Trinamool Congress to oppose bill on FDI in insurace: Mamata B...

Three members of the Turkish minority community in Western Thrace have been elected to the Greek parliament, representing the far-left Syriza party that swept the elections. While two Greeks of Turkish descent, Mustafa Mustafa and Ayhan Karayusuf, ...

A bill seeking stringent punishment including death penalty for hijackers and giving right to security forces to shoot down an aircraft which may be used as a missile, was introduced in the Rajya Sabha today. The Anti-Hijacking (Amendment) Bill 2014 was ...

6.30 pm: Rajya Sabha today passed the DSPE (Amendment) Bill paving the way for the appointment of a new chief before the incumbent Ranjit Sinha retires on 2 December. The passing of the Bill was the pertinent because as per earlier provisions the ...

The NDA-led Centre is adding debates to spice up legislative work and to prevent disruption in House Breaking the trend of the past few winter sessions, the Modi government has succeeded in passing a bill a day in the first week of Parliament ...

4.52 pm: It shouldn't look like govt is obliging oppn, says Cong on DSPE bill Anand Sharma speaks on the Delhi Special Police Establishment bill. Calling the role of the CBI sensitive and important, he says, "The role of the agency is always under ...

The Israeli Knesset has postponed to next week its vote on a controversial bill which would officially classify Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people . The bill, which passed in the cabinet 14-7, fuses the Jewish and civil ...

9 pm: Rajya Sabha passes Apprentices Bill New Delhi: A bill seeking to remove imprisonment as punishment for violating the provisions of the Apprentices Act, 1961 and allowing employers to fix the hours of work and leave as per their discretion or ...

Attacks by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram and abuses by government security forces led to spiraling violence across northern and central Nigeria. This violence, which first erupted in 2009, has claimed more than 3,000 lives. The group, which ...

Bill Donohue comments on today's address by Pope Francis to the European Parliament: This was one of Pope Francis' signature statements. He beckoned his audience to recover their religious moorings, focusing on the positive link between ...