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- Panel asks government to speed up poverty survey
New Delhi, May 18: A parliamentary panel has expressed concern that the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC), which was to end in 2011, is yet to start in major states, and has asked the gove....
- Privilege notice served against Ajit Singh
New Delhi, May 15: Opposition parties today served a privilege notice against Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh for "making policy statement outside when parliament is in session". The....
- Spend more on higher education: Parliamentary panel to government
New Delhi, May 9: A parliamentary panel today asked the government to increase its spending on higher education to 25 percent of all spending on education in the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17).<....
- Special session to mark 60 years of Indian Parliament
New Delhi, May 5: Parliament will hold a special session on May 13 to celebrate its 60th anniversary.
The first session of Parliament was held on May 13, 1952. President Pratibha Pati....
- Parliament panel slams media report on troop movement
New Delhi, April 30: Dismissing a media report that the Indian Army moved troops unauthorisedly towards the national capital on Jan 16/17 night, a parliamentary panel today expressed "regre....
- Parliament passes IIT bill
New Delhi, April 30: Parliament today passed a bill which will make the six new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) capable of granting degrees to the engineers that pass out.
The ....
- 60 years of India's Parliament to be observed on May 13
New Delhi, April 25: The Indian Parliament will celebrate its 60th anniversary on May 13, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said today.
"There will be special sess....
- Outrage in Rajya Sabha over fairness cream for private parts
New Delhi, April 24: An advertisement for a fairness cream for women's private parts sparked outrage in the Rajya Sabha today with a CPI-M member raising the issue and the presiding officer....
- CD row: Singhvi quits party, parliamentary posts
New Delhi, April 23: A day before parliament reconvenes for the budget session, Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi quit today as party spokesperson and as head of the parliamentary panel on law ....
- Meira Kumar envies New Zealand's no parliament interruption record
Wellington, April 16: The New Zealand parliament has a "fine record of sitting without interruption", said Meira Kumar who, in her almost three years of presiding over the Lok Sabha, of....
- 'Parliament should award death penalty for crimes against elderly'
New Delhi, April 12: A Delhi court today urged parliament to award capital punishment in cases where a senior citizen is the victim.
Additional Sessions Judge Narinder Kumar said: ....
- Coalition hiccups come to the fore in parliament
New Delhi, April 1: The compulsions of coalition politics were more than evident in the first half of parliament's budget session and analysts feel the going will be equally sombre in the c....
- Telangana, Sethusamudram rock parliament
New Delhi, March 29: The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till noon today following demands for a separate Telangana state as well as protests on the Sethusamudram project and the Cauve....
- Army chief's letter, Telangana rock parliament
New Delhi, March 28: Rocked by the letter written by army chief Gen V.K. Singh to the prime minister, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned twice till 12 noon today even as Defence Minister A.K. Antony....
- Parliament adopts motion of thanks to president's address
New Delhi, March 20: The motion of thanks to the president's address was adopted by parliament today after the opposition backed amendments on the issue of National Council Terrorism Centre....
- Amid pressure, PM says India inclined to vote against Sri Lanka
New Delhi, March 19: Amid increasing pressure from coalition ally DMK, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today assured parliament that India was "inclined" to vote in favour of a UN resolut....
- Government wins first NCTC battle, defeats opposition amendments
New Delhi, March 19: In a major relief for the government over the fiercely contested National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), three amendment motions moved by the opposition on the anti-terro....
- Budget 2012-13 misses big picture: Yashwant Sinha
New Delhi, March 16: The ninth budget of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) misses the big picture and fails to address challenges like inflation and high economic growth, forme....
- Economic Survey favours higher diesel prices
New Delhi, March 15: The Economic Survey for 2011-12 tabled by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in parliament today has recommended higher diesel prices, saying the subsidised fuel is misused ....
- Economic Survey pegs inflation at 6.5-7 percent
New Delhi, March 15: The Economic Survey for 2011-12 tabled by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in parliament today pegged inflation at 6.5-7 percent by end of March and projected a further mo....
- Firewalls needed between banks and insurance firms: Survey
Chennai, March 15: The Economic Survey tabled in parliament today voiced concern about the growing linkages between the banking and insurance sectors and said firewalls should be built between ....
- Trivedi's fate rocks parliament, forces adjournment
New Delhi, March 15: The fate of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, whose resignation has been demanded by his own Trinamool Congress for hiking rail fares, rocked both houses of parliament today....
- 112 government websites hacked in three months: Pilot
New Delhi, March 14: A total of 112 government websites, including that of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), were hacked in just three months, parliament was informed today.
"Durin....
- Gogoi presents Rs.293.44 crore deficit Assam budget
Guwahati, March 12: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today presented a tax-free, Rs.293.44 crore deficit budget for the 2012-13 fiscal beginning on April 1.
The budget envisages growt....
- Highest priority to safety of nuclear plants: Patil
New Delhi, March 12: President Pratibha Patil today said the country will more than double nuclear power production by 2017 and added that the government accorded the highest priority to safety....
- Government's major thrust on livelihood security, health: President
New Delhi, March 12: The government will work for providing livelihood security to the vast majority of the population and will continue to work for the removal of poverty, hunger and illiterac....
- Government working to get information on black money: President
New Delhi, March 12: The government had taken steps to open channels for wider information on black money from foreign countries, President Pratibha Patil said today and stressed that automated....
- Kejriwal's 'rapist-MPs' remark draws Congress, BJP ire
New Delhi,Feb 26: The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today slammed Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal for his "outrageous" remarks that "rapists, murderers and looters&....
- Budget session likely from March second week
New Delhi,Jan 23:The budget session of parliament is likely to begin from the second week of March, informed sources said today.
The union budget for 2012-13 could be presented in the....
- Winter session embarrassed UPA government
New Delhi,Dec 30:Though not a washout as compared to last year, the winter session of parliament (Nov 22-Dec 29) proved to be an embarrassment for the United Progressive Alliance government in ....
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