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Sitharaman said the bill proposes crucial reforms based on steps such as track-and-trace system. NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha on Tuesday returned to Lok Sabha the Manipur GST bill, which replaces an ordinance to implem-ent GST reforms in the state, with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserting that the bill will benefit people and businesses. She also…
NEW DELHI: An agreement has been reached between parliamentarians to run the House “smoothly” after the government gave in to the opposition’s demand to hold a discussion on the ongoing pan-India special intensive revision of electoral rolls.After two days of chaos and disruptions, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla held a Business Advisory Committee meeting with…
NEW DELHI: The first day of Parliament Winter Session 2025 witnessed a Mallikarjun Kharge vs JP Nadda showdown in the Rajya Sabha over the leader of opposition’s reference to “sudden exit” of former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.The sharpest moment came when leader of the House JP Nadda advised Kharge to “visit a doctor” to deal…
PATNA: The NDA’s landslide victory in the Bihar assembly polls will enable it to secure all Rajya Sabha seats from the state in the coming two biennial elections, causing a sharp decrease in the number of RJD members in the Upper House unless it wins more seats in the next assembly elections.The RJD currently holds…
NEW DELHI: It may be the first time in three decades that RJD doesn’t have a single member in Rajya Sabha when the next Bihar assembly elections come around in 2030.The party now has five members in the upper house, but it will gradually lose these seats even if a non-NDA party – like AIMIM…
Flashback: On June 4, 2024, as the results started trickling in, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in shock. The party had set the ambitious “400 paar” target for itself in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the party failed to get a majority on its own for the first time since 2014.The scale of the…
Fire at Brahmaputra Apartments, a Rajya Sabha members’ residential complex on Bishambhar Das Marg, New Delhi. NEW DELHI: A fire broke out at Brahmaputra Apartments, a residential complex in New Delhi, around early afternoon. The building, which houses members of the Rajya Sabha, is located on Bishambhar Das Marg in the capital. The fire department…
Chief minister Omar Abdullah SRINAGAR: Congress withdrew Monday from next week’s Rajya Sabha elections to four seats from J&K, accusing its partner National Conference (NC) of denying it a “safe seat” even as the governing party nominated its fourth candidate, pushing the INDIA bloc partners to the brink of a split.The strains deepened amid a…
Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Tariq Hamid Karra SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Tariq Hamid Karra on Sunday said his party would not contest the October 24 Rajya Sabha elections to four seats in the Union territory, accusing alliance partner National Conference (NC) of refusing it a “safe seat”.Addressing reporters after a party meeting…
J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah SRINAGAR: National Conference (NC) on Friday announced its candidates for three of the four Rajya Sabha seats in J&K, elections to which are scheduled to take place on October 24.The party has named former MLAs Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan and Sajad Kichloo, and Shammi Oberoi, the party’s treasurer and a close…
