Iranian parliamentary delegation to visit Syria

Chinas decision to lift presidential term limits, which will allow Xi Jinping to remain the nations leader indefinitely, was met with gushing enthusiasm by delegates gathered for the annual meeting of the nations parliament that started Monday. Critics on ...

Myanmar's parliament today elected a staunch ally of Aung San Suu Kyi as the country's new president, allowing her to maintain a tight grip on top-level decision-making. Win Myint, 66, had been tipped for the role after former president Htin Kyaw suddenly ...

[India] March 15 (ANI): Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said no Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Members of Parliament (MP) came to meet him on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference here, the Union Minister categorically denied reports in a section ...

Opposition parties from Congress to CPM on Tuesday approached Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan protesting against "government-scripted" pandemonium in Parliament, which they claimed was to avert any discussion on Budget and bank scams. However, the BJP ...

The proceedings in both Houses of Parliament were virtually washed out for the entire week, as the Lok Sabha was on Friday adjourned for the day soon after it met and the Rajya Sabha in the afternoon following unabated protests by the opposition parties and ruling National Democratic Alliance allies the Telugu Desam Party and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam over various issues. IMAGE: TDP MP & Former Union Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju with Party MPs ...

The inaugural session of the 6th conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, India Region, here today was marred by a protest by RJD MLAs over a statement of Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi.The BJP leader had begun his speech ...

A delegation of Congress leaders from Rajasthan along with winners of the recent by-polls are scheduled to meet Congress national president Rahul Gandhi on Monday. Though the meeting is being billed as a ‘courtesy’ call between winning candidates ...

'The people of the state can be won over by love, and not by swords.' IMAGE: Students in Srinagar protest against the brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old child in Kathua Umar Ganie for Rediff.com Mohammad Shafi Pandit's soft-spoken erudition flows through the telephone line from Srinagar. It is only later I learn that militants had tried to assassinate him in September 1995. He was then the additional chief secretary, finance, Jammu and Kashmir, and was visiting his sister's home ...

The West Bengal Panchayat polls are proving to be a bloody affair with there being reports of clashes on Wednesday between workers of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) and Opposition parties, particularly the Bharatiya Janata Party . The BJP has decided ...