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Newly-elected Rajasthan Assembly Speaker Vasudev Devnani. File | Photo Credit: ANI Five-time BJP MLA Vasudev Devnani was on Thursday unanimously elected as the Speaker of the 16th Rajasthan Assembly. Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma moved the motion for Mr. Devnani’s appointment, which was seconded by Congress leader and Tonk ...

Veteran BJD leader and seven-time MLA Surjya Narayan Patro passed away at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar Saturday evening. He was 75. Patro, who had been ailing for the past few months, was admitted to the private hospital today evening after his health condition deteriorated. A former minister and ...

An Ardent Critic of Hindutva, A Balanced Voice in CongressUT Khader, 53, is the son of veteran Congress leader and former Karnataka Minister UT Fareed. Khader was Karnataka's health minister between 2013 and 2018, when Siddaramaiah was the chief minister of the state. A five-time MLA, UT Khader is ...

The Shehbaz Sharif government has convened a joint sitting of the two houses on April 10 to consider the bill that aims at curtailing the powers of the chief justice of Pakistan after President Arif Alvi returned it to the parliament for reconsideration, reported Geo News. National ...

With meetings called by presiding officers of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha failing to end the stalemate between the government and Opposition, there is uncertainty over whether the Budget Session will continue till its scheduled date of April 6. Sources said the BJP leadership held a high-level meeting ...

'Will the MP be told to shut up?': Rahul Gandhi says if democracy was… New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during a press conference at AICC headquarters in New Delhi, Thursday, March 16, 2023. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary)(PTI03_16_2023_000133A)(PTI) Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Parliament was adjourned within one minute of ...

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi attacked prime minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Parliament Wednesday on multiple issues, including the controversy surrounding industrialist Gautam Adani. During his fiery speech Gandhi claimed close links between the prime minister and Adani, and showed a photograph of the two ...

KARACHI, PakistanThe speaker of Pakistan's lower house accepted the resignations of another 43 lawmakers from the key opposition party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday, officials and local media reported.The move came just days after Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf accepted the resignations of 69 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ...

#Pakistan News The conference on "The Future of Human Rights in the 21st Century", organized by the Ombudsman Institution in a hotel in Ankara, started. The opening speech of the conference, which was held with the participation of more than 50 ombudsmen and representatives of human rights institutions from ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf has rejected the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) demand for the acceptance of en masse resignations of the members of the National Assembly (MNAs), reiterating his stance that each member needs to come individually with a hand-written resignation for verification according to the ...