India moving ahead with vision of women-led development: Nirmala SitharamanUnion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted the NDA government's focus on women empowerment under PM Narendra Modi's leadership. ...
05 Mar, 2024, 09.24 PM IST
Parliamentary committee suggests manganese ore reserves explorationThe committee also discussed a "wide gamut of issues", including usage of manganese ore, its production in India and contribution of state-...
21 Dec, 2021, 06.17 PM IST
Mallikarjun Kharge new chairman of PAC Public Accounts Committee of ParliamentThe Parliamentary panel, which is headed by an opposition leader, has a majority of its members from the ruling NDA.
02 May, 2017, 08.11 PM IST
KV Thomas gets third term as PAC ChairmanThe senior leader, representing the Ernakulam Lok Sabha constituency was first nominated in August 2014 as Chairman of the PAC, one of the ...
06 May, 2016, 07.11 PM IST
Compulsory voting not possible, reforms will continue: GowdaGovernment today promised to carry out electoral reforms but turned down a request for introduction of compulsory voting citing practical r...
26 Feb, 2016, 07.34 PM IST
BJP member opposes private member bill of party colleagueA private member bill of a BJP member proposing compulsory voting was today opposed by his fellow party man in the Lok Sabha.
04 Dec, 2015, 09.32 PM IST
Government directs large steel cos to step up R&D investment to 1 pct of salesThe government wants to enhance corporate spends on research and development of new steel products that are import substitutes.
07 Jul, 2015, 05.31 PM IST
Lok Sabha members pitch for compulsory votingDushyant Chautala (INLD), while favouring compulsory voting, made a case for introduction of bio-metric cards to check bogus voting.
08 May, 2015, 09.13 PM IST
Bills on toll tax and check forcible conversion introduced in Lok SabhaThe House also took up briefly a private member bill seeking compulsory voting which was moved by Janardan Singh Sigriwal (BJP).
13 Mar, 2015, 08.55 PM IST
Roll back hike in excise duty on petroleum products: CPM MP"Whenever there is a fall in international oil prices, the government does not transfer the full benefits to the people," M B Rajesh said.
15 Dec, 2014, 05.06 PM IST
20 private members bills introduced in Lok SabhaAs many as 20 private members bills including those seeking to introduce compulsory voting, protection of cow and prevention of acid attack...
28 Nov, 2014, 06.31 PM IST
BJP to hold 27,000 meetings in 17 days in BiharThe BJP in Bihar Thursday launched a campaign to organise 27,000 public meetings in 17 days to reach out to the people of the state.
25 Sep, 2014, 03.57 PM IST
By-elections for ten Assembly seats in Bihar to be conducted on August 21The bypoll on ten Assembly seats have been necessitated after some members got elected to the Lok Sabha and resignation by some others.
19 Jul, 2014, 07.47 PM IST
New Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi congratulated by party MLAs, oppositionBefore the House started its business at 11 AM, Manjhi went to the Leader of Opposition Nand Kishore Yadav and shook hands.
23 May, 2014, 03.34 PM IST
Ex-BJP ministers served notice to vacate ministerial bungalows"We have served notices to the eight former BJP ministers and asked them to vacate the ministerial bungalows allotted to them, Vinod Chaudh...
21 Aug, 2013, 04.14 PM IST
Survey indicates further drop in labour migration from BiharA labour survey underway in Bihar has indicated that outflow of labourers from the state in search of livelihood has further gone down from...
09 Sep, 2012, 02.13 PM IST
26 per cent fall in migration of labourers from Bihar: StudyMigration of labourers from Bihar in search of livelihood to places like Punjab and Delhi has declined by over 26 per cent.
20 Nov, 2011, 11.35 AM IST