Nagpur ideal location for alternative capital

President Pranab Mukherjee today said he was saddened by repeated disruptions and adjournments of Parliament and state assemblies and asked the political establishment to find a solution to it. "I am sad and anxious when I find that Parliamentary proceedings ...

With frequent disruptions and adjournments hampering legislative business, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday asked the political establishment to find a solution to the problem. "I am sad when I find that Parliamentary proceedings and state assembly proceedings are disrupted without transacting businesses," he said. Addressing the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly, the President said that nowadays "we find surreptitiously a new 'D' inserted along with ...

Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Friday he would introduce a bill for a direct tax code (DTC) during the monsoon session of parliament. The code, which will replace the existing Indian Income Tax Act 1961, is intended among other things to rationalise ...

A tweet by the wife of the British parliament's speaker about a senior Conservative politician in the wake of reports of child sex abuse was libellous, the High Court in London ruled today. Sally Bercow said she was "surprised and disappointed" by ...

Former Test cricketer and now BJP Member of Parliament Kirti Azad on Friday said the conviction of Chennai Super Kings CEO Gurunath Meiyappan by Mumbai Police would be darkest day for Indian cricket.Speaking to ANI, Azad said it has to be a new low ...

Addressing members of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly at its Golden Jubilee celebrations, Mukherjee appealed to leaders of political parties to discuss and find a solution to this problem. "Every legislator has got his job after begging people for their votes, ...

Moscow, May 24 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A new Russian parliamentary centre will be built in central Moscow, that will house both the upper and lower houses as well as their administrative and support services, an official said. The idea of building such a ...

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, ...