All seven candidates - six of the Trinamool Congress including Derek O'Brien and Saket Gokhale and one from the BJP - were elected unopposed to the Upper House of Parliament on Monday, West Bengal Assembly officials said.
Three candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, were on Monday declared elected "uncontested" to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat, officials said.
Former Chief Minister and Congress' Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh has been booked for his social media post on former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief M.S. Golwalkar.
Headed by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Modi, the Rajya Sabha Parliamentary standing committee on personnel, public grievances, law and justice will deliberate on the proposal at 3 p.m.
The Rajya Sabha member with three more years to go, assured that he would remain active in public life through social-politics, as in the past over 55 years.
Union Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey further told the Upper House that to address the issue of plastic pollution with effective measures, MoEFCC notified the Plastic Waste Management (PWM) Rules, 2016
G Kishan Reddy told Rajya Sabha that the Ministry of Tourism has sanctioned Rs. 268.39 crore to take up three projects under Swadesh Darshan Scheme in Telangana
Telangana is getting a step-motherly treatment when it comes to establishment of TBI and Science & Technology Entrepreneur’s Parks from the Department of Science and Technology
Tudu said the Modikuntavagu Irrigation Project had so far not been provided environmental and forest clearances, whereas the Sitamma Sagar was granted Stage-I forest clearance
NCP spokesperson Clyde Crasto's sharp reaction came a day after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar released year-wise data on the number of Indians who have renounced their citizenship
BJP MP GVL Narasimha Rao on Monday questioned the Ministry of Steel as to how the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant could cope with largescale retirement of its employees.
In the last five years, the union government had sanctioned about Rs 11 crore to Telangana for promotion of handicrafts, Union Tourism Minister tells Rajya Sabha