Parliament's Budget Session usually begins in the last week of January every year.
MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs) official said that with the restoration of the FCRA licence, the Kolkata-based famed organisation ‘Missionaries Of Charity’will be able to receive foreign funds, and can also spend the money lying in the banks.
Derek O'Brien was suspended from the Upper House of Parliament on Tuesday for the remaining part of the Winter session after he threw a Rajya Sabha rule book at the Chair.
Parliament: The opposition parties in Rajya Sabha objected to the time allocation for passing a bill to link voter rolls to Aadhaar, without them being part of Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting.
CM Banerjee met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar in Mumbai on Wednesday and called for fighting the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unitedly, while taking a veiled swipe at the Congress leadership.
The TMC insiders said the party is likely to launch itself in October in Goa, with its supremo Mamata Banerjee and the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee also to visit the coastal state in the coming months.
Netta D’Souza has been appointed following resignation of Sushmita Dev, who left the party to join TMC.
Former Congress leader Sushmita Dev resigned from the party, without giving any reason behind her decision.
The three minute video has been compiled by the opposition parties of the discussions of Pegasus and Farm Laws.
TMC leaders handed over the party flag to Subal Bhowmick on the compound of a star hotel in Agartala after the police cancelled the programme scheduled to be held in its banquet hall, citing Covid-19 protocol.
On Thursday, TMC leader Derek O'Brien reached Agartala. TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee is likely to join on Friday.
With eyes on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress has been dropping several hints for a possible coalition between Opposition parties like the Congress.
The TMC MPs have chosen Mamata Banerjee as the party's parliamentary party chief ahead of her visit to New Delhi expected next week.
Suvendu Adhikary claimed victory in Nandigram by 1,736 votes, TMC likely to move court on counting.
The TMC supremo said she would shorten her speeches at campaign in different parts of the state to around 20 minutes or so from the usual time of about one hour.
The TMC claimed that the audio clip had 'blown the lid off' the nexus between the BJP and the Election Commission.
The remarks came after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman read out the Union Budget speech in the Lok Sabha.
Similar rallies were taken out in different districts of West Bengal by women activists of the Trinamool Congress.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.