Insiders said Rahul hosted a lunch for Singhvi and his team who had appeared for him in the defamation case.
Amid the Opposition's slogan shouting, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday came up with a counter protest — the Gandhian formula.
Some MPs were heard saying that their throats had started aching with all the shouting and the adjournment came at the right time.
At a time when Opposition protests in Lok Sabha appeared to be running out of steam on Wednesday, Trinamool Congress's Kalyan Banerjee stepped in.
Despite repeated calls by the Chair to wind up his speech and sit down, S P Singh Baghel continued. Eventually, Dhankhar had no choice but to ask the next speaker to ask his question.
Known as the “village of martyrs”, Saidpur is home to more than 3,000 soldiers, with almost every household there sending a member to serve the Indian armed forces.
Last week, Jagdeep Dhankhar, who had earlier hosted dinner and high tea for MPs in groups during the intercession period, announced that even the retired members from the Upper House will get lodging facilities during their visits to Delhi.
YSR Congress Party MP Raghu Rama Krishna Raju, who had rebelled against the party leadership, has not visited his constituency since February 2020. Raju, who has cosied up to the BJP, has to inform the state police every time he lands in Andhra Pradesh.
While most opposition parties take strong positions on issues related to minorities, the election to nominate six Lok Sabha MPs to the court of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) surprisingly saw none of them, barring BSP, filing nominations.
A series of three to four pictures showing a crow flying over Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha, and pecking on top of his head as he came out of the House after attending Rajya Sabha proceedings on Tuesday, became viral.
When Kharge rose to speak, thanking the Chair, Dhankhar said the Congress leader has always had a “special place in my heart”, to which Kharge quickly replied that he knew Dhankhar's heart is very large but it is occupied entirely by the ruling party.
The efforts of her NGO, 'I Love Mumbai' — along with that of heritage conservation architect Abha Lamba and Bajaj Trust — to restore Byculla railway station in Mumbai has won a UNESCO award.
According to sources in Tripura BJP, this is an outcome of his ongoing feud with Chief Minister Manik Saha.
While disruptions quickly took over the Rajya Sabha on Friday, leading to adjournment of the House, the proceedings began on a convivial note.
Union minister G Kishan Reddy, who was recently appointed the BJP chief in Telangana, on Thursday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on the state government's attempt to arrest him while he was discharging his duties.
In the NDA meeting on Tuesday, the BJP leadership took special care to give importance to the alliance partners.
Sarma then became the first BJP leader to change his Twitter bio to reflect this line of attack: from “Chief Minister of Assam, India” to “Chief Minister of Assam, BHARAT”.
The parties wanted to issue a joint statement in Patna as well but could not do it after AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal took a position that the Congress should announce its stand on the Centre's Ordinance on services in Delhi at the press conference after the meeting.
When Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal blamed Haryana for the unprecedented floods in the national capital, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma was among the BJP leaders who reacted.
Khattar, speaking to the media with Puri standing by him, said the water level of the river had gone above the threshold of the barrage and could not have been stopped.
A brainstorming session the Congress high command had with leaders from Uttarakhand saw Rahul Gandhi asking them to take out a yatra across the state, highlighting some key issues, like the Agnipath scheme.
DMK Rajya Sabha member P Wilson has a unique way of deciding the issues to raise in Parliament. He makes public posts on various social media platforms before every session and asks people what they want raised during that session.
Brittas, who has been a member of the Parliamentary committee IT, was part of several rounds of discussions in the committee when it discussed the impact of Internet in various parts of the country.
While the TMC renominated Derek O’Brien, Dola Sen and Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, it gave tickets to three new faces.
The LJP (Ram Vilas) office-bearers unanimously authorised Chirag to take any decision regarding the alliance.


