Salient features of the Sports Bill

Had the changes proposed five months ago by a Rajya Sabha select committee been enacted by now to create the Lokpal, the government couldve been spared the embarrassment of the alleged interference in the CBI probe into the coal scam.

Congress dissidents are firm on their preferred person, to be nominated by the party for the second RajyaSabha seat, even as chief minister TarunGogoi said the high command has almost finalized the candidate and the name will be announced in two ...

Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said the issue of autonomy of CBI has been discussed at length in the debate over the Lokpal Bill as well as during the meeting of the select committee of the Upper House. He said the Select ...

Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ravi Shankar Prasad tells Gyan Varma that while the Bharatiya Janata Party was seeking the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, Railway Minister Pawan Kumar ...

The Congress leadership is toying with the idea of announcing the names of its prospective candidates for the Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies ahead of elections. AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi is reported to have responded positively to a ...

Delhi: In a written response to a question posed in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shashi Tharoor said of the 16 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), approximately 42% faculty positions in the IITs are vacant, says ...

He asked the government to accept the suggestions made by him and his colleagues to the Select Committee looking into the Lokpal legislation that will help restore credibility of such institutions and rebuild them. Terming the Supreme Court rap on ...

Despite the acute shortage of time, the UPA is expected to bring in the Lokpal Bill, since the select committee had already submitted its recommendations. |PTI The remainder of the Budget session of Parliament will get under way on Monday after a ...

The Rajya Sabha MP and CPI(M) politburo member on the state of politics today Saba Naqvi, Panini Anand Interview Sitaram Yechury Text Size Also In This Story Business & Politics The FICCI-CII rallies have replaced grassroots ones. Is politics ...