Five-day mourning for Bharat Ratna declared

The ruling coalition forced a vote on the bill in an upper house committee on Thursday. Despite stalling tactics by opposition parties, the full upper house approved the bill on Friday by 130 to 82. The more powerful lower house had approved the ...

MP Dhananjay Singh on Friday sought interim bail from a trial court to attend the winter session of Parliament.

The lower house of the Czech parliament approved the 2014 state budget draft in the first of three readings on Friday, setting a slightly higher deficit target than this year but still within EU deficit rules. The proposed central budget gap of 112 ...

Speaking at the platinum jubilee celebrations of the West Bengal Assembly, Mukherjee said he was concerned that houses remain in session only for a few days each year. "I am a bit concerned about a few things... I feel we are decreasing the number of days of ...

Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove's statement in the House on the OECD's 2012 PISA results. (Draft text, check against delivery) Mr Speaker, with your permission I would like to make a statement about the PISA league tables of ...

The French lower house of parliament has passed a prostitution law that imposes fines on clients. Politicians voted 268 in favour and 138 against to give France some of the most restrictive legislation on prostitution in Europe - a radical switch ...

Prague, Dec 4 (CTK) - The seat of one deputy head still remains vacant in the lower house of Czech parliament as the house's plenary session failed to elect the fourth deputy head again yesterday. At the first session of the new Chamber of ...

Wednesday in Ukraine has been marked by the opposition trying to thwart the work of the Verkhovna Rada, the upper house of the country's parliament. Members of opposition parties today blocked the speaker's podium, after the parliament yesterday ...

The House of Representatives (Lower House) of Myanmar's Parliament has approved the media bill as a part of its bid to promote media development and administration in accordance with law, media reported Tuesday.The media bill sets media sector as the ...