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Patna, April 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is likely to take oath as a member of the Rajya Sabha on April 10, according to sources from the Chief Minister's residence. He is likely to travel to Delhi on April 8 or 9 to complete the formalities in the Upper House of Parliament. Following his return to Patna, Kumar is expected to resign from the post of Chief Minister any time after April 13. Political developments are likely to gather pace after April 14, when the 'Kharm ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 2: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to move the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, after it was passed in the Upper House of Parliament. The Bill provides for fifty per cent of posts in the CAPFs to be filled by deputation in the rank of Inspector General, and a minimum of sixty-seven per cent of the posts to be filled by deputation in the rank of Additional Director General, and all posts in the ranks of Spec ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): The Lok Sabha is scheduled to take up the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, on Thursday, after it was passed in the Upper House of Parliament. The Bill provides for fifty per cent of posts in the CAPFs to be filled by deputation in the rank of Inspector General, and a minimum of sixty-seven per cent of the posts to be filled by deputation in the rank of Additional Director General, and all posts in the ranks of Special Director Ge ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to move the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, after it was passed in the Upper House of Parliament. The Bill provides for fifty per cent of posts in the CAPFs to be filled by deputation in the rank of Inspector General, and a minimum of sixty-seven per cent of the posts to be filled by deputation in the rank of Additional Director General, and all posts in th ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to move the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, after it was passed in the Upper House of Parliament. The Bill provides for fifty per cent of posts in the CAPFs to be filled by deputation in the rank of Inspector General, and a minimum of sixty-seven per cent of the posts to be filled by deputation in the rank of Additional Director General, and all posts in th ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): Congress MP Manickam Tagore questioned the timing of the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill in the Lok Sabha, as Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to move the Bill on Thursday after it was passed in the Upper House. In an X post, Manickam Tagore alleged that the Centre has planned to introduce the CAPF Bill, 2026, on the day when Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to visit Assam for his pre-planned election rally. He ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, by a voice vote after the Opposition staged a walkout. The bill was introduced in the Upper House on March 25 by MoS (home) Nityanand Rai. The bill deals with cadre management in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF). It provides that 50% of the total posts at the inspector general rank, a minimum of 76% of posts at the additional director general rank and all posts of special di ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): The Parliament on Wednesday passed four key legislations -- the Jan Vishwas Bill, key amendments to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) Bill, the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, and the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026 -- as the Opposition parties staged a walkout from both Houses, alleging lack of discussion, disregard for parliamentary procedures, and injustice to armed forces personnel. The Rajya Sabh ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) An amendment bill which provides graded punishment for bodily harm to transgender persons has received the assent of President Draupadi Murmu. Opposition MPs had slammed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, for excluding gays and lesbians from its ambit. An authority has been established to determine whether a person is transgender, a provision that also faced backlash from the opposition. According to a law ministry notification dated March ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey issued an unconditional apology on Wednesday amid widespread backlash over his recent comments claiming that freedom fighter and former chief minister Biju Patnaik served as a "link" between the US government, the CIA, and former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru during the 1962 Sino-Indian War. "Last week, while speaking to the media, an incorrect interpretation was drawn from my remarks regarding the Nehru-Gandhi family's exploits, specifically in reference t ...Read More >
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar will resign as the member of the Bihar Legislative Council on March 30 (Monday), the last day by which he can quit membership of one House to continue in another. JD(U) working president Sanjay Kumar Jha said that as per laid down Constitutional procedure, one has to resign within 14 days from a House if a person is elected to another House. "He will follow that," he added, while talking to media persons in Patna. According to the Prohibition of Simultaneous M ...Read More >
New Delhi/PATNA: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Nabin resigned from the state's legislative council and legislative assembly, respectively, on Monday, weeks after both leaders were elected to the Upper House earlier this month. The twin resignations came on the final day of the two-week period allowed under law. According to the Prohibition of Simultaneous Membership Rules, 1950 (under Articles 101/190 of the Constitution), a member elected to both Parl ...Read More >
Speaking during Zero Hour, Laxman said OBC reservation was being misused in the name of religion. He added that states such as Telangana, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala contravened the reservation policy, which does not provide for quotas based on religion, and demanded a review. Laxman cited Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu high court judgments questioning the practice of extending the OBC quota to all Muslims. "There should be a comprehensive review of such religion-based reservations," Lax ...Read More >
Patna: Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) national president Nitish Kumar's resignation as an MLC (Member of Legislative Council) on Monday made it clear that Bihar was in for a tectonic shift in governance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the path to have its first chief minister in the state. The resignation was due as Article 101(2) of the Constitution of India mandates that no person can simultaneously remain a member of the Parliament and a House of the state legislature. Besid ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, March 30 (Reuters) - India has proposed an overhaul of its bankruptcy law, including allowing financial creditors to initiate insolvency proceedings and tightening deadlines, in a bid to speed up resolutions and promote ease of doing business. Resolutions of stressed assets in India have been delayed despite a mandated 330-day timeline under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, introduced in 2016, largely due to procedural and legal hurdles. Cases often pile up for admission at the Na ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], March 30 (ANI): Bihar Minister Deepak Prakash on Monday said Bihar's longest-serving Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar will continue to work for the state even as he transitions to the Rajya Sabha, asserting that his "guidance will remain available" for Bihar's development. "He will go to the Rajya Sabha. He will work for Bihar from the Rajya Sabha. His guidance will continue to be available in the future as well..." Prakash said. The remarks come ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], March 30 (ANI): Congress leader Jairam Ramesh hit back at the BJP, urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ask his MPs to do their "homework" following sharp criticism from Union Minister JP Nadda in the Rajya Sabha, who accused the Opposition of "appeasement politics" over their stance on reservation for Muslims based on backwardness. In a post on X, Ramesh said, "Today, in the Rajya Sabha, the Indian National Congress was accused of appeasement for supporting the issue of pr ...Read More >
BIHAR ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2026: Nitish Kumar stepped down from the Bihar legislative council today, just weeks after winning a Rajya Sabha seat this month. This comes only four months after he started his record-breaking tenth term as Chief Minister, following the NDA's landslide win in last year's state elections. Nitish Kumar Steps Down Who's going to take over as Bihar's Chief Minister now that Nitish is heading to the Upper House? Everyone's talking about the BJP, since they grabbed the mo ...Read More >
Under the 'Prohibition of Simultaneous Membership Rules, 1950' (framed under Articles 101 and 190 of the Constitution), a person elected to both Parliament and a state legislature must vacate their seat in the state legislature within 14 days of election to the Rajya Sabha. Nabin announced his resignation on social media, addressing his constituents from Bankipur in Bihar, as he reflected on his political journey. He was first elected in a bypoll necessitated by the demise of his father, a legi ...Read More >
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar resigned from his membership in the Legislative Council on Monday, fulfilling a mandatory constitutional requirement before he assumes office as a Rajya Sabha member. Constitutional Compliance Nitish Kumar, who won election to the Rajya Sabha on March 16, must vacate his current legislative seat within 14 days to secure his new position. MLC Sanjay Gandhi submitted the resignation letter on the Chief Minister's behalf to ensure compliance with this manda ...Read More >
Patna, March 30: Bihar's longest-serving Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, resigned from his membership in the State Legislative Council today, March 30. The move follows his election to the Rajya Sabha on March 16 and marks a pivotal transition in his decades-long political career. Under constitutional rules, an individual cannot hold seats in both a state legislature and Parliament simultaneously; Kumar's resignation today was the final step required to formalise his move to the Upper House of Par ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], March 30 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President Nitin Nabin on Monday confirmed that he will resign from his position of Bankipur MLA after being elected as a Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar. Nitin Nabin's statement comes amid rumours of him not tendering his resignation while the NDA in Bihar delves into the new Chief Minister face after JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar also got elected as a member of the Upper House of Parliament. Also Read | New Rules From 1 April 2 ...Read More >
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday resigned from the state legislative council after being elected to the Rajya Sabha earlier this month, sources in the Janata Dal (United) said. The JD(U) president had been elected to the Upper House of Parliament on March 16. Under constitutional provisions, he was required to vacate one of the two positions within 14 days of his election. Speaking earlier on the timeline, JD(U) national working president Sanjay Kumar Jha had said the res ...Read More >
Patna: In a major development, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday (March 30) officially resigned as a Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) after his selection to the Rajya Sabha. Kumar's resignation letter was submitted by Janata Dal United MLC Sanjay Gandhi to the secretariat. Kumar, the JD(U) president, was elected to the Upper House of Parliament on March 16, and according to party insiders, the 14-day period during which he had to quit as MLC ended on Monday. ...Read More >
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan, urging an early short-duration discussion on India's energy security amid the Israel-Iran war. He cited the issue's national importance and referred to recent rises in domestic LPG cylinder prices and higher commercial gas rates as immediate concerns. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan on Monday. Mallikarjun Kharge repeated a demand for an immediate sho ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday informed Rajya Sabha that there existed a total vacancy of 93,139 personnel in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), which is nearly 8.5 percent of their overall sanctioned strength. In a written reply to a question asked by MP Ashok Mittal, Minister of State (MoS) Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said that the vacancies in CAPFs are reported as on January 1, 2026. According to data presented by the MoS (Home) in the Upper House, the Central Industrial Secur ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 2 (PTI) Amazon India on Monday announced 'Zero Referral fee' on more than 12.5 crore products, a move, the ecommerce giant said, aims to accelerate growth for lakhs of sellers across the country. Building on last year's fee revision, the company has expanded zero referral fees coverage more than 10-times from 1.2 crore products in 2025 to over 12.5 crore products priced under Rs 1,000 across 1,800-plus categories, the company said in a release. In addition, Amazon has reduced Ea ...Read More >
Chennai, March 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The ruling DMK has set March 3 as the informal deadline for the Congress high command to conclude seat-sharing negotiations for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, making it clear that it cannot afford further delay, especially with the Rajya Sabha biennial polls fast approaching. The last date for filing nominations for the March 16 Rajya Sabha elections is March 5. With the DMK-led alliance in a position to secure four Upper House seats and the AIADMK ...Read More >
Former railway minister Mukul Roy died in Kolkata in the early hours of Monday, his son confirmed to news agency ANI. He was 71. Roy suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away around 1:30 am at Apollo Hospital in Salt Lake, his son Shuvrangshu Roy said. Once regarded as one of the most influential strategists in the All India Trinamool Congress, Roy's political journey spanned decades of shifting allegiances, high office and legal battles. In 2012, he briefly served as the Union railway ministe ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: A portion of the frontal section of Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira's house in Bholath, Kapurthala, was demolished on Monday by the office of the Block Development and Panchayat Officer (BDPO). Khaira, a strong critic of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, condemned the move, calling it the dangerous introduction of "bulldozer (Pila-Panja) politics" in Punjab by Mann under directions from AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, aimed at silencing criticism and democratic dissent. As the de ...Read More >
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