Rajya Sabha

Suspense on deputy CM, other ministers in Bihar

Modi drops Question Hour, but forces students to give answers

8:50 pm September 5, 2020

Hyderabad: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government which dropped Question Hour from the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament citing COVID-19 is forcing the students to give answers in JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) and NEET (National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test), AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi alleged on Saturday. “On one hand Narendra Modi will not give answers in Question Hour citing COVID-19, on the other […]

Oppn plans march to Vijay Chowk in solidarity with suspended RS MPs

No Question Hour, curtailed Zero Hour in Parliament’s monsoon session; Oppn cries foul

6:44 pm September 2, 2020

New Delhi: There will be no Question Hour, a curtailed Zero Hour and no private members’ bills during the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament, the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats have decided, prompting opposition leaders to accuse the government of trying to “murder the democracy” in the name of the COVID-19 pandemic and of reducing “Parliament to a notice […]

Wearing a ‘gamcha’, Mukherjee used to walk 2 km barefoot to school in monsoon: friend

9:26 pm September 1, 2020

Kolkata: Pranab Mukherjee, who headed several key ministries before becoming the President, used to walk two kilometres barefoot while going to a village school in West Bengal’s Birbhum district wearing a ‘gamcha’ (traditional towel) during the monsoon in the 1940s, his friend Prof Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay said. Reminiscing his association with Mukherjee for nearly seven decades since […]

Pranab Mukherjee: the president who could never be prime minister

7:19 pm August 31, 2020

New Delhi: A quintessential party loyalist and the trusted Man Friday of three Congress prime ministers, Pranab Mukherjee‘s climb up the political ladder stopped just short of his ambition to occupy 7 Race Course Road, instead sending him to the Rashtrapati Bhavan as the country’s first citizen. Mukherjee, India’s 13th president, Congress’ troubleshooter through the […]

Chetan Chauhan died due to UP govt’s ‘negligence’: Sanjay Singh

12:26 pm August 24, 2020

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh submitted a complaint to Lucknow Police Commissioner Sujeet Pandey to register an FIR against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his government colleagues alleging that Chetan Chauhan died due to negligence of the State government. “Gave a complaint to the Commissioner of Police […]