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Union health minister J.P. Nadda releases the lists of BJP candidates for the Punjab and Goa Assembly elections in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Fear of cross voting haunts Chhattisgarh parties

BJP rushed Union health minister J.P. Nadda to Raipur in Chhattisgarh to ensure smooth victory of the party candidate...

23 March 2018 2:25 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Rajya Sabha. (Photo: PTI/File)

Contest for RS seats in UP, 5 other states tomorrow; Jaitley in fray

For the 58 Rajya Sabha seats to be filled, 33 candidates from 10 states were declared elected unopposed on March 15.

22 March 2018 8:10 PM IST

Meanwhile, Congress MP Rajni Patil gave zero hour notice in Rajya Sabha over the issue of 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and Assembly. (Photo: ANI)

Parliament passes bill enhancing ceiling of tax free gratuity to Rs 20...

The bill moved by Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar in the Rajya Sabha was passed by a voice vote.

22 March 2018 1:53 PM IST

Abhishek Manu Singhvi

TMC asks Cong MLAs' to vote for Singhvi in RS poll

Senior CPI(M) leader Rabin Deb is contesting as the Left Front candidate for the fifth seat.

21 March 2018 6:21 AM IST

External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj had told Parliament on Tuesday that all 39 Indians, abducted by the ISIS in Iraq nearly three years back, were killed and their bodies were recovered. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)

Hopes trashed as kin get informed on TV about Indian captives' death

Several relatives of the killed workers said they were not officially informed about their loved ones by any government...

20 March 2018 7:04 PM IST

Deep penetration radar confirmed that all Indians were dead after all bodies were exhumed, said Sushma Swaraj. (Photo: Screengrab)

All 39 Indians kidnapped in Iraq's Mosul killed by ISIS: Sushma Swaraj

39 Indians who were taken hostage in Iraq's Mosul have died: Sushma Swaraj told in her Rajya Sabh address.

20 March 2018 11:20 AM IST

The National Capital Territory of Delhi was allocated three seats in the Rajya Sabha and these are currently being held by Karan Singh, Janardan Dwivedi and Parvez Hashmi (all Congress).

After loss, BJP keen to win extra Rajya Sabha seat

The BJP will have 28 surplus votes after it allots the required 37 votes to each of its eight official candidates.

20 March 2018 1:59 AM IST

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu (Photo: PTI)

Rajya Sabha adjourns after arguments between Venkaiah, Congress MPs

Mr Naidu expressed his anguish saying the House has not functioned ever since it resumed on March 5 after recess during...

17 March 2018 1:14 AM IST

Apart from Subramanian Swamy, other former judges and senior advocates of the Supreme Court also reacted to the press meet. (Photo: PTI)

Subramanian Swamy wants I-T abolished to ease burden

He said most taxpayers are the middle class and startup entrepreneurs and it amounts to harassment for them.

12 May 2018 12:26 AM IST

Renuka Chowdhury

Reduce weight, make efforts to increase Cong: Venkaiah to Renuka...

In February, PM Modi had taken a dig at Chowdhury comparing her loud laughter to that of Surpanakha from Ramayana.

29 March 2018 8:34 AM IST

SC to hear plea to restrain MPs making remarks on judges' removal

'We don't have to frame guidelines,' the bench said and observed that the question was if there should be such...

7 May 2018 2:06 PM IST

AAP leaders Atishi Marlena, Sanjay Singh, Saurabh Bhardwaj and Dilip Pandey address a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: Bunny Smith)

'Why has L-G not met CM on fourth day of sit-in?'

Nobody is being allowed to meet CM at L-G Secretariat: Sanjay Singh.

15 Jun 2018 4:59 AM IST