Chaudhary, a lawmaker from the Nepali Congress in the lower house of the Nepal Federal Parliament, is being investigated for allegedly privatizing land belonging to the Bansbari Shoe Factory, a government entity.
A day after the Election Commission (EC) notified the dates for the seven-phased Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday launched 'Log Sabha' a dedicated portal to stay connected with the people during polling for the Lower House of Parliament in the state.
Commencing a Central Working Committee meeting, the Nepali Congress, the largest party in the lower house- House of Representatives, in terms of seats decided to retract support to the Dahal-led government.
Speaker of the Jordanian Lower House of Parliament, Ahmed Safadi and Speaker of the UAE Federal National Council, Saqr Ghobash, today discussed the prospects of underscoring the robust historical ties between the two nations.
In a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his last address in the Lower House in the current NDA tenure at the closing of the Budget Session of Parliament, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday called it his 'valedictory speech' in the 17th Lok Sabha.
Speaker Om Birla on Saturday said that the overall productivity of the 17th Lok Sabha has been around 97 per cent, the highest among the tenures of the last five Houses. The lower House of Parliament also lost a total of 387 hours to disruptions
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday issued a three-line whip to all its MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, asking them to be present in the Parliament on Saturday as some important legislative business is to be discussed in both Houses.
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi has moved an adjournment motion in Lok Sabha demanding a discussion on the Assam government's spending on air travel for state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the Lower House on Friday.
Congress MP Manish Tewari has moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha seeking a discussion on the border situation with China in the Lower House on Friday.
Congress MP Manickam Tagore moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha seeking a discussion on the two disasters including Cyclone Michaung that hit Tamil Nadu last December in the Lower House on Thursday.
Congress MP Manish Tewari has moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha seeking a discussion on the legal guarantee of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) to the farmers in the Lower House on Thursday.
"If demonetization was a bad policy and badly implemented, GST was a good idea but which was badly designed and shabbily implemented," Tharoor said in the Lower House.