House Impasse

Protesting doctors who came to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's house for talks left after nearly two hours due to an impasse over live-streaming of their meeting.

Both houses of Parliament were adjourned till 2 pm on Tuesday amid uproar over the Adani issue and demand by ruling party members that Rahul Gandhi apologise for his remarks on Indian democracy.

To end the logjam in the Parliament, the Speaker today held a discussion with all party leaders. He urged them to let both the houses conduct business without interruptions.

The new US House Democratic majority today approved two measures that would end a two-week partial government shutdown, but an impasse remains as the bills provide no money for President Donald Trump's border wall.

He and his colleagues will not build a house and will only work for the railways, trackman Dharmendra Kumar from the Northern Railway's Lucknow division has said in an impassioned appeal to the minister while speaking out against the colonial tradition of working as "bonded labourers" for senior officials.

Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day minutes after senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad flagged three issues and demanded discussion on them. This was the second straight adjournment in two days -- yesterday, the upper house was adjourned early following protests over Cauvery waters issue by the members of AIADMK and demands on local issues by ...

President Donald Trump pressured Congress on Sunday to end a government shutdown that reached its second day amid deep uncertainty over whether Democrats and Republicans could soon break an impasse to restore federal funding.

Partisan finger-pointing over immigration policy on Tuesday left the U.S. Congress and the White House stumbling closer to a possible federal government shutdown by the end of the week, although Wall Street held out hopes for a deal to prevent that.

US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, under intense questioning from Democratic senators, said on Tuesday she did not hear President Donald Trump use a vulgarity to describe African countries during an impassioned White House meeting last week.

The leaders issued a joint statement on fighting terrorism, admonishing internet service providers and social media companies to 'substantially increase' their efforts to rein in extremist content.

The decision all but assures that the years-long political impasse over encryption will continue.

The government has made it clear that it will not negotiate anymore with the opposition to find a truce that will allow Parliament to get back to work. This entire week, both houses have been virtually paralysed with the opposition insisting on the removal of a minister who made a hate speech in Delhi on Sunday.

At least 300 people were wounded in clashes between police and protesters in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, hospital officials said on Sunday, as a fortnight-long political impasse took a violent turn. The violence, which began late on Saturday and continued till early Sunday, erupted after around 25,000 people marched from parliament to the Prime ...

At least 300 people were wounded in clashes between police and protesters in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, hospital officials said on Sunday, as a fortnight-long political impasse took a violent turn.

Passage of the bill late Wednesday in the House and Senate ended a Washington-created crisis that closed much of government for 16 days. It came on the eve of the date the Treasury Department warned it would no longer be able to borrow to pay the government's bills.

Protesting doctors who came to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's house for talks left after nearly two hours due to an impasse over live-streaming of their meeting.

Both houses of Parliament were adjourned till 2 pm on Tuesday amid uproar over the Adani issue and demand by ruling party members that Rahul Gandhi apologise for his remarks on Indian democracy.

To end the logjam in the Parliament, the Speaker today held a discussion with all party leaders. He urged them to let both the houses conduct business without interruptions.

The new US House Democratic majority today approved two measures that would end a two-week partial government shutdown, but an impasse remains as the bills provide no money for President Donald Trump's border wall.

He and his colleagues will not build a house and will only work for the railways, trackman Dharmendra Kumar from the Northern Railway's Lucknow division has said in an impassioned appeal to the minister while speaking out against the colonial tradition of working as "bonded labourers" for senior officials.

Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day minutes after senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad flagged three issues and demanded discussion on them. This was the second straight adjournment in two days -- yesterday, the upper house was adjourned early following protests over Cauvery waters issue by the members of AIADMK and demands on local issues by ...

President Donald Trump pressured Congress on Sunday to end a government shutdown that reached its second day amid deep uncertainty over whether Democrats and Republicans could soon break an impasse to restore federal funding.

Partisan finger-pointing over immigration policy on Tuesday left the U.S. Congress and the White House stumbling closer to a possible federal government shutdown by the end of the week, although Wall Street held out hopes for a deal to prevent that.

US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, under intense questioning from Democratic senators, said on Tuesday she did not hear President Donald Trump use a vulgarity to describe African countries during an impassioned White House meeting last week.

The leaders issued a joint statement on fighting terrorism, admonishing internet service providers and social media companies to 'substantially increase' their efforts to rein in extremist content.

The decision all but assures that the years-long political impasse over encryption will continue.

The government has made it clear that it will not negotiate anymore with the opposition to find a truce that will allow Parliament to get back to work. This entire week, both houses have been virtually paralysed with the opposition insisting on the removal of a minister who made a hate speech in Delhi on Sunday.

At least 300 people were wounded in clashes between police and protesters in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, hospital officials said on Sunday, as a fortnight-long political impasse took a violent turn. The violence, which began late on Saturday and continued till early Sunday, erupted after around 25,000 people marched from parliament to the Prime ...

At least 300 people were wounded in clashes between police and protesters in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, hospital officials said on Sunday, as a fortnight-long political impasse took a violent turn.

Passage of the bill late Wednesday in the House and Senate ended a Washington-created crisis that closed much of government for 16 days. It came on the eve of the date the Treasury Department warned it would no longer be able to borrow to pay the government's bills.