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BJP leaders identify reasons for defeat: Factionalism, gaps in coordinati
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 14 (ANI): Factionalism, gaps in coordination at the local level and inability to effectively counter AAP's narrative of freebies are among reasons identified by BJP leaders for the party's defeat in Delhi assembly polls.
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China has coronavirus, Kashmir the PSA virus, says Fayaz Ahmad Mir
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 14 (ANI): Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Fayaz Ahmad Mir compared the Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu and Kashmir with the coronavirus in China by claiming people were afraid to talk about both the issues.
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Alleviate fears of people: CPI's Binoy Viswam tells Amit Shah over Assam's
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 13 (ANI): Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam on Thursday wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging him to take appropriate action to "alleviate the fears of the people" after Assam's NRC data went offline from the official website.
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Rajya Sabha records 96 pc productivity in first phase of Budget Session
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 12 (ANI): The Rajya Sabha recorded 96 per cent productivity in the first phase of the budget session that concluded on Tuesday.
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Jaishankar files caveat in Supreme Court over plea challenging his electio
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 12 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has filed a caveat in the Supreme Court that will be heard if the court decides to take up any petition filed by Congress leaders challenging his election to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat in July last year.
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People of Delhi show their son is a patriot: Sanjay Singh on AAP victory
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 11 (ANI): AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Tuesday said that the people of Delhi have shown that Arvind Kejriwal "is not a terrorist but a patriot".
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Can't believe FM is not familiar with her own Budget figures: Chidambaram
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 11 (ANI): Hitting out at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for declining to answer Congress leader Anand Sharma's question on Budget 2020 in the Rajya Sabha, Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday claimed that the Union Minister was not familiar with the numbers th
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Rajya Sabha adjourned till March 2
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 11 (ANI) The upper house of parliament- Rajya Sabha, has been adjourned till March 2, after the culmination of first phase of the Budget session.
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CPI (M) gives suspension of business notice in RS over SC's reservation ru
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 11 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP KK Ragesh for the second consecutive day on Tuesday gave suspension of business notice in Rajya Sabha under rule 267 over 'SC ruling that there is no fundamental right to claim reservation for SC/ST/OBC in government jobs
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Dept of Defence Production issues authorisation of munition list covered i
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 10 (ANI): Department of Defence Production has issued authorisation for export of munitions list covered in category 6 of SCOMET (Special Chemicals, Organisms, Materials, Equipment and Technologies), Minister of State (MoS) for Defence Shripad Naik told Rajya Sabha in
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FM Sitharaman to reply on budget 2020 in RS tomorrow
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 10 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will reply in the upper house of Parliament- Rajya Sabha on budget 2020 on Tuesday.
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Centre should seek review of SC verdict on quotas at the earliest: Azad
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 10 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday sought review of Supreme Court's verdict which has said that reservation in promotions for government jobs is not a fundamental right.
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