the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill, according to a Lok Sabha notification issued on Tuesday. The official notification said Speaker Om Birla named Pal the head of the 31-member committee. The government…
NEW DELHI: The Parliament was adjourned sine die on Friday, one sitting ahead of the scheduled end of the session, with the two Houses passing several key pieces of legislation, including the Finance Bill, 2024, and the Appropriation Bill, 2024 — both crucial for the Union Budget.The session gained significance after the introduction of the…
NEW DELHI: A photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has gone viral on social media. The two leaders attended a meeting called by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla after the conclusion of the second session of the 18th Lok Sabha.The photo shared by the Lok Sabha…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme court dismissed a plea against the election of Amritpal Singh, a jailed radical Sikh preacher, as an MP from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib. The petitioner argued that Singh, who allegedly does not owe allegiance to the Constitution of India, should not qualify for membership of Parliament under Article 84 of the Constitution….
NEW DELHI: Putting stress on performance and participation in Parliament, Congress is learnt to have instituted a system to assess its LS MPs. It has told members that a keen eye is being kept on them and they should live up to the expectations of their large support base that elected them.LoP in Lok Sabha…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed sharp exchanges between the government and the opposition as Union minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju introduced the Waqf (Amendment) Bill to “correct the wrongs done by the Congress in the past.” The government justified the proposed amendments and said it aimed to empower the marginalised groups within…
NEW DELHI: The debate over the Waqf Act Amendment Bill took an unexpected turn as Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav locked horns with Union home minister Amit Shah. The exchange began when Akhilesh alleged that the rights of the Lok Sabha Speaker were under threat, a claim that quickly drew a rebuttal from Shah.Akhilesh Yadav,…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi and made an interesting counter to his Chakravyuha attack and Mahabharata references during his speech on Union Budget in Lok Sabha. “Shakuni, Chausar, Chakravyuha … all the references of Mahabharata made by Congress are linked to ‘Adharm’,” the Union agriculture…
NEW DELHI: Leader of the opposition and former Wayanad MP, Rahul Gandhi, urged the Centre to support the people of Wayanad during his address in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. “It is a huge tragedy in Wayanad and the military is doing a good job there. I think it is important that we support the…
Former Union minister Anurag Thakur‘s remark that “those whose caste is not known” are talking about caste census sparked an uproar in Lok Sabha on Tuesday with Congress MPs trooping into the well.However, Thakur’s remark, made in the presence of Rahul Gandhi and an articulation of BJP‘s complaint that Congress’s embrace of ‘caste census’ after…
