The two Houses of the Indian Parliament are set to reconvene tomorrow as the second part of the budget session begins. According to the list of business for the Lok Sabha, various bills and standing committee reports will be presented.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday hailed Bhagat Singh Koshyari, former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, former Governor of Maharashtra and Goa, and former Member of Parliament, as an extraordinary personality who is leading an ordinary, simple life by example.
Amid the delimitation row, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MPs on Sunday passed a resolution to discuss the exercise in the upcoming parliament session, set to resume on March 10.
The resolution was passed in an all MPs meeting headed by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President MK Stalin. DMK Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members participated in the meeting held in Chennai Anna Arivalayam.
The visit of the UP Assembly speaker was aimed to foster cooperation and learning between the two state legislatures, as well as discuss modernizing parliamentary procedures, women's empowerment, and public accountability.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is set to host a grand three-day Student Parliament from March 9 to March 11, 2025, at the NDMC Convention Centre, New Delhi.
Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Yamahi, Speaker of the Arab Parliament, affirmed the parliament's full support for all Arab initiatives aimed at empowering women at political, economic and social levels.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday stated that consensus and dissent are the strengths of democracy, but planned disruption in Assemblies and Parliament are detrimental to democratic values.
"The statehood will happen. The government of India will have to give us statehood. They are bound by the promise they made in Parliament when I was a member. They will have to uphold that promise," Abdullah told reporters in Jammu.
Rushan Abbas, Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs, attended the UK Parliament's Iftar at Westminster Hall, where she briefly spoke with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer about the ongoing repression of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region.
Speaking to the media, Birla asserted that these women not only contributed to the framing of the Constitution but also played a role in various fields of the society.