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Mumbai, Feb 23 (PTI) Glowing tributes were paid to Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar by politicians of all hues, his colleagues, and prominent industrialists on Monday, remembering their association with the Baramati leader whose death in a plane crash last month created a void in state politics. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis led leaders cutting across party lines in expressing condolences for Pawar on the first day of the Budget session of the legislature, saying he was "the best CM the state ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill to raise foreign direct investment (FDI) in the insurance sector to 100 per cent from the existing 74 per cent, a move the government said would help increase insurance penetration, lower premiums and generate employment. The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, was cleared by the Rajya Sabha through a voice vote, a day after it was passed by the Lok Sabha. The Upper House rejected amendments moved by the Opposition, ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha on Wednesday asked the government not to levy toll tax if a person has to wait for more than five minutes at the toll plaza, stating that the tax "sometimes takes the shape of a legalised loot". Raghav Chadha also raised issues regarding the toll tax during Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha earlier today. In an interview with ANI, the AAP MP said the toll tax concept requires well-maintained roads and asked whether cit ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Several non-ruling members in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday opposed the bill to raise FDI in the insurance sector to 100 per cent and demanded that the proposed legislation be sent to a Parliamentary panel for further scrutiny. Participating in the debate on The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, moved for consideration and passage by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Upper House, members also objected to the title of the Bill, whic ...Read More >
New Delhi: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi flagged the challenges faced by ASHA and Anganwadi workers in the Rajya Sabha, demanding that they be given their remuneration on time, the amount given be doubled and the pending vacancies of nearly three lakh in ICDS be filled. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Gandhi said, "I rise to draw the urgent attention of this House to the continued distress of women workers implementing critical government programmes -- ASHA workers, Anganwadi workers and hel ...Read More >
Special Intensive Revision falls within the constitutional powers of the Election Commission to periodically purify electoral rolls to ensure no eligible voter is excluded from the list and no ineligible voter is included, Union Minister JP Nadda said in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Replying to a debate on Election Reforms in the Upper House, the Leader of the House attacked the Congress for creating an atmosphere that mass-scale rigging was taking place in the country in the name of SIR (Special ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) Union Minister J P Nadda on Tuesday accused the Congress of misleading the country by creating a false narrative of rigging of votes through SIR process and said the Opposition is hurting national interest by questioning the Election Commission in order to hide its electoral failures. Instead of blaming the Election Commission (ECI) and electoral process, Nadda, who is the leader of the Upper House, asked the Congress to find the actual reason for its successive defeats ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday urged the Centre to "work closely" with the state governments to fill all vacancies of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and Anganwadi workers in the country, and also flagged their "meagre" honorariums despite their vital contribution to public service delivery. Addressing the Upper House of the Parliament during the Zero Hour, Sonia Gandhi urged the government to e ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Union Minister and BJP MP JP Nadda on Tuesday lambasted Congress over electoral fraud allegations, stating that the party is spreading misconceptions after losing elections. Addressing the Upper House of Parliament during a discussion on electoral reforms, Nadda noted that the Opposition is not against Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, while posing the question of infiltrators in voter lists. Taking a jibe at Congress, JP Nadda also stated tha ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Over 20.42 lakh farmers have benefited through the PM-KUSUM scheme that enables them to set up solar power plants and irrigation pumps on their land, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy, Shripad Yesso Naik, informed Rajya Sabha that the PM-KUSUM is a demand-driven scheme. The capacities and funds are allocated based on demand received and progress shown by state ...Read More >
New Delhi: Special Intensive Revision falls within the constitutional powers of the Election Commission to periodically purify electoral rolls to ensure no eligible voter is excluded from the list and no ineligible voter is included, Union Minister JP Nadda said in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. Replying to a debate on Election Reforms in the Upper House, the Leader of the House attacked the Congress for creating an atmosphere that mass-scale rigging was taking place in the country in the name of S ...Read More >
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], December 16 (ANI): Reacting to controversial slogans raised against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a Congress rally, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday urged political parties to maintain dignity and decorum, saying such remarks go against Indian culture and democratic values. "The late Yashwantrao Chavan taught us the value of respect. In politics, there are always differences between the ruling party and the opposition, but when making statemen ...Read More >
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], December 16 (ANI): Reacting to controversial slogans raised against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a Congress rally, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday urged political parties to maintain dignity and decorum, saying such remarks go against Indian culture and democratic values. "The late Yashwantrao Chavan taught us the value of respect. In politics, there are always differences between the ruling party and the opposition, but when making statemen ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned twice on Monday due to protests, disrupting work in the first half. As the House commenced with Question Hour, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiran Rijiju raised the reported offensive slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Congress' Delhi rally on Sunday and sought an apology from the Congress leaders. "We are members of this House, representing various parties. We are opponents, not enemies. In 2014, a BJP member had stated something wrong ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: India on Monday set in motion steps to end decades of state control over nuclear power, by introducing a bill in parliament that would allow private firms to build and operate plants as the government seeks to make atomic energy central to its clean energy push. Foreign companies in a joint venture with Indian companies could apply for a licence if selected to do so by the government. India's nuclear sector has been tightly guarded since its first reactor went online in 1969, shaped ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): Both Houses of Parliament on Monday witnessed strong objections from BJP leaders to a Congress leader's controversial remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Congress dismissed it as "baseless drama" and questioned the need to raise the issue in Parliament. Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, JP Nadda, strongly condemned the slogans raised against PM Modi during the mega rally against the alleged 'Vote Chori' in Delhi's Ramlila Maidan the previous ...Read More >
