Train food quality: IVRS launched for passenger feedback says Rail Min

Railways Minister Sadananda Gowda has said a pilot project for Introduction of Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) has been launched on some trains to get the feedback of passengers on food quality. He said a Centralised Catering Services Monitoring Cell has been setup at National level. The to...

Choudhary Birender Singh meets Amit Shah amid reports of joining BJP

Senior Congress leader Choudhary Birender Singh today held a closed-door meeting with BJP President Amit Shah in New Delhi. The meeting is significant amid reports that Mr. Singh may quit the Congress ahead of Assembly elections in Haryana. Mr. Singh has been criticizing state Chief Minister Bhupind...

LS kudos for outstanding performance of players at CWG

The Lok Sabha today congratulated the Indian players for their outstanding performance to win medals for the country at Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Speaker, Sumitra Mahajan felicitated the gold medallists of Wrestling, Shooting and Weight Lifting events on behalf of the House. She conveyed best wish...

India Mars Mission on schedule: MoS PMO Jitendra Singh

Indian Engineers can practice skills in signatory countries of Washington Accord

India has become a permanent member of the Washington Accord. It is an international agreement for accrediting engineering degreeprogrammes of the signatory countries. These countries are Australia,Canada, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, China, India, Ireland, Japan,Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, ...

Parliament adjourned till noon after uproar over various issues

Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned till 12 noon following uproar over different issues. While the Lok Sabha was adjourned over the issue of alleged police action against Marathi-speaking people in Belgaum, Karnataka, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned over the alleged bugging of Union Minister Niti...

Parliament to meet July 30

Both the Houses of Parliament will now meet on Wednesday. The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha have decided not to sit on Monday on the eve of Id-ul-Fitr. Tuesday is a government holiday.

LS passes Finance Bill

HRPC to probe assault on Odisha lawyers in Odisha

Odisha Government on Thursday decided to hand over the investigation of the brutal attack on an advocate allegedly by police to the Human Rights Protection Cell.HRPC to probe alleged assault of the advocate who was injured last week in Bhubaneswar.This was announced by State Law Minister Arun Sahoo ...

41 Indians captive in Iraq safe: EAM; Suggests House appeal for release

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said that 41 Indians who were taken captive in Iraq are safe. She said although the government is not directly in touch with the captive Indians, various sources have confirmed their well being. The Minister was replying to a calling attention motion in th...