The JD(U) had issued a whip for Deputy Chairman Harivansh to cast his vote as a party MP. This presented a dilemma for Harivansh, as disobedience of the whip could have had consequences.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor stood out in the way he greeted Rahul Gandhi — the Thiruvananthapuram MP draped a Khadi shawl on Rahul to welcome him back and said he was also celebrating the National Handloom Day.

Despite repeated calls by the Chair to wind up his speech and sit down, S P Singh Baghel continued. Eventually, Dhankhar had no choice but to ask the next speaker to ask his question.

Known as the “village of martyrs”, Saidpur is home to more than 3,000 soldiers, with almost every household there sending a member to serve the Indian armed forces.

When Kharge rose to speak, thanking the Chair, Dhankhar said the Congress leader has always had a “special place in my heart”, to which Kharge quickly replied that he knew Dhankhar's heart is very large but it is occupied entirely by the ruling party.

The efforts of her NGO, 'I Love Mumbai' — along with that of heritage conservation architect Abha Lamba and Bajaj Trust — to restore Byculla railway station in Mumbai has won a UNESCO award.

Sarma then became the first BJP leader to change his Twitter bio to reflect this line of attack: from “Chief Minister of Assam, India” to “Chief Minister of Assam, BHARAT”.

The parties wanted to issue a joint statement in Patna as well but could not do it after AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal took a position that the Congress should announce its stand on the Centre's Ordinance on services in Delhi at the press conference after the meeting.

Brittas, who has been a member of the Parliamentary committee IT, was part of several rounds of discussions in the committee when it discussed the impact of Internet in various parts of the country.

While the TMC renominated Derek O’Brien, Dola Sen and Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, it gave tickets to three new faces.

The BJP also has to muster numbers to pass its legislation on the National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, against which AAP is mobilising Opposition support.

Vaishnaw is learnt to have also instructed officers to consider technologies that would take care of age-old pain-points in maintenance. A novel block-chain system, as a result, is being considered, which officers say will be a game-changer.

Before becoming the US Ambassador to India, Garcetti was the LA mayor for nearly a decade since 2013.

The MPs have been given a copy of the original, calligraphic Constitution book. While some have already taken the copy, offered during their visit to Parliament last week, some are learnt to have said that they require assistance to carry the heavy copy home.

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka, tweeted on Tuesday that the Central government's move to “bring in 'Fact Check' as part of IT rules” was criticised, but “there's stoic silence” over the Karnataka government's move.

Om Birla called for a meeting of officials to review the performance of his office.

The Health ministry had to come out with a clarification after a morphed video of Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya started circulating online in which he is shown as claiming that all diabetic patients should register for a government programme to get rid of the disease.

Bhagwant Mann called on Union Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday to discuss implementation of flagship schemes in his state.

Tharoor’s manifesto during his campaign for the Congress president’s post last September drew criticism for featuring a map of India that was different from the official map.

During their conversation, the two recalled memories of Kozhikode, where Kant had served as a district collector in the early 1990s and Pillai was a youth leader at the time.

The expert committee formed by the Pushkar Singh Dhami-led government in Uttarakhand on uniform civil code (UCC), which has been meeting civil society representatives and state-based organisations, seems to have extended the consultation process to the national capital.

He has been visiting science facilities to acquaint himself with his ministry.

The marathon meeting has set off rumours about major changes in party organisation in several state units of the BJP.

Satish Poonia has been replaced by C P Joshi as BJP's Rajasthan unit president.