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Lok Sabha floor leaders agree to debate on 150 yrs of Vande Mataram, poll reform

Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge at a protest against SIR. (ANI)
Updated on Dec 02, 2025 05:11 pm IST

Centre says govt ready to discuss SIR, asks Opposition not to ‘set timeline’

Rijiju rejects Opposition’s demand for immediate SIR debate, insists no fixed timelines
Updated on Dec 02, 2025 05:04 pm IST

PM congratulates Om Birla for being elected as the LS Speaker for second term

Om Birla was re-elected as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha on Wednesday (Twitter Photo)
Published on Jun 26, 2024 01:04 pm IST

Newly elected Speaker Om Birla triggers row with Emergency remark

BJP MP Om Birla elected as 18th Lok Sabha Speaker
Updated on Jun 26, 2024 02:11 pm IST

BJP names Poojari as Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Legislative Council

Senior BJP MLC and former minister Kota Shrinivas Poojari appointed as the Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Council. (HT Photo)
Updated on Dec 26, 2023 07:36 am IST

Lok Sabha clears bill to ease newspaper registration

*Union minister Anurag Thakur said the Bill aims to shed the colonial mindset and bring a new law for a new India (PTI)
Updated on Dec 22, 2023 01:25 pm IST

Morning brief: Ethics panel to call for TMC MP's expulsion; all latest news

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra stage a walkout with Opposition MPs from the Parliamentary Ethics Committee meeting,
Published on Nov 09, 2023 08:56 am IST

Women’s reservation bill tabled in Lok Sabha

Modi leads MPs to the new Parliament building on Tuesday. (ANI)
Updated on Sept 20, 2023 12:05 am IST

Lok Sabha adjourned sine die, worked 44 hours in Monsoon session

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla (ANI)
Updated on Aug 11, 2023 03:23 pm IST

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla refuses to chair proceedings. Here's why

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla conducts the proceedings of the house during the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
Published on Aug 02, 2023 03:32 pm IST

Opposition mustering strength to challenge Delhi ordinance

AAP leaders protest against the Centre’s ordinance in New Delhi on July 5. (HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 28, 2023 12:49 am IST

Punjab’s farmer leaders to burn copies of farm bills tomorrow

Representatives of farmer organisations met in Moga on Saturday to forge a common platform to oppose the farm bills.
Updated on Sept 19, 2020 04:29 pm IST

No building in new central vista will be taller than India Gate

The proposed buildings under the plan to revamp New Delhi’s Central Vista, the seat of power in national capital Delhi, will not be taller than the 42-metre-high India Gate to maintain uniformity of structures.
Updated on Jan 01, 2020 05:48 am IST

Laptops, tablets in Lok Sabha? Speaker Birla considering digitisation plan

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla
Updated on Dec 20, 2019 03:14 pm IST

Pranab Mukherjee pitches for 1,000 Lok Sabha MPs, central hall as Lower House

Former President Pranab Mukherjee addresses during the 2nd Atal Bihari Vajpayee Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019.
Updated on Dec 17, 2019 10:52 am IST

Number of graduates is highest ever in Lok Sabha

India’s lower house of representatives, the Lok Sabha, has seen the number of graduates increase from the first Lok Sabha (in 1952) to the seventeenth
Updated on Sept 18, 2019 12:02 am IST

House to publish rare book on Atal Bihari Vajpayee

A year after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee died, India’s Parliament will publish a book on the legendary statesman that will contain his select speeches and many rare photographs
Updated on Sept 17, 2019 12:37 am IST

‘Not detained, Farooq Abdullah is at home,’ Amit Shah responds to MPs

The resolution is meant to scrap the Article 370 that grants special status to the state and the bill divides the state into two Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Updated on Aug 06, 2019 03:41 pm IST

CBI summons Derek O’Brien in connection with TMC mouthpiece funding

The Rose Valley scam estimated at 17,000 core is the biggest gonzo scan in Bengal in terms of the money involved, during the high profile Saradha scam that is estimated to involve about 2,400 core.
Updated on Jul 27, 2019 07:33 am IST

As session gets extra time, govt eyes passage of labour code and key bills

Lower House cleared the Triple Talaq bill.
Updated on Jul 26, 2019 03:17 am IST

Young Congress leaders to march to Rahul Gandhi’s house, urge him to stay

One of those who is organising the campaign, a former AICC secretary and a Youth Congress leader, said that leaders from the party’s frontals will also be present.
Updated on Jun 28, 2019 04:32 pm IST

Parliament session Highlights: ‘All MPs must consider one nation,one poll proposal’,says President Kovind

President Kovind addresses joint sitting of Parliament. (Photo ANI)
Updated on Jun 24, 2019 12:00 pm IST

Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil quits Congress, reports say may join Devendra Fadnavis cabinet

Senior Congress leader in Maharashtra and former leader of opposition in Legislative Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil Tuesday submitted his resignation.
Updated on Jun 04, 2019 04:42 pm IST

Rajya Sabha members prepare for fresh innings in Lower House

Two senior ministers in the outgoing NDA, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Smriti Irani successfully contested the Lok Sabha polls from two high-profile seats.
Updated on May 29, 2019 11:52 pm IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP vs Congress vs AAP: A triangular contest for 7 Delhi seats

First-time voters at a polling booth in Pandav Nagar in Delhi on Sunday.
Updated on May 12, 2020 08:16 pm IST

Lok Sabha 2019 constituency: Congress and BJP have both won Akbarpur seat in UP

Ghaziabad India - March 14, 2019: A view of an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and Voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT), at DM office, in Ghaziabad, India, on Thursday, March 14, 2019. The members of the federation of association of apartment owners will request contesting candidates to give affidavits which will include time line of the works which the candidate promises in their area. (Photo by Sakib Ali / Hindustan Times)
Published on Apr 17, 2019 06:45 pm IST

Lok Sabha 2019 constituency: UP’s Amroha will see a contest between BJP, opposition alliance

Ranchi, Jharkhand, INDIA – April 17: (FILE PHOTO) Rural first time voters happily showing their voting mark after casting their votes for 2nd phase election of Lok Sabha poll for Ranchi constituency at a polling booth at Rampur in Ranchi on Thursday April 17, 2014-(Photo-Parwaz Khan-Hindustan Times) PHOTO FOR REPRESENTATIONAL PURPOSE
Updated on Apr 15, 2019 10:12 am IST