Expressing strong displeasure over the present form of the Food Security Bill, Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Monday said the proposed legislation ignores the role of panchayats in public distr

The judge in the trial of four men accused of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus last December announced Tuesday he would deliver his verdicts on September 10.

As the United Andhra issue continued to rock the Parliament both in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, the chair suspended the agitating members under Rule 374(A).

Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh Tuesday dismissed suggestions that fissures within the party was delaying the much-awaited announcement of Narendra Modi’s name as its prime ministerial candidate for the next year’s parliamentary elections.

The treasury benches in the rajya Sabha on Monday committed a faux pas during the voting on the ordinance on food security, which led to confusion and held up proceedings in the House for some time.

Onion prices, which continue to rule at an unaffordable level of Rs 60-70 per kg, are expected to cool down in the coming days as new crop from south India has started hitting the market, the government said on Tuesday.

Congress and TDP MPs clashed in the Lok Sabha on Monday, with allegations that abusive and un-parliamentary language was used by both sides.

US President Barack Obama received a big boost in his efforts to get Congressional authorisation for a military strike against Syria on Tuesday. A top Republican senator, John McCain, supported the move saying it would be “catastrophic” to reject such an action.

Terming the Food Security Ordinance an “abuse of the legislative power” to issue ordinances, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Monday said the much-touted Food Security Bill

Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq criticised the national team’s Australian coach Dav Whatmore, saying that he has failed to deliver the results expected of him.