Congress MPs will seek a legal framework for minimum support price for crops and press for resignation of Union MoS for home Ajay Mishra over the Lakhimpur incident in the winter session of Parliament. The party will, however, not force a washout of the session, Congress leaders said after a meeting of the Congress Committee … Read more
The Congress on Saturday said the leaders in the “Group of 23” are respectable partymen in whom it took pride, but advised them to make their “best contribution” and display their “loyalty” to the party by campaigning to strengthen it in the states that are going to polls. The advice came in response to the … Read more
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday praised the scientists and technicians for the two ‘Made in India’ Covid-19 vaccines approved by the government a day earlier. Meanwhile, the centre continued to lash out at the opposition for raising doubts over the vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech. “The new year has brought with … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress and some other opposition parties MPs kept away from the ground-breaking ceremony of the new Parliament building on Thursday. Members of non-NDA parties such as BJD, AIADMK and YSRCP, however, attended the event. Rajya Sabha deputy chairman informed the gathering that former PMs Manmohan Singh and HD Deve Gowda had sent their … Read more
New Delhi: The opposition slammed the government in the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the Covid-19 pandemic and the fightback against it, finding fault with the sudden lockdown in March, the Centre’s inability to pays GST dues to the states, the insufficient stimulus package and the manner in which migrant labourers issue was handled. … Read more