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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi during the Budget session of Parliament, in New Delhi, on March 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI As the Lok Sabha was briefly adjourned amid Opposition protests after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement on the Mahakumbh, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks about Mahakumb in the Lok Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Tuesday, March 18, 2025 The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) amid noisy protests by the opposition seeking to ask questions on the statement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi … Read more
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament, on March 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) said the railway fares in India are far less than the neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. He asserted that railway … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with NASA astronaut Sunita Williams during a meeting in 2016 when Mr. Modi visited U.S. Photo:X/@MEAIndia Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who is scheduled to return to Earth early on Wednesday (March 19, 2025) after a nine-month stay at the International Space Station, and invited … Read more
The Rajya Sabha returned The Appropriation Bill, 2025; The Appropriation (No. 2) Bill, 2025; The Manipur Appropriation (Vote on Account) Bill, 2025; and The Manipur Appropriation Bill, 2025, after the reply by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to a discussion on the four bills. | Photo Credit: ANI/Sansad TV Parliament on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) approved … Read more
Supreme Court noted the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) submission that it was willing to deliberate over the demand for uploading polling booth-wise voter turnout data on its website and asked the petitioners to make representations before the poll panel in 10 days. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 18, … Read more
A Bench of the Supreme Court’s senior-most judges headed by Justice B.R. Gavai on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) decided to examine in detail if judges of constitutional courts come within the jurisdiction of the country’s top ombudsman, Lokpal, like public functionaries including the Prime Minister, Union Ministers, Members of Parliament and Central government officials. “We … Read more
Former IAS trainee Puja Khedkar | Photo Credit: ANI The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) told former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar — who’s accused of cheating and wrongly availing OBC and disability quota benefits in the civil services examination — that she cannot avail separate attempts to clear the test as an “able … Read more
Sonia Gandhi accused the BJP-led Centre of systematically undermining of the rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) accused the BJP-led Centre of systematically undermining of the rural employment guarantee scheme MGNREGA, and demanded a raising of minimum wage under it to ₹400 per day and the number … Read more
DMK members demand a discussion in the Lok Sabha on the delimitation issue on March 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: Screenshot from YouTube/@SansadTV DMK members on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) walked out of the Lok Sabha claiming they were not allowed to raise the issue of delimitation of parliamentary and Assembly constituencies in the Lower … Read more