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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla tests positive for Covid, admitted to AIIMS

Birla, 58, tested positive for the coronavirus infection on 19 March. The hospital says he's now stable with all parameters normal.

UPSC can avoid merit list row. Separate exams for Services, training-based selection

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's daughter featured in the second list. Does the UPSC’s policy of declaring results in two instalments benefit reserved categories?

Adhir Chowdhury urges Speaker for Parliament winter session to discuss Covid, farmers protest

Congress' Adhir Chowdhury wrote to Om Birla, saying Parliament needs to discuss ‘notable’ issues like the farmers’ agitation, Covid vaccine status, and economic slowdown. 

Parliamentary Standing Committees reconstituted, Tharoor to continue as head of panel on IT

Former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has been made a member of the panel on external affairs. Congress leader Anand Sharma will continue to chair the parliamentary panel on home affairs.

Polymer sheets, MPs in masks, no Gandhis and Amit Shah — Monsoon session has a new look

The last five days saw Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu frequently ticking off MPs for speaking with their mask pushed to the chin.

Parliament Monsoon session begins, Lok Sabha adjourned for 1 hour after obituary references

As the House assembled for the first time since the pandemic started, Speaker Om Birla paid tributes to departed leaders and security personnel who have died since March.

‘Akin to curbing Parliament role’ — panel heads on being told not to pick sub-judice issues

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla told Parliamentary panel heads not to discuss sub-judice matters, but chairpersons say it will make the role of the panels ‘irrelevant’.

Seating order in Monsoon session to be based on health ministry guidelines, says LS Speaker

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla chaired a meeting Friday on arrangements for the upcoming monsoon session and said comprehensive arrangements have been made.

Inside Kota’s JK Lon Hospital, where more than 900 children have died in 2019 alone

Kota's JK Lon Hospital is in the news for the rise in newborn deaths. Patients blame the hospital, whose administration has maintained that due medical procedure has been followed.

Lok Sabha Speaker refers IBC amendment bill to standing committee chaired by Jayant Sinha

The IBC amendment bill seeks to protect bidders of insolvent companies from any risk of criminal proceedings for offences committed by previous promoters.

On Camera

India can face multi-front conflicts with hostile Dhaka. New Delhi missed chance to engage BNP

India's projects related to BIMSTEC, Look-East-Act-East and Indian Ocean Rim Association could suffer a setback, impacting trade with South Asia and the South-South Cooperation agenda.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

IAF’s leased KC-135 lands in Agra, American firm’s pilots to man mid-air refueller

India’s refueller fleet comprises six Russian Ilushin-78 tankers, first inducted in 2003, which are facing huge maintenance and serviceability issues.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.