Shah said it was a matter of happiness for his party that a descendent of the Maratha king has joined it and asserted that Bhosale’s presence will help it in the upcoming assembly elections. read more

Students directed to carry ID cards; outsider entry stopped read more

Birla, who represents Rajasthan’s Kota, is in his second Lok Sabha term and first as speaker. He has won praise for ensuring a session free of acrimonious disruptions, and in which 96% of woman MPs had their say. read more

NCP’s Supriya Sule and DMK’s Dayanidhi Maran sought to know where the National Conference leader from Jammu and Kashmir was on the day crucial legisations related to his state were being discussed. read more

“Speaker should have looked at why we resigned. We have already spoken that there is demoniacal politics in Karnataka. A government cannot be formed for the benefit of one family. He did not take any of this into account,” A H Vishwanath said. read more

The Speaker’s observation in the House came after the Trinamool Congress’s chief whip Kalyan Banerjee suggested, during the introduction of a bill for repealing and amending nearly 58 legislations, that British-era laws should be replaced. read more

Speaker KR Ramesh said the three disqualified rebel MLAs ceased to be members of the 15th Legislative Assembly till its expiry in 2023. read more

Karnataka Assembly Floor Test: HD Kumaraswamy, who led a Congress-Janata Dal Secular coalition government for nearly 15 months, appeared to acknowledge that his government was poised on the brink of collapse after the resignation of 16 lawmakers. read more

Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar intimated the lawmakers that Governor Vajubhai Vala has asked him to ensure that the trust vote should be held today. read more

Karnataka political crisis Highlights: The SC on Wednesday said that the rebel MLAs in Karnataka cannot be compelled to attend the trust vote in the Karnataka assembly. Former CM Siddaramiah , however, called the ruling a “judicial overreach”. read more

The helpline number 155271, which was launched on April 5, receives around 7-10 calls every week on an average. read more

Ramesh Kumar’s application also asked if the top court could dictate a timeline to the Assembly Speaker. It argued that the speaker needed time to verify if the resignations tendered by the MLAs were voluntary or forced. I read more

Senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi mentioned the petition before a bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi to request an early hearing. Chief Justice Gogoi has agreed to hear the petition tomorrow. read more

On June 20, AAP had moved an anti-defection petition against Bajpai and Bijwasan MLA Devinder Sehrawat – both AAP rebels -—for joining the BJP days before the Lok Sabha elections. read more

Under the existing practice, judgements are written in English and subsequently uploaded on the SC website. The point of making them available in regional languages is to enable litigants to check out the status of their cases without having to depend... read more