A massive row has erupted after derogatory slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi were raised at a Congress rally in Rajasthan's Jaipur, with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanding that senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi apologise. Manju Lata Meena, Jaipur women's Congress district president, raised a 'kabar' (grave) slogan against PM Modi during a 'Vote Chor Gaddi Chhod' rally that was held to raise the Opposition's 'vote theft' charges against the BJP on Sunday. When asked ...Read More >
Mallikarjun Kharge pledged Congress cooperation to Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan, urging equal treatment for all parties. Kharge's mention of predecessor Jagdeep Dhankhar's exit sparked treasury bench protests. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju criticized the timing of the reference on this solemn occasion. Kharge wished the new Chairman a successful term. New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday assured Chairman CP Radhakrishnan of cooperation ...Read More >
Patna: The NDA's landslide victory in the Bihar assembly polls will enable it to secure all Rajya Sabha seats from the state in the coming two biennial elections, causing a sharp decrease in the number of RJD members in the Upper House unless it wins more seats in the next assembly elections.The RJD currently holds five of Bihar's 16 Rajya Sabha seats with the Congress holding one.The next round of Rajya Sabha elections, slated for early next year, will see the tenures of RJD MPs Prem Chand Gupt ...Read More >
Patna: Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor landed in a controversy on Tuesday when it came to light that he was allegedly registered as a voter in his home state of Bihar as well as adjoining West Bengal. According to official records, Kishor is enrolled as a voter in West Bengal at 121, Kalighat Road, the address of the Trinamool Congress headquarters in Kolkata's Bhabanipur assembly constituency, which is Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's seat, an election in West Bengal sai ...Read More >
The Awami Ittehad Party MLA Sheikh Khursheed announced support for the National Conference in the Rajya Sabha elections. This move aims to prevent the BJP from securing a seat. Khursheed stated his party has significant political differences with the National Conference. However, the current situation compels them to vote against the BJP. The National Conference received a shot in the arm on the day of Rajya Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, as the lone Awami Ittehad Party MLA, Sh ...Read More >
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], October 25 (ANI): National Conference winning candidate in the recently conducted Rajya Sabha polls, Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan, on Saturday, credited the JKNC's internal unity and expressed gratitude to allies, including the PDP, Congress, for their support in securing three out of four seats from the Union Territory for the Upper House of the Parliament. Ramzan lauded his party's performance, saying that after a long time, the people of Jammu and Kashmir have ...Read More >
Srinagar: The ruling National Conference (NC) on Friday won three out of four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir, while the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed to secure one. NC candidates Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan, Sajad Kichloo and Gurwinder Singh Oberoi alias Shammi Oberoi won, while the BJP's J&K president Satpal Sharma won the fourth seat against the NC's Imran Nabi Dar. The NC was confident of clinching victory on three seats considering the number of MLAs from the ruli ...Read More >
Srinagar, Oct 24 (PTI) Chief Minister Omar Abdullah held last-minute discussions for Friday's Rajya Sabha polls with his party leaders, the strategy mostly focussing on securing the all-important votes from independent MLAs. To keep them going, they had a regular supply of 'pakoras' and 'chai', he said. National Conference (NC) and alliance members visited the chief minister's office in the assembly complex here as NC leaders worked out the arithmetic for the polls in four Upper House seats in ...Read More >
Srinagar, Oct 24 (PTI) Voting was underway on Friday for the four Rajya Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir. This is the first Rajya Sabha election from Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 and downgrading and bifurcation of the erstwhile state of J-K into two Union territories on August 5, 2019. Voting is being held inside the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly complex here, officials said. The elections for the four Rajya Sabha seats in J-K are divided into three notificat ...Read More >
Srinagar, Oct 23: Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Kulgam, Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami on Thursday said obituary references in the Assembly should not become customary. He said there is no wrong in evaluating the contributions of individuals who have served in public life, provided it is done with due respect and decorum. Speaking on the first day of obituary references in the autumn session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, Tarigami sa ...Read More >
Srinagar, Oct 23: National Conference (NC) president Dr Farooq Abdullah on Thursday said the Congress party continues to back the ruling alliance in Jammu and Kashmir for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, even as signs of unease surfaced between the two partners ahead of the crucial vote. The remarks came a day after the Congress skipped a meeting of the coalition government's MLAs called by the NC. The party accused the ally NC of reneging on an earlier understanding to allocate a "safe seat ...Read More >
Srinagar: As Jammu and Kashmir gears up for its Rajya Sabha elections on Friday -- the first since the 2019 bifurcation of the erstwhile state into Union Territories -- the political landscape has been marked by calculated alliances, lingering rifts, and high-stakes negotiations. These long-overdue biennial polls, announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in September, aim to fill four vacant seats in the Upper House that have remained unoccupied since February 2021 following the reti ...Read More >
Prominent industrialist Rajinder Gupta, who is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate for the Rajya Sabha by-election, does not own a car or any agricultural land. A matriculate, the chairman emeritus of the Trident Group has also not taken any loans. The man, whose family wealth was today declared at Rs 5053.03 crore, will be amongst the richest persons to have been elected to the Rajya Sabha after the election results are declared on October 24. After the scrutiny of the nomination papers, wher ...Read More >
Chandigarh: With assets worth a whopping Rs 5,053 crore, Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) latest entrant to the Rajya Sabha, industrialist Rajinder Gupta, is the second wealthiest member of the Upper House, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).Given AAP's comfortable majority in the state assembly, Gupta was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha on Oct 18. Based on details of assets in his affidavit, ADR has claimed that Gupta is placed behind BRS MP Bandi Partha Saradhi (Rs 5,300 cro ...Read More >
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