Telangana Bill moved in Rajya Sabha amid unprecedented chaos

Amid unprecedented bedlam, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde moved the Telangana bill in Rajya Sabha for consideration leading to three adjournments within 30 minutes. The Well of the Upper House......

Thawarchand Gehlot replaces Jaitley as Leader of Rajya Sabha

IMAGE: Thaawar Chand Gehlot takes charge as the Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment. Photograph: Press Information Bureau Union minister Thawarchand Gehlot was appointed on Tuesday......

View: BJP's Arun Jaitley on the Lokpal Bill

The ministers' draft of the Lokpal Bill has to be judged on the criteria whether it can subserve the object sought to be achieved, observes Leader of the Opposition (Rajya Sabha) Arun Jaitley.......

Can Gehlot fill Jaitley's void in Rajya Sabha?

Even his critics say Thaawar Chand Gehlot is a man of delivery.'If a task is assigned, he wins it over with political sagacity,' they say.R Rajagopalan reports. IMAGE: Thaawar Chand Gehlot takes......

UPA's policy is anti-citizen: Arun Jaitley

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday criticized the Union Budget 2012-13 saying it has "dampened" economic sentiments as almost all services have been brought under tax ambit. "The approach......

Meet Nirmalaji's Core Budget Team

The finance minister continues to be backed by the same policy team in charting out the broad strategy as in the few earlier Budgets. IMAGE: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman distributes halwa......

Hopes for GST rise as Rajya Sabha to debate bill for 4 hrs

Select committees of the House have already submitted their reports Four hours have been set aside by the Rajya Sabha next week for the debate on and passage of the Goods and Services Tax (GST)......

Not the time to open retail to FDI: Arun Jaitley

The reform on foreign direct investment in the retail sector might have got the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party if the government had sequenced it correctly, said Arun Jaitley, leader of the......

Who will replace Jay Shah as BCCI secretary?

The numbers will favour Jay Shah to mount the saddle as the next ICC Chairman but there is no clarity if he decides to join the world governing body, who will replace him as BCCI secretary. Shah is......