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Delhi Confidential: Tight Schedule

August 14, 2019 02:07 IST

Before a regular president is elected, at least 50 per cent of the state units should have completed their respective state elections. This is a tight window, given that the party’s membership drive, which started on July 6, has been extended till August 20.

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Delhi Confidential: Revisiting Childhood

August 13, 2019 01:18 IST

Paswan’s cousin had got the mobile number of the elderly teacher, who now lives in Bihar’s Patna Sahib.

Delhi Confidential: Voice Within

August 12, 2019 01:19 IST

Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar asked the party leaders to replace Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury as the Congress leader in Lok Sabha with Shashi Tharoor.

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Delhi confidential: Courtroom Rush

August 10, 2019 01:01 IST

The open court, which is supposed to allow the public to witness its proceedings, is often overcrowded and difficult to manage.

Delhi Confidential: Sudden Change

August 8, 2019 02:09 IST

After Mayawati picked Girish Chandra, party MP from Nagina, to speak on the historic debate on Article 370 in Lok Sabha, the BSP chief has now appointed Jaunpur MP Shyam Singh Yadav as leader of the party in Lok Sabha.

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Delhi Confidential: Missing Member

August 7, 2019 03:39 IST

The absence of Farooq Abdullah, the Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, from the House was disconcerting for some Opposition MPs. DMK’s Dayanidhi Maran was seen going through rulebooks and consulting RSP’s N K Premachandran before raising a point of order.

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Delhi Confidential: No News On Move

August 6, 2019 01:53 IST

SAD leader Naresh Gujral said his party was not consulted before and learnt about it only in the Cabinet meeting.

Delhi Confidential: Shifting home

August 5, 2019 01:41 IST

Though the RSS took the decision to withdraw him from the BJP mid-July, Ramlal stayed put at the 9, Ashoka Road premises provided by the party for over a fortnight.

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Delhi confidential

August 3, 2019 10:17 IST

Naidu referred to the need for inner peace and tranquil minds to face various challenges that flow from mechanical lifestyle and work pressures that are making lives stressful.

Delhi Confidential: A Different Concern

August 2, 2019 02:17 IST

Lok Sabha members frequently flag issues concerning their constituents, but rarely find an opportunity to articulate their own problems.

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Delhi Confidential: Omitting The PM

August 1, 2019 01:55 IST

As Gogoi started, Speaker Om Birla suggested that he could also compliment the Prime Minister and the Forest Minister.

Delhi Confidential: Matter Of Seats

July 31, 2019 03:01 IST

By late evening, as the BJP managed to get the triple talaq Bill passed in Rajya Sabha despite the skewed arithmetic, Javadekar’s remark seemed prophetic.

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Delhi Confidential: Explain No More!

July 30, 2019 02:54 IST

Even party loyalty, it seems, has its limits of endurance. This was evident in Lok Sabha after the nearly six-hour-long discussion on the National Medical Commission Bill.

Delhi Confidential: Language Choices

July 29, 2019 01:44 IST

HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank is not the only Union minister who insists that his staff draft proposals in Hindi.

Delhi Confidential: Wrong Timing

July 26, 2019 02:04 IST

Modi, who had told BJP MPs last week that he is keeping a check on ministers absent from Parliament during their roster, is present for Question Hour on Thursdays, when the PMO is asked questions.

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Delhi Confidential: Hunt For A Successor

July 25, 2019 01:32 IST

Some senior party leaders suggested that the CWC could start the election process to pick Rahul’s successor given that there is no consensus among the senior leadership on any name.

Delhi Confidential: Sip Of Life

July 24, 2019 03:37 IST

Giving a presentation on water conservation for MPs on Tuesday, Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat cited several success stories from India and around the world for inspiration.

Delhi confidential: Holy Birthday

July 23, 2019 05:16 IST

Whoever dropped by at his office in Shastri Bhawan on July 15 left with a small metal jar containing Ganga jal and a string of rudraksha beads.

Delhi Confidential: Long Shifts

July 22, 2019 04:13 IST

Besides being keen to ensure that new Lok Sabha members get to speak in the House in the first session, Speaker Om Birla is also conscious about not letting senior members lose their opportunity.

Delhi confidential: Lift Out Bad Luck

July 20, 2019 04:32 IST

With the BJP frequently inducting legislators and political leaders from different parties, MPs from other parties seem to be taking extra care not to be seen with BJP leaders.

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Delhi Confidential: Across Party Lines

July 19, 2019 01:16 IST

Muraleedharan had requested senior Congress MP and former defence minister A K Antony to convene a meeting of all Kerala MPs.

Delhi Confidential: Now, Or Later

July 18, 2019 01:59 IST

Former CWC member Anil Shastri, son of late ex-Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, tweeted that if the Congress has to survive it has to have a president at the earliest, and that there is no better person to lead the party than Priyanka.

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Delhi confidential: Quick decision

July 17, 2019 00:56 IST

Since deciding on Sharad Yadav’s resignation, Naidu has been insisting that Presiding Officers should decide on such matters in the quickest possible time, and decide within three months whether it’s a case of defection.

Delhi Confidential: Putting Congres In A Spot

July 16, 2019 04:40 IST

During passage of the Bill by voice vote, Owaisi demanded a division, a move supported by Home Minister Amit Shah, who said this would expose who are supporting terrorism.

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July 15, 2019 09:10 IST

A police officer added that while the two men were being questioned, the officers received a call that the body of a man was found a few kilometres away in his car. On questioning, the men confessed to stabbing him in the thigh and murdering him.