Lok Sabha to meet on Saturday, Rajya Sabha gets day off

The Lok Sabha will have a sitting on Saturday, despite being a Saturday, notwithstanding strong demands by several members of Parliament, leaders and ministers against it. Speaker Meira Kumar ruled......

Won't be party to rail budget passage sans debate: BJP

Opposition, including Bharatiya Janata Party, Left and other parties, on Tuesday walked out of the Lok Sabha, charging the government with indulging in one scam after another and saying they would......

Controversial biotech regulator bill introduced in LS

A bill to establish a statutory independent regulator for biotech sector covering research, transport, import, manufacture and use of organisms and products of modern biotechnology was introduced......

BJP joins SP to demand Beni's removal

With the exit of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from United Progressive Alliance, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday sought to drive a wedge between Congress and Samajwadi Party demanding immediate......

Govt can't ban field trials of GM crops: Pawar

Dismissing Parliamentary panel's suggestion to halt all field trials of GM crops, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said the government can't take 'luxurious decision of banning' them because......

GM crops: All-party par panel for ban on trials

The report of Parliament's standing committee on agriculture and genetically modified crops has asked for an end to all field trials for these. "Further research and development on transgenics in......

Air India strike figures in Lok Sabha

The Air India strike issue was raised in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday with Gurudas Dasgupta (CPI) demanding that the government take concrete steps to revive the national carrier and stop patronising......

Govt agrees to discuss price rise in Lok Sabha

Apparently bowing to opposition pressure, government on Monday agreed to a discussion in the Lok Sabhaon Tuesday on rising prices, an issue that has brought almost the entire Opposition and some......