The winter session of parliament usually starts from the last week of November or the first week of December, while the budget session starts from the last week of January and the Union Budget is tabled on February 1.
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the department and the presidential Cabinet.
A parliamentary panel on Thursday questioned the "neutrality" of Google when it is engaged in both advertising and content, and asked was it not violating the fundamental rights of users by "controlling" their choices.
India's new Parliament building construction will begin in December 2020 and likely to be completed by October 2022, while necessary measures have been put in place to ensure that Parliament sessions can be held uninterrupted during this period in the existing buildings, Lok Sabha Secretariat said on Friday.
Parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill for the inclusion of Kashmiri, Dogri, and Hindi in the list of official languages in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, in addition to the existing Urdu and English.
The Congress and other opposition party member sat in protest inside Rajya Sabha even after the House was adjourned for the day after the passage of two farm bills.
Lok Sabha on Saturday passed a taxation bill that seeks to provide various reliefs in terms of compliance requirements for taxpayers amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Parliament's ongoing monsoon session could be curtailed as early as September 24 in view of rising coronavirus cases. All political parties in a Business Advisory Committee (BAC) of Parliament on Saturday agreed to curtail the ongoing Monsoon Session as early as September 24.
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Bill, 2020.
Tatas has won the contract of contructing the new Parliament building at a cost of Rs 861.90 crore. Tata projects have won the contract of constructing the new parliament building at a cost of Rs 861.90 crore, beating Larsen and Toubro.
Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday announced that Janata Dal (United) nominee Harivansh Narayan Singh has been chosen as the deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha. "I declare that Harivansh ji has been chosen as the deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha," M Venkaiah Naidu said.
The monsoon session of the Parliament — Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha — will start from September 14, 2020 and will continue till October 1, Lok Sabha Secretariat announced in a notification. Altogether, during monsoon session 2020, there will a total of 18 sittings.
Absconding godman Nithyananda now aims to follow up on his 'Reserve Bank of Kailaasa' with a Hindu parliament in the next six months, he said on Sunday.
A fire broke out at the Parliament Annexe building in Delhi on Monday. According to the details, the blaze was reported on the 6th floor of the Parliament Annexe Building.
Out of seven companies who were in the race to get contract to construct the new Parliament building, three have been selected to submit online financial bids, the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) said.
Nepal last month released the revised political and administrative map of the country laying claim over the strategically key areas. India has been maintaining that these three areas belonged to it.
Rajya Sabha chairman Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla are mulling ways to run the Parliament's monsoon session that normally begins in the last week of July and goes up to August end.
A Rajya Sabha Secretariat official tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, the fourth such case reported in the Parliament complex so far, sources said in New Delhi.
The two houses of the Afghan Parliament -- the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) and the Meshrano Jirga (upper house) -- have been put under a lockdown until the end of the nationwide restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The parliament secretariat will start functioning from Monday while adhering to the guidelines on social distancing issued in the wake of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has claimed at least 519 lives in India so far, officials said.
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