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Switzerland to go to polls today amid rising popularity of green parties
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Oct 20 (ANI/Sputnik): Switzerland is due to go for polling on Sunday to elect 246 members to the Federal Assembly -- 200 to the lower house, known as the national council, and 46 to the upper house, known as the council of states.
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India blocks event of PoK 'president' in French Parliament
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 3 (ANI): India has blocked Masood Khan, the president of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir from attending an event in the Lower House of the French Parliament.
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Russia organises exhibition to commemorate Gandhi's 150th birth anniversar
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Oct 2 (ANI): The State Duma or the Lower House of the Russian Parliament on Wednesday held a special exhibition dedicated to the friendship between Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy.
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Nepal's Lower House speaker resigns over rape accusations
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Oct 1 (ANI): Nepal's House of Representatives Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara on Tuesday stepped down from his post after facing rape allegations.
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Nepal's Lower House Speaker faces rape allegation
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Oct 1 (ANI): Nepal's Lower House Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara is facing allegations of sexually assaulting a woman staff working in the Federal Parliament Secretariat.
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Most productive session after 1952: LS Speaker Om Birla
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 6 (ANI): First session of 17th Lok Sabha proved to be the most productive session ever, with the Lower House passing as many as 36 bills which is more than the number of bills passed in the first session in 1952.
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Irani, Prasad get front row seats in Lok Sabha
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 1 (ANI): Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah and Nitin Gadkari will be in the front row of the Lower House according to the seat allocation decided by the Lok Sabha secretariat on Wednesday.
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LS Speaker rejects demand of minister, says there will be no adjournments
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 25 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday rejected a suggestion of Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy to adjourn the House over remarks made by Samajwadi Party member Azam Khan, asserting that there will be no forced adjournments in the lower house of Parliament
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No biasness or lobbying in conferring Padma awards: Govt
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 23 (ANI) : While addressing the Lower House on Tuesday, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said that Padma Awards have not been conferred based on biasness or lobbying
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Nepal: Opposition obstructs house proceedings, demand probe in Sarlahi sho
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], July 9 (ANI): Nepal's main opposition parties, including the Nepali Congress and the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal on Tuesday obstructed a meeting of the lower house demanding probe into two incidents in Sarlahi district last month, in which two people were killed.
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Budget 2019-20: 'Gandhipedia' being developed to sensitise youth about pos
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 05(ANI) : Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday informed Lower House of Parliament that 'Gandhipedia' is being developed to sensitise the youth about positive Gandhian values.
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Mahua Moitra submits breach of privilege motion against Zee TV, LS speaker
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 04 (ANI): Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday submitted a breach of privilege motion against Zee TV and its editor Sudhir Chaudhary for falsely reporting her maiden address in the Lower House of Parliament.
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