Tag

Even AIADMK, which had given a dissent note to the select committee of Rajya Sabha on the bill, seems to have been won over after a meeting between Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha and prime minister Narendra Modi in Chennai last week.

The Congress, supported by some opposition parties, has been demanding the resignation of Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje on their alleged help to Lalit Modi and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the Vyapam scam. The Congress Vice...

He didn’t forget to mention the stalemate that continues in the parliament and appealed to all the parties for supporting the GST bill so that it can be passed in order to subsume taxes and rationalize the tax system.

The goods and services tax (GST) bill has been listed for discussion and passage in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

The speaker of India’s Parliament on Monday barred 25 opposition legislators from its sessions for the rest of the week for causing “grave disorder” after they created noisy scenes. There were indications that even the Real Estate Bill could be brought in.

Prospect of an immediate end to the parliamentary logjam appeared bleak on Saturday with both the government and the Congress sticking to their guns ahead of an all-party meeting on Monday.

Significantly, the Congress is in direct opposition to the BJP in both these states where there is no third party, and the two face each other directly in elections.

The standoff in Parliament between the government and the opposition took a new turn Monday when Speaker Sumitra Mahajan named and suspended 25 Congress members from Lok Sabha for five days for “persistently, wilfully obstructing” proceedings in the House.

Most of them, however, are opposed to it. Some of the Congress leaders have taken the stand that they have no objection to it provided such a policy is implemented with retrospective effect when the BJP members were the ones who had prevented functioning of the two Houses.

But this could dilute the two-week-long campaign of the Congress, Left and others on the issue of the resignations of Union minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje in the “Lalitgate” and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan...

Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sharma said Parliament is not functioning because of his “arrogance and obduracy” as he has refused to end his “maun vrat” (vow of silence) on the issue.

Government wants to be the King and they expect the Opposition parties to behave like the subjects.

Terrorism had no religion and colour and BJP never uses the term “Muslim terror” but “jihadi terror“, Prasad said, asking Congress President Sonia Gandhi to clarify on the her son’s comments. As the protests intensified, he hit back, “In this...

On Saturday, the Leader of the Opposition in the Upper House of Parliament, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, was tight-lipped on whether the Congress would take part in the meeting.

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for the…