The Congress Wednesday said the list containing caste description of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and its Bihar unit office-bearers was not released formally and that the party was inquiring how the document became public.
‘We are ascertaining if and why such a list was made. It was not released formally. It is a matter [...]
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Tuesday said she would consider suggestions by Pakistan’s National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza that there should be a Women’s Parliamentary Caucus in South Asia.
‘I will look into it,’ Meira Kumar said on the sidelines of the Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) when asked about the [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday heaped praise on Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, saying she had an ‘iron fist beneath a velvet voice’.
‘I am pleased that the speaker facing these challenges … is a very distinguished woman, Meira Kumar, who sheathes the proverbial iron fist beneath a velvet voice,’ he told the Conference of Speakers [...]
India’s journey to a multi-party democracy has been marked with ’stresses and strains’ but it has worked, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday while making a strong case for a meaningful voice for women in political and developmental processes.
‘India’s own tryst with democracy drew its inspiration from our freedom struggle. And so, at a time [...]
Mobilising the ‘vast latent capabilities of our women’ was imperative to democracy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday while advocating a a more meaningful voice for women in political and developmental processes.
‘The representative bodies (in India) should think of ways to marshal the energy and the impatience of the young and the vast latent [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The 20th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC), hosted by the Indian parliament, started here Monday with a meeting under the chairmanship of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.
However, the conference, being attended by 50 speakers and presiding officers from 42 parliaments in the Commonwealth Jan 4-8, [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) Speaker Meira Kumar Monday said Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister M.K. Alagiri, who wrote to her requesting that he be allowed to answer in Tamil the questions in parliament, has not yet come to meet her.
‘I am still waiting for him,’ Meira Kumar told reporters when asked if the DMK leader [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) The entire country was waiting for justice in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, Speaker Meira Kumar said Monday while calling for ‘immediate relief’ to victims in cases related to atrocities against women.
Kumar described as ‘unfortunate’ the case of the 15-year-old who was molested by former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore [...]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil was greeted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Vice President Hamid Ansari and a group of specially-abled children on the occasion of the New Year at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday.
The President was also greeted by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.
Prime Minister Singh [...]
Nagpur, Dec 29 (ANI): Newly elected the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), President Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday hailed the decision of Gujarat Government to make voting mandatory in State’s local body polls.
Gadkari described the decision of the Narendra Modi led State Government as a step [...]
Hyderabad, Dec 23 (IANS) Hours after Home Minister P. Chidambaram made a statement on the Telangana issue, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao Wednesday resigned as MP while five party legislators also sent their resignations to the assembly speaker
Rao sent his resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar stressing the need to hold [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Singing carols in the capital this week will be victims of last year’s violence in Kandhamal, Orissa. Even as they put the past behind and spread Christmas cheer, celebrations have begun in right earnest at Rashtrapati Bhavan!
The presidential palace echoed with ‘jingle bells, jingle bells’ as choir groups from India’s [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Amid high drama in the Lok Sabha Friday, opposition parties walked out in protest against the government passing bills without discussions amid noisy protests over proposed statehood for Telangana. Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the house sine die, slamming the unruly behaviour of some MPs.
There were highly emotive moments in the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday declined to give a time frame for resolving the festering controversy over a separate Telangana state.
‘No idea,’ he replied when reporters asked him outside parliament when the issue would be resolved given the intense passions for and against creating the new state.
The [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) There was high drama in the Lok Sabha Friday as opposition parties walked out in protest against the government passing bills without discussions amid noisy protests over proposed statehood to Telangana. Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the house sine die slamming the unruly behaviour of some MPs.
‘It is disturbing to note [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Speaker Meira Kumar Friday slammed the unruly behaviour of ‘certain sections’ in the Lok Sabha before adjourning the winter session of the house sine die amidst uproar over the Telangana state issue.
The speaker asked MPs to make an ‘honest introspection’ about the ‘disturbing trend’ in the functioning of the house.
‘It [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Amid a persistent din over the issue of statehood to Telangana, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Friday adjourned the house sine die after completing all legislative business on the agenda.
There was continuous uproar in the Lok Sabha over the Telangana issue after the house reassembled at noon for Zero Hour.
As [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was adjourned Friday after members of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Congress clashed over the issue of separate statehood to Telangana.
When Question Hour began, TDP MPs, supporting a united Andhra Pradesh, gathered near Speaker Meira Kumar’s podium. This was soon after Meira Kumar completed [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Noisy protests for and against the creation of Telangana forced adjournment of the Lok Sabha Thursday while in the Rajya Sabha, the Left parties and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) found common cause on the Headley saga and asked the government to make clear its stand on the case that [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Noisy protests for and against the division of Andhra Pradesh Thursday forced repeated disruptions of the Lok Sabha that saw 28 business papers tabled in a span of just 15 minutes amid the chaos before the house was adjourned for the day.
Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha Karia Munda was [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Noisy protests for and against the division of Andhra Pradesh Thursday forced repeated adjournments of the Lok Sabha that saw 28 business papers tabled in a span of just 15 minutes amid the chaos.
Speaker Meira Kumar was forced to adjourn the Lok Sabha for two hours after earlier adjourning the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Pro and anti-Telangana protests disrupted the Lok Sabha Thursday morning forcing Speaker Meira Kumar to adjourn the house for 15 minutes.
As soon as the house met for Question Hour, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MPs holding placards stating ‘We want united AP (Andhra Pradesh)’ rushed towards the speaker’s podium, shouting slogans [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) ‘Be people friendly’ and ’safeguard public interest’ — these are two lessons 25 first-time lawmakers from Arunachal Pradesh were asked to remember while serving people as their representatives.
The Arunachal MLAs were in parliament Wednesday for an orientation programme inaugurated by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.
Kumar emphasised that every member, particularly [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) With potatoes costing twice as much since the past year and high onion prices bringing tears to housewives, galloping inflation has become a major embarassment for the government with the opposition stalling parliamentary proceedings Wednesday, resulting in the adjournment of the Lok Sabha for the day.
A dogged ppposition belonging to [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (ANI): Former BJP leader and Member of Parliament Jaswant Singh resigned from the post of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman here on Wednesday by sending his resignation letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.
Earlier, in August, after his expulsion from the BJP following his controversial book on Pakistan founder M.A. Jinha, [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (ANI): The Lok Sabha was today adjourned till Thursday over the price rise debate.
Members belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Left Parties, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Biju Janata Dal shouted slogans inside the House, saying, “Check price rise or Change the government.”
The debate began when the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was adjourned Wednesday when MPs from the Left parties and the Samajwadi Party (SP) disrupted question hour on the issue of price rise.
As soon as the morning session of the Lok Sabha began, the MPs, led by SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, gathered near Speaker Meira Kumar’s [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) There was high drama in parliament Tuesday after Congress MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy made common cause with his bitter rivals, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), to press for a united Andhra Pradesh, even as he said he stood for a ‘Golden Telangana’ – without specifying what he meant by this.
The [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Congress MPs from Telangana region Tuesday sought action against against Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, son of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, for ‘colluding’ in the Lok Sabha with Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MPs opposed to a separate Telangana state.
A delegation of the MPs led by Madhu Goud Yaskhi and M. [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) The cracks in the ranks were evident Tuesday when Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh clashed on the decision to create a separate state of Telangana, leading to the Lok Sabha being adjourned for a while.
As soon as zero hour started, members of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) were allowed to [...]
