-The Hindu The government’s fiscal health will be brought into the political discourse with the proposed change, says top Election Commission of India official The Election Commission of India’s (EC) proposal that political parties disclose the financial ramifications of promises in their manifestos was not linked to the recent debate on freebies, but was aimed at improving the implementation of existing guidelines, a top EC official said on Wednesday. The EC had on...
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Magsaysay Award -- In the eye of controversy -Sumeda
-The Hindu CPI(M) cites ‘anti-communist stance’ for declining the award for Shailaja A controversy over the ‘joint’ decision of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI (M), to decline the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award nomination for former Kerala Health Minister K.K. Shailaja has brought into focus the prize and the former Philippines President in whose name the award was instituted in 1957. Though the CPI(M) has cited the ‘anti-communist’ stance of Ramon...
More »With 101 seats, BJP hits triple digits in Rajya Sabha for first time in party’s history -Neelam Pandey
-ThePrint.in BJP won 4 seats in RS polls, becoming the first party to pass 100-seat mark after 1988-90. NDA now has 117 members in 245-member RS, while Congress hit a new low at 29 seats. New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has got a three-digit tally in the Rajya Sabha for the first time in its history, after winning four of the 13 seats up for election in the latest round...
More »Congress and CPI(M) spar in Lok Sabha over Kerala’s Silverline project
-The Hindu Congress urges Centre to review high-speed rail project, CPI(M) wants it pushed through The K-Rail Silverline project in Kerala became the subject of sparring between Congress and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) members from the State in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, prompting Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to comment that the two parties were in dosti (friendship) in Delhi and kusti (wrestling) in Kerala. “Politics of Kerala is unique. Delhi main...
More »CPI(M) MP Kareem Moves Private Member’s Bill to Repeal Four Labour Codes -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in Speaking to NewsClick in a telephone interview on Friday, the Rajya Sabha leader lamented that the Centre has “not accepted even a single recommendation” that was made to it by Standing Committee on Labour in its different reports over the Labour Codes. New Delhi: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha MP Elamaram Kareem on Friday introduced a Private Member’s Bill that seeks to repeal the contentious four Labour Codes which...
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