Rajya Sabha Attendence

Seventy-eight percent of Rajya Sabha members attended the proceedings of the House daily, a study conducted by the House Secretariat showed.

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said that members should make it a point to be present in the House to enhance understanding of parliamentary procedures and also use the library facility.

Members of Parliament (MPs) will require COVID-19 negative reports of themselves, their family members and other close contacts to attend the upcoming monsoon session, beginning September 14.

The MPs attending Parliamentary Standing Committee meetings will have to sit six feet apart, and not more than two witnesses from the ministry concerned can appear before the panel at a time.

As many as 95 MPs did not attend even a single meeting of the parliamentary standing committees that reviewed allocations for different ministries post-presentation of the Union Budget for the 2020-21 fiscal, Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said Monday.

Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday tore into the Modi government's handling of the economy, saying it was close to collapse and has been attended by "very incompetent doctors."

A week after Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu pulled up MPs of both Houses for low attendance at parliamentary standing committee meetings, the Lok Sabha recorded poor turnout figures this morning

Expressing concern over low attendance of members in the meetings of parliamentary panels, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has urged leaders of political parties to ensure their members are regularly present in the meetings of the Department Related Standing Committees (DRSCs) and in the House as well, sources said on Monday.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday pulled up MPs of both Houses for their low attendance in parliamentary standing committees' meetings and urged the leaders of all political parties to ensure "quantitative and qualitative functioning" of these panels.

Former union minister P Chidambaram walked out of Delhi's Tihar jail this evening, hours after being granted bail by the Supreme Court in the INX Media case. As he stepped outside, he was greeted by a group of Congress leaders including his son Karti Chidambaram. Mr Chidambaram said he cannot comment on the case as per Supreme Court's order, but ev...

P Chidambaram will walk out of jail after almost three months after the Supreme Court granted him bail today in the INX Media money laundering case. The former union minister has spent 105 days in prison, mostly in Delhi's Tihar Jail. Mr Chidambaram cannot travel without permission and has to appear for questioning whenever required, the top court ...

Marshals attended to proceedings in the Rajya Sabha without their military-styled caps today amid an ongoing review of their new uniform, which debuted on the opening day of the winter session. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, who is also the Rajya Sabha chairman, had earlier asked the secretariat to reconsider the uniforms in view of criticism from ...

Rajya Sabha Chairperson M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday appealed to parties to ensure that members attend the Parliamentary Standing Committee meetings regularly. This comes after a key meeting on air pollution had to be postponed last week when some parliamentarians failed to show up.

A day before the winter session of parliament begins, several key meetings were held today where leaders across party lines discussed the agenda for the next session. The first of the two all-party meetings lined up for today began this morning. It was followed by a meeting between the leaders of the ruling National Democratic Alliance where the Sh...

The massive political turmoil in Maharashtra that has divided two of the country's oldest allies has also triggered a revision of seating arrangements in the Rajya Sabha.

Seventy-eight percent of Rajya Sabha members attended the proceedings of the House daily, a study conducted by the House Secretariat showed.

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said that members should make it a point to be present in the House to enhance understanding of parliamentary procedures and also use the library facility.

Members of Parliament (MPs) will require COVID-19 negative reports of themselves, their family members and other close contacts to attend the upcoming monsoon session, beginning September 14.

The MPs attending Parliamentary Standing Committee meetings will have to sit six feet apart, and not more than two witnesses from the ministry concerned can appear before the panel at a time.

As many as 95 MPs did not attend even a single meeting of the parliamentary standing committees that reviewed allocations for different ministries post-presentation of the Union Budget for the 2020-21 fiscal, Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said Monday.

Former finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday tore into the Modi government's handling of the economy, saying it was close to collapse and has been attended by "very incompetent doctors."

A week after Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu pulled up MPs of both Houses for low attendance at parliamentary standing committee meetings, the Lok Sabha recorded poor turnout figures this morning

Expressing concern over low attendance of members in the meetings of parliamentary panels, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has urged leaders of political parties to ensure their members are regularly present in the meetings of the Department Related Standing Committees (DRSCs) and in the House as well, sources said on Monday.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday pulled up MPs of both Houses for their low attendance in parliamentary standing committees' meetings and urged the leaders of all political parties to ensure "quantitative and qualitative functioning" of these panels.

Former union minister P Chidambaram walked out of Delhi's Tihar jail this evening, hours after being granted bail by the Supreme Court in the INX Media case. As he stepped outside, he was greeted by a group of Congress leaders including his son Karti Chidambaram. Mr Chidambaram said he cannot comment on the case as per Supreme Court's order, but ev...

P Chidambaram will walk out of jail after almost three months after the Supreme Court granted him bail today in the INX Media money laundering case. The former union minister has spent 105 days in prison, mostly in Delhi's Tihar Jail. Mr Chidambaram cannot travel without permission and has to appear for questioning whenever required, the top court ...

Marshals attended to proceedings in the Rajya Sabha without their military-styled caps today amid an ongoing review of their new uniform, which debuted on the opening day of the winter session. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, who is also the Rajya Sabha chairman, had earlier asked the secretariat to reconsider the uniforms in view of criticism from ...

Rajya Sabha Chairperson M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday appealed to parties to ensure that members attend the Parliamentary Standing Committee meetings regularly. This comes after a key meeting on air pollution had to be postponed last week when some parliamentarians failed to show up.

A day before the winter session of parliament begins, several key meetings were held today where leaders across party lines discussed the agenda for the next session. The first of the two all-party meetings lined up for today began this morning. It was followed by a meeting between the leaders of the ruling National Democratic Alliance where the Sh...

The massive political turmoil in Maharashtra that has divided two of the country's oldest allies has also triggered a revision of seating arrangements in the Rajya Sabha.