New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha could not function on the first day of the Winter Session of Parliament with issues like FDI and reservation to SCs/STs in promotions triggering uproar that led to its adjournment for the day. The Trinamool Congress and the AIADMK raised the issue of FDI in retail when the House met at noon after the first adjournment, while BSP members rushed to the well raising slogans...
01:20 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Southern Railway has opened a reservation counter at Pampa on the foothills of Sabarimala to serve devotees visiting the hill shrine, where the annual pilgrim season is underway. A divisional railway release on Monday said the single window counter for ticket booking, cancellation and fare related enquiries would function from 8 AM to 8 PM. The Railway has announced special trains from different destinations in the country and back...
11:57 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Barabanki/Lucknow: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav kicked up a row with his remark that rural women will not benefit from the Women Reservation Bill because they are not as attractive as those from the affluent class. Mulayam, whose party is in power in Uttar Pradesh and is an outside supporter of UPA government, made the comment while articulating his opposition to the long pending Women Reservation Bill. "Bade bade...
07:15 PM, Nov 09, 2012
Haryana: All Jat Khaps will be meeting for a mahapachayat on Friday in Jind and the main agenda would be to discuss reservation for their community. However, the meeting also comes under the backdrop of over 20 rapes cases in just 40 days in Haryana and widespread criticism over the Khap's bizarre statements. On October 13, Haryana's Sarva Khap Jat Panchayat, which has been at the forefront of demanding reservations...
10:30 AM, Oct 19, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday strongly opposed an All India Common Entrance Test for admission to Under Graduates and Post Graduates courses in medical colleges, saying such a move would interfere with the State's rights and create problems in implementing the reservation policy. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she said that despite the State's protest, the Centre has notified the National Board of...
02:36 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: Terming the Congress-led UPA Government as "anti-dalit", the Bahujan Samaj Party on Friday demanded that a special session of Parliament should be called this month to clear the Bill for reservation in promotions for SC/ST employees. "We have requested the Centre to call a special session of Parliament this month to get this Bill cleared but before that the government should ensure that the House will function smoothly,"...
02:19 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Uproarious scenes were witnessed in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday over the Constitution (One Hundred Seventeenth Amendment) Bill, 2012, which provides for reservation to SCs/STs in job promotions, leaving little scope for the Bill to be passed in this Monsoon Session which ends on Friday. The Bill, which was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday amid commotion and scuffle between members of SP and BSP in the...
03:47 PM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: 2.08 pm: Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day following uproar over bill for quota in promotion and other issues. 1.15 pm: The BJP on Thursday said that the Congress should first come out clean in the coal blocks allocation controversy before taking up any other agenda in Parliament. "The government is trying to hide in the shade of corruption and Parliament session. They should first agree to the...
11:01 AM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: Parliamentary politics hit a new low with MPs getting into a scuffle on the floor of the house over the SC/ST Quota Bill on Wednesday. However, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, whose MPs were involved in the scuffle, remained unapologetic. Speaking to CNN-IBN Editor in Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, SP MP Naresh Aggarwal said, "Why should we apologise? The people who were trying to stop him...
08:40 AM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: Undeterred by unruly scenes in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, the government would try to bring the Bill providing quota in promotions to SC/ST in government jobs on Thursday in Parliament but its immediate passage looks unlikely with the opposition emerging from within the UPA. The Samajwadi Party has openly opposed the measure and it has been now joined by UPA constituent DMK, which too has demanded quota...
07:50 AM, Sep 06, 2012
MPs from the BSP and the SP come to blows in Rajya Sabha. At least 37 people killed and several injured in fire at a cracker factory in Sivakasi. ...
11:56 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Amidst chaos, a bill to amend the constitution and introduce reservations in promotions was introduced in the RS on Wednesday. ...
09:36 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: The bitter political battle over the Constitution (One Hundred Seventeenth Amendment) Bill, 2012, which provides for reservation to SCs/STs in job promotions, has deeply divided Parliament. The Centre after tabling the legislation on Wednesday indicated that the Bill is unlikely to be passed in the Monsoon Session, prompting the Bahujan Samaj Party, which is in the forefront of introducing reservation to SCs/STs in job promotions, accuse the UPA...
03:35 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: 2.03 pm: Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day. 1.58 pm: Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), V Narayanasamy, said the government has done its job by tabling the SC/ST quota bill in the Rajya Sabha. "I think this was a historic moment. This is a demand of not just the people but the Supreme Court also. I am satisfied that the bill has been introduced...
12:05 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: JD(U) president Sharad Yadav on Wednesday said that although his party is in support of SC/ST quota bill in job promotions but as a NDA constituent will oppose it in the Rajya Sabha. Meanwhile, the Samajwadi Party is trying is build momentum against the bill slated to be tabled on Monday at 12 noon in the Upper House of the Parliament. The Samajwadi party has reached out to...
11:22 AM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to continue to protest in Parliament on the coal scam, putting a question mark on the passage of the bill for quota-based promotions for SCs and STs in government jobs. The government is planning to introduce it in the Rajya Sabha after the cabinet gave it a go-ahead on Tuesday. The BJP, though, will not say whether they support or oppose...
08:38 AM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: With the Cabinet clearing a bill to provide reservation in promotion to SC/STs in government jobs, BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday met top BJP leaders seeking their support for its passage in the current session of Parliament. Mayawati along with her party colleague Satish Chandra Mishra met Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and her Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun Jaitley, urging them to allow Parliament to...
02:50 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Union Minister Salman Khurshid said that the SC/ST Quota Bill was an honest attempt by the Centre and not a political googly. ...
01:05 PM, Sep 04, 2012
The Cabinet on Tuesday cleared the SC/ST Quota envisaging reservations in promotions in government jobs. ...
01:01 PM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a Bill which provides for reservation to the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in government job promotions. The government will introduce the Bill in Parliament on Wednesday or Thursday. Congress's new-found ally, the Samajwadi Party had earlier lashed out at the Centre saying that while reservation of jobs for SCs/STs and OBC candidates was fine, reservations in promotions would not be...
12:10 PM, Sep 04, 2012
