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India News: NEW DELHI: Underscoring the need for INDIA bloc partners to firm up an alternative agenda — a common minimum programme — with which to counter the BJP.

A day after it cleared the Lok Sabha with 454 votes in its favour, the Narishakti Vandan Adhiniyam bill, seeking reservation of 33 per cent seats for women in Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies, is likely to be tabled in Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

Modi described the bill, which seeks to provide one-third reservation to women in the Lower House of Parliament, state assemblies and the Delhi legislative assembly, as an agni pareeksha for MPs

The women reservation bill seeks to reserve one-third (33%) of the total number of seats in state legislative Assemblies and Parliament for women. The bill also proposes sub-reservation for SCs, STs and Anglo-Indians within the 33% quota

Women Reservation Bill: The Narendra Modi-led BDA government is expected to cover the OBC community as well in the ambit of the new bill.

The absence of Chinese President Xi Jinping turned out to be a blessing in disguise

India News: Hailing the Samajwadi Party victory in the recent Ghosi bypoll, CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan said it is now time the INDIA alliance formul

The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) has started preparing for the 2024 general elections in 25 Lok Sabha seats of western Uttar Pradesh.RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary has called a meeting of party's organisational functionaries from western Uttar Pradesh's ...

Asserting that a slew of financial benefits and increased job reservation for women in Madhya Pradesh by the BJP Government are not "revadis" but genuine efforts to institutionalise "women empowerment" in the State, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said a "clear mandate" awaits BJP in the

Congress leaders at the mega opposition meeting in Mumbai - the INDIA conclave - were miffed after ex-leader Kapil Sibal's unexpected entry, sources told NDTV Friday morning.