Jasper Briggs 
After another day of disruptions and suspensions that saw the count of the members suspended for the remainder of the ongoing Winter Session to 141, both Houses will reconvene for business on Wednesday. As the session resumes at Lok Sabha, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is to move a bill to amend and consolidate the law … Read more
Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav. (File Image: PTI) The SP leader’s remarks come ahead of the December 19 meeting of the opposition bloc in Delhi where seat sharing and other issues will be discussed Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav on Sunday expressed confidence that the INDIA bloc will defeat the BJP in the 2024 … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hit out at the Opposition for giving “muted and indirect” support to the security breach incident in Parliament. However, he asked BJP MPs to maintain decency and decorum while responding to Opposition’s charges. Taking a dig at the Opposition, Modi suggested that with their current approach over the security … Read more
The health minister has advised caution, especially for those with underlying health conditions. (Representative Image: Shutterstock) On Sunday, Kerala Health Minister Veena George had said that the COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1, found in the state, is not a cause for concern Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, V D Satheesan, accused the state government … Read more
Suspended Opposition MPs protest during the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament on 19 December. PTI As many as 49 MPs were suspended from the Lok Sabha for disrupting House proceedings on Tuesday (19 December). This comes a day after the suspension of 33 members from the lower house and 46 MPs from the Rajya Sabha, … Read more
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and the Treasury Benches took strong exception to TMC Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee mimicking the Rajya Sabha Chairman and Rahul Gandhi capturing it on his mobile camera in the Parliament House complex on Tuesday. The tussle between the government and the Opposition over the security breach issue continued but there … Read more
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. PTI. West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday proposed Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s name as the prime ministerial candidate of opposition bloc INDIA, MDMK leader Vaiko said after the meeting of the grouping. However, Kharge said it is important to win … Read more
On opposition MPs suspended from the Parliament for the remainder of the winter session, Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan, says “It is a mockery of democracy. If there is no opposition, then what is democracy? Democracy is when the Parliament has both sides, Yes and No. What is your way of deciding that certain people … Read more
On allegations that Lalit Jha, the alleged mastermind of the security breach, was associated with the TMC’s youth wing, Banerjee in Kolkata said he has no connection with West Bengal. (File: PTI) Banerjee is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Modi at 11 am on December 20 along with some TMC MPs over the issue of … Read more
The INDIA alliance held its first meeting in Patna on June 23, the second meeting in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18, and the third in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1. File Photo. Barely a day after a record number of Opposition MPs were suspended from both Houses of Parliament, the INDIA alliance … Read more
