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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Topic: Parliament

Funny side up: Parliament is serious business, but Rajya Sabha MPs left us in splits

Featuring Union MoS and former diplomat Hardeep Puri, BJP’s La Ganesan, and Congress’s Jairam Ramesh getting two raps from the chair.

BJP bulldozes triple talaq bill through Lok Sabha in a day, hails it as women empowerment

Law minister R.S. Prasad insists it’s not about religion as party uses strength in numbers to pass bill without any amendments suggested by the opposition.

What women and Muslim MPs said in the triple talaq bill debate

Only three women and a handful of Muslim members of Parliament spoke in the debate on the triple talaq bill in the Lok Sabha Thursday.

BJP tries for consensus on triple talaq Bill, but prepared to push it through by force

BJP issues whip to its MPs to be in Parliament ‘without fail’, reaches out to opposition leaders, and circulates note on the Bill to all MPs.

Capital buzz: BJP’s swanky new office in Delhi to food wars in parliament canteen

Food committee chairman objected to railway minister Piyush Goyal’s move to bring food from state bhavans to Parliament canteen; the proposal finally got Speaker’s nod

When Modi cries, it connects him to the poor farmers and the jobless youth

When men cry, it tends to jolt many around. Sadly, when women cry, in a gender-skewed society, people tend to say its ok.

Modi’s not alone, other ‘tough’ leaders have also shed tears

From former US President Obama to Russian premier Putin and even UP CM Yogi Adityanath, many political leaders have broken down in front of the cameras.

Wednesday has just begun and Narendra Modi has cried three times already

Even in May 2014, Narendra Modi had choked with emotion after being elected leader of the BJP parliamentary party and cried.

The new golden rule of Indian politics: Do unto them what they did unto you

Sixty eight per cent of the time of the previous Lok Sabha was lost to BJP-led disruptions. It is hardly surprising that UPA members...

The Presidential Prime Minister Narendra Modi

There is an unconventional makeover of parliamentary democracy underway in India with PM-President Narendra Modi.

On Camera

Modi govt has learned from past FTAs. Its priority now is building a manufacturing powerhouse

Past FTAs failed to yield much benefit because they exposed domestic industries to global competition without strengthening the manufacturing ecosystem.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.