NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra counter-attacked Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday for his remark on the Wayanad MP carrying a ‘Palestine’ bag in Parliament. While speaking on the second day of the Winter Session of the state assembly, UP CM Yogi Adityanath said that a Congress leader was roaming in…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday said that Trinamool Congress member of Parliament Kalyan Banerjee has submitted a written apology for his remarks against Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, besides apologising in the House.As soon as the House met, some members belonging to BJP-led NDA stood up to raise the issue of remarks…
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the ‘One Nation, One Election’ bill, which aims to hold simultaneous elections across the country. Sources told TOI that the bill is likely to be tabled in Parliament next week.In September this year, the Cabinet had approved the ‘One Nation, One Election’ initiative, proposing simultaneous elections for…
Justice Nagarathna disagreed on overruling the 1989 judgment by a seven-judge bench led by her father and then CJI ES Venkataramiah. (Agencies) NEW DELHI: Justice B V Nagarathna on Wednesday penned a lengthy opinion to disagree on all but one issue with the eight other judges on a bench led by CJI D Y Chandrachud,…
Pressure is mounting on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a growing faction of anxious Liberal MPs is coordinating efforts to compel him to resign as leader of the Liberal Party. Following significant electoral losses in both the Toronto-St. Paul’s and Montreal by-elections, dissatisfaction with Trudeau’s leadership has intensified, prompting discussions among disgruntled MPs about…
NEW DELHI: Opposing criminalisation of marital rape, the Centre on Thursday told Supreme Court that a husband and wife share a unique multifaceted relationship which is not exclusively centred on sex and stressed if Parliament has thoughtfully carved out an exception for marital rape in the penal provisions (in Sec 375 of IPC), it should…
Amit Shah in Gurgaon (ANI photo) GURGAON: Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday asserted that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, will be passed in the winter session of Parliament, setting the stage for a potential showdown with the opposition both inside and outside the House.“Waqf board law… we will fix it in the next session…
NEW DELHI: In a strong indication of his govt’s intent to rollout one-third quota for women in Parliament and state legislatures, PM Narendra Modi Monday called upon BJP workers to conduct membership enrolment drive to help achieve the objective of having enough women as lawmakers in the next few years.Speaking at the launch of the…
NEW DELHI: The Union government on Monday told the Supreme Court that Parliament was compelled to enact a law in 2019 to make Muslim men who instantaneously divorce their wives through ‘triple talaq‘ liable to imprisonment as the SC’s 2017 ruling declaring it unconstitutional did not prove to be a deterrent against such unilateral sudden…
No political party in power took this short step despite SC goadingNEW DELHI: When the Constitution was just a year-old, law minister B R Ambedkar had stoically met the charge that the Hindu Code Bill, 1951, was communal in nature as it aimed to codify the personal law of one religious community leaving aside the…
