Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu chided the members for their 'unbecoming' behaviour and asked them to resume their places.
The Congress president also said that he was 'pretty confident' that Narendra Modi would not be the next prime minister.
Choudhary also posted on his Twitter account, a letter written by Union minister for Labour Bandaru Dattatreya to Irani using "dear", and accused her of "double standards" on this count.
Opposition political parties hit out at the UP government, questioning its seriousness in curbing crimes against women.
During her three-day visit, Priyanka will cover a distance of 100-km by boat in Ganga from Prayagraj to Varanasi.
'As soon as the BJP feels they are going to lose power, they will publish the caste census data of 2011 and conduct the caste census of 2021.'
Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf traces the journey of PM-CARES from its founding to finally admitting it is not a government fund.
Hours after Narendra Modi lashed out at the Gandhi family, Priyanka Gandhi hit back at the Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate, saying he had insulted her 'martyred' father Rajiv Gandhi during his speech in Amethi and accused him of indulging in 'low-level' politics.
The Delhi high court had on December 17 convicted Kumar and sentenced him to imprisonment for 'remainder of his natural life' in another 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
Members from parties like the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the Left parties and the Rashtriya Janata Dal created uproar in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha as soon as the Houses met for the day.
As Narendra Modi hits the campaign trail in Madhya Pradesh, Congress leader Digvijay Singh trained his guns on him, saying the BJP's prime ministerial candidate will not have an impact as he has no vision for the country and "only knows how to abuse".
Uma, who was appointed party General Secretary just days before her expulsion, claimed that she never nursed greed for power and added that the general secretary's post was higher than that of chief minister.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attributed the impressive show by his party to the "alert voters" who he said rejected the 'mahagathbandhan' (grand alliance) of opposition parties.
The BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the country needed a servantand not a ruler. Calling him a sevak, Modi said that if voted to power he would serve the country.
The death of the veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor a huge loss for the Indian film industry.
He, however, was quick to add that though "it is an internal matter of the BJP, but so far as country or ideology is concerned, there is no question of tolerating such things."
The Budhni seat is witnessing an interesting campaign trail with Sadhna Singh -- wife of Chief Minister and BJP candidate Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Karuna Rajput - better half of Congress candidate Mahesh Rajput taking centrestage going door-to-door seeking votes for their husbands in the fray.
'My son and my father were pulled out of the hiding place on second floor, beaten badly and were thrown down from the roof'
Theft has taken place in front of the eyes of the chowkidar. But you are silent, Rahul said.
The most experienced administrator in the country seems to have sat back and allowed bureaucrats and policemen to manage the lockdown, observes Jyoti Punwani.
A coordination panel comprising senior leaders of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in Maharashtra will look into various aspects of the National Population Register (NPR), Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said in Mumbai on Tuesday. Addressing the media in Vidhan Bhavan in south Mumbai, where the budget session of the state legislature is underway, Thackeray said, "Responsible leaders of the three parties will be part of it (coordination committee on NPR)." "I won't let anyone snatch the rights of any citizens of Maharashtra. I am very clear on this," he said, when asked about differences in the ruling alliance over the implementation of NPR in the state.
With Congress on the verge of a humiliating defeat, a group of party workers on Friday gathered outside the All India Congress Committee headquarters demanding Priyanka Gandhi's entry into active politics to "rescue" the party.
'He is wily and has everything that a political leader needs to succeed at that level.' 'He would be outstanding as a counter to Modi in the Lok Sabha, if he had the Opposition benches behind him,' says Aakar Patel.
'As of now, it is hard to see how the stalemate can be broken.' 'For the Sikh Jat farmers who constitute the core of the protest are a simple-minded but stubborn lot. 'They are unlikely to call off the stir unless provided a sense of 'victory'.' 'Give them a reason to boast that they brought the government to its knees and they will start singing hallelujahs to the Modi government,' argues Virendra Kapoor.
He said his party wants to eradicate corruption and if "Modiji takes any step against the menace, the Congress party will lend its hundred per cent support".
Riding high on the "historic" farm loan waiver, the Congress on Sunday virtually launched its election campaign with party chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attacking the BJP for neglecting the farm sector and for its handling of terrorism. The two were talking at a farmers' rally in New Delhi.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com attended the Congress president's rally in Mumbai on Friday, and explains why people who came with high hopes left disappointed.
There are no two views on which way the 'hawa' is blowing. It's Akhilesh Yadav -- with or without his father. Akhilesh, with or without the Congress Party.
Jaitley began his speech by saying that today is the auspicious day of Basant Panjami and that "spring is the season of optimism".
Senior JD-U leader Nitish Kumar extended best wishes to Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal for the Delhi elections.
'Is it okay for you to have a government that does nothing? A chowkidar (referring to himself) who sleeps?'
The article on the history of Bihar had described Indira Gandhi as 'autocratic' and said that during the Emergency, the state's tallest leader Jay Prakash Narayan had suffered a treatment which was 'worse' than the one meted out to Mahatma Gandhi in Champaran during the freedom struggle.
On the occasion of his 81st birthday, political leaders across parties and other eminent personalities greeted President Pranab Mukherjee.
'People do not want a 'maha milavat' (highly adulterated) government of those who assembled in Kolkata.'
A spirited turn at the mic by Mahua Moitra, first-time MP from Trinamool Congress, in which she listed the "signs of early fascism", has been hailed as the "speech of the year" on social media.
Latching on to a Pakistan minister's "destabilisation" remark against Narendra Modi, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad on Thursday said that the BJP prime ministerial candidate should be sent to Pakistan.
The new candidates fielded from these constituencies by the BJP are: SP Singh Baghel (Agra), Parameshwar Lal Saini (Sambhal), Raj Kumar Chaher (Fatehpur Sikri), Jai Prakash Rawat (Hardoi-SC), Ashok Rawat (Misrikh-SC) and Arun Sagar (Shahjahanpur-SC).
'India has decided - Democracy needs to be celebrated.'
The Modiquake has devastatingly hit all Opposition, says Nazarwala.
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