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NEW DELHI: A day after BJP’s oldest ally Shiromani Akali Dal pulled out of the Modi government to protest against the legislations meant to restructure agricultural trade, and amid continuing opposition from Congress and some other parties, PM Narendra Modi went on the offensive on Friday and called the ...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday stoutly defended farm sector reform bills, asserting that they will act as a “protection shield” for farmers and accused those opposing the measures of standing with middlemen and “deceiving” and “lying” to peasants. With opposition parties dubbing three bills, passed by Lok ...

Opposition leaders on Thursday met President Ram Nath Kovind to raise concerns about the Delhi Police’s investigation into the violence that engulfed parts of the city in February.“The leaders impressed upon the President of India that instead of conducting an investigation into the communal violence in which 53 lives ...

The government and the Opposition sparred in Parliament on Monday over the cancellation of Question Hour, The Hindu reported. Monday is the first day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, and daily proceedings will be held for only four hours in each house, due to the coronavirus pandemic.Union Parliamentary ...

The monsoon session of the Parliament kicked off on Monday with Lok Sabha assembling first.  The lower House paid tributes to former President Pranab Mukherjee, Congress MP H. Vasantha Kumar, Pandit Jasraj and 13 former parliamentarians, who passed away recently. India-China border issue, the pandemic and the naming of ...

MUMBAI: In a warning directed at the opposition, but without naming the BJP, Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said one day he would remove the ‘mask’ he wears as chief minister and speak on the politics being played and the conspiracy hatched to defame Maharashtra. Thackeray was addressing the public ...

Lahore There is constant political turmoil in Pakistan and Imran Khan's chair seems to be in danger. The opposition is constantly trying to put pressure on Imran Khan. Meanwhile a big news has come out. Leader of the Opposition in Pakistan, Shahbaz Sharif, filed a defamation suit against Prime ...

The Leader of Opposition (LoP) also alleged that Mr. Thakur used besharam, behaya (shameless) words for the opposition while replying to the adjournment motion. Leader of Opposition in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly Mukesh Agnihotri on Thursday urged the Speaker to remove a remark made by the Chief Minister while ...

Why Past Experience With Investigative JPCs Don’t Inspire Much ConfidenceAny questions regarding the functioning of the committee will be determined by a majority of the members present and voting as per Rule 261 of the Lok Sabha Rules. Therefore, it will be entirely in the hands of the ruling ...

Sometime this week, Pakistan will call a joint session of the two Houses of Parliament to pass two Bills, which are crucial for the country to avoid being shifted to the black list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Pakistan got a reprieve in June when Covid-19 forced ...