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An AIADMK lawmaker died in a car accident in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram, 167 km from Chennai, early this morning, the police said.

The government is in the process of appointing the anti-corruption body Lokpal, it told the Supreme Court today

The anti-corruption Lokpal should be set up without delay and the lack of a Leader of Opposition should not hold up the process anymore, the Supreme Court told the government today. This means, the government can select an ombudsman without taking the Congress, the main opposition group, on board.

Italy might soon become the first Western country with an official "menstrual leave" policy for working women. The lower house of Italy's Parliament has started discussing a draft law that, if approved, will mandate companies to grant three days of paid leave each month to female employees who experience painful periods.

Iceland's prime minister today asked the president for permission to dissolve parliament as his government reeled from a political crisis over the so-called Panama Papers, but the president refused.

Social activist Anna Hazare today joined former servicemen in their protest against the Centre over non-implementation of One Rank One Pension and said the veterans serve the country but don't get their due. Addressing former servicemen at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, the 78-year-old Gandhian also said the government should not go back on their promise ...

Kremlin opponent Boris Nemtsov's blood was barely dry on the Moscow sidewalk before powerful Russians came up with a startlingly clear conclusion: that the West was to blame.

Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena, has ordered his party's workers to travel across Maharashtra to inform farmers that the government's planned land reforms are designed to gyp them.

The BJP's parliamentary board, a group of top decision makers, is meeting this evening to discuss the party's strategy on the land acquisition ordinance, with a united opposition determined to stonewall it in Parliament, and activist Anna Hazare launching a farmers' protest.

The Budget Session of Parliament begins today and with the government looking to pass key legislation, including bills to replace a slew of ordinances, the session is expected to be a stormy affair.

With key economic reforms not clearing Parliament in this winter session that ended today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged his party's lawmakers to ensure that the BJP is strengthened in states, which would allow it more power in the Upper House or Rajya Sabha, where the government is in a minority.

With just a day to go before this session of Parliament ends, the Rajya Sabha or Upper House remained paralyzed today, with the opposition confronting the government over what it described as "an unacceptable agenda" of trying to convert Muslims and Christians to Hinduism.

The government will try today to push its big reform, the Insurance Bill, in the Rajya Sabha, where a united opposition has used its superior numbers for days to hold up proceedings as it attacks the government on a number of issues, most recently on religious conversions.

The government has sought to distance itself from a new controversy, after a Congress lawmaker alleged in Parliament today that Mahatma's Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse was honoured at a function in Maharashtra and a BJP lawmaker said outside Parliament that Godse was a "nationalist."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday rejected angry calls to dismiss a minister whose derogatory comment about religious minorities has paralyzed Parliament with the opposition uniting in angry protests.

An AIADMK lawmaker died in a car accident in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram, 167 km from Chennai, early this morning, the police said.

The government is in the process of appointing the anti-corruption body Lokpal, it told the Supreme Court today

The anti-corruption Lokpal should be set up without delay and the lack of a Leader of Opposition should not hold up the process anymore, the Supreme Court told the government today. This means, the government can select an ombudsman without taking the Congress, the main opposition group, on board.

Italy might soon become the first Western country with an official "menstrual leave" policy for working women. The lower house of Italy's Parliament has started discussing a draft law that, if approved, will mandate companies to grant three days of paid leave each month to female employees who experience painful periods.

Iceland's prime minister today asked the president for permission to dissolve parliament as his government reeled from a political crisis over the so-called Panama Papers, but the president refused.

Social activist Anna Hazare today joined former servicemen in their protest against the Centre over non-implementation of One Rank One Pension and said the veterans serve the country but don't get their due. Addressing former servicemen at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, the 78-year-old Gandhian also said the government should not go back on their promise ...

Kremlin opponent Boris Nemtsov's blood was barely dry on the Moscow sidewalk before powerful Russians came up with a startlingly clear conclusion: that the West was to blame.

Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena, has ordered his party's workers to travel across Maharashtra to inform farmers that the government's planned land reforms are designed to gyp them.

The BJP's parliamentary board, a group of top decision makers, is meeting this evening to discuss the party's strategy on the land acquisition ordinance, with a united opposition determined to stonewall it in Parliament, and activist Anna Hazare launching a farmers' protest.

The Budget Session of Parliament begins today and with the government looking to pass key legislation, including bills to replace a slew of ordinances, the session is expected to be a stormy affair.

With key economic reforms not clearing Parliament in this winter session that ended today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged his party's lawmakers to ensure that the BJP is strengthened in states, which would allow it more power in the Upper House or Rajya Sabha, where the government is in a minority.

With just a day to go before this session of Parliament ends, the Rajya Sabha or Upper House remained paralyzed today, with the opposition confronting the government over what it described as "an unacceptable agenda" of trying to convert Muslims and Christians to Hinduism.

The government will try today to push its big reform, the Insurance Bill, in the Rajya Sabha, where a united opposition has used its superior numbers for days to hold up proceedings as it attacks the government on a number of issues, most recently on religious conversions.

The government has sought to distance itself from a new controversy, after a Congress lawmaker alleged in Parliament today that Mahatma's Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse was honoured at a function in Maharashtra and a BJP lawmaker said outside Parliament that Godse was a "nationalist."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday rejected angry calls to dismiss a minister whose derogatory comment about religious minorities has paralyzed Parliament with the opposition uniting in angry protests.