Rajya Sabha to sit tomorrow to complete its original scheduleRajya Sabha was adjourned for the day today as a mark of respect towards sitting Congress member Praveen Rashtrapal who passed away.
12 May, 2016, 03.21 PM IST
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Praveen Rashtrapal passes awayRajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned on Thursday as the sitting Congress MP from Gujarat, Praveen Rashtrapal passes away.
12 May, 2016, 03.15 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi condoles demise of MP Praveen Rashtrapal76-year-old Rashtrapal, a Congress member of the Upper House from Modi's home state Gujarat, died here this morning after suffering a massi...
12 May, 2016, 01.48 PM IST
Rajya Sabha adjourned due to demise of sitting Congress memberRashtrapal was a member of upper house from Gujarat. He became member of Rajya Sabha in April 2006 and was re-elected in April 2012.
12 May, 2016, 12.35 PM IST
Why no action taken against 33 Congress MPs in Rajya Sabha, asks Trinamool CongressThe TMC leader sought a ruling from the Chair if action against one member and sparing 33 others "violates Article 14 of the Constitution."
03 May, 2016, 02.07 PM IST
Rajya Sabha passes promotion quota bill to provide reservations in promotions for SCs, STsThe Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the constitution amendment bill to provide reservations in promotions for the scheduled castes (SCs) and t...
17 Dec, 2012, 09.16 PM IST
- Bill to make all workers eligible for bonus introduced in RS
Seeking to amend an existing Act relating to payment of bonus, a private member's bill was introduced in Rajya Sabha today proposing profit...
07 Dec, 2012, 07.54 PM IST
Bill to make all workers eligible for bonus introduced in Rajya SabhaProposing to amend the Payment of Bonus Act, there is a proposal that no discrimination should be there among workers of different companie...
07 Dec, 2012, 07.27 PM IST
BSP, SP stalls Rajya Sabha, House adjournedLeader of Opposition Arun Jaitley also demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should clarify whether the government wanted to run the ...
05 Dec, 2012, 03.59 PM IST
Parliament adjourned after uproar over FDIBJP members were on their feet chanting slogans 'FDI Vapas Lo' (roll back the decision of FDI in retail) and demanded a discussion on the i...
27 Nov, 2012, 02.21 PM IST
- Rajya Sabha disrupted for the fourth day
The House plunged into chaos soon after it assembled for the day with senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu raising the issue of FDI.
27 Nov, 2012, 01.28 PM IST
- P J Kurien to be formally elected Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman tomorrow
Senior Congress leader P J Kurien will be formally elected Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha tomorrow with the treasury benches and the Op...
20 Aug, 2012, 06.56 PM IST
- Nine Cong candidates announced for Rajya Sabha biennial polls
Satyabrat Chaturvedi, a retiring member from Uttarakhand, has been nominated from his home state of Madhya Pradesh.
18 Mar, 2012, 09.55 PM IST
- Congress’s Dinakaran stand still unclear
Congress on Sunday continued to sound ambivalent about the corruption charges against Karnataka high court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran.
21 Dec, 2009, 04.02 AM IST
- Congress MPs play Dalit card for Dinakaran
Two Cong MPs claimed that Dinakaran is being targeted 'because he is a Dalit'.
19 Dec, 2009, 04.05 AM IST
- Cong wants FM to play popular tune in Budget
Congress has asked finance minister Pranab Mukherjee to announce a black money amnesty scheme in the forthcoming Budget.
16 Jun, 2009, 06.25 AM IST
- Jaswant demands PC's scalp for rising prices, fiscal slips
In a pointed attack on the finance minister in the Rajya Sabha, the Opposition BJP charged P Chidambaram with leaving an off-budget fiscal ...
01 May, 2008, 03.39 AM IST