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Sunday, November 9, 2025
TopicRajya Sabha

Topic: Rajya Sabha

96% conviction rate in NIA cases in last 5 years, home ministry tells Rajya Sabha

Between December 2018 & November 2023, ministry handed 324 cases to counter-terrorism agency. Out of 84 judgments in cases NIA probed and chargesheeted since 2019, 81 were convictions.

49 Lok Sabha MPs suspended for disrupting Parliament proceedings. Tally for both Houses now 141

The MPs suspended on Tuesday include National Conference’s Farooq Abdullah, Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari and Karti Chidambaram and Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav.

Opposition parties hold meeting, demand discussion on Parliament security breach in both Houses

Aside notices for adjournment of parliamentary sessions, some parties are also contemplating meeting President Droupadi Murmu seeking her intervention on the issue.

Immunity from civil & criminal suits — Govt proposes changes in bill to appoint EC & CECs

Bill, now passed in Rajya Sabha, seeks to negate an SC judgment on selection of the CEC and ECs in the Election Commission by replacing CJI in the panel with a cabinet minister.

‘Guilty, but period of suspension sufficient’ — privileges panel allows Raghav Chadha to return to RS

AAP MP thanks Supreme Court & Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankar, adds suspension lifted only after he sought top court's intervention in matter.

‘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'.

SC admits petition by AAP leader Raghav Chadha challenging his suspension from Rajya Sabha

Chadha, who was suspended from Rajya Sabha 'indefinitely' in August, has appealed that the suspension cannot extend beyond the session in which the decision was made.

‘Vandan, daya ki patra, Shakti, Devi?’ Rajya Sabha MPs spar over women’s quota Bill name

The Women’s Reservation Bill was termed as ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Vidheyik’ by the Prime Minister at the start of the special session of Parliament Monday.

‘How many women are there in RSS?’ Venugopal hits out at BJP, Yogi Adityanath in Rajya Sabha debate

K.C. Venugopal calls women's reservation bill Congress's 'child', reiterating what many senior party leaders have said. TMC MP Mausam Noor says, 'It is our bill.'

Congress MP hits out at Thakur after Bollywood actresses visit Parliament — ‘minister fed them sweets’

Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP Rajani Patil was referring to actors Kangana Ranaut, Esha Gupta, Bhumi Pednekar & Shehnaz Gill, among others, visiting Parliament over the past two days.

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I am a dog lover, but we don’t know how to win the war on strays

We have failed terribly at two important things. One, we are reacting to this issue only emotionally, not logically. And two, we are not asking the right questions.

In NCLAT’s WhatsApp ruling, reminder of India’s cautious view of competition disputes involving Big Tech

WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.