Having shifted into the new Parliament building during the Monsoon Session, MPs are still discovering minor issues with the arrangements.
The list of business for the first day of the Winter Session on Monday had the tabling of the Ethics Committee report on the ‘cash for query’ charges against TMC MP Mahua Moitra.
While votes were being counted in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana on Sunday, the Election Commission’s website content, including copies of laws, notices to parties and statistics of previous elections remained unavailable for visitors all day.
As the Winter Session of Parliament approaches, the Opposition and the Treasury Benches seem to be moving in different directions yet again.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had some fun moments on Thursday during a virtual interaction with the beneficiaries of various Central government schemes under the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra programme.
” Venugopal said he had been to Nepal to advise the President twice before the new Constitution came into force. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said: “India and Nepal have a spiritual connection also. Guru Gorakhnath has spiritually impacted Nepal a lot”.
President Droupadi Murmu has received her voter ID card at Rashtrapati Bhavan from the Election Commission.
On Wednesday, a special felicitation volume to mark Kharge's 50 years in electoral politics will be released by Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stressed on the need to develop new regulations to control deepfakes, while MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar said existing regulations were adequate if enforced strictly.
The BJP's high-pitched campaign for the Assembly polls in five states saw the emergence of a new face among the regular crowd-pullers such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
BJP national media head and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni had a surprise in store for the guests celebrating Igas — as Diwali is called in Uttarakhand — at his official residence in Delhi.
On the 85th birth anniversary of Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav Wednesday, party chief Akhilesh Yadav reached out to political leaders and his father’s childhood friends.
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Justice Gita Mittal, who heads the Supreme Court-appointed panel to look into the rehabilitation work in violence-hit Manipur, has been doing more than what her job demands.
From the IFFI stage in Goa, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur announced 'Special Recognition for Contribution to Bharatiya Cinema' Award for Madhuri Dixit.
The Meerut MP had introduced a Private Member’s Bill — The Population (Control) Bill, 2021— in the Lok Sabha. Both of them convinced the activist to end the fast, assuring that his struggle will not go in vain.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has planned to build a memorial of Maharaja Suheldev in Uttar Pradesh.
The thrust of the BJP election campaign in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana has been to counter the guarantee schemes promised by the Congress party.
Besides a roadmap for science projects for the next five years, on the agenda of Principal Scientific Advisor Prof Ajay Sood’s meeting with science secretaries is chalking out a media strategy, including for social media.
With preparations underway for the Ram Mandir inauguration ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Sangh Parivar is discussing whether it can telecast the 'Pran Pratishtha' (consecration programme) of the temple on digital screens across the country.
On returning to Jammu on Diwali, the minister ensured that he was vocal for local. He and his neighbours in Jammu decorated their homes with 20,000 diyas made by local self-help groups.
Amid hectic travelling to poll-bound Telangana, where Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has been given charge of some Assembly constituencies by the BJP, the leader has taken out time to make the festival season special for the employees working for him.
Both Congress and BJP have pinned their hopes on women voters with their income support schemes. The SP, too, has promised a pension scheme for women and a response system to prevent crimes against them.
Also in Delhi Confidential: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Mitra has never shied away from reacting to any allegation raised against her in the cash-for-query controversy.
The two cousins, who are in rival parties and embraced two different ideologies, had a cordial and pleasant meeting, sources said.
The CJI who had engaged with Muralidhar as chief justice earlier smilingly told him that since he has retired and started practice, he will no longer be able to address him as “brother Muralidhar”.


