The Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. It currently has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using single transferable votes through Open Ballot while the President can appoint 12 members for their contributions to art, literature, science, and social services. Members sit for staggered terms lasting six years, with elections every year but almost a third of the 233 designates up for election every two years, specifically in even-numbered years. The Rajya Sabha meets in continuous sessions, and unlike the Lok Sabha, being the lower house of the Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, which is the upper house of Parliament, is not subjected to dissolution. However, the Rajya Sabha, like the Lok Sabha can be prorogued by the President.
Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday made a strong pitch for detailed legislative impact assessment (LIA) to bring out social, economic, environmental and institutional impacts of.. IndiaTimes - Published
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, BJP veteran L K Advani, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad were among others who offered.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to further entertain Rajya Sabha MP Vaiko's plea seeking production of former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah before it. The SC bench said the.. IndiaTimes - Published
Fatima is a member of Rajya Sabha from the party and will contest from the seat vacated by her husband after he made his way to the Lok Sabha by defeating BJP candidate Jaya Prada from Rampur.. DNA - Published
The seat in Bihar was vacated by the death of noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani, who was a Rajya Sabha member from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), earlier this month. DNA - Published Also reported by •IndiaTimes
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday reached here on the second-leg of his six-day tour of Jammu and Kashmir and said the situation in the Valley is "very bad". Azad, the leader of.. IndiaTimes - Published
Rajya Sabha MP and 'Saamana' and 'Dopahar Ka Saamana' executive editor Sanjay Raut has said in his weekly column, that many political "turncoats", some with doubtful credentials, are making a beeline.. IndiaTimes - Published
Rajya Sabha MP Kumari Selja, who has been appointed as president of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) on Wednesday ahead of Assembly polls in the state said that it is a huge responsibility on.. DNA - Published
The by-election will be held on September 23 and the counting will take place on the same evening. Both the seats fell vacant after Seth and Nagar resigned from Rajya Sabha and later joined the BJP. DNA - Published
According to Mangukiya, candidates can file an election petition against the returned candidates pitted against them and cannot challenge the election of other winner candidates DNA - Published
A four-time member of Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley was among the BJP leaders who sensed early that Narendra Modi had the potential to challenge the Congress' domination of national politics and backed him.. IndiaTimes - Published
"My heartfelt condolences to the family, friends and admirers of Arun Jaitley Ji. His passing away creates a void in national politics that can never be filled," Rajya Sabha MP Subhash Chandra said. DNA - Published
Former Prime Minister and Congress leader Manmohan Singh took oath as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan on Friday. DNA - Published Also reported by •IndiaTimes
By-elections for the two Rajya Sabha seats vacated by BJP's Amit Shah and Smriti Irani post their Lok Sabha victory was held on July 5 in which Jaishankar and Thakor emerged as winners against.. DNA - Published
When the Centre announced the decision on August 5, both the MPs staged a protest inside and outside Parliament, shouted slogans in the well of the Rajya Sabha and tore a copy of the Constitution. IndiaTimes - Published
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is unlikely to field its candidate against former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the by-election to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. DNA - Published
Tharoor got into a controversy last year after his remark that if voted to power again, the Bharatiya Janata Party would change the constitution to make India a Hindu Pakistan. The comment drew flaks.. IndiaTimes - Published
They joined the BJP in the presence of Rajya Sabha MP TG Venkatesh at a membership drive organised at Parinaya Function Hall in the city on Sunday. DNA - Published
Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh on Monday reiterated that the Narendra Modi government is hiding facts on the situation in Kashmir. “Go to YouTube, see the coverage by.. IndiaTimes - Published
During the visit, Sitharaman visited the flood relief shelters in the region and met the people. She had arrived in Bangalore earlier today, from where she travelled to Belgaum. The BJP leader is a.. IndiaTimes - Published
O'Brien was summoned by the agency on July 26, 2019 to join the investigation in connection with the TMC mouthpiece 'Jago Bangla'. While he was asked to appear before the agency in the first week of.. DNA - Published
Bhubaneswar Kalita, former Congress chief whip in Rajya Sabha who resigned from the House earlier this week opposing the party's stand on the government's decisions on Jammu and Kashmir, joined the BJP.. IndiaTimes - Published
Bhubaneshwar Kalita, former Congress chief whip in Rajya Sabha who resigned from the House earlier this week opposing the party's stand on the government's decisions on J&K, joined the BJP on Friday... IndiaTimes - Published
Speaking to reporters at a get-together after the end of the Parliament session, Naidu who is also the Rajya Sabha chairman suggested that the parties should include such a code in their election.. IndiaTimes - Published
The turnaround during this session was quite evident when viewed against the passage of a total of only 33 Bills during the last five sessions (244th to 248th) with a total of 88 sittings, says M.. DNA - Published
According to a statement issued by the Parliamentary Affairs Committee, the first session of the 17th Lok Sabha has been "historic" in many ways as legislations relating to almost all walks of socio.. IndiaTimes - Published
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