New Delhi: Congress on Monday steered clear of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee remaining non-committal on Pranab Mukherjee as the next President but strongly backing Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar for the post. "I have not heard or seen the statement", party spokesman Rashid Alvi told reporters. He was asked to react to Banerjee's remarks that she will be "very happy" to see Meira Kumar, Gopal Gandhi or even...
03:40 AM, May 22, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has finally broken her silence on the crucial question of who the Trinamool Congress would support for the Presidential election. In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, Mamata said Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, West Bengal Governor Gopal Gandhi and former President APJ Abdul Kalam were acceptable to her. "I love Meira Kumar. She is very soft spoken. Gopal Gandhi...
08:19 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Home Minister P. Chidambaram, who is known to be fluent in Tamil and English, stunned the Lok Sabha on Thursday when he addressed the House in Bhojpuri, receiving praise from Speaker Meira Kumar, who comes from Bihar, for his effort. Chidambaram was replying to a calling attention motion on the need to include Bhojpuri, the native tongue of Bihar, in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution to...
03:01 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Terming parliament as the "light pillar" of democracy, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Sunday said the two houses of parliament were custodians of the country's interests. Speaking at a function in the central hall of parliament to mark the 60th anniversary of the first meeting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Meira Kumar paid her respects to the people of the country whose participation in successive elections...
10:01 PM, May 13, 2012
A Parliamentary forum headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has told the NCERT that there should be no political satire in school textbooks. ...
03:42 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Not just BR Ambedkar, there should be no political satire in school textbooks, that's what a Parliamentary forum headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has told the NCERT. Sources told CNN-IBN that at a meeting on May 8, the Parliamentary Forum on Children strongly objected to cartoons in Political Science textbooks of Class IX, X, XI and XII. Sources say the MPs want cartoons of all politicians...
01:06 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, holding special sittings on Sunday, will focus on the 'sixty years journey of Indian Parliament' as they celebrate 60th anniversary of its first session. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will initiate the debate in the Rajya Sabha while Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will do it in the Lok Sabha. Singh and Mukherjee are the Leaders of the two Houses. Lok Sabha Speaker...
08:03 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Both Houses of Parliament will mark the 60th anniversary of their first sitting by holding a special sittings on Sunday. The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha will meet at 11 AM on Sunday (May 13) to discuss 'The Journey of 60 years of Indian Parliament'. A function will be held in the Central Hall of Parliament House at 5.30 PM when President Pratibha Patil will address the...
12:36 AM, May 11, 2012
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: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon who is on an India trip on Friday met Meira Kumar during which the Lok Sabha speaker asked him to involve developing countries in the consultation process with regard to the millennium development goals (MDG). "The developed countries should try to fulfill commitments towards developing countries, as stipulated under Goal 8 under the MDGs, so as to achieve the goals by 2015,"...
02:41 AM, Apr 28, 2012
With the emphasis on a non-political person as the next President, finding a candidate may not be easy for the Congress. ...
09:50 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: The allies of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) seem to be getting together to push for an apolitical presidential candidate with President Pratibha Patil's term ending in July. The name that seems to getting the maximum leverage is that of former president APJ Abdul Kalam. Key UPA ally and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has said that there must be dialogue across the NDA and the...
09:05 AM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Agitated over fresh poverty line figures, members of Parliament on Wednesday directed their ire against Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia with demands that he be removed. The Plan panel estimates pegging poverty line at Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities led to uproar in the Lok Sabha and Question Hour was scuttled as the House was adjourned. As soon as the House assembled for...
08:00 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday praised his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh as a "sincere" person who desired peace between the two countries. Gilani was on Wednesday speaking to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, who is leading a parliamentary delegation to Pakistan. "The prime minister of Pakistan recalled his meetings with the prime minister of India and said he regarded him as a sincere person who desired...
02:29 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Raipur: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said on Saturday that even though the country became independent in 1947, the battle for achieving social and economic freedom was still underway. "Social and economic freedom can be gained only through parliamentary system and the legislature was exclusively created to achieve this goal. Our parliamentarians and legislators are trying hard to achieve this desired goal by raising the voice of the downtrodden," she...
11:03 PM, Jan 28, 2012
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