Javadekar had travelled to Spain over the weekend to attend the ongoing climate change conference in Madrid.
In the previous session of Parliament, too, Shah had almost single-handedly pushed the law scrapping special status given to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 as the Prime Minister had left it to him to lead the charge.
At the meeting which decided to do away with the subsidy for Parliament canteen, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury pointed out that the move may suit lawmakers but not the hundreds of employees and media personnel who come to Parliament in the morning and stay till late during the session.
The award to late Lini Sajeesh from Kozhikode in Kerala, who died treating a Nipah patient, was conferred posthumously and received by her husband Sajeesh.
Sangma, who got married in the third week of November, came to Parliament on Wednesday with husband Patrick Rongma.
Sharad Pawar returned to Parliament on Monday with fellow MPs both inside the House and in the Central Hall congratulating him for the “victory”.
The Sri Lankan President, who had served as Defence Secretary during his brother and Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s presidency between 2005 and 2015, said that they reminisced their days together.
A former Shiv Sainik, Nirupam was very vocal against the Congress’s tie-up with the Sena.
Shekhawat hosted the 40 students and those accompanying them at his residence in the morning and took them to visit Parliament House.
“This (Monday’s incident) could have been easily avoided had there been women security staff. That’s the established practice among policing everywhere — women deal with women,” one MP said.
While the court noted that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and the BJP were not represented, the arguments advancing the party’s position were made by the unnamed MLAs.
The BJP-Shiv Sena bonhomie was on display for the second day in Lok Sabha
A day ahead of the winter session of Parliament, Birla decided to meet veteran Parliamentarians who have not been keeping well.
She had not campaigned in Haryana or Maharashtra, but her name had been included in the list of star campaigners for both the states.
Mary Kom enthralled the audience at an event on Wednesday to honour organ donors’ families when she sang ‘Ajeeb dastan hai yeh’.
The Rajya Sabha session coincides with the 70th anniversary of adoption of the Constitution by the Constituent Assembly and celebration of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Appreciating the work done by start-ups in the last few years, Singh said he was a student of physics and had done some research as well.
Modi, according to party sources, is particular that the party’s official meetings and discussions should be held in the BJP headquarters only.
Friday being the former deputy prime minister’s birthday, there was a steady stream of visitors and phone calls for him through the day.
Recently, Banerjee, who is known for her personal charm, arranged security personnel for former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee.
The CWC meeting to decide the line on the government’s Kashmir gambit was held after Parliament had given its nod to scrapping of J&K’s special status.
Bhagwat took it upon himself to address the misconception about the Sangh Parivar when he addressed a three-day televised conference in Vigyan Bhawan in the national capital last year.
The last two CWC meetings of the Congress, including the one in August which appointed Gandhi as Congress president again, saw deliberations getting leaked real time.
The new Union Territory of Ladakh gave a personal touch to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to the national capital. Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented a handloom woollen khadi stole from Ladakh to Merkel, the first visiting foreign dignitary after the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories.
On Thursday, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal launched the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat festival organised by the Kendriya Vidyalayas.






