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New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha was on Thursday adjourned for the day, in its second adjournment during the day, over Opposition uproar on the Lakhimpur Kheri incident. The Opposition created a ruckus in the House soon after it reassembled at 2 pm following the first adjournment seeing resignation from Minister of State from Home Ajay […]

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been adjourned till 2 pm on Thursday following the Opposition’s protest in the House over the Lakhimpur Kheri incident and their demand for the immediate resignation of Minister Ajay Mishra Teni. Several Congress MPs in Lok Sabha, including Rahul Gandhi, earlier on Wednesday have moved an […]

New Delhi: A demand was raised in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday to declare cow as the national animal and enact an effective central law to stop cow slaughter in the country. Making a special mention in the House, BJP MP Kirodi Lal Meena said cow is an integral part of Indian culture, and that even […]

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had moved the two bills together for passage in the House as there will be a common national board under the two legislations.

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday adjourned till noon following the ruckus created by Opposition parties over the suspension of 12 MPs. The joint Opposition including Congress, DMK, Trinamool Congress, Left and AAP came into the Well of the House soon after the papers were laid on the table seeking revocation of suspension of […]

The Lok Sabha was also adjourned till 12 noon following sloganeering by the Opposition members.

I desire to move the following Adjournment Motion, under Rule 267 (suspension of Rules) to discuss the grave situation arising in Telangana where lakhs of tons of paddy is rotting on the yards due to the non lifting of the grains by FCI.

Nalgonda: Rajya Sabha member Badugula Lingaiah Yadav on Saturday said that Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao wanted to see a smile on the face of every woman in the State and was taking up schemes for the purpose. Launching the distribution of Bathukamma Sarees at Nakrekal, Lingaiah Yadav said that it was only the government […]

Following instructions from Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, NSP engineer took the decision to release water to the left canal at 2 pm.

With disruptions continuing, the productivity of Rajya Sabha fell to 13.70 per cent during the second week of the ongoing monsoon session from 32.20 per cent during the first week, resulting in an overall productivity of 21.60 per cent

Nizamabad: TRS cadre in Nizamabad took up a massive plantation drive for one hour from 10 am to 11 am simultaneously at mandal and gram panchayat levels to plant 3.4 lakh saplings. The drive was taken up in Balkonda constituency by Roads and Buildings Minister Vemula Prashanth Reddy in response to the call given by […]

Peoples’ representatives including Ministers, MPs, and MLAs, officials, academics and students participated in this novel and noble initiative launched by Rajya Sabha MP Santosh Kumar

Vijayawada: The YSR Congress Party will speak on the alleged illegal projects taken up by Telangana and seek notifying the Krishna River Management Board jurisdiction in the Parliament, according to Rajya Sabha member Vijay Sai Reddy. Talking to media persons here after a meeting of the YSRCP Parliamentary Party here on Thursday, he said that […]

Accepting the green challenge by Rajya Sabha member J Santosh Kumar, who launched the popular Green Challenge campaign in the country, the Minister planted the sapling.

Quality of health services is no less than that in corporate hospitals as the State addressed all the shortcomings

Warangal Urban: Over 1,000 nominations were filed for the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) elections till Sunday, the last day for filing of nominations. TRS leader and Former MP (Rajya Sabha) Gundu Sudharani filed her nomination for the 29th ward on Sunday. According to party sources, Sudharani will most likely be the mayoral candidate of […]

The bank will support the development of long-term non-recourse infrastructure financing in India.

The Rajya Sabha returned the bill after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had to curtail her reply to the discussion on the legislation after a verbal spat with TMC members.

The tax devolution to States was heavily impacted as there was a drop in revenue receipts of the Union government.  Secondly, performing States have been penalized by the 15th Finance Commission through its unacceptable methodology.

The union cabinet earlier this week had approved a budget proposal of setting up a Development Finance Institution (DFI), which will have tax benefits to enable fund raising from investors.