Rajya Sabha

NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K. Rahman Khan has advocated greater coordination and effort among the G-20 countries to overcome the effects of the global economic crisis.

During the debate on the MPs’ salary Bill in the Rajya Sabha, a Congress party member justifying the proposed increase in salaries, pointed to the leader of the Opposition, Arun Jaitley, and said in a high-pitched voice, “For a few members like him, the hike will not matter … as a practising lawyer he was earning Rs 10 lakh a day!” On this, a leader of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party, Satish ...

A group of lawyers and transparency activists on Tuesday asked Supreme Court judge, Justice V S Sirpurakar, to withdraw from the Rajya Sabha appointed panel probing into the allegations of corruption against Justice P D Dinakaran. HT reports.

"The prime minister is likely to convene an all-party meeting (to evolve consensus). We are taking all efforts to bring the bill in the Lok Sabha in the winter session of Parliament," the minister of state for planning and parliamentary affairs told reporters in Chennai.

The Parliamentary standing committee on Health and Family Welfare led by Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh has expressed unhappiness over the unethical and corrupt practices that had crept into the pharma business in which many companies while retaining the popular brand names of their price controlled products were changing the ingredients to evade ceiling prices.

Chennai, Sep 7 (PTI) The Centre is making all efforts to move the Womens' Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha in the coming winter session, Union Minister V Narayanasamy said today.

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has invited senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Adavani, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley to discuss United Progressive Alliance government's political initiative in Kashmir.

NEW DELHI: Union Tourism Minister Kumari Selja has assured senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Mani Shankar Aiyar of compliance with the code of conduct for safe and honourable tourism during the Commonwealth Games scheduled next month.

New Delhi, Sep 6: A delegation of 10 BJP MLAs from Jammu and Kashmir, led by Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj will today meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the Kashmir issue.

Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari has questioned the manner in which the parliamentary standing committee's report on the civil nuclear liability bill was dealt with by the panel's chairman T Subbarami Reddy.

Lok Sabha had passed the bill last week after government agreed to Opposition's demand for amendments.

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New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha Thursday saw regular disruptions after Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) members alleged a deal between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the civil ...

New Delhi, Aug 30 (Calcutta Tube) Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan moved the civil nuclear liability bill in the Rajya Sabha.

The Rajya Sabha is likely to take up the Torture Bill for consideration and passing sometime early next week. We have documented the various flaws in this Bill previously on this blog (see also, here and Siddharth Varadarajan's piece in ...

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The saffron terror issue today disrupted proceedings in the Rajya Sabha. It was first adjourned for 15 minutes and later till noon.