Opposition must assert inside the parliament or quit

An embattled UPA Government which failed to pass the ambitious Food Security Bill in the recently concluded Budget session favoured convening of a special session of Parliament in June so that the law could be enacted in July. At a high level meeting attended ...

Lambasting the BJP for stalling the second half of Budget session of Parliament, Union Minister V Narayanasamy on Sunday said it only showed that the main Opposition had no faith in democracy. However, he appealed to the entire Opposition to ...

In this edition of the Texas Weekly Newsreel:We're entering the last week of the 83 rd legislative session at the Texas Capitol. Many questions remain. Will lawmakers finish the budget? Will the governor call for a special session? And when this is ...

ISLAMABAD: With little time for preparing the budget, the PML-N wants an early session of the National Assembly but it seems the winning party will have to wait until last week of this month to assume power. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) ...

France's Junior Minister for Budget Jerome Cahuzac attends the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris March 19, 2013. Reuters/Charles Platiau The former French budget minister, who was made to step down over a tax ...

On the last day of the budget session of the Assembly, everyone took turns to felicitate Chief Minister Jayalalithaa for completing two years in office, while she used the opportunity to rebut criticism about her frequent resort to an Assembly rule that ...

The budget session of parliament was adjourned yesterday, two days in advance, as the government and the opposition came to loggerheads over corruption allegations. The reform momentum, which had picked up steam since September 2012, seems to be running out ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday and discussed the just- concluded Budget Session of Parliament which was adjourned abruptly on Wednesday, two days ahead of schedule.

As the second half of the last Budget Session was washed out because of relentless disruptions caused by the Opposition parties, the government is now vying various options to get through the UPAs ambitious National Food Security Bill. A decision in this ...