CHENNAI: Former Assembly Speaker K Kalimuthus brother lodged a complaint with the Police Commissioner on Friday, alleging that four persons, including DMK chief M K Karunanidhis daughter Selvi and her relative Uma Maheshwari, cheated him of Rs 69 lakh after promising to make him a member of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC). In his complaint, K Nallathambi, a former additional public prosecutor from Madurai, alleged that he approached...
10:38 AM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: Politics hit a new low in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday as a PDP MLA threw a fan at the State Assembly Speaker while protesting the death of an National Conference (NC) worker in police custody. The Speaker in return allegedly abused the MLA. And as the heat rose in the Assembly, the state government tried to douse the fire, clarifying the NC worker died of a heart...
09:24 PM, Oct 03, 2011
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
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar on Saturday night rejected the resignation of 101 Telangana MLAs cutting across party lines, saying the act of the legislators was driven by emotion. In all, 101 MLAs from Telangana region, including 12 ministers of the state cabinet, drawn from different parties submitted their resignations en masse on July 4 demanding that the central government immediately create Telangana state. The Speaker is understood...
10:47 PM, Jul 23, 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: Speaker Meira Kumar feels that Lok Sabha sittings should be increased to 100 days in a year so that various problem being faced by people in the country can be debated and discussed. She also favoured building consensus to change the timing of the Question Hour in Lok Sabha as was done in Rajya Sabha. "Lok Sabha proceedings should be increased from the current 70 days to 100...
05:08 PM, Jun 03, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: With the selection of Ministers running into a major controversy within the Congress, the UDF is holding a crucial meeting on Monday to decide on the IUML demand for a fifth Cabinet berth and to finalise the posts of Speaker and Deputy Speaker. The Congress is facing a Herculean task of having to first set its own house and that of the Front's in order as the Cabinet-formation has...
08:59 AM, May 30, 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
New Delhi: The all-party meet called by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Tuesday failed to reach a consensus. Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj said Parliament will not function until the government agrees to their demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the 2G spectrum scam. A delegation of Left leaders, along with TDP and Samajwadi Party MPs met the President and asked her to use her 'constitutional powers'...
08:09 AM, Nov 30, 2010
New Delhi: The all-party meet called by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Tuesday failed to reach a consensus. Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj said Parliament will not function until the government agrees to their demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the 2G spectrum scam. A delegation of Left leaders, along with TDP and Samajwadi Party MPs met the President and asked her to use her 'constitutional powers'...
08:09 AM, Nov 30, 2010
Bangalore: The Opposition Congress suffered another setback on Thursday when one of its legislators resigned from his Karnataka Assembly membership, making him the second from the party to do so in two days. The Karnataka Congress expelled two rebel MLAs, SV Ramachandra and Narayanaswamy. Narayanaswamy, who represented Bangarpet in Kolar district, yesterday submitted his resignation which was accepted Thursday by the assembly Speaker K G Bopaiah, secretariat sources said. He...
05:27 PM, Oct 21, 2010
Bangalore: City Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari on Monday justified the entry of police into the Assembly, saying it was done at the instruction of the Speaker K G Bopaiah to control the situation. He said the police entered the Assembly after a written request and instructions from the Speaker stating that the situation inside the House was out of control and the Civil Police also should help in controlling the...
04:33 PM, Oct 11, 2010
Constitutional expert Rakesh Dwivedi says the Speaker must comply with the principles of natural justice. The Independents are not bound by the whip of any party. ...
03:30 PM, Oct 11, 2010
Bangalore: A division bench of the Karnataka High Court will Monday afternoon hear a joint petition by 16 rebel legislators against their disqualification by Speaker K.G. Bopaiah ahead of the trust vote earlier in the day. "The petition has been admitted and posted for hearing by the bench headed by Chief Justice K.S. Khehar and Justice Manjula Chellur at 3 p.m.," an official of the court's registrar office told IANS....
03:05 PM, Oct 11, 2010
Karnataka chief minister squarely blames the Governor, saying nobody had expected such attitude from him. ...
01:09 PM, Oct 11, 2010
Bangalore: Opposition Congress and JDS on Monday demanded the immediate dismissal of the BJP government in Karnataka, questioning the method adopted in winning the trust vote. Senior Congress leader and in-charge of Karnataka affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad said it was blatant misuse of the Speaker's authority. "The speaker has no jurisdiction outside the House. He could have taken action only had the BJP rebels defied the whip. He also disqualified...
12:26 PM, Oct 11, 2010
