The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the President on the advice of the council of ministers. The house meets in the Lok Sabha Chambers of the Sansad Bhavan in New Delhi.
Rajya Sabha unanimously passed the Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill, 2019 after Amit Shah reassured opposition members and said that they should not doubt the intentions of the government... IndiaTimes - Published
A bill proposing to give Centre the power to set the tenure and salaries of the Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners was passed in Lok Sabha on Monday amid strong objection from.. IndiaTimes - Published
During a business advisory committee meeting chaired by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, the government conveyed to the opposition parties that it was considering to extend the ongoing parliament session,.. DNA - Published
BJP working president J P Nadda on Monday "pulled up" Bhopal MP Pragya Singh Thakur for her remarks that she was not elected to the Lok Sabha for cleaning up toilets, comments that were seen to be.. IndiaTimes - Published
Speaker Om Birla led the House in expressing condolence over the passing away of Paswan and former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit. Paswan, a Lok Janshakti Party member, was a member from Samastipur.. IndiaTimes - Published
Veteran Leftist leader, former Lok Sabha MP and founder of the Marxist Coordination Committee (MCC) AK Roy passed away at a hospital in Dhanbad on Sunday. IndiaTimes - Published
The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader passed away around 10.30 a.m. He was admitted to the hospital a week ago. A four-time MP, Ramchandra Paswan represented Bihar's Samstipur in the Lok Sabha. He is.. IndiaTimes - Published
The petition was filed by Tej Bahadur, ex-BSF jawan and SP candidate, whose nomination to contest from Varanasi was rejected by the Election Commission. Yadav alleged that his nomination papers were.. IndiaTimes - Published
BJP MP Satyapal Singh again questioned Darwin's theory of evolution on Friday saying human beings are descendants of sages and not monkeys as propounded by thew British scientist. DNA - Published
While speaking in Lok Sabha during a discussion on Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill, 2019, Singh said Indian culture has always valued human beings. "It is our belief that we are descendant.. IndiaTimes - Published
"I would like to ask the Home Minister, why a law on mob lynching is not being made," asked AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi in Lok Sabha on Friday. DNA - Published
LS Speaker's remarks came when the opposition members including Congress, TMC and DMK were protesting in the well of the House during the Question Hour as the Speaker denied them to raise the issue of.. IndiaTimes - Published
Ahead of the Karnataka assembly vote on confidence motion of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government, leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alleged that the BJP is conspiring to bring.. IndiaTimes - Published
Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the Protection of Human Rights (Amendment) Bill, 2019 will help protect human rights more effectively. The amendment reduces the tenure of chairpersons of.. IndiaTimes - Published
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday asked a leader of the Trinamool Congress not to do "marketing" of West Bengal after he spoke about a health scheme of the state government in the House IndiaTimes - Published
Lok Sabha witnessed sloganeering and protests on Friday as Congress members sought to raise the issue of ongoing political crisis in Karnataka. IndiaTimes - Published
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has tweaked a parliamentary procedure which has pleased the opposition MPs. After every debate, the minister concerned gives his reply. Earlier, the opposition MPs would keep.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Election Commission issued notices to Trinamool Congress, Communist Party of India and Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday asking why their recognition as national party should not be withdrawn.. IndiaTimes - Published
The ongoing session of the 17th Lok Sabha has been the most productive in the last 20 years, with the lower house registering 128% productivity till Tuesday, according to think tank PRS Legislative.. IndiaTimes - Published
Former Congress legislators Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh Zala joined the BJP in Gujarat on Thursday. Thakor and Zala resigned as MLAs on July 5, apparently after voting against Congress candidates in.. IndiaTimes - Published
"Empowerment without appeasement and development with dignity" is the new mantra of the Narendra Modi government to carry out welfare programmes for the minorities, Union Minority Affairs Minister.. IndiaTimes - Published
"Fight there, not here," was the cryptic remark of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla when a ruling BJP member from Karnataka spoke in Lok Sabha on Thursday about the state's long standing dispute with Tamil.. IndiaTimes - Published
According to data released by PRS, Lok Sabha’s productivity till July 16 is at 128% which is the highest for any session in the past 20 years. Next highest were the Budget session in 2016 and winter.. IndiaTimes - Published
Two days after Lok Sabha passed the bill, Rajya Sabha today approved it unanimously. The bill gives powers to the NIA to probe terror attacks targeting Indians and Indian interests abroad. The.. IndiaTimes - Published
Participating in the discussions on Demands for Grants for the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports for 2019-20 in Lok Sabha, Veeraswamy said the DMK will continue to protect Tamil speaking people's.. DNA - Published Also reported by •IndiaTimes
Dhotre also said the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is providing 2G, 3G and 4G (at few locations) mobile services in its Licensed Service Areas (LSAs). "The government is trying for the revival of.. IndiaTimes - Published
Making a statement on the prevailing situation along the Sino-Indian border in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, defence minister Rajnath Singh said there is complete restraint by the armed forces of India and.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Lok Sabha sat till 11.59pm on Tuesday to conclude discussion on agriculture and rural development ministries. This is for the second time in less than a week that the Lower House conducted business.. IndiaTimes - Published
Birla made these remarks during a discussion on demands for grants of Ministries of Rural Development, Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare. The attendance in the lower house was thin as several members.. IndiaTimes - Published
Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the bill was initially introduced in Lok Sabha three years ago as Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016, and was then referred to a Joint Parliamentary.. DNA - Published
In his letter to the Lok Sabha speaker, TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay claimed that Rule 41 (xiii) of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha regarding conditions of admissibility of.. DNA - Published
"Due to concerted and synergised efforts of security forces, 963 terrorists have been neutralised in the state of Jammu and Kashmir since 2014 till June 2019. However, during these operations, 413.. IndiaTimes - Published
Replying to a discussion on demands for grants for the road transport and highways ministry in the Lok Sabha, Nitin Gadkari said the govt built 40,000 kilometres of highway in the last five years... IndiaTimes - Published
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