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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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Topic: Member of Parliament

Chanakyapuri ka chor: How chain-snatcher’s jail-bail-repeat career came to an end when he targeted an MP

New Delhi: It was business as usual for Sohan Rawat on the morning of 4 August. The business of chain-snatching, that is. Only, the victim...

Parliamentary panel questions no FIR in Justice Varma cash recovery case, asks for a detailed report

The members also sought a comprehensive bill addressing various issues and concerns on ethics and code of conduct of judges raised by them during the meeting.

Kenyan lawmaker shot dead in capital Nairobi, local media reports

Charles Were, MP from Kasipul constituency, was shot dead by one of the two gunmen trailing him on a motorbike at 7.30 pm Wednesday.

SubscriberWrites: How can the new government at the Centre answer the delimitation conundrum

With delimitation issue at a standstill, the new govt must address fair constituency allocation. A proposed 'smoothing' method could balance population shifts and regional concerns.

1st Parliament session of 18th Lok Sabha from 24 June to 3 July

The first three days of the session will see the newly-elected leaders taking oath or making affirmation of their membership and electing the Speaker of the House.

Average age of MPs elected to 18th Lok Sabha is 56 years, says think tank analysis

11% of the MPs are aged 40 or below, and 38% are between the age of 41 and 55.

Don’t vote for Lok Sabha candidates who talk about civic issues. They are duping you

We simply do not know anyone who will not be corrupt. The purpose of a democracy is to build a system that is less prone to corruption by design because it is decentralised.

‘It is about representation of people’: SC says AAP MP Raghav Chadha’s suspension ’cause for concern’

Bench asked Attorney General R. Venkataramani whether AAP leader’s action 'really reduced the dignity of the House', and whether it was 'worse than disruption of proceedings'.

Rahul Gandhi changes X bio, formerly Twitter, back to ‘Member of Parliament’ after reinstatement

Following his disqualification from the Lok Sabha in March, the Congress leader updated his bio on Twitter to 'Disqualified MP'.

‘Inhumane, undemocratic’: Rajya Sabha MP slams South Asian University undertaking for students

In his letter to SAU acting president, Binoy Viswam of CPI has called out two declarations in mandatory ‘general undertaking’ for students and asked for their removal.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.