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No-confidence motion against Om Birla: 'Flaws' found in Opposition notice seeking LS Speaker's removal

New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- "Flaws" have been found in the notice submitted by opposition MPs to remove the Lok Sabha speaker from office, with Om Birla directing the secretariat to amend the "defective" no... Read More


No copies 'published, distributed or sold to public': Naravane amid row over memoir

India, Feb. 11 -- Eight days after his unpublished memoir Four Stars of Destiny triggered a political firestorm that is still raging, former army chief General (retired) Manoj Mukund Naravane on Tuesd... Read More


J-K Budget Session: BJP MLAs chant "unparliamentary sarkaar", demand CM Abdullah's apology on "shoe beating" remark

Srinagar, Feb. 11 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Wednesday raised slogans of "unparliamentary sarkaar" after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah entered the House. ... Read More


NCP's Navale loses local poll despite social media popularity

India, Feb. 11 -- Despite a strong following on social media, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate Nirmala Navale was defeated in the Pune district Panchayat Samiti elections, raising questions ... Read More


394 international observers, 197 foreign journalists to monitor polls

Dhaka, Feb. 11 -- At least 394 international election observers and 197 foreign journalists have arrived in Bangladesh to observe the 13th general election and the referendum on the July National Char... Read More


Share market faces lockdown as industry battles regulator over trading rules

Kathmandu, Feb. 11 -- A regulatory dispute over how to classify company shares has frozen Nepal's stock market expansion and threatens to lock up billions of rupees of promoter capital, revealing deep... Read More


Electoral Act: Dickson faults Senate's decision on electronic transmission of results

Nigeria, Feb. 11 -- Bayelsa West Senator, Seriake Dickson, has said he does not support the Senate's inclusion of a caveat in the amended Electoral Act allowing Form EC8A to serve as the primary means... Read More


"Laughing stock, embarrassment": BJP's Poonawala trains gun at Rahul Gandhi amid row over Naravane's book

New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Wednesday criticised Leader of Opposition (LoP) Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi over the controversy surrounding e... Read More


Rahul claims Hardeep Singh Puri met Jeffery Epstein, Minister clarifies

Hyderabad, Feb. 11 -- Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, launched a scathing attack on Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas of India, Hardeep Singh ... Read More


A child subject to a criminal process must be treated like a child and not like an adult - Hafiz Hassan

Kuala Lampur, Feb. 11 -- In "Consider amendments to the Child Act for the better protection of children" I made a simple plea for the Child Act 2001 (the Act) to be amended. It must be recalled that ... Read More