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Watch: Ruckus in Parliament over Maha Kumbh stampede

Lok Sabha got off to a stormy start on Monday as MPs raised the Maha Kumbh stampede issue. Speaker Om Birla however asked the legislators not to raise the Maha Kumbh issue during Question Hour.

Parliament erupts over Maha Kumbh stampede, Opposition demands answers

Parliament on Monday witnessed uproarious scenes over the Maha Kumbh stampede as the Opposition demanded answers and accused the UP government of concealing the death toll

Budget 2025-26: Lok Sabha gets Rs 903 crore, Rajya Sabha Rs 413 crore

Lok Sabha has been allocated Rs 903 crore in the Union Budget, more than double the amount given to the Rajya Sabha. A sizeable allocation -- Rs 558.81 crore of the total Rs 903 crore --? has been assigned to the Lok Sabha Secretariat, which also includes Grants in Aid to the Sansad TV. Of the Rs 413 crore allocated to Rajya Sabha, Rs 2.52 crore have been assigned for salaries and allowances of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman in the Rajya Sabha Secretariat. The budget for Rajya Sabha also has a separate allocation of Rs 3 crore for the salaries and allowances of Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha and his secretariat. The budget has also allocated Rs 98.84 crore for members. For Lok Sabha, Rs 1.56 crore has been allocated for salaries and allowances of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, and there is no separate provision for the office of the Leader of the Opposition. There was no Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha for 10 years as no opposition party had the required numb

Congress MP claims his dissent note was 'redacted' in Waqf Bill report

Taking to social media platform X on Saturday, Hussain expressed strong disapproval over what he described as an attempt to suppress Opposition voices

Budget 2025: FM Nirmala Sitharaman continues 'bahi-khata' tradition

Union Budget 2025: FM Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present Budget 2025 today, continuing her tradition of using a digital tablet wrapped in a 'bahi-khata' pouch instead of a briefcase

Union Budget 2025: Will Nirmala Sitharaman give tax relief to middle class?

Union Budget 20025: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the first full Budget of Modi 3.0 government. It comes at a time of significant global challenges and hopes of tax relief

Congress' Manish Tewari criticises Union Budget process, calls it 'useless

Tewari argued that over the years, the budget has turned into a grandstanding ritual for the Finance Minister

Govt's pace of work tripled with focus on middle class: President Murmu

The President's previous two speeches to joint sittings of Parliament, on January 31, 2024, and June 27, 2024, had stressed on the government's efforts at empowering the "four pillars"

Sonia Gandhi's remark for President 'in poor taste': Rashtrapati Bhavan

A viral video purportedly showed Sonia Gandhi referring to the President as 'poor thing' and claiming that the latter got tired after delivering her pre-Budget address to Parliament

First time since 2014, no bids to cause trouble before Parl session: PM

It is perhaps the first time since 2014 that no attempt has been made from abroad to "stoke a fire" in India before the start of a Parliament session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. Ahead of Parliament's Budget session, Modi also took a swipe at opposition parties, saying that there were people ready to do mischief before every session since 2014 and there was also no dearth of those who would fuel such attempts. "Shayad 2014 se lekar ab tak, ye pehla Parliament ka satr hai, ki jiske ek-do din pehle koi videshi chingari nahi pakdi hai, videsh mein se aag lagane ki koshish nahi hui hai (Perhaps since 2014, this is the first session of Parliament in which a day or two before the session, there has been no foreign attempt to stoke a fire from abroad)," Modi told reporters before the start of the session. "This is the first session I am seeing in the last 10 years in which there has been no attempt to stoke a fire from any foreign corner," the prime minister said. With hi

Govt doesn't want to discuss 'real issues' in Parliament: Priyanka Gandhi

The last session (of parliament) was also washed away, no discussion took place, riyanka Gandhi Vadra said

Finance, Waqf Amendment Act among 16 bills to be tabled in Budget session

Budget session: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present Union Budget 2025 on February 1

President Murmu opens Budget session 2025: Housing, healthcare, AI in focus

The President also offered condolences to those who lost their lives in the Kumbh Mela stampede at Prayagraj

VP Dhankhar calls for constructive debate and dialogue in Parliament

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday underscored the need for constructive debate and dialogue in Parliament, saying the era of disruption should end and make way for meaningful discussions. His remarks came ahead of the Budget session of Parliament. While addressing the 33rd Foundation Day of the National Commission for Women (NCW), he said what the country truly needs is an opposition that is both constructive and cooperative. "There will now be more debate, dialogue, discussion, deliberation, and not disturbance or disruption in this Parliament," the Rajya Sabha chairman said, highlighting the importance of a cooperative opposition. Reflecting on women's empowerment, he lauded the recent reservation for women in legislatures, calling it a landmark achievement. "Now we have reservation for women to the extent of one-third," he said, adding the country is witnessing an affirmative ecosystem that supports women's aspirations. However, he cautioned that with increased aspirat

Budget session: Modi govt to table Bill for stricter immigration control

The Modi government will introduce The Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025, in the Budget Session, proposing stricter border control measures amid political debate over illegal immigration

Waqf Bill on govt's agenda for Budget session, Oppn to raise its issues

The budget session will commence with President Droupadi Murmu addressing joint sitting of the two Houses

INDIA bloc to raise all issues together in Budget session: Pramod Tiwari

The meeting is chaired by Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Kiren Rijiju, JP Nadda, Arjun Ram Meghwal and L Murugan

JPC adopts amended Waqf bill as Oppn slams provisions as 'unconstitutional'

The chairman of the Joint Committee of Parliament scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, Jagdambika Pal, has said the panel's draft report and the amended version of the proposed law will be adopted at its meeting on Wednesday. He made the remarks to the media as he chaired what is likely the last meeting of the committee. Ahead of the meeting, several opposition MPs met to discuss their agenda as many of them are preparing their dissent against the committee's recommendations. The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, was referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on August 8, 2024 following its introduction in the Lok Sabha by Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju. The bill aims to amend the Waqf Act, 1995, to address issues and challenges in regulating and managing waqf properties.

Canada inquiry finds no 'traitors' in Parl, warns against disinformation

A public inquiry on foreign interference in Canada concluded Tuesday that while some foreign entities tried to interfere in the country's elections, its democratic institutions remain "robust, but warned against the danger of misinformation. The final report of the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference found no evidence of traitors in the country's parliament, but Commissioner Marie-Jose Hogue warned that one of the biggest threats to democracy was foreign actors sowing disinformation in both the traditional media and social media. Distinguishing what is false is becoming increasingly difficult and the consequences are extraordinarily harmful, Hogue told a news conference in Ottawa where she did not take questions. The Canadian government established the public inquiry in September 2023 to investigate whether China, Russia and other countries interfered in Canadian federal elections in 2019 and 2021 that re-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals. The final report ...

Draft report on Waqf Bill circulated among members, panel to meet today

JPC Chairman Jagdambika Pal has said that the democratic process was followed in the deliberations, opposition members have said that very little time has been given to them