Twenty-four members of the Lok Sabha tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on the first day of Parliament’s monsoon session, secretariat officials told the Hindustan Times on Monday. Junior Railway Minister Suresh Angadi, BJP’s Meenakshi Lekhi, Anant Kumar Hegde, Parvesh Sahib Singh, Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Kaushal Kishore were …
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that members of Parliament have chosen to fulfill their responsibility by showing up for the monsoon session. He also expressed his hope that discussions on important issues will be resumed in the session and that all parliamentarians send a message “with one voice” …
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Congressman Jairam Ramesh (File photo) NEW DELHI: in the context of farmers protests in Haryana and Punjab, Congress said Sunday that, along with like-minded opposition parties, it will oppose three ordinances on agriculture and one related to banking regulation in the parliament session during the monsoon, as well as raising …
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The mandatory use of masks, entry only for those who test negative, and conducting the country’s parliamentary procedures in two shifts will be some of the focal points of this year’s Monsoon session that begins Monday. This is the first time a parliamentary session has been held amid an outbreak …
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PATNA: former Union minister and veteran socialist leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (74), who played a pioneering role in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Plan (NREGS) during the UPA government, breathed his last at AIIMS-Delhi on Sunday. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh Ji is no longer with us. I pay …
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BJP President JP Nadda (File photo) KOLKATA: President of BJP JP Nadda on Thursday he called the Trinamool congressional government “anti-Hindu”, marking for the first time in Bengal politics the issue of discrimination on the grounds of religion. Nadda reinforced his argument by pointing to Trinamool’s “minority appeasement policy”, portraying …
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CALCUTTA: Newly appointed West Bengal Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Thursday that his party is ready to forge an electoral alliance with the CPI-led Left Front in the state to fight a “spirited battle. “against the TMC and the BJP in the 2021 Assembly elections. Chowdhury, who is …
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Former Union Minister and Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari, in an interview with the Hindustan Times, talks about the letter that created ripples in Congress and the party’s future course of action. Edited excerpts: Why did you sign the letter? Congress today faces profound electoral, ideological, and organizational challenges. The …
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NEW DELHI: The Electoral Commission on friday he decided that he club polls in the Valmiki Nagar parliamentary constituency in Bihar and 64 assembly seats in 14 states and the Bihar assembly elections are expected to be held in October-November. The commission said a key reason for pounding Bihar’s ballot …
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NEW DELHI: Amid criticism from various opposition leaders for removing question time from the next session of Parliament, the government said on Wednesday that it is not running away from any debate and that all opposition parties were informed in advance about the measure and that most of them agreed …
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