If you have been following the Parliamentary proceedings in the past few years, it would not come as a surprise to you that the 2015 Winter Session of the Parliament saw the least number of bills being passed since 2010. If countries like UK take pride in not wasting a single Parliamentary hour, we in India could perhaps gloat about the exact opposite, of wasting as many hours as possible. […]

It was pandemonium in the Lok Sabha and as the Monsoon Session approaches its closure. Chaos was the order of the day and indiscipline resigned supreme. Suddenly the country’s highest altar of democracy looked nothing more than playgroup classroom filled with unruly toddlers running all over, throwing things each other and decibel levels that could potentially render others deaf. Even as I pen these words, my head hangs in shame. […]

Several shots have been fired inside and outside the nation’s parliament in Ottawa, leaving one soldier wounded. A gunman fired at the National War Memorial and then ran into parliament nearby, continuing the attack. Canadian broadcaster CBC and several MPs report that one gunman has been killed but that is unconfirmed. The incident came hours after Canada raised its terror threat level following a fatal hit-and-run attack on two soldiers […]

MELBOURNE: Three Indian-origin politicians, including a woman, have been elected to New Zealand’s parliament in the just-concluded general elections. Kanwaljeet Singh Bakshi, Dr Parmjeet Parmar and Mahesh Bindra have successfully made it to the 121-member parliament, the New Zealand Herald reported on Monday. Delhi-born Bakshi and Pune graduated Parmar fought the elections as the candidates of the ruling National party while Mumbai-born Bindra was elected as the New Zealand First […]

There were fierce clashes between pro- and anti-Russian protesters in the eastern city of Kharkiv Russia’s upper house of parliament has approved President Putin’s request for Russian forces to be used in Ukraine. He had asked that Russian forces be used “until the normalisation of the political situation in the country”. Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is based in the Ukrainian region of Crimea, where many ethnic Russians live. Ukraine’s acting […]