First Session Of This Lok Sabha

The ongoing monsoon session of Lok Sabha will be curtailed by several days, the government decided on Saturday after consulting the opposition at the Business Advisory Committee meeting this evening.  The Parliament met for the first time in six months on September 14 and was to function until October 1. 

A fierce row in the Lok Sabha over a Minister's comments on the Nehru-Gandhi family and a Congress leader calling him a chhokra (boy) led to multiple adjournments for the first time in this parliament session, which is being held with unprecedented changes because of the coronavirus crisis.

There is no data on migrant deaths so the "question does not arise" of compensation, the Union labour ministry said in parliament on Monday to a question on whether families of those who had lost their lives while trying to reach home in the coronavirus lockdown had been compensated. The government's written response in Lok Sabha on the first day o...

The traditional all-party meet before a parliament session has been scrapped for the monsoon session, which begins tomorrow. The departure from convention - probably a first in two decades -- is seen as indication of the growing differences between the opposition and Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla.

With 30 bills passed already and three working days still left, the government has claimed that this session of the 17th Lok Sabha, the first since the results of the national election were announced in May, has been the most successful since 1952, in which 27 bills were passed in 64 days

Parliament Highlights: The The 17th Lok Sabha convened for the third day today as most of the prominent leaders took oath during the first two days of the session. Several key bills are expected to be introduced in this session including the one that would make the practice of Triple Talaq illegal.

The Rajya Sabha will meet from June 20 to July 26 for the upcoming session of Parliament, the Upper House secretariat said today.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP-led government will face a no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The no confidence motion was moved by the Opposition and accepted in the Lok Sabha at the start of the monsoon session of the Parliament. The motion was moved against the government on several issues - special status to Andhra Pradesh, mob...

Today is the fourth day of the on-going Parliament session. Both Houses of Parliament were expected to discuss the Motion of thanks on the President's Address on Monday. The Lok Sabha assembled for the first time after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tabled the Union Budget. The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day after paying tributes to BJP member ...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the Union Budget for financial year 2018-19 on February 1. The first phase of the budget session of the parliament began from January 29 and will continue till February 9. This year's budget session is crucial as it comes after the Modi government made two very big financial decisions in the last couple of...

Parliament will have a long weekend this year-end and resume work on January 2, as both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha today decided to have a holiday on the first day of 2018.

The first week of Monsoon Session saw heated debates over the situation in Kashmir as well as the recent atrocities on Dalits in the country. During the session, the Opposition also cornered the Bharatiya Janta Party over the remarks passed by party leader Dayashankar Singh on BSP supremo Mayawati. Government is likely to list the much-delayed GST ...

The first week of Monsoon Session saw heated debates over the situation in Kashmir as well as the recent atrocities on Dalits in the country. During the session, the Opposition also cornered the Bharatiya Janta Party over the remarks passed by party leader Dayashankar Singh on BSP supremo Mayawati. Mr Singh had passed objectionable comments against...

The inaugural session of the new Lok Sabha will commence on June 4, and end on June 11. This was recommended today by the Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet.

The ongoing monsoon session of Lok Sabha will be curtailed by several days, the government decided on Saturday after consulting the opposition at the Business Advisory Committee meeting this evening.  The Parliament met for the first time in six months on September 14 and was to function until October 1. 

A fierce row in the Lok Sabha over a Minister's comments on the Nehru-Gandhi family and a Congress leader calling him a chhokra (boy) led to multiple adjournments for the first time in this parliament session, which is being held with unprecedented changes because of the coronavirus crisis.

There is no data on migrant deaths so the "question does not arise" of compensation, the Union labour ministry said in parliament on Monday to a question on whether families of those who had lost their lives while trying to reach home in the coronavirus lockdown had been compensated. The government's written response in Lok Sabha on the first day o...

The traditional all-party meet before a parliament session has been scrapped for the monsoon session, which begins tomorrow. The departure from convention - probably a first in two decades -- is seen as indication of the growing differences between the opposition and Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla.

With 30 bills passed already and three working days still left, the government has claimed that this session of the 17th Lok Sabha, the first since the results of the national election were announced in May, has been the most successful since 1952, in which 27 bills were passed in 64 days

Parliament Highlights: The The 17th Lok Sabha convened for the third day today as most of the prominent leaders took oath during the first two days of the session. Several key bills are expected to be introduced in this session including the one that would make the practice of Triple Talaq illegal.

The Rajya Sabha will meet from June 20 to July 26 for the upcoming session of Parliament, the Upper House secretariat said today.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP-led government will face a no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The no confidence motion was moved by the Opposition and accepted in the Lok Sabha at the start of the monsoon session of the Parliament. The motion was moved against the government on several issues - special status to Andhra Pradesh, mob...

Today is the fourth day of the on-going Parliament session. Both Houses of Parliament were expected to discuss the Motion of thanks on the President's Address on Monday. The Lok Sabha assembled for the first time after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tabled the Union Budget. The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day after paying tributes to BJP member ...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the Union Budget for financial year 2018-19 on February 1. The first phase of the budget session of the parliament began from January 29 and will continue till February 9. This year's budget session is crucial as it comes after the Modi government made two very big financial decisions in the last couple of...

Parliament will have a long weekend this year-end and resume work on January 2, as both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha today decided to have a holiday on the first day of 2018.

The first week of Monsoon Session saw heated debates over the situation in Kashmir as well as the recent atrocities on Dalits in the country. During the session, the Opposition also cornered the Bharatiya Janta Party over the remarks passed by party leader Dayashankar Singh on BSP supremo Mayawati. Government is likely to list the much-delayed GST ...

The first week of Monsoon Session saw heated debates over the situation in Kashmir as well as the recent atrocities on Dalits in the country. During the session, the Opposition also cornered the Bharatiya Janta Party over the remarks passed by party leader Dayashankar Singh on BSP supremo Mayawati. Mr Singh had passed objectionable comments against...

The inaugural session of the new Lok Sabha will commence on June 4, and end on June 11. This was recommended today by the Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet.