The monsoon session which ended on Monday was to conclude on August 12. It witnessed the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha passing seven and five bills respectively. While the Lower House saw a total of 16 sittings that lasted 44 hours and 29 minutes, the Upper House met for 38 hours with as many...
Over the past 18 months, 10 people in Gujarat have been banned for life from filing RTI (right to information) queries on certain matters. Among its reasons for imposing the ban, the Gujarat Information Commission (GIC) cited “filing multiple queries”, “being cantankerous” and “using the RTI Act to harass government officials”.
Nitish has called a meeting of all its MLAs and MPs today, when he is likely to discuss the issues emerging out of the revolt of RCP Singh, the former Union minister, who has resigned from the party. The JD(U) has alleged that the BJP is trying to split the party by engineering a...
Russia continued to focus on reinforcing its defences in southern Ukraine over the weekend, while also maintaining attacks on Kyiv’s positions in the Donetsk region in the east, Britain said on Monday. Bakhmut has been Moscow’s most successful axis in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas over the last 30 days, the British defence ministry said in...