Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on Wednesday that a 'National Legislative Index' will be prepared to make legislatures more effective, people-oriented and accountable.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Wednesday emphasised that the Booth Level Officer (BLO) serves as the foundational pillar of India's electoral democracy.
The Telangana High Court on Wednesday granted permission to conduct the 'Dharma Rakshana Sabha' at Balapur on Saturday, advocate K Karuna Sagar said, adding that the court has also directed the police to provide security for the event.
Highlighting the hardships faced by ordinary citizens, the Lok Sabha leader of oppposition asserted that the "system has sold out to those in power" and demanded accountability.
In his address to the Presiding Officers from various states, he emphasised the role of AI in making legislatures more efficient but laid out various steps required to make the technology accurate and reliable.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday attended the plenary deliberations of the 86th All India Presiding Officers' Conference (AIPOC) here and reiterated the need to set standards in the functioning of legislative institutions.
In a move aimed at enhancing transparency and accountability in parliamentary proceedings, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has said that attendance of Members of Parliament will now be recorded only when they are physically present inside the House at their designated seats. The new attendance
In an X post, Jairam Ramesh asked PM Modi, to clarify if anybody opposed to him will be termed an 'urban naxal'. The Congress leader cited the Union Home Ministry's answer in Rajya Sabha in 2020, which said that the ministry does not use the term.
Speaking to the media on the repeal of MGNREGA, Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of attempting to "centralise power, hand it over to bureaucracy, and leave the poor citizens to starve."
"Roads kill, Bridges kill, Fires kill, Water kills, Pollution kills, Corruption kills, Indifference kills; India's urban collapse isn't about lack of money, technology, or solutions. It's about lack of accountability," he wrote in a post on X.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday said that he, along with senior party colleague and Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi, held a "very fruitful meeting" with U.S. Senator Steve Daines to discuss the Indo-U.S. relationship.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla raised concerns over the declining number of sittings in State Assemblies and disruptions in the House and advocated for meaningful and productive legislative sessions as a foundation for a prosperous democracy.