In the winter session, members of Parliament (MPs) debated and passed legislation on diverse subjects, including allowing 100% foreign direct investment in insurance, increasing the rural employment guarantee from 100 to 125 days, opening the atomic energy sector to private players, and imposing a c...
Parliament passed a new atomic energy law towards the end of 2025. The legislation, titled the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India, opens the atomic energy sector, previously the exclusive domain of government entities, to private players. Opposition MPs u...
In March 2005, the Jharkhand police stormed an aeroplane about to take off from Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Airport. They were looking for two newly elected MLAs, Hari Narayan Rai, 42, and Enos Ekka, 35. Finding the MLAs was critical, as they were the missing pieces in deciding the new Chief Minister...
Winter session is set to be fiery – a new VP as Rajya Sabha chair, decision on impeachment of two HC judges pending, at least 10 bills and electoral rolls to debate. But will Parliament function? That’s the real question
The winter session of Parliament begins today with more than 700...
The city of Moscow has a link to the political history of Bihar.
A decision made here would become the catalyst for Nitish Kumar’s first full tenure as Bihar Chief Minister. On May 22, 2005, then President APJ Abdul Kalam arrived in Moscow, the first stop on an 11-day multi-c...
Around 7.4 crore voters will be eligible to exercise their franchise in Bihar’s upcoming elections. EC has added 21.5L and removed about 3.7L voters from the electoral rolls following SIR. This’ll be the first of the big-ticket state elections, soon to be followed by polls in West Bengal...
The incoming vice president is expected to be a non-partisan arbiter while being part of the executive. On him lies the onus of making Rajya Sabha a forum for civilised debate again
Members of Parliament vote today to elect the vice president. The VP’s position has a dual responsibility &nd...
The government has put together seven all-party parliamentary delegations to visit 30-plus countries to convey India’s zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism. The delegations have 59 sitting MPs. Baijayant Panda, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Shashi Tharoor, Sh...
During his just concluded four-day tour of India, US Vice-President (V-P) James David Vance and his family visited the Akshardham temple, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visited Jaipur, where the 40-year-old V-P gave a public lecture. The visit ended with a family photograph before the Taj Maha...
Lok Sabha Member of Parliament Amritpal Singh is apprehensive of losing his parliamentary seat. The Independent MP from Punjab is also in charge of Waris Punjab De, a pro-Khalistan group. He faces charges under the National Security Act and has been in jail since 2023. Recently, Amritpal approached ...
Finance Minister Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh and Bombay Chief Minister Morarji Ranchhodji Desai had a wildly different day on February 29, 1956. Deshmukh spent his day in Delhi, closeted with officials. A former civil servant and the first Indian to become the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor...
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has raised an issue that can rejuvenate our legislative institutions. While interacting with students on January 23, he said, “Why should there be a whip? Whip means you are curtailing expression, curtailing freedom, and subjecting your representative to servili...
In 1947, when we got our independence from the British, the country’s name became India. In the Constituent Assembly, our Constitution framers debated the name we would give ourselves as a republic. In addition to India, names that came up were Bharat, Bharat Varsha, Hindustan, Hind and Bharat...
