State assembly News

The new diesel buses will be BS-VI compliant The announcement was made presenting the state budget in the Assembly 2,213 BS-VI new diesel buses and 500 new electric buses will be procured

Indian National Congress party president Sonia Gandhi asked the Congress-led states to pass a resolution in states assembly against the new agricultural law, recently approved by the President of India.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday presented a budget of Rs 5,12,860.72 crore for the financial year 2020-21 in the state assembly. The budget of this time is Rs 33,159 crore more than the budget of last year and in this budget, there is a provision of Rs 10,967.87 crore for new schemes.

The former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister had been missing from public life after RJD's debacle in Lok Sabha elections in May 2019.

People who violate the legal age of marriage will not be eligible for Assam government jobs, says the 'Population and Women Empowerment Policy of Assam' which was presented in the state Assembly on Friday.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday urged the Centre to take immediate steps to ban the online Blue Whale game in the country "to save precious lives".

The 67-year-old Congress leader, who hails from Bharuch in south Gujarat, first became a member of the Upper House in 1993. If he wins, this will be his fifth term.

The Goa government has issued a circular barring the MLAs from summoning government officials to their residences or personal offices for holding meetings.

The Congress party on Thursday castigated the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders for roughly handling their ex-party inmate Kapil Mishra and asserted that the incident had damaged the sanctity of the state assembly.

Congress MLA Ginsuahau Zou and 14 councillors from the party have joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Manipur.

Shiv Sena on Tuesday said the media's extensive coverage of the Gaikwad-Air India row made even infiltrations from Pakistan "look bleak" and noted that it has now become a fashion to hold politicians responsible for everything.

The state executive meeting of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be held on April 23-24 in Nainital, a party leader announced on Monday.

Former Congress MLA Vishwajeet Rane on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar.The former Valpoi legislator had resigned from the Congress as well as an MLA on March 16, the day Parrikar won a crucial trust vote on the floor of state assembly.

Rajasthan Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajendra Rathore and Leader of Opposition Rameshwar Dudi today traded barbs over the stalling of proceedings in the state Assembly.

Maharashtra will soon have a panel to formulate a code of conduct for legislators, both within and outside the House.

Goa Congress leaders are engaged in a war of words over the issue of pre-poll alliance with like-minded parties for the state Assembly elections due next year.

If rates are slashed, it will be the sixth consecutive reduction in petrol prices since August and the first cut in diesel rates ever since government deregulated diesel prices this month.