Union IT minister has got a place in the list of top most influential people in digital government published by Apolitical, an NGO based out of United Kingdom.
The decision of both Houses of Parliament to adjourn for the day following the death of M Karunanidhi is unprecedented for a former chief minister who was never a Member of Parliament.
This time the agenda is that of the online streaming service which, as part of its expansion plans in India, wants to collaborate with the ministry to come up with more gender-sensitive and child friendly content.
Derek O’Brien does not like being referred to as a quizmaster any more. He even told this to the presiding officer in the Upper House last week.
Independent MP Ritabrata Banerjee’s tumultuous exit from his erstwhile party CPM caused much mirth in the Rajya Sabha when Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu referred to it on Thursday.
A furious Meenakshi Lekhi pushed away the microphone and asked why was she taken as Manoj Tiwari's “spokesperson”.
Venkaiah Naidu said he had to for the first time suspend Question Hour on the demand of all sections of the House to discuss the issue, but the purpose was defeated as the discussion was not allowed to conclude and the government prevented from responding.
MC MP Saugata Roy expressed his annoyance that the Bill termed girls below 16 and 12 years as “women” when it should have been “girls”.
RAJYA SABHA MP Amar Singh, who has been in oblivion for a while, was back in the spotlight on Sunday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking his name in his speech at the ground-breaking ceremony for infrastructure projects in Lucknow.
Rahul Gandhi has a packed schedule now a days meeting professionals and intellectuals of various shades.
Then Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh wondered why the Kerala MPs were praising Rijijju but criticising the PM who sent him. “Please congratulate the Prime Minister... he has met you, listened to you and sent his minister.”
Singhvi praised Swamy’s work, saying, “For all that he (Swamy) says, he does some good jurisprudential work also.”
During Question Hour in Lok Sabha on Monday, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge called the Speaker’s attention to an officer sitting in the officer’s gallery, taking note of Opposition movements and counting the members.
DIGVIJAYA SINGH and Janardan Dwivedi, the two high-profile Congress leaders who were not included in the Congress Working Committee revamped by Rahul Gandhi recently, did not attend the meeting of the extended CWC on Sunday.
Shatrughan Sinha was present at a conference on the issue of the anti-trafficking Bill introduced by minister Maneka Gandhi in the Lok Sabha this week.
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi will be headed to Uganda, Rwanda and South Africa on Monday.
Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy said that Javadekar had done a great job of resisting RSS pressure on his ministry although he was an RSS volunteer and a Marathi Brahmin to boot.
Considering that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami and his deputy, O Panneerselvam, had declined to meet them, Ramesh and his party colleagues settled for the DMK, even if it counted for nothing
Gadkari said that as Transport Minister he had knowledge of the technology to make eco-friendly vehicles, and even spoke fondly of the ethanol-fuelled bus that runs in his hometown, Nagpur.
Kailash Vijayvargiya had to attend some rituals at home related to his mother’s death earlier this month.
The Centre’s assurances that it will bring an ordinance to strengthen the Prevention of Atrocities Act has cut no ice with Dalit and Adivasi groups, who are now gearing up for a Bharat Bandh on August 9 — on a scale bigger than the one held in April.
On Thursday Nitish Kumar was supposed to come to the national capital to attend the Niti Aayog meeting but could not as he had to be in Patna on the day BJP chief Amit Shah was visiting. The meeting with his ally was important for his party’s political future.
Stating that she has received requests from women that the provision deters husbands and fathers-in-law from transferring assets to women, Maneka has asked Goyal to change the law.
The minister, meanwhile, celebrated his birthday far away from Delhi’s power centre — in Shillong, where he was chairing a two-day plenary of the North-Eastern Council.
Akhilesh Yadav said the SP government had provided 30-acre land for the project and an MoU was signed in October 2016 — in his presence — between then UP Chief Secretary and the CEO of Samsung India.






