New Delhi: A response to an RTI application revealed that Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar defaulted on a payment of Rs 2 crore. Is she a rent defaulter by not paying rent for a house at 6, Krishna Menon Marg in New Delhi? CNN-IBN has now got a copy of an RTI query filed by Subhash Agarwal which states that the government has now taken a position that the bill...
07:00 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Controversial Calcutta High Court Judge Justice Soumitra Sen on Saturday sent his resignation in writing to the President, raising fresh questions whether impeachment proceedings against him in Lok Sabha on Monday will go on as scheduled. "A lawyer on behalf of Justice Sen has handed over a resignation letter to the President this morning. The President is perusing it," a Rashtrapati Bhawan Spokesperson said on Saturday without disclosing...
11:24 AM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Public Accounts Committee members on Tuesday didn't allow PAC Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi to table the 2G report during the PAC meeting. Joshi wanted to bring in the 2G report, but Congress members of the PAC raised objections that once the Speaker has rejected it, the report can't be brought again. Objecting tabling of the 2G report, the Congress said that the report had been rejected by...
05:48 PM, Jun 28, 2011
New Delhi: PAC Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi on Saturday submitted the report on 2G spectrum issue to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. "I have submitted the PAC report to Lok Sabha Speaker," said Joshi after submitting the report. "On 4th April in a meeting it was agreed by all members of the PAC that this report will be submitted by month end. All documents, including classified documents were made available...
05:12 PM, Apr 30, 2011
New Delhi: A day after a chaotic meeting of the Parliament's PAC, its Chairperson Murli Manohar Joshi along with NDA, AIADMK, BJD and Left members are exploring the possibility of submitting the draft report on 2G scam to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar before its term expires on Saturday. Joshi is understood to have held confabulations with members of like-minded parties in the Public Accounts Committee this morning and discussed...
05:50 PM, Apr 29, 2011
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar held an all-party meeting in a last effort to ensure that the budget session which begins on Monday, functions smoothly. The meeting has also been joined by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The government is expected to make a final decision on the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe in the 2G spectrum scam on Tuesday. After the meeting, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "We...
02:28 PM, Feb 20, 2011
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and leaders of various parties hope that the budget session of parliament beginning Monday will sail smoothly unlike the stormy winter session that was washed away in the loud protests over corruption scandals. "I am very optimistic. I feel there is a consensus among party leaders that parliament should function smoothly," Meira Kumar said. The speaker held a customary luncheon meeting with the...
08:37 AM, Feb 20, 2011
Kolkata: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday made a fresh appeal to political parties to find a solution to the impasse over the Opposition demand for JPC on the 2G spectrum issue which stalled the winter session of Parliament. "I am again calling on parties to find a solution. I have great respect for members and I believe that they also don't want the impasse the continue," Kumar said...
02:41 PM, Dec 24, 2010
Meira Kumar reprimanded TMC MP Sudip Bandopadhyay for his remarks against CPI(M) member Basudeb Acharia. ...
12:21 PM, May 05, 2010
According to SC/ST Act, member of the community cannot be called by caste name. ...
01:07 PM, Jan 13, 2010
Meira says she doesn't need a booming voice to manage the House. ...
06:12 PM, Jun 03, 2009
Kumar is the daughter of the late Congress stalwart Jagjivan Ram. ...
01:06 PM, Jun 01, 2009
Meira Kumar is the Union Water Resources Minister. ...
10:50 PM, May 31, 2009
The meeting was held at the Prime Minister's residence on Saturday. ...
04:20 PM, May 30, 2009
Chatterjee could not tolerate unruly behaviour by MPs on Thursday. ...
09:57 PM, Feb 20, 2009
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