Comatose parliament: system lacks the basics for democracy

The core group of the Congress will be meet on Friday to decide whether to call for a special session of Parliament or to pass an ordinance on the controversial Food Security Bill. There has been a divide within the government on calling a special session or ...

Some two months before Parliament was attacked by terrorists in 2001, the Atal Behari Vajpayee-led NDA government was confronted with a question that Vilas Muttemwar had first raised the issue of making Nagpur the country's alternative capital. Interestingly, ...

Amid the much hue and cry over the alleged corruption by the opposition, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi came down heavily on the main opposition BJP for disrupting Parliament proceedings and preventing crucial legislations from being passed.

The state government has put teachers back on census, disaster relief and local, state legislature and Parliament election duties, despite the Right to Education (RTE) Act stating that teachers should not be assigned any non-educational duties that affects ...

A former prime minister whose party won Bulgaria's May 12 election says his party doesn't have enough seats in parliament to form a stable government.

By Pradeep Kumar, Itanagar, May 23 : A four-day 'lobby campaign' by a Tibetan parliamentary delegation of the Dharamsala-based Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPIE) concluded here Wednesday. The delegation was in the frontier state to seek support for its ...

New Delhi, India (February 23, 2013): It is learnt that the recently constituted General House of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) in it's meeting held on February 22, 2013 unanimously adopted a resolution to erect a peace memorial in memory ...

United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday came down heavily on main opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party for disrupting Parliament proceedings and preventing crucial legislations from being passed. "I cannot hide my deep sense of disappointment over the manner in which Parliamentary proceedings have been disrupted by the principal opposition party," Gandhi said at a function to mark four years of UPA-II’s rule. "We are ...

Despite the Bharatiya Janata Partys (BJP) assurance that it was ready to discuss the Food and Land Bills in Parliament, the Government has not yet decided the dates for a special session of Parliament. Opposition leader Sushma Swaraj said here on Wednesday ...