NEW DELHI: For whom the bell tolled this year? The year 2024 came with Lok Sabha elections and eight state assembly polls, setting the stage for a political face-off. Contrary to the predictions, BJP faced stiff competition as Lok Sabha elections threw up a major surprise as the saffron party had to contend with a … Read more
World is about to see off the biggest election year in history. Almost half of humanity was involved in election exercises across continents, ranging from large democracies like India, USA and Indonesia to island nations like Tuvalu with 11,000 population. Citizen voters, in over 70 countries, millions of them first timers, attempted to address their … Read more
Overseas Indians showed great enthusiasm in registering as electors, with nearly 1.2 lakh enrolling in the voter list, but a minuscule turned up to exercise their franchise in the Lok Sabha elections this year. According to the data released by the Election Commission, as many as 1,19,374 registered as overseas electors in 2024, with Kerala … Read more
The first meeting of the 39-member parliamentary panel on ‘one nation, one election’ is set to be held on January 8, setting the tone for nationwide deliberations on the key poll reform measure of the BJP-led NDA government. Parliamentary sources said the first meeting of the Joint Committee on bills for simultaneous elections to the … Read more
Last Updated:December 23, 2024, 11:11 IST Lok Sabha functioned for just 52 per cent of its scheduled time, while Rajya Sabha fared even worse at 39 per cent. The first week of the session saw both Houses operating for less than 10 per cent of their planned time Dr Angomcha Bimol Akoijam, an MP from … Read more
New Delhi: Under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban (PMAY-U) a total of 1.18 crore houses have been sanctioned by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), out of which 1.14 crore have been grounded and 88.32 lakh are completed/delivered to the beneficiaries including homeless across the country, the Parliament was informed on Thursday. … Read more
Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla New Delhi: The role of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will be crucial in the investigation of the complaints lodged by the BJP and Congress leaders over the jostling among its MPs in Parliament premises which sent two leader seeking hospital care. Permission from the Lok Sabha Speaker, being the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha’s Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused BJP of engineering scuffle in Parliament complex to divert attention and avoid discussion on the US indictment of billionaire Gautam Adani in an alleged bribery case. Keeping a copy of the Constitution in front of him while addressing a press conference, Gandhi said, … Read more
Last Updated:December 19, 2024, 23:06 IST Unprecedented scenes were witnessed as protests and counterprotests by BJP and Opposition leaders inside Parliament over Ambedkar row led to injuries to two BJP MPs. The Congress and other opposition parties have seized on a part of Shah’s reference to Ambedkar in his Rajya Sabha speech on Tuesday to … Read more
The government on Tuesday introduced in the Lok Sabha the contentious Constitution (One Hundred and TwentyNinth Amendment) Bill, 2024, and Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, which propose to usher in the one nation, one election format, and then referred them to a joint parliamentary committee (JPC), which is being constituted, for further scrutiny and … Read more
