Politics

Jamyang Tsering Namgyal speech drew applause from the treasury benches and praise from Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself. The MP also became a Twitter trend with thousands of posts mentioning him.

Shatrughan Sinha's name is doing the rounds in Congress circles as the successor to the party's veteran leader Sheila Dikshit, who died recently.

Kumaraswamy, who was unseated as the chief minister last month following rebellion by a group of MLAs of the then ruling coalition of Congress and his party JD(S), was addressing the party workers at the Palace Grounds in Bengaluru.

Bansuri is a graduate from the University of Oxford and pursued her barrister’s degree from Inner Temple, London. She is currently a practicing advocate in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court.

In the first Budget session after the newly elected Modi government took charge, Lok Sabha worked for 281 hours, which is 135 per cent of the scheduled hours.

The meeting comes a day after Reddy's YSR Congress Party supported the Centre's resolution in the Rajya Sabha for scrapping the provisions of Article 370. The party has two MPs in the Upper House and 22 in the Lok Sabha.

Amarinder Singh asked the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which was in power in 2015, why it handed over the probe into the sacrilege incidents to the CBI when it had the state police for investigation.

UP chief minister Yogi Aditynath had recently been in the public eye for visiting Gorakhpur and Ayodhya to inspect the site where a Ram statue is proposed, but on both occasions he did not mention the Unnao rape survivor.

Since the BJP came to power in 2014, it has been consistently engaging its MPs to spread words about various achievements of the government and the welfare schemes begun by it.

The party had said last week that the Congress Working Committee will meet after the current session of Parliament that ends next Wednesday.

The current session, which was to end on July 27, has already been extended by two weeks, while the Opposition has accused the government of rushing through bills.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and other Union ministers -- Nitin Gadkari, Sadanand Gowda, Narendra Singh Tomar, Arjun Munda and Arvind Sawant -- also got seats in the first row.

Police had raided the Mohammad Ali Jauhar University premises on Tuesday and recovered books that were allegedly stolen from a 250-year-old madrasa.

Banerjee likened the incident to businessmen contemplating to leave the country in the face of huge pressure at a time when the opposition political parties were afraid of horse-trading and harassment for political vendetta.

Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala said the murder was 'painful' and the accused should be brought to book immediately.

Moving the bill, Ravi Shankar Prasad said the proposed legislation should be not seen through a political prism or vote bank politics, as it aims to ensure gender dignity and equality.