Om Birla
- India
Parliament adjourned sine die, ending stormy Monsoon Session
New Delhi: Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned sine die on Thursday, August 13, drawing the curtain on a stormy Monsoon Session marked by repeated Opposition protests over the police crackdown on students…
- India
Unaccounted cash at home: Panel finds Justice Varma almost guilty
New Delhi: A three-member inquiry committee probing allegations against former High Court judge Yashwant Varma has found all three articles of charge against him proved, holding that his explanation for the discovery…
- India
Lok Sabha passes two more Bills without debate as logjam continues
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday, August 11, passed without debate two more Bills, including one seeking to rename Kerala as Keralam, as Opposition members continued to protest, demanding the presence…
- India
Birla gives govt, opposition 3 hours on anti-paper leak Bill
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla gave the government and opposition parties a three-hour window to settle differences so that discussion on the paper leaks Amendment Bill could begin in the…
- Middle East
Lok Sabha pays tribute to Qatar’s former Emir
New Delhi: India’s lower house of Parliament, the Lok Sabha, on Monday, July 20, paid tribute to Qatar’s former Emir and Father Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, following the passing…
- Telangana
Telangana MP seeks to raise NEET paper leak issue in Lok Sabha
Hyderabad: Telangana MP and Congress leader Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy has sought Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla’s permission to raise the NEET paper leak issue during the Monsoon Session of Parliament that…
- India
Monsoon Session: LS adjourned briefly amid Oppn sloganeering
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned twice, the second time till noon, amid heavy sloganeering by the Opposition on the first day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament on Monday, July…
- Politics
TMC’s Abhishek files 20 disqualification pleas against rebel MPs
New Delhi: Facing a revolt in his parliamentary team, Trinamool Congress leader in Lok Sabha Abhishek Banerjee on Friday met with Speaker Om Birla and submitted 20 petitions against its 20 rebel…
- India
Abhishek called to meet Birla while being in ED office
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will hear the defected TMC MPs as well as the faction led by Mamata Banerjee before deciding on giving recognition to the breakaway faction, sources…
- Kolkata
Rebel TMC MPs announce merger with Nationalist Citizens Party
New Delhi: The rebellion in the Trinamool Congress (TMC) appeared to reach a crescendo on Sunday, June 14, as dissident MPs announced their merger with the Nationalist Citizens Party and met Lok…
- India
9-yr-old mauled by stray dogs in Rajasthan; Om Birla offers condolences
Kota: A nine-year-old girl was attacked and mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs after she left her home to defecate in the fields near a village in Rajasthan’s Bundi…
- India
Parliament rejects Oppn bid to remove chief poll commissioner, gives no reason
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan on Monday, April 6, rejected the impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, with no reasons cited for…
- India
Lok Sabha lifts ban on 8 oppn MPs, sets ‘Laxman Rekha’ for conduct
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday revoked with immediate effect the suspension of eight opposition members, who were barred from the House on February 3 for “unruly” behaviour, with Speaker Om…
- Telangana
Speaker Om Birla denying Opposition chance to speak: Telangana MP
Hyderabad/New Delhi: Nagarkurnool MP Mallu Ravi on Wednesday, March 11, accused Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla of repeatedly denying Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and several Opposition members the opportunity to speak in…
- India
Whenever we stand up to speak, we are stopped: Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday, March 11, interjected a Lok Sabha debate on the resolution to remove Om Birla as Speaker, saying that he was stopped from speaking…